Category: SCOTUS
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Amy’s Got A/Many Gun/s
Wouldn’t it be funny to hear her say, “No, I do not own A gun. Not one single, solitary gun. I own a Mighty Shitload of guns, and have ammo for all of them! So There!” Joe Doakes As long as she drags the SCOTUS into giving strict scrutiny to gun rights cases, I don’t…
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Strategery
I/m farirly convinced – amost to the point of making up a new Berg’s Law – that the Democrat messaging strategy is as follows: Assume that Democrat voters (as opposed to participants in their political class) are low-information voters who don’t really think all that critically Message accordingly. Exhibit NZA-212949993-6: Well, no – doing the…
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Subservient
These tweets have made the rounds of conservative social, cable and broadcast media. Which doesn’t mean they don’t need to be splattered far and wide. Berg’s Seventh Law is omnipresent: “Irony” – Judge Coney Barrett is already one of the nation’s most powerful jurists, even if she never gets on the SCOTUS (and here’s hoping…
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Fill The Vacancy
Trump is under no obligation to wait ’til the election. He should not. There are two types of rules in Washington: laws that allocate power, and norms that reflect how power has traditionally, historically been used. Laws that allocate power are paramount, and particularly dangerous to violate, but there is no such law at issue here. A president can…
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Remember…
…When the Democrats we’re concerned about the chilling effect President Trump’s criticism of a foreign service bureaucrat would have? Not withstanding that the ambassador served at his pleasure? Either do they. Speaking to a crowd on the Supreme Court steps, the leading Senate Democrat declared: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell…
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Fair Is Fair
Liberals insist Citizens United was wrongly decided and must be overturned. Really? The Supreme Court made a mistake? A mistaken decision must be overturned? Okay, I’m good with that. But Citizens United concerns a narrow area of free speech as it applies to political campaigns. Let’s start with cases that have broader societal impact, because the…
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Review
The Supreme Court, for the first time in nearly a decade, is hearing a significant Second Amendment case: Faced with a defunct ban on transporting guns outside city limits, the increasingly conservative court majority could render a decision making clear what some justices believe: that the Second Amendment extends beyond the home, and that lower courts should…
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As The Ramp On The Higgins Boat Slams Down
The SCOTUS will be taking on serious Second Amendment issues for the first time in almost a decade: The court granted a right-to-carry case out of New York that that pits the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association against the City of New York. New York bans transporting permitted handguns outside city lines, even…
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Reasoning
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A better explanation that I can give, of why Kavanaugh is essential to the court, and why Democrats are lying about the reasons they oppose him. Joe Doakes When the hysteria is this pronounced, the reason is never the stated one. Not in DC.
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A Bullish Wind
The President’s party always loses seats in the midterms. Trump is a polarizing figure who will drive Democrat turnout like nothing since Obama’s first election. The GOP is doomed, and Triump will be a lame duck starting in January. We’ve all heard it. Truth be told, while I think the GOP has a great chance…
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Long Term Plans
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Why the vicious fight over the Kavanaugh nomination? Because there’s so much at stake. When the Constitution was written, the Supreme Court did not have the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. The Court grabbed that power in Marbury v. Madison, 1803. For the first hundred years, everyone…
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This Just In
Seven women have come forward to say that the two men who reported that they, not Brett Kavanaugh, assaulted Christine Ford at a party that happened somewhere, some day, 34 to 37 years ago, actually assaulted all seven of them at that same party, wherever or whenever itw as.
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Believe Accusers
Unless they’re represented by Michael Avenatti. Then you’re either gullible or a partisan “Progressive”, but I repeat myself.
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A Thorough Investigation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Senate Judiciary Committee should subpoena Keith Ellison. He says both women accusing him of sexual assault are lying. Based on the testimony of our esteemed colleague in the House, the Senate Judiciary Committee can make a finding that women do, in fact, lie about sexual assault. So we…
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Open Letter To The Entire US Senate GOP Caucus
To: Entire US Senate GOP Caucus From: Mitch Berg, Cranky Peasant Re: A Big Lie Senators, Confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Now. The allegations against him are of a piece with nearly every leftist narrative today – utter crap. It’s transparent BS. Like most lefty memes – “gun violence”, the “War on Women”, the $15 minimum wage…
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Justice: Not For Deplorable Dregs
Would anyone in the media be paying attention to Christine Blasey Ford if she wasn’t an academic, reporter, or other “Elite?” I’m overhearing the television, so I’m not going to link to anything, but I keep hearing the indicia of elite status — notably, that Blasey is a college professor. I’m trying to think of…
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I Seem To Have Recovered A Memory
This is difficult for me, so please bear with me. It was in 1988. I was at a party at a duplex at, I think, Franklin and Pleasant in Minneapolis. I was there with a woman, a friend of mine. We’d been drinking. A lot. Suddenly, and without warning, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Chris…
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Deplorable
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Assume Christine Ford’s accusation against Brett Kavanaugh is true. 35 years ago, as a teenager, he did something stupid. What does that tell us about his present fitness to sit on the Supreme Court? It shows a disturbing lack of mature judgment. Duh, teenager. It shows a troubling tendency…
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Hardball
The Senate GOP reportedly plans to “play hardball” in getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, possibly this week: Strategists advising Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plan to use aggressive tactics this week in response to the public accusation of a “stumbling drunk” sexual assault in high school that instantly imperiled his confirmation, top sources tell Jonathan Swan:…
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Game Of Ids
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A colleague is worried that confirming Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court will make it too Catholic, too Harvard, too Elite. The justices won’t understand what the people want, won’t deliver rulings to their expectations, the public won’t accept them. We need a more diverse court, one more in touch…
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Shall Not Be Infringed
A three judge panel of a Federal Circuit court – not just any federal circuit, but the Ninth – has ruled that the 2nd Amendment applies to law-abiding citizens carrying firearms for self-defense in public, and has reversed a Hawaii federal district court ruling clamping pre-Heller-style restrictions on citizens in Hawaii: The ruling issued by a…
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Kavanaugh Bingo
As the left rapidly screams itself into an aneurysm over the choice of Judge Kavanaugh, It’s time to break out that all of Northern Alliance tradition; SCOTUS bingo! If you don’t have “blackout” by 10 AM, you’re probably not watching, reading or surfing anything… UPDATE: Will need a ruling on this – does it count…
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“All Hell Is About To Break Loose”
Reason’s Damon Root on the Kennedy retirement: That influence came with a certain price. Over the years, Kennedy has been denounced by every major faction in American politics. In conservative circles, for example, he has been keelhauled as a reckless judicial activist who “invented” a right to gay marriage. Liberals, meanwhile, have burned him in effigy…
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I Hate To Indulge In Schadenfreude
But when it comes to our spoiled, entitled left’s whining, whinging, childish mewling over the retirement of Anthony Kennedy – the worst I’ve heard since election night? Well… Literally in tears. Haven’t felt this hopeless in a long time. With Justice Kennedy leaving, we now have two options as Americans: get fitted for your Nazi…
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Kennedy Heads To Shady Acres
From NBC: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire from the highest U.S. court, giving President Donald Trump another chance to fundamentally reshape the top of the judiciary. Anthony Kennedy is retiring. This is yuge. The culture war is about to get a *lot* hotter. While I’ve been a Trump non-fan for thirty years, I…