Below is my column in the Hill on the rising political violence on the left. Many have found an irresistible release from both reason and responsibility in rage. A new study found more people embracing political violence. Joel Finkelstein, the lead author of the report, stated that “what was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable… We are seeing a clear shift – glorification, increased attempts and changing norms – all converging into what we define as ‘assassination culture.’” Roughly 40 percent reportedly found it somewhat justifiable to burn a Tesla or even to kill Donald Trump.
Here is the column:
“We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.”
Those words from author Elie Mystal, a regular commentator on MSNBC, are hardly surprising from someone who previously called the Constitution “trash” and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of “all voter registration laws.”
But Mystal’s radical rhetoric is becoming mainstream on the left, as shown by his best-selling books and popular media appearances.
There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them see as absolving them from the basic demands not only of civility but of legality.
They are part of a rising class of American Jacobins — bourgeois revolutionaries increasingly prepared to trash everything, from cars to the Constitution.
The Jacobins were a radical group in France that propelled that country into the worst excesses of the French Revolution. They were largely affluent citizens, including journalists, professors, lawyers, and others who shredded existing laws and destroyed property. It would ultimately lead not only to the blood-soaked “Reign of Terror” but also to the demise of the Jacobins themselves as more radical groups turned against them.
Of course, it is not revolution on the minds of most of these individuals. It is rage.
Rage is the ultimate drug. It offers a release from longstanding social norms — a license to do those things long repressed by individuals who viewed themselves as decent, law-abiding citizens.
Across the country, liberals are destroying Tesla cars, torching dealerships and charging stations, and even allegedly hitting political dissenters with their cars.
Last week, affluent liberal shoppers admitted that they are shoplifting from Whole Foods to strike back at Jeff Bezos for working with the Trump administration and moving the Washington Post back to the political center. They are also enraged at Mark Zuckerberg for restoring free speech protections at Meta.
One “20-something communications professional” in Washington explained “If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too.” These affluent shoplifters portrayed themselves as Robin Hoods.
Of course, that is assuming Robin Hood was stealing organic fruit from the rich and giving it to himself.
On college campuses, affluent students and even professors are engaging in political violence.
Just this week, University of Wisconsin Professor José Felipe Alvergue, head of the English Department, turned over the table of College Republicans supporting a conservative for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He reportedly declared, “The time for this is over!”
Likewise, a mob this week attacked a conservative display and tent on the campus of the University of California-Davis as campus police passively watched. The Antifa protesters, carrying a large banner with the slogan “ACAB” or “all cops are bastards,” trashed the tent and carried it off.
Antifa is a violent and vehemently anti-free speech group that thrives on U.S. college campuses. In his book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” Mark Bray explains that “most Americans in Antifa have been anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists. … From that standpoint, ‘free speech’ as such is merely a bourgeois fantasy unworthy of consideration.”
Of course, many of the American Jacobins are themselves bourgeois or even affluent figures. And they are finding a host of enablers telling them that the Constitution itself is a threat and that the legal system has been corrupted by oligarchs, white supremacists, or reactionaries.
This includes leading academics and commentators who are denouncing the Constitution and core American values. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School, is the author of “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.”
In a 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 the nation to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
Commentator Jennifer Szalai has scoffed at what she called “Constitution worship.” “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us,” she wrote. “A growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”
As intellectuals knock down our laws and Constitution, radicals are pouring into the breach. Political violence and rage rhetoric are becoming more common. Some liberals embraced groups like Antifa, while others shrugged off property damage and violent threats against political opponents. It is the very type of incitement or rage rhetoric that Democrats once accused Trump of fostering in groups like the Proud Boys.
Members of Congress such as Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) have called for Tesla CEO Elon Musk to be “taken down” and said that Democrats have to be “OK with punching.”
Some take such words as a justification to violently attack a system supposedly advancing the white supremacy or fascism. Fortunately, such violence has been confined so far to a minority of radicalized individuals, but there is an undeniable increase in such violent, threatening speech and in actual violence.
The one thing the American Jacobins will not admit is that they like the rage and the release that it brings them. From shoplifting to arson to attempted assassination, the rejection of our legal system brings them freedom to act outside of morality and to take whatever they want.
