Author and cultural critic Fran Lebowitz added voice to the unhinged calls on the left for trashing the Supreme Court. As I discussed recently in the Wall Street Journal (and in my book), there is a growing counter-constitutional movement in the United States led by law professors, pundits, and celebrities. Lebowitz amplified those calls in a radical demand to simply get rid of the Court.
Lebowitz called for President Joe Biden to “dissolve the Supreme Court” despite the fact that it would violate the Constitution and remove one of the most critical protections against executive and legislative abuse.
Lebowitz insisted that the Supreme Court is a “disgrace” because, in a reference to Donald Trump, it is “completely his.” To the wild applause of the New York audience, she added: “It’s so disgraceful, this court, that it shouldn’t even be allowed to be called the Supreme Court. It’s an insult to Motown. Basically, it’s a harem. It’s Trump’s harem.”
Her views aligned with others on the left who have attacked the Constitution, the Court, and even rights like free speech as now threats to our democracy.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer previously declared in front of the Supreme Court, “I want to tell you, [Neil] Gorsuch, I want to tell you, [Brett] Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced that she wants the impeachment of all six of the conservative justices. She was immediately joined by other Democratic members.
Previously, Ocasio-Cortez admitted that she does not understand why we even have a Supreme Court. She asked “How much does the current structure benefit us? And I don’t think it does.”
Other members, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have called for packing the Court with additional members to immediately secure a liberal majority to rule as she desires.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., RI), has assured voters that Vice President Kamala Harris will support the packing of the Court with a liberal majority.
Despite supporting censorship to combat “disinformation,” many on the left now eagerly spread disinformation about the Court and its rulings. Lebowitz repeated false claims about the Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, stating that the decision makes the president a “king” who “can do whatever you want.”
In reality, the Court followed the same approach that it has taken in prior conflicts between the branches.
As it has in the past, the Court adopted a three-tiered approach to presidential powers based on the source of a presidential action. Chief Justice John Roberts cited Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, in which the court ruled against President Harry Truman’s takeover of steel mills.
In his famous concurrence to Youngstown, Justice Robert Jackson broke down the balance of executive and legislative authority between three types of actions. In the first, a president acts with express or implied authority from Congress. In the second, he acts where Congress is silent (“the zone of twilight” area). In the third, the president acts in defiance of Congress.
In this decision, the court adopted a similar sliding scale. It held that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for actions that fall within their “exclusive sphere of constitutional authority” while they enjoy presumptive immunity for other official acts. They do not enjoy immunity for unofficial or private actions.
None of this matters. Facts do not matter. Many on the left are calling for the trashing of the Constitution based on wildly inaccurate claims.
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley law school, is author of “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States,” published last month. In a 2021 Los Angeles Times op-ed, he described conservative justices as “partisan hacks.”
In the New York Times, book critic Jennifer Szalai scoffs at what she calls “Constitution worship.” She writes: “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.” She frets that by limiting the power of the majority, the Constitution “can end up fostering the widespread cynicism that helps authoritarianism grow.”
In a 2022 New York Times op-ed, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for liberals to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
Lebowitz previously said that Trump should be killed with the help of the Saudi government.
Lebowitz is demonstrably wrong about the voting record of the justices. In reality, the Court continues to rule largely by unanimous, or nearly unanimous decisions. After April, unanimity stood at 46 percent of cases.
Of the 22 6-3 decisions, only half broke along ideological lines. That is the same as the 11 such cases last term.
The average for unanimous decisions has been roughly 43 percent. The rate is back up to 48 percent for the last term. When you add the nearly unanimous opinions, it is the vast majority of cases. Moreover, Sotomayor agreed with Roberts in 71% of cases Kavanaugh and Barrett agreed with Sotomayor roughly 70% of the time.
In critical decisions, conservative justices like Gorsuch and Barrett have joined their liberal colleagues and the Court has repeatedly voted against positions supported by Donald Trump.
Again, none of this matters. Lebowitz and others are falsely telling the public that the Court is dysfunctionally and ideologically divided. Of course, even if you accept the false premise, the problem is not with the liberal justices always voting as a block but the conservatives doing so. The liberals are not robotic, they are simply right.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Regarding the subject of this post, it only demonstrates the bizarre and hardcore radicalization of those one might otherwise consider “well educated.” There are many examples of people who were in a warped reality. Charlie Manson’s “family” and the People’s Temple in Jonestown come to mind.
On another note, I went into a very woke health store to buy multivitamins. I asked the clerk where I might find them. There are two places, she told me. The men’s section and the women’s section. That was lost on me until this morning after I had my coffee.
