nostr:npub1tf489l2mm4jgjxs5s9anxfx40vt0ptt99ls8yfs00t3t8vjkjntq4cnzuj Madison warned us against Issue One: the GOP plan to replace a 50.1% majority with 60% to amend the Ohio constitution.
If approved, "it would be no longer the majority that would rule; the power would be transferred to the minority” when it comes to passing laws or other measures, he said in Federalist 58.
Worse, Issue One + GOP gerrymandering together will put bad legislators and bad policies out of reach of the voting majority.
Issue One is tyranny of the minority in action.
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Did Madison heed his own warning when he agreed to the electoral college or denial of the franchise to women, the poor, and the 3/5ths people in Federalist
Our inequality is rooted in the Constitution whose authors we inexplicably revere unquestioningly for their wisdom. They did what was right for them. It helped replace a monarchy with a constitutional aristocracy.
The nation is running as designed.
Unfortunately.
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
~ Anatole France
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As if what I said was "Circuit judges are not nominated and confirmed."
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Correct. But there is clarity on how you *get* on the SCOTUS. Which is what I emphasized.
Unless you have been nominated by the president for the SCOTUS and confirmed by the Senate.
Congress can definitely regulate the size, which is why I offer packing as the simplest solution. We have done it, and there is ample legal precedent.
There is no way to remove the doleful influence of Clarito, but you can dilute their influence.
nostr:npub1p8saydhfl0p78w3g7x2urgrhrh4htk8pkaghrrcm5ckj055zm7dq064tga Republicans only double down, which is why I expect DeSantis to circle back to this.
nostr:npub1p8saydhfl0p78w3g7x2urgrhrh4htk8pkaghrrcm5ckj055zm7dq064tga Did they cave or do a Bibi?
As in, they agreed to not press the matter for now in the face of loud and visible opposition, only to ram it through in the Fall when COVID surges will serve as a distraction?
nostr:npub1p8saydhfl0p78w3g7x2urgrhrh4htk8pkaghrrcm5ckj055zm7dq064tga Did they cave or do a Bibi?
As in, they agreed to not press the matter for now, in the face of loud, visible opposition, only to ram it through in the Fall when COVID surges will serve as a distraction?
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HEY! No one likes a show-off!
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Subscription is the new renting.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/biden-signs-claim-credit-for-economy/index.html the perennial “but” in headlines about a Democrat #uspol #uspolitics #bidenomics
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Exhibit #688749:
The mainstream media leans Republican.
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Sure. It'd take more wrangling over the terms, and very likely a constitutional amendment, because the inclusion on the court is governed by nomination by the president with confirmation by the Senate.
The rank corruption of Clarence Thomas continues to be exposed, one sleazy item at a time.
How are we learning about this? Not from law enforcement or others who have subpoena power (e.g. Congress), but by journalists.
Latest example, from the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=US%20News
nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 That subpoena power is not worth the cup of coffee sipped as one types out the subpoena.
Still don't see anything that makes the gifts illegal.
Yes, it is corrupt but not in the eyes of the law.
nostr:npub1866q3whyaw2wvkhqkdmyhgusu0e2wc80a8w4ddh3affcxxgkcqrqw0c9yh It's not just 9ne Senator.
All Republicans. Because none is even admonishing him.
ICYMI, #ClarenceThomas proves, once again, that he is unfit to serve on #scotus
"Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It
"Thomas, who in the ensuing years would tell friends how he had scrimped and saved to afford the motor coach, did not buy it on his own. In fact, the purchase was underwritten, at least in part, by Anthony Welters, a close friend who made his fortune in the health care industry."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html
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Pack the Courts.
Nothing else will even address it. Yes Democrats, you don't have the votes today. But you have to start selling the idea now.
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"how Black people should be allowed to vote?"
You are being generous to the racists. Many are still asking IF.
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If he does it again, it’ll quickly go to a judge.
This is an explicit “you didn’t tell me not to” flex by Trump to see what he can get away with.
He will comply and his lawyers should be advising him that behavior can instantly put him behind bars.
There will be no trial or appeal.
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Over the next month or so, you may see more posts like that from him, and predictably (and smartly) neither the judge nor the prosecutors will react to them.
They don’t want to make him the center of attention he desperately wants to be. Teri covers it well.
https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield/110835160919406020
https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield/110837206259878975
nostr:npub1xyjz6d2njt8rwdxzp4kr9hw79l5cjp42mh79tm5u84ka507nv3jsxc3kn5 He comes for the bride in the weddings held on his properties.
“A prominent conservative writer, lionized by Silicon Valley billionaires and a U.S. senator, used a pen name for years to write for white supremacist publications…” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817
nostr:npub1aq2wqds7uk7g9tfv6gmm2qk0t6cmqmpzh5n9hkdghgx3d0x75syspa4nfw He also wrote for the NYT. An oped. Rite of passage for all neo Nazis.
And the NYT.