Democratic leaders see these “protests” as needed popularism to combat Trump — to make followers “strike ready” and “to stand up and fight back.”
For a politician, a mob can become irresistible if you can steer it against your opponents. The problem is controlling the mob once it has broken free of the bounds of legal and personal accountability.
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.”
This is for Gigi, Dennis, Franke, and others. It pretty much covers how I look at them. The Dostoevsky quote at the end is excellent.
https://www.libertynation.com/political-extremism-and-the-brain/
OldFish,
Good read. Thank you for posting that.
Why is all this caterwauling by Obama making the MSM news/propaganda/indoctrination cycle?
Why is Obama loitering around Washington, D.C.?
He just completed his third term with Obama/Biden; it’s past time he retired.
Is he bidding for a fourth term, understanding that sloshed Word-Salad Kamalala lost it for him?
Pam Bondi should have already indicted Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama for the Obama Coup D’etat in America that deployed 51 former intelligence officials and a plethora of global co-conspirators to commit espionage, subversion, insurrection, sedition, and treason against the President of the United States and America.
Why hasn’t there been a predawn raid with special agents in full combat gear and CNN in close proximity to put this purveyor of espionage and treason on the docket?
Statute of Limitations, I heard.
Democratic leaders see these “protests” as needed popularism to combat Trump
If true, then they are delusional. Popularism? The people spoke on 11/5/24, and it wasn’t in favor of this kind of nonsense.
With the Left admitting that:
US Constitution is worthless
Violence is necessary
Killing “Take down” is justifiable and
2nd Amendment must be revoked….
They really are screwed since Americans have been paying attention and taking notes!
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts Indefinitely BLOCKS Court Order Requiring Return of Alleged El Salvadoran MS-13 Gang Member
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-supreme-court-chief-justice-roberts-blocks-court/
That is good news. Apparently even Roberts is able to see the cliff the judiciary is about to drive over. Trump is getting fed up with the courts. Congress is getting fed up with the courts. The people are getting fed up with the courts. That can’t end well for the judiciary.
I suspect the hearings, impeachments, and resolutions in Congress played a role in Roberts’ decision. He doesn’t seem a jurist disposed to act only on law and his duty to it.
Let’s pray Trump, Congress, and the People don’t deploy the guillotines for the rampaging JURISTOCRACY that is denying Americans their partaking of the “cake” of the Constitution.
Jonathan: OMG! Now even Elon Musk has come out against DJT’s insane tariffs. Looks like divorce papers will soon be filed. Elon says he wants to see a tariff free zone between Europe and the US. And Musk puts the blame on Pete Navarro, DJT’s trade guru. Musk posted this two days ago about Navarro: “A Phd in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing. Results in the ego/brain>>1 problem”.
To show you how really crazy Navarro really is just look at some of his many books dating back to 2001. In his books he cites “Ron Vara”, a so-called econ expert, that pushed the idea that tariffs are a good thing. Navarro circulated a memo by “Ron Vara” saying “Get uncertainty out of the market by announcing NO deal until after the election and ride the tariffs to victory”.
Only one problem. “Ron Vara” does not exist. He was invented in the crazy mind of Navarro to justify his position on tariffs. “Ron Vara” is an anagram for “Navarro”!
It’s all a con, folks. I tried to warn you about what DJT would do if he got back into the Oval Office again. It was there in the open in DJT’s campaign speeches last year. But no one was paying attention. And now DJT is tanking the US and world economy–all in the name of “Ron Vara”!
SHOULD OF warned us about BIDEN! He gave us 21% inflation and let in 10-25 Million UNVETTED!!
So Trump and Musk both want free trade? Thanks so much. Good to know.
Musk did NOT come out against these Tariffs. He came out supporting them and HOPING that subsequent negotiations would leed to actual free trade. Trump has made clear these are reciprocal tariffs. They can be reduced or eliminated if barriers to US exports are reduced ot eliminated. That means reduce tariffs on US good AND eliminate laws that preclude US products from being sold in your country.