Every person needs a crash course to recognize propaganda, gaslighting and detecting good old fashioned bovine excrement. What a bizarre barrage of pure, unadulterated crap that has been foisted on us.
It’s time to send them back to their padded cells.
In many cases in 21st c America “well educated” means “well indoctrinated”.
NOT WELL EDUCATED – JUST GETTING GOOD GRADES AND PASSED FOR THE PARROTING OF THEIR LEFTIST INSTRUCTORS.
* An insult to Motown
In other news the liberal New York Times praises Nasrallah, the most bloody and genocidal terrorist of the last 30 years, as a skilled orator who wanted equality for all religions (while committing his life to killing as many Jews and Christians as possible).
I just read TNYT’s obit for this villain. You are wrong.
It took me at least 5 whole seconds using Google to confirm OMFK’s statement. No surprise, as usual, you are wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/nasrallah-death-protests.html
He also killed Sunnis.
In other news Harris says that being safe is a civil right as she lets in 10 million illegal immigrants to roam America’s cities and small towns – at least 500,000 of whom are convicted criminals, including tens of thousands of convicted murderers and tens of thousands more convicted rapists.
Notice leftist scum like Leibowitz never have issues with the SC as long as it has a majority of liberal justices. They’re just fine with that, smirking because they know that they will get their way. However, they are incapable of tolerating any dissent from the progressive world view….they demand the silencing of anyone who disagrees with them. These are the real Nazi’s…the real threat to democracy. And if they finally manage to ignite another civil war, they will be the first to regret it.
In other news, Trump stops rally to play supercut of Harris. Do you trust her to stop the invasion at the border?
What? Polling skewed to the right not giving accurate info? I’m shocked, shocked republicans would cheat.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/rasmussen-found-be-secretly-colluding
So there’s nothing for you to worry about, right?
Excuse me but your desperation is showing.
OT
The real question is what benefit does the American Communist Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime Blob derive by ensconcing Kamala “The Ditz” Harris in the office of the president?
Oh, I get it.
“The Ditz” will quite simply follow the orders the American Communist Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime Blob gives her/it/she/them/they through Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama.
Not to worry, America, the American Communist Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime Blob has everything under control.
She is both dumb and mean . . . a depressing combination.
In other news, Trump is making huge gains with Latino voters, as reported by the MSM:
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1840381222276448394
My new book: “No Tenured Professorship Lasts Forever: How the Constitution is Literally Shaking in Fear of Liberal Pseudointellectuals”
Wait, literally?
In other news, liberal John Kerry, former Democrat nominee for president, admits he wants a ministry of truth, and he says the First Amendment is a “major roadblock” to his plans.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1840401736898342993
Oh, then maybe we’ll find out how much of that cash flown to Iran on the C-5 made it back into his (his family’s) pockets.
KNOW THE ENEMY
Fran Lebowitz, communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) in America, contemporary and historical illegal alien invaders, criminal applicants for spurious and invalid “asylum,” proponents of the Communist Manifesto, and those who denigrate and disparage Supreme Court Justices who fulfill their sworn-oath duty to support the Constitution, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are direct and mortal enemies of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Actual and Patriotic Americans, and America.
Professor Turley remains unbothered that the most recent Gallup poll shows only 43% of the American public approve of the Supreme Court & this month’s Annenberg Public Policy Center poll shows 68% support term limits for Supreme Court Justices.
Instead Turley gets all worked up by satirist Fran Lebowitz joking about the Supreme Court being an insult to Motown (get it, the Supremes?) & sarcastically calling SCOTUS “Trump’s harem.” Lebowitz made those comments on Bill Maher’s comedy/political show which averages around a million viewers, yet Turley insists Lebowitz was defiantly addressing the entire country.
Meanwhile Turley predictably gives Trump a pass for threatening to lock up his politcal opponents if he wins the 2024 election.
Trump: “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences…Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
Trump was just being sarcastic, right, Professor?
If as the Democrats parrot in unison that there was no cheating then there is nothing to fear. Who bugged the Trump campaign headquarters phone?
Traveler, the first thing Trump did after the 2016 election was to falsely claim Democrats cheated & Hillary received millions of illegal votes. Republicans have spent the past 3 ½ years parroting in unison Trump’s relentless false claims that he won the 2020 election “by a lot.” But as Bill Barr confirmed, the Trump DOJ found no evidence of widespread voter fraud which would have changed the verified results after multiple recounts that Biden won the 2020 election.
So then there should be nothing to fear, right? Of course he must show standing…
Recounts do not verify mail in ballots.
Recounts verify that every ballot counted came from a certified legal voter. After Fox News declared Biden the winner of the 2020 election, Republicans filed lawsuits to invalidate hundreds of thousands of mail-in votes from legal voters in 4 states Biden won.
