Except nobody believes any Democrat would do that
Got the clearance to return to jury duty today, and we were promptly told we weren't needed today. Which is good because I have also discovered that post-COVID "I've been standing/walking for more than 5 minutes and I feel like I'm going to sleep for a month now" fatigue
On the eve of Independence Day, the Supreme Court rules the Revolution was wrong.
This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
Folks overfocus on the "what if drone strike opponent" question, but it seems to me the more relevant one is "what if President asks CIA to bug opponent's headquarters". Which normal people would correctly identify as a criminal action, and which, as I read this ruling, would be an official act.
To me, this is the actual ruling. The ruling isn't that they can do anything. It's that the courts will be the final arbiters of whether what they did counts as an official act. And ultimately these same six ghouls determine whether any act is "official"
"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.
I wore my mask into court & into the jury room when we got sent in there. But if we had snacks I'd remove my mask while eating. Eventually one of the other jurors came in with COVID and no mask, 14 of us sitting around a table, I take mine off for a bit to eat a donut or an apple, go home with COVID
I've felt for a long time that politics and sports journalism both got boiled down to their absolute worst parts in and by talk radio. I'd always assumed the direction of influence was the other way but never had a good reason for that