Dennis – you should not be accusing anyone else of being “crazy”
Ron Vara is a well known Pseudonym of Peter Navarro,
Peter Navarro is an actual economist. His positions on Trade are Heterodox – SO WHAT ? The entire world knows right now that Trump is operating outside the Keynesian and Neo-Keynesian economics that has FAILED.
The US operated the entire Federal Govenrment off of Tarriffs for half of our existance.
Every country in the world has Tarriffs to some extent.
The countries that are b****ing about US Tarriffs right now are counties that have significant revenue from Tarriffs on US good or other barriers to US trade.
As NUMEROUS people have pointed out – If Free Trade is the goal – why is it that ONLY the US is required to trade freely ?
The claim that Tariffs are outside the mainstream is belied by the FACT that most every country int he world until a few days ago had higher tariffs than the US. If it is such a bad idea – why is every other country doing it ?
Tariffs are fundimentally a sales tax on imported goods. All Taxes are economically harmful. Some are worse than others.
The worst taxes are taxes on investment, the next worse are taxes on Wealth, the next worse are taxes on profits. the next worse are taxes on income – particularly high marginal income because that is very nearly the same as taxing investment. Sales taxes – of which Tariffs are one form are the least harmful form of taxation. They are still harmful – all taxes are harmful.
Sales taxes and Tariffs are generally eschewed because sales taxes particularly are not efficient to collect.
But that has changed dramatically in the modern era and they are easier to collect and more efficient than income taxes today.
“It’s all a con, folks.”
How so ? Who benefits from Tariffs ? Who is harmed ? There is no Con game here. There is a shift in economic priorities.
Increasingly it appears that The result of Trump’s tarriffs is going to be a global Free Trade deal where no one Tariffs anyone and no one errects barriers to imported goods. That would be good for the entire world.
But the likely alternative is that Tariffs remain and become a significant source of federal revenue. The price of imported goods may/may not go up. The demand for imported goods will go down. The Federal govenrment will be able to significantly cut income taxes, The deficit is likely to go down.
It is likely the net would be positive. In fact it is almost certain that it would be.
“I tried to warn you about what DJT would do if he got back into the Oval Office again. It was there in the open in DJT’s campaign speeches last year. But no one was paying attention.”
What you “warned” is precisely what people voted FOR – they paid attention and voted FOR Trump because they want this.
” And now DJT is tanking the US and world economy”
The global economy is incredibly weak – it was weakened by Biden, but frankly it is weak and has been weakening for a long time.
The risk of global recession is high – frankly it was high without these Tariffs, It was more than high – much of the world – and possibly the US have been in recession for years. Some parts of the world have been in recession for decades.
All the result of bad socialist policies.
I can hear it in magat voices. They’re scared. For good reason.
Why ever would we be scared? Of a bunch of black bloc soy boys? Oh, they are of so brave behind their masks, in a mob, where they know the police has been ordered not to stop their violence. We are not scared. We have guns and know how to use them in self defense. We would have LEOs on our side and the law. What we are hearing, everyone is how you are losing and are getting more and more desperate. To the point you are advocating violence and normalizing it.
Nah. You’re scared.
Projection on your part from behind a keyboard in your mom’s basement. I have been trained by the greatest military organization in the world: The USMC.
Hi Upstate – I’m wondering if this Anonymous’ (at 3:49 PM) Mother Breast-Fed him or Bottle-Fed Soy Milk?
Lol. A) Seals definitely disagree. And B) I would’ve thought the Marines would’ve not taught you to be an idiot on a legal blog as you so proudly exhibit on a daily basis.
OOO-RAH!!!
Aha! Fox has whipped out a new expression…, soy boys. That’s a fun one to incessantly repeat as the heart disease eats you for lunch isn’t it?
Lol..ur dreaming u punks
Wait! The “magat voices” WON, and they are enjoying WINNING!
You, by contrast, seem upset and defensive.
When you have the majority of the country voting for Trump and current popularity polls for Trump going his direction, the people who should be scared are the spoiled brats who don’t want to abide by an election result. If the majority finally says “enough”, the majority will beat the crap out of the dissidents
You forget – or are ignorant of – who are the conservatives in the United States. A small reminder: a sizeable number of us as veterans and active duty military. “Scared”? You need to reassess.
