The reason Republicans seem so calm, so willing to upend the SCOTUS and murder black people and ignore and dismiss the 200,000 dead from Covid, is not because they live in an alternate reality.
It’s b/c they’re in on the plan to steal the election or use force to stay in power.
A party about to get electorally wipes out as the polls suggest they are would be FREAKING OUT. Pivoting to the center. Chucking unpopular positions (like manipulating the court to end abortion) overboard.
This one is NOT.
Have you stopped to ask why? Do you really think they’re all, all the Republicans running for office, are just *stupid*? Do you think they have their heads so far up their own ass that they can’t tell they’re losing?
They know they’re losing. They don’t care. WHY??
They don’t care because they think they’ve achieved permanent one party rule. They think it’s in the bag, because they’ll just force their way to victory regardless of the “votes.” They’re Al Capone, laughing at his tax evasion trial because he thinks he bought the jury.
Trump is TELLING YOU what he’s going to do. He’s going to throw out the ballots, he’s going to use force to keep himself in power. It’s what all dictators do.
And the @GOP is right there with him. They’re in on the despotism. That’s why they’re not worried about extinction.
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Trump immunity arguments at SCOTUS start in 20 minutes. They should have started on December 22, but the Republican justices want to make sure Trump can be president again, so they start in 20 minutes.
Ultimately, I do not think they'll give Trump blanket immunity for all crimes. But the thing I'm listening for is "remand." I'm listening for Thomas, Alito, and Roberts to say that Trump may have *some* immunity Judge Chutkan didn't fully consider. And send the case back to her.
Remand would be the ultimate delaying tactic here. Because then Chutkan will have to make *another* ruling. And that ruling will be appealed, first to DC and then to SCOTUS, which will only hear the case next term, *after* the election, if Trump loses.
The six conservative justices are absolutely trying to figure out how to throw out the obstruction charges against their cousins and wives and pledge brothers who attacked the Capitol on January 6
Neil Gorsuch just analogized the January 6 rioters storming the Capitol and trying to hang Mike Pence to my Congressman, @JamaalBowmanNY, pulling a fire alarm.
The conservatives are basic black Fox News watchers given lifetime power.
There was a brilliant bit from Liz Prelogar where Alito was all "how is this different than somebody heckling this court" and Prelogar was all *cause you mofos wouldn't have to run for your lives.*
Alito dismissed it of course "yes, yes, J6 was very serious, but..."
Okay folks. I'm back for today's SCOTUS arguments about mifepristone. To set the stage, Forced-birthers are trying to prohibit medical abortion based on junk science and the idea that James Ho likes looking at other people's babies.
All the lawyers arguing today will be women. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar for the FDA.
For the group of doctors and dentists who didn't prescribe the abortion pill but want to take it away anyway, it's Erin Hawley, wife of Sen. Josh Hawley
And lastly Jessica Ellsworth representing Danco Labs which makes mifepristone and will argue "DO YOU WANT TO LET THESE ASSHOLES CHALLENGE EVERY DRUG ON THE FREAKING MARKET???"... or something. :)
I’m in a waiting room and there are a bunch of old people here and at least three of them are listening to content on their devices with no headphones… LOUDLY.
What the SHIT is this?? Is this normal? It’s like they’re sitting here with boom boxes.
One guy is just playing an ALBUM. Another lady keeps watching clips from, I assume, her baby granddaughter that somebody sent her. Another person appears to be trying to learn RUSSIAN.
I’m am legit going insane.
I finally broke and, as politely as I could, motioned to my ear and mouthed “headphones” the guy playing the album (he was closest to me).
He said, loudly, “The phone don’t have a jack no more.”
… AS IF THAT SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!!
Hey, remember when a 64yo unloaded 1,000 rounds at a Las Vegas music festival and killed 60 people? Remember how the *Trump* administration thought that was too much death and banned bump stocks?
Yeah, ammosexuals are still pissed about that. Today they're at SCOTUS.
Let's find out if Republican justices are even more committed to blood and death and the idea that the Constitution is a murder-suicide pact than the NRA-bought Republican presidents who put them there.
Gorsuch is worried that people who own bump stocks are now felons, and that they could lose their gun rights and "other civil rights, including the right to vote."
... To recap: Gorsuch is very concerned about ammosexuals losing their voting rights, no one else though.
Jonathan Mitchell out here making the claim that the President is not an officer of the united states.
Thomas wants to talk about whether S-3 is "self executing." The conservative argument here is that Congress has to pass a law implementing section 3, as opposed to it just being a thing.
Mitchell is saying that Trump should be able to run even if he can't hold the office, because Congress can remove the insurrectionists disability (by 2/3rds of a vote) after he wins if they want to.