Thankfully, Congress eliminated any fears by certifying Biden’s Electoral College victory on January 6, 2021. Glad to hear you accept 2020 election results, Traveler.
I do not accept them. I don’t believe they properly verified mail in ballots, the FBI and 50 intelligence officials undoubtedly interfered with information that undoubtedly would have led to another Trump term. The Marxist canal subverted a duly elected President from execution of his duties from day one. The Russian collusion hoax, the impeachments sham, the 24/7/365 propaganda, the IRS weaponization, the FBI Andy’s plan. You would have to be a blithering idiot to be unable to see there is a shadow government and they knee capped Trump. Don’t you worry though, it will all come out as he takes it 2024, it isn’t about Trump. Then again, I believe COVID was man made, released on purpose and refused mRNA vaccines. Baaaaaaaaa!
Well, I readily admit you had me completely fooled when you kept saying no one has to fear election results, Traveler. Thanks for clarifying you still don’t accept our country’s elected Congressional representatives certifying Biden’s Electoral College victory on January 6, 2021.
Why would I believe anything those bought and paid for shills tell us. Glad to help you there, no kidding, by the way where is President 81 million votes sharp as a tack, never had any conversations with my son’s business dealings at? I don’t think I am alone in thoughts on this matter. Every American should be and they should be looking for the prosecution of anyone that participated in the subversion and sedition of Trump’s first term, wouldn’t care if it was Bill Clinton, it was treasonous.
Hey, Traveler, it would be great if you could help out & provide any supporting evidence for Trump’s claims about Hillary receiving millions of illegal votes in the 2016 election. Trump spent his first term & every year since making wild baseless claims about widespread voter fraud & has repeatedly attacked American election officials from both parties for the past 8 years. When Republicans lost the House in the 2018 midterms, Trump laughingly claimed Democrats voted multiple times wearing disguises.
We all remember what happened when Trump stood next to Putin on the world stage in Helsinki & was asked whether he believes US intelligence officials or Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump: “President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
Trump is the only American president in US history who lavishly praises a Russian leader who routinely orders the murders of his political opponents. As Trump’s national security advisor, Bolton, says, Putin, Xi Jingping & Kim Jong Un “think he’s a laughing fool. And they’re fully prepared to take advantage of him. Trump’s self-absorption makes it impossible for him to understand that.”
IWe all know the DNC stuffs ballot boxes, refuse to clean registries so dead and out of State people vote, we all know this to be true, I would believe that’s what Trump was alluding to.
Trump meeting with Putin in Helsinki, what would you think he’d say at a meeting, I’ll call you later after I win? Further, we saw 50 intelligence officers come out and say Hunters laptop had every indication of being Russian disinformation, wordsmithing at its finest. Trump’s praising of Putin, come on you can’t be that dumb, Obama droned numerous “terrorists” with multiple collateral deaths. Two of those were US citizens, one a terror suspect, the other his 14 year old son. The other foreign citizens that were just in the wrong place. The Walrus Bolton is a war monger mouthpiece for the industrial complex, I listen little to what he says. Trump vs the Kackler…
Not even close Trump small hands down and all! You did get your COVID mRNA booster shots updated didn’t you?
Deep state troll.
As soon as you revert to your juvenile name calling you have lost the argument. That’s quite rich, you calling anyone a troll! How’s your watch sales going?
“We all know the DNC stuffs ballot boxes, refuse to clean registries so dead and out of State people vote, we all know this to be true.”
Traveler, once again you attack US election officials for certifying election results after multiple recounts to establish that every ballot counted came from verified legal voters. After Georgia election officials reaffirmed Biden’s victory in their state after their 2nd recount of every single ballot, Republican Secretary of State, Raffensperger said “Today is an important day for election integrity in Georgia and across the country. Georgians can now move forward knowing that their votes, and only their legal votes, were counted accurately, fairly, and reliably.”
Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, confirmed Biden’s victory after recounts of every ballot. Ducey: “We do elections well here in Arizona. The system is strong,
I fully trust Republican election officials, Traveler.
I do not.
Did you believe the Coleman vs Franken election?
Did you believe rhe 2012 Obama election?
Did you believe the Weapons of mass destruction lie?
Did you believe the Russia collusion hoax?
Did you believe the Romney Obama debate?
You keep saying recounts when mail in ballots and ballot harvesting was rampant, recounts don’t mean jack sh!t.
How did Onama have over 110% in some Philadelphia precincts, a statistical impossibility. I am done with your foolishness, go to you corner and think on you sins Anonymous.
Is that all you do, gaslight?