Democrats are ok with rage as long as it is a one-way street. They assume a fetal position when it is meted out in their direction.
Jasmine Crocket will not be “okay with punching” when the knuckles have her face on them.
These are paper tigers, poorly equipped to withstand the retaliation that will meet them squarely once they have pushed too far.
I think Jasmine Crockett could kick your ass by herself.
Keep dreaming, you need to calm down
There is a new law. Greed is good. Do it right or get eliminated.
“New law” – then quotes a 1987 movie. Hmmmm.
You forgot to add the malfunctioning federal government….Hmmmmm.
It is a paraphrase of Adam Smith and over 250 years old.
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. ”
Who has done more for the world ? Mother Thersa who in a lifetime helped thousands in Calcutta, or Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs who have made themselves fabulously wealthy but benefiting billions.
A DISCORDANT INTERMIXTURE MUST HAVE AN INJURIOUS TENDENCY
“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Even the Original Jacobin’s were eventually eaten by their own! https://theconversation.com/the-french-revolution-executed-royals-and-nobles-yes-but-most-people-killed-were-commoners-200455
“most people killed were commoners”
I am not sure that is true unless you include lawyers and other intellectuals as commoners.
Its now up to the SC to tell us what we already knew, trump is attempting to be a king…
“Thacker wrote in a scathing concurrence explaining her reasoning that the “United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process.””
What will the SC say?
There is a Separation of Powers being violated by liberal Jacobin judges. Either the SC slaps them down or there will be chaos. The problem isn’t Trump. Joe Biden issued all sorts of executive orders. The problem is that you don’t like Trump and refuse to accede to the results of the election.
“Thacker wrote in a scathing concurrence explaining her reasoning that the “United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process.””
Correct.
These people are NOT lawfully here.
Temporary protective status is just that – temporary. It does not alter the fact that you are not here legally.
The due process you are entitiled to is a deportation hearing – which in all these cases already occured and resulted in a deportation order.
You can win any argument if you ignore 2/3 of the facts.
The SC will say that TPS status has expired and been revoked. The deportation orders were valid, those who have been deported are entitled to Habeuas challenges, and likely no more, and the courts must confine Habeaus review to the legal issues relevant to habeaus. Not made up nonsense.
Regarding “replacing” the Constitution” there was a method to modify, or, should it be necessary. to rid ourselves of the Constitution, that was incorporated in it from the beginning: the amendment process. It wasn’t made easy, nor should it be. It also requires the consent of the governed, which I think is the main reason why sleazy, unprincipled. con artists like the wannabe authoritarian Mystal reject it. I think cretins like him should be transported to some other nation where they can try their best to prevail without a pre-existing set of rules regulating the conduct of government. Sudan or Zimbabwe might be good choices.
That cretin has a PhD. You?
The immigration law of the American Founders, which persisted for 71 years until a dictatorship under unconstitutional martial law seized power, was never licitly abrogated.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
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By law, which was quite simply ignored criminally, that cretin could not even have been admitted to become a citizen, PhD or no.
Not to put too fine a point on it.
A PhD is more of a receipt of money spent than an assurance of knowledge acquired these days.
In any event Mystal has a JD [yes, I have one] not a PhD.
But either way, with the collapse of standards Mystal practically serves as a national standard for the receipt vs knowledge paradigm.
Saying only that the person has a PhD is an ad hominem argument – it speaks to the man rather than what the man says, i.e., his position or argument. In short, it is a mere distraction from the topic under discussion.
OldManFromKS,
Well said. As we have learned a college degree, or even a PhD is not an indicator of intelligence. I know of a number of people with degrees whom also lack common sense or are poorly informed. I got some family members and friends who fall into those categories.
PhD.. Pfft! Big whoop! He’s still Anti-American. He doesn’t like it here, he can leave.
Mystal doesn’t have PhD. He has a JD and I’ve personally met a lot of dumb con artist lawyers.
Mystal is a DEI hire.
The PhD “affirmative action” rendition from the communist Mecca is in all likelihood akin to the achievement of the proven plagiarist from Atlanta.
PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays…if one is a socialist. There’s more respect for people who work for a living.
