I'm going to take a nap. Last time my thoughts were this disorganized I was getting my ass kicked in a bar fight I didn't want to be in.
OKAY, I'll tell the story:
My friends and I were at Charlies Kitchen in Harvard Square and one of them decided to steal the pickles off OTHER PEOPLE'S PLATES. We told him to stop, we told him eventually he'd steal the wrong pickle. He didn't listen.
So eventually he steals a pickle and like four guys rise up to, uhh, challenge him.
They start beating him, JUSTIFIEDLY, but my other friends says we're being BAD friends by just letting him get wailed on by 4 dudes.
So we go over, intending to be peacemakers.
And, like, very quickly WE were getting beat up and I was saying like "No, you're RIGHT, you have the RIGHT OF THIS" WHILE they were punching me in the face.
And then we got THROWN out like DJ Jazzy Jeff and I landed in a puddle.
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I understand why Republicans are invested in downplaying the scope of the immunity decision. If people understood what just happened they might want to do something about the Supreme Court.
I really don't understand why Democrats are downplaying the scope though.
My only guess is that Democrats think that if people understood how much power the Supreme Court just handed to the President, they might expect their President to use it.
Since Biden's not going to use it, I guess there's value in telling people it didn't happen?
And along those lines I guess there's value in Democrats (falsely) telling people that there's still some kind of ridiculous chance Trump is still brought to justice, because even thought that is now a complete lie, people like to believe "the system is working."
Look, I appreciate that people still want to find *some way* to think that Trump is going to be brought to justice for January 6.
But he WILL NOT be brought to justice. That part of the conversation is OVER. Trump won. People need to deal with that in their own way, but he WON.
The more relevant question is "NOW... WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO DO?" Trump won. He iced the bookeeper. He killed Sean Connery. NOW, WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO DO?
Are you prepared to go to the mattresses against the Supreme Court? Are you prepared to DEMAND court expansion as a condition for your next vote, in your next primary? Yes? Then we can talk. NO? Then there is no point.
20 minutes out from Supreme Court decisions. It's been an honor covering these last gasps of democratic self government.
Just so you know, my process is to read the case syllabus, which usually tells you the holding, then read the first few paragraphs of the dissent, which tells you what the actual fight was about.
First case is Corner Post v. Federal Reserve. 6-3. Party lines. Barrett opinion, Jackson dissenting.
Republican justices say that people can challenge administrative regulations, essentially whenever they want, statute of limitations be damned.
Supreme Court opinions in 20 minutes. I assume they "officially" have to punt EMTALA till after the election today. Not sure what else.
First case is Ohio v. EPA. It's about whether to enforce an EPA rule limiting pollution while people sue over the rule. 5-4. Gorsuch (whose mother used to run the EPA --into the ground-- for Ronald Reagan) rules against the EPA. Barrett joins the liberals in dissent.
@SCOTUSblog just said Gorsuch has two opinions today, and since they did this smaller EPA case... I wonder if the next one is Chevron...
Finished a recording with @ProfMMurray and @AudreLawdAMercy just in time for decisions.
Yay?
First case is Murthy v. Missouri. It's one of the social media cases, with vaccine deniers being pissed that they can't spread COVID-19 disinformation.
6-3, Barrett opinion, Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissenting, says that they don't have standing.
Basically the government was using its social media presence to knock down COVID lies. Antivaxx people (and two states) said it violated their free speech. Court says they don't have standing to sue the government over the government's use of social media.