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Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Joe Biden just refused to answer whether he will support packing the Court with new members once elected. That is an extraordinary position. Many of us would not vote for a candidate who supports a court packing plan. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
...Presidential election are not supposed to be constitutional blind dates. His running mate, Kamala Harris, has already come out in support of a court-packing scheme as have some of his top political allies...
...Schumer also insisted "everything is on the table." It is akin to Speaker Pelosi refusing to rule out the clearly abusive use of impeachment as a method of opposing a lame duck nomination. If Biden considers this a viable option, he is not a viable candidate for many of us.
This is not the Biden that we knew in the Senate and the person who once ruled out this option. He said today it is a "legitimate question" but will not answer it. If the question is legitimate, the refusal is not.
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I am in Berlin to speak at the World Forum. I am currently listening to the opening session at a conference pointedly named recently as “A New World Order: European Values”…
Bill and Hillary Clinton were just celebrated as leadership “truly made America great again.” When it comes to free speech, the Clintons certainly represent “European Values” on free speech…
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Many are suggesting that the Biden pardons may now be challenged in light of the disclosures of Biden's use of an autopen.The chances of such challenges succeeding are vanishingly low. Presidents are allowed to use the autopen and courts will not presume a dead-hand conspiracy...
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer declared that Mahmoud Khalil should be released "if the administration cannot prove he has violated any criminal law." He is mistaken on the standard...facebook.com/senschumer/pos…
...We still do not know what the evidence against Khalil will show on any nexus to Hamas or the Columbia occupation. However, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C) does not require a criminal act. The standard only requires the Sec. Rubio find "reasonable ground to believe" that he could present a "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable"...
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Cal.) gave Shannon Bream one of the most convoluted and conflicted explanations for voting against the Green censure because "he did not engage in violence . . . and I ultimately a supporter of free speech. . . and he had a free speech right."...
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...The suggestion that Green had a protected "right of free speech" is ridiculous. Just as the deplatforming speakers in higher education is not protected, it is certainly not a right on the house floor. Green has an unfettered right outside of session...jonathanturley.org/2025/03/07/we-…
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Green was censured, but only 9 Democrats joined in the motion. The Democrats then refused to clear the well and disrupted Speaker Johnson's efforts to complete the censure process. The sound you heard was the Democratic party hitting rock bottom in this disgraceful display...
Faced with the first member to be expelled during a joint session address, the Democrats followed a censure over his disruption by disrupting the business of the House. Johnson showed admirable restraint and put the house into recess...
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The 1st Circuit just held that parents have no right to know about their 11-year-old changing gender in school. This "unwritten policy" was viewed as overriding parental rights. The decision is defended as a reflection of our "pluralistic society"...ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/file…
...The court wrote: "our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials, charged with the responsibility of educating children." There is no more cherished right that citizens possess than raising their children...
...Indeed, the right to raise one's children according to your own faith and values is the touchstone of freedom. Conversely, the subordination of such rights is the harbinger of state tyranny...
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