Anon: “There’s more respect for people who work for a living.”
I think there are a fair number of PhDs working at McDonald’s and I believe that counts.
I strongly recommend that anyone who does not sympathize with the woke left, and does not plan to make a secret of that, prepare themselves to be attacked by these creeps. Research what the requirements are in your state (and in states you frequently travel to/through) for handgun carry. Research the best handgun for your personal abilities and needs. There are many sites on handgun carry in the U. S. and quality varies. USA Carry is not a bad place to begin, there are others equally as good, visiting several is not a bad idea.
https://www.usacarry.com/
There may also be a site specifically for your state, for example, Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). Once you have determined what you should carry, purchased it, and done whatever training and qualification is required to carry it (this varies tremendously between states), go to a range and practice frequently, get training from a qualified professional until you are comfortable with the gun and carrying it, and, most importantly, resolve yourself to the reality that you may need to fatally shoot an attacker to safeguard your life, or that of your loved ones. You may well be revolted by that idea, and I would not blame you one bit if you are. But that is the situation in which we now find ourselves. thanks largely to amoral individuals such as those identified by Professor Turley who have been “educated” by a bogus governmental system, and who have no sense whatsoever of ethics, morals, the denial of instant gratification, or self-restraint, and to the apologists for those cretins.
Wondering, how do you go about identifying cretins?
I go with sense 2:
Merriam-Webster
cretin
noun
1 dated, now offensive : one affected with cretinism
2 offensive : a stupid, vulgar, or insensitive person : clod, lout
By their strongly evident odor, real or virtual. For example, you smell like the rectum of a buffalo afflicted with morbid parasitic dysentery, virtually speaking.
Joseph Frady,
Also look at what they say or write. All the anonymoron comments reflect the buffalo afflicted with morbid parasitic dysentery as you point out. Same could be said about Dennis, Gigi, babytrump. Then, in real life, there are those cretins who wear all black bloc attacking anyone who disagrees with them with physical violence, commits arson, destruction of property and vandalism. All because they drive a certain brand of vehicle. Many of those who have been assaulted bought those vehicles prior to Musk getting red pilled and on board with Trump and his agenda. They might of been Democrats but after getting attacked, they live in fear of these antifa soy boys vandalizing their vehicles, homes or even getting personally attacked. These are some seriously sick and twisted people. Evil even.
In your case, apparently, by using a mirror.
Joseph Frady,
Long gun in 45-70govt, 300 grn HP.
For around home defense, my long gun ammo is .308 Winchester (mainly in my Ruger Scout). Inside the house, I lean toward my short Maverick 88 with a 12 ga. combination (slug & shot) load. Outside the home, concealment is a requirement here, and capacity limited by law. I generally go with Ruger .357 revolver in cold weather, changing to 9mm semi-auto as necessary in Summer. This state also stupidly prohibits carry of hollow point ammo, so I go with Hornady Critical Defense in both. Occasionally if I expect to be in a situation where over-penetration is of less concern than lethality, I may temporarily switch to Critical Duty. Within a very wide latitude, none of the choices are good or bad. To each his own 🙂
Joseph Frady,
Ah! Good choice! I have a Ruger Scout sitting next to me as I type this. It is more for fox, coy and I have a game cam video of a black bear on the back forty. I like the 45-70 govt for the energy at short ranges.
Oh! Boyds laminated wood stock with thumb hole grip and Andy’s Leather Ching Sling. Highly recommended. I have a Shiloh Sharps Quigley on order. 🙂
“I strongly recommend that anyone who does not sympathize with the woke left, and does not plan to make a secret of that, prepare themselves to be attacked by these creeps.”
Excuse me? Who is making death threats agains anyone that opposes trump?
What was Jan 6 all about? How many law enforcement were injured?
Jan 6 was a security service false flag op.
I see you wont comment on the assault on all those officers when leftists got violent so much so, they moved President Trump to a secure bunker. I see you did not mention Musk and his DOGE team getting death threats. I see you did not mention the failed assassination attempts on Trump himself. I see you did not mention people getting attack for simply driving a Tesla.
The Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab on Monday released results of a survey to assess support for political violence in the U.S.