* Simply counting wasn’t the issue. The ballots may not have met a States requirements as a lawful vote or voter. No audit was done and in Georgia ballots were destroyed until the sec of state said stop. It was so close Trump needed to find approx 14 000 illegal votes for Biden. Georgia would not release the ballots for audit.
Let’s be done with that BS.
They stole 2020 ten different ways, that’s what they think of you. They subverted Trump’s presidency at every step, everyone that voted to put him in that office was robbed of what could have happened. That’s what they think of you, the deep State shadow government, the unelected bureaucrats that cycle through each election, lobbyist side back to Government side. They are making millions of dollars, do you think they give a phuck about this country? Corruption from the highest level all the way to the bottom of the barrel. This has got to end, they have destroyed us globally with their lies, they have bankrupted us with their wars and have divided and stoked the fires of rage to the precipice of civil war and WW3. People should vote Trump because he did a great job the first term even given their subversion. He’s been on the receiving end of this and knows exactly how to end it quickly, lawfully and correctly.
^^^^ Kool aid
Let Trump’s team present their evidence to the public and see what is discovered. Simple
If it’s lies he can be tar and feathered, but if it’s true then the trials can begin…
I don’t drink Koolaide, that’s for children. One vote, paper ballots, one day with limited mail in ballots for military and disabled people. Then I would have faith in voting. To quote Mark Twain, “if your vote mattered, do you think they would let us do it?”
It’s easy to find no evidence just by not looking for it.
When a FOIA request was made for documentation of the DOJ investigations of 2020 election wrongdoing, the government’s response was, no such documents exist.
My understanding is that the court’s response on many of the filings were No Standing and they were thrown out immediately.
The Uniparty watching out for you, remember H W Bush telling us all there’s going to be a One World Order, we had no choice and it was going to happen, like it or not. Yeah, trust them!
Trump’s lips to God’s ears.
It’s reminiscent of the American Founders in 1776.
Oh, Happy Day!
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After making a statement like that, Fran Lebowitz, if she wants to have any credibility at all, needs to explain how she wants our government to operate without a Supreme Court.
Fran Lebowitz is a direct and mortal enemy of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Actual Americans, and America.
The Republicans on the Court we wrote the Constitution to give Trump immunity for his attempted coup. Of course they need to be impeached.
Sammy
You’re an idiot, you can’t even write a coherent sentence. Do you have any comprehension of what the justices weighed Presidential immunity against?
Just curious, what do you do for a job?
The Left will be nonexistent in 2-3 generations. They are sterile, against procreation, destructive, they terminate life in the most defenseless stages of development: in utero and the frail elderly (euthanasia). They are the id, the insatiable appetites, the vulgar, attention seeking, emotionally stunted, unlovable, the genetic aberration. They will be out of the gene pool soon enough by their own making
I’m the world’s greatest daughter. I’m a great relative. I believe I’m a great friend. I’m a horrible girlfriend. I always was.
– FRAN LEBOWITZ
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/fran-lebowitz
They may get a little help with becoming extinct should they keep up with their subversive anarchy.
* That’s what they’re shooting for..
Of course, the global elites are getting crowded in their honey holes of fun and being exposed in their freak off debauchery. Too many people with IQs of 80. They want the earners in their serfdom but the rest they see as useless feeders and breeders.
I suspect she would love the blob media and/or Hollywood to become the Third Estate.
In Other News: “Supreme Court Serves Fran Lebowitz with Writ of Quo Warranto”
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On sunday, Chief Justice Roberts personally served Fran Lebowitz with a writ of quo warranto, signed by him and each Associate Justice, after Lebowitz demanded the Supreme Court be dissolved.
The body of the writ contained only one line…
“Who died and made you God?”
Well what the hell. If they can dissolve the Supreme Court in socialist countries in South America why can’t they do it here? The sad part is that amongst the leftist members of our society this thinking is not an anomaly. There will be ample proof of my assessment presented by the forthcoming posts by the leftist on this blog. They’re begging for some of the government by the people in Venezuela and Brazil. You know, those places where people are trying to escape to the U.S. You know, those places where the law is not protected by a Supreme Court. My suggestion is that if you like places where your rights are not protected by a Supreme Court you should, if you have any real intestinal fortitude, get your rear end on a slow boat to Brazil or Venezuela. Damn, they say that if a Republican is elected they will be the first to book their passage on that slow boat but alas they never do.
KNOW THE ENEMY
DO NOT SUCCUMB
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“But I think Biden should dissolve the Supreme Court.”
– Fran Lebowitz
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama
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“We will bury you.”
– Nikita Khrushchev
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“Tora, Tora, Tora.”
– Commander Mitsuo Fuchida
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War