Category: SCOTUS
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The Art Of The Deal
Joe Doakes formerly of Como Park emails: That time has definitely come.
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Just As In 2016
In 2016, I was a Trump skeptic. I voted for Scott Walker (who I still think would have made, and would make, a great President, in the same way Ron DeSantis would, and hopefully will in four years). As I noted on the eve of the 2016 election, and as we awaited the inauguration, I…
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Plan B
Every Democrat, for the past 24 hours or so: SCOTUS: You can’t just throw your rival in prison because you don’t like him. DEMOCRATS: So you’re saying we can drop bombs on him? SCOTUS: You really can’t even charge your rival with a crime because his presidency made you mad. DEMOCRATS: Got it. So we…
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It’s Almost As If There’s A Theme
Attorney General Ellison compares Justice Thomas to a “house slave”: Ellison – whose entire career is was financed by Alita Messinger and George Soros – accuses conservatives on the SCOTUS of being beholden to plutocrats. And about 1:00 in, he says: “Anyone who’s watched Django – Clarence Thomas is like Steven. Ellison is being both…
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That’s Gonna Leave A Mark – On Legal History
Never thought I”d see the day. In one of the highlights of last week, all nine justices of the SCOTUS united across ideological lines to beat Hennepin County like a pimp beating one of his girls. Geraldine Tyler owed a $15,000 tax debt on a one-bedroom Minneapolis condo; to pay the debt, Hennepin County sold her home…
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Our Dim, Cretinous Overlords
To: Senator SmithFrom: Mitch Berg, Unaborted HumanRe: From the Deep Thoughts of Tina Smith Files Senator, I have long since learned that your ignorance is a barrel with no bottom. Nothing surprises me. This? Not even close: No. My God. No. The SCOTUS is not “beholden to the people”. That’s the House. The Senate was…
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When I Fight Authority, Authority Always Wins
SCENE: Mitch BERG has just ordered at a food truck, and is waiting for his order to come up. Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner. BERG visibly ponders abandoning his food and slipping away – but LIBRELLE sees him first. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, godododoooood golly, Avery, it’s great to see… LIBRELLE: Shut up. The…
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Hysteria
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: I’m seeing hysteria on the Left. “Roe was overturned. Do you know what this means? It means gay marriage, contraception, inter-racial marriage, affirmative action – all of them are at risk!” Thus far, Conservatives have been trolling Liberals using the same line Liberals always use on us: “Oh, no,…
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The Most Berg’s Seventh Law Op Ed In History
Berg’s Seventh Law – “When a progressive issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds” – has been getting a workout lately. But this next bit – an LATimes response…
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A Less Imperfect Union
“ACK-shu-ally, we’re not fifty states. We’re one country“. Show of hands if you’ve heard at least one progressive, lodged far on the left side of civic education’s Dunning-Kruger curve, say something like that. Among the many failures – or acts of sabotage – of modern American education, perhaps among the biggest, most dangerous shortcomings is…
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Dobbs
Dobbs finally arrived: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito for the majority. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected…
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Shall Not Be Infringed
The Supremes have struck down New York’s “Show Cause to Carry” law: The state law at the heart of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen required anyone who wants to carry a concealed handgun outside the home to show “proper cause” for the license. New York courts interpreted that phrase to require…
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Limits
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Should that cover demonstrating…
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Observation
Am I the only one that’s noticed that a whole lot of people who chant “January 6 was an existential threat to democracy”… …are just fine with doxxing the SCOTUS?
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Berg’s Eighth Law Never Sleeps
This is just your periodic reminder that Joe Biden blocked a black woman from the SCOTUS, and a wise Latino from the Federal bench, because they were black and Latino and not progressive. Berg’s Eighth Law is universal and omnipresent.
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At One Point Or Another…
…I was reliably informed that Justice Sotomayor was “wise“. I’d like to get a check on that.
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Wrong Solution, Wrong Problem
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Senator Elizabeth Warren supports court-packing. That’s really embarrassing for a Harvard law professor. Even a night-school wonder like me, knows better. The problem with the Supreme Court is not that it’s too small. The court is too large now, to get things done expeditiously and correctly: too many egos to…
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RIP, Property Rights?
A Massachusetts case on its way to the SCOTUS – and hoping to be the roughly 1% of cases granted a review – will have an immense impact on private property rights. At issue in Desrosiers v. Baker is the legality of several COVID-19 lockdown orders issued throughout 2020 by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker. The lockdown orders,…
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Smack
Justices Alito and Gorsuch pimp-slaps the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with a rolled-up copy of the First Amendment. FIllmore County, with the MPCA at their backs, wanted to force a group of Amish families in Fillmore County to either put in septic tanks or be evicted from their homes: Fillmore County in 2013 started…
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Wrongly Decided
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Roe v. Wade, 1973 the Supreme Court case which legalized abortion, was wrongly decided. The Court failed to include a necessary party in the case – the unborn child – and that failure renders the decision unconstitutional and unjust. The Fourth Amendment say no person shall be deprived of…
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For Your Own Good
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Canigilia v. Strom is an extreme case, but if traditional Fourth Amendment precedent holds, Red Flag laws will also be held unconstitutional. Joe Doakes Forty years ago, the Second Amendment was on the brink of oblivion. A grassroots movement and a whole bunch of good lawyering and litigating fixed that, hopefully…
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Just When I’d About Given Up On The Fourth Amendent
A friend of the blog beat me to writing me about Caniglia v. Strom: Monday May 17th the SCOTUS handed down a unanimous decision in Caniglia v. Strom, see:https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-157_8mjp.pdf Several things stand out about this decision; * first and most gratifying even the liberal judges on the SCOTUS would not support the extreme Biden administration and…
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The Case We’ve Been Waiting For?
News came out yesterday. WIth a win for the NYSRPA would – presumably if incorporated – require “strict scrutiny” of gun laws compliance with the Second Amendment. Literally, they could not infringe the right of the people to keep and carry firearms, provided they aren’t otherwise disqualified from doing so. The left is getting the…
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Demand For Justice!
The hue and cry grows: But if that black woman isn’t transgender, then this movement is no better than Hitler. By the way – remember when the advice was “never read the comments?” It’s even more true w/r/t comment sections of lefty pressure groups tweets.
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More Of This, Please
SCOTUS tells colleges “you can’t oppress free speech, and then drop the restrictions when someone sues you and claim there was never a problem“. I bet administrators at Macalester, Saint Thomas and the like are popping out bricks today.