The results found that political violence targeting Trump and Elon Musk “is becoming increasingly normalized.”
In fact, 55% of those self-identified as left of center said murdering Trump would be at least somewhere justified. A share of 48% leftists said the same about murdering Musk, head of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Overall, 38% said it was at least somewhat justified to murder Trump and 31% said the same about Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
NCRI/Rutgers found that “a broader ‘assassination culture’ appears to be emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left.”
“What was Jan 6 all about? How many law enforcement were injured?” You mean the LEOs who tripped over their own feet? None died as a result of violence by anyone in the crowd because THEY DIDN’T COMMIT VIOLENCE. But participants died, at least one murdered by a Capitol Police officer, and others beat senseless, still alive, but not as if the police didn’t try to send them to the morgue. #RememberAshliBabbitt!
The Age of Rage has soaked into the DC courts. They are beyond repair and should be abolished or, at least, have their funding cut way back.
DC Court of Appeals backs the district court order to return the criminals.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/just-trump-asks-supreme-court-intervene-block-obama
Now we will see what Roberts is truly made of.
No matter how the Court rules I doubt that the criminals will be returned. If they are, house them in the DC courts or in Boasberg’s neighborhood.
Roberts has collapsed confidence in the once respected federal judiciary. It once had a giant’s shadow; now it has the shadow of a midget.
If Trump has to tell the courts to pound sand to protect the country I think the country will support him. And there is precedent, Jefferson threatened it and Jackson did it and, oddly, Biden [or Autopen] kept trying it on student loan forgiveness.
After what Trump has surmounted to reach this pinnacle I am surprised that anyone dares to challenge him without having a strong argument in his favor. But Boasberg is fighting Trump to return criminals and murderers to our country? It seems suicidal arrogance mixed with big helpings of stupidity.
One new thing prompted by judicial overreach is the willingness for some to look more closely into judges’ backgrounds, affiliations, finances and potential conflicts of interest…and to publish them. What Julie Kelly has learned about Boasberg, for example, is concerning.
They brought it on themselves.
“Now we will see what Roberts is truly made of.”
Unfortunately, I think we already have more than ample knowledge of that answer. There are, however, (at least) two closely related, Constitutionally vague, questions that may soon be debated to some conclusion: if any authority exists to replace a sitting SCOTUS Chief Justice without removing him from the Court; how the meaning of “during good Behaviour” in Article III, Section 1, is to be interpreted.
Joseph,
Yes. Congressman Biggs is putting the “good behavior” issue before Congress.
But I wonder who has the authority to decide that question? It seems like the courts might have a significant bias. I suppose the default would be Congress.
If the courts hadn’t been so radical and Roberts so weak or compromised we wouldn’t be discussing these things.
They brought it on themselves.
Thinking on it, what ‘good behavior’ is and how lack of it can be addressed is more of a political question within the remit of Article I or II rather than the judiciary. Add to that all inferior courts [less than the Supreme Court] and their jurisdictions are created by Congress and so perhaps Congress is best placed to address the good behavior issue.
This is perilous territory and I wish it weren’t necessary, but Roberts and the rogue lower courts are making it possible and maybe necessary to explore these issues.
Mystal is in service to his Medium’s owners..
he is, effectively, a modern voice for Antonio Gramsci — a human molotov cocktail whose sole purpose is to project the aims of those whose “best interests” are found in the division of peoples.
Truly, an Uncle Tom figure who lacks a real historical perspective and the moral capacity to interpret..
(They are part of a rising class of American Jacobins — bourgeois revolutionaries increasingly prepared to trash everything, from cars to the Constitution.) These affluent elitists have been untouched, so far, by their privileged actions. Start throwing these feminist harpies into jail in polyester orange jumpsuits and see how brazen they are when they meet their new roommate.
@Whimsicalmama
Yup. Deluded to the core, overly impressed by their own self-importance. Precisely the reason this country was founded in the first place, and though comparisons can be made to the French Revolution, that was not *our* revolution. Ours was more profound, and we did indeed kick France (and England, and Spain) to the curb, as well. The fact that we are now just dealing with the delusions of profoundly spoiled children, rather than international assault, actually bodes well for us. We will administer the spankings their parents could not.
#. They’re worth has dropped in heaven. You make far too much of motive.
Beautiful spring weather, professor Turley. Enjoy. ..
Jonathan: You say “Rage is the ultimate drug. It offers a release from long standing norms”. And you want to blame the “left” for all this rage? Really?
So where did all this “rage” start? It started on Jan. 6, 2021 when DJT got his MAGA supporters and fascist stormtroopers in such a “rage” they stormed the Capitol, beating and injuring Capitol police and committing millions in property damage. Now that is RAGE in capital letters and a rejection of “long standing norms” of accepting the results of an election and the peaceful transition of power. No one from Antifa or the “left” did that after the last election.
And after hundreds of Jan. 6 insurrectionists were arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for their crimes what did DJT do as soon as one of his first acts when he got back into the Oval office? He pardoned them all so they could commit other crimes. No wonder Americans are outraged. But that has been what we have come to expect from someone who is also a “convicted felon”!
Nope started long before that with antifa maggots destroying cities in left wing states.
Elections have consequences! On January 20th 2025 Donald Trump started to fundamentally change America.
the idea that the most armed demographic in our society decided to attend a revolution unarmed.
It is useless arguing with collectivists..they are a cult and demand their adherents to repeat the party litany song and verse. Their God is the Promethean and they have been betrayed by their erstwhile pantheon of Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg. Apparently Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky were whiffed on by this bunch..seemed to have missed all the subsidization they provided based on the ideology of Maurice Strong.
* Elon Musk, as of 2020, had a net worth of $27B and by the end of 2024 his money wealth was measured at $458 B — Jesus Kristy..talk about vertical integration and the creation of Billionaire Fiefdoms while gutting the remnants of a middle class! Well done! And while you are at it why don’t you deny the “me too”
movement and the voices of hurting Americans as they climb up the A$$ of Uncle Pharma. Liberal indeed! Let me suck up to a cabal of Huxleyan eugenicists as “I” forfeit all the previous notions of speaking “Truth to Power” in favor of taking booster shots for a military grade bioweapon. No, these Jesuits/Jacobins/Marxists and Commies all work in a backward mode. It was McLuhan who described Marxism as a “Rear View Mirror Ideology” only capable of addressing past hurts and then revising-creating some “new ones” when the old tropes have been exhausted.
Goya, on one of his 8th of May paintings of peasants taking cudgels to public statuary and edifices, “does he know what he is doing?” And of course, like today’s media zombies, the people out in the streets today have about as much conscious understanding of their own behavior as a 17th century peasant.
I’m guessing from your comments that you don’t hold the Constitution our founding fathers gave us in very high regard. Would it also be accurate to say that you think recreational drugs, illicit sex and the murder of innocent unborn children are a few of your favorite vices?
These Jacobins ought to be reminded of Mao’s famous quip that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” and then reflect on who owns most of the guns in this country — indeed, in the entire world.
“The American Jacobin: How Some On the Left Have Found Release in an Age of Rage”
– Professor Turley
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“We should replace our piece of c— Constitution.”
– Elie Ying Mystal
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We should replace our judicial branch and Supreme Court that have imposed an antithetical and unconstitutional juristocracy.
We should train the Supreme Court how to read the Constitution; the Supreme Court of 2022 began that process in Dobbs; it left centuries of work undone.
“Shall not be infringed” is crystal clear for all but the Supreme Court.
General in “general Welfare” obviously means all or the whole, not, for example, the mere 18.7% covered by Social Security or Federal Old-Age Benefits, which was improperly upheld in Helvering v. Davis, 1937.
Private property, which is distinctly not public property, is a good place to start; only the owner may set development, CC&Rs, products, engineering, manufacturing, customers, employees, prices, wages, and every other concern related to property.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
“They were largely affluent citizens, including journalists, professors, lawyers, and others…” Those were the Ghirondists. The Jacobins were the equivalent of today’s Marxists. Once in power, the Jacobins murdered the Ghirondists first.
Just like today’s Marxists will kill the silly liberals who currently support the democrats.
There were lawyers and intellectuals among the Jacobins too.