The media’s coverage of the party-line decision of the Court to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act based on a doctrine that is not in the Constitution and has never been used before or since makes the Court seem results-oriented, for some reason
The media’s coverage of the Court’s 5-4 holding that states must use uniform standards for recounts if the election is the presidential election in Florida in 2000 and not in any other case may, to a lay reader, make the Court seem results-oriented
[The “funny” thing is that this summary is actually too charitable to Bush v. Gore, which in fact held that non-uniform recount standards in the Florida presidential election of 2000 were perfectly OK as long as we already knew that the Republican candidate won]
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LOL Glenn wanted California to have an anti-vaxx MAGA governor so desperately, and now he's lashing out at people for pointing out how badly his side got crushed
This is particularly devastating for Glenn because the recall vote became a referendum on the DeSantisian anti-anti COVID policies he strongly prefers, and it has to sting how much better CA is doing than Texas and Florida
Tune into Tucker tonight to see Glenn talk about how it's extremely bad for cable news hosts to have a preference for one political party over another
Cooley’s gift is to bring a consistent sense of justice and compassion to Zevonian sardonicism and wit, and it’s a remarkable one even if he makes it seem inevitable
This piece by @SherylNYT does a really good job of explaining how banal are and how previously uncontroversial vaccine mandates they were: nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/…
The optimistic scenario is that Republicans forget about the new “principle” that you ha verge right to expose other people to a deadly virus when it can longer be used to undermine Joe Biden
The one endlessly recycled "safe space" anecdote at least did seem to involve something called "safe spaces." The Oberlin "campus workers were attacked over fake banh mi" story is just 100% pure made-up bullshit but these Campus PC anecdotes never, ever die
Packer inventing specific emotional reactions for workers who didn't exist is a nice touch, though
Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me with bemusement, or sullen rage
The new Texas Gilead law succeeded where the previous one failed 1)Anthony Kennedy retired strategically and 2)Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not, shifting the median vote of the Court from (tepidly) pro-Roe to (extremely) anti-Roe. That’s it. lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/inspir…
Thinking the Texas law is in force because of clever legislative language rather than because the Court swung decisively is the same pathology that caused Ginsburg and Breyer's world-historic screw-ups in the first place
Do the dissenters sound more like they're "flummoxed" about what Texas was trying to do or like "they don't have a fifth vote to stop some transparently obvious legal nullification" to you?
A prominent conservative litigator brought a challenge to IU’s vaccine mandate and after it was rejected by an all-Republican panel noted Trotskyist Amy Coney Barrett considered it so frivolous that she didn’t even refer it to the Court of ask IU for a response
I have spent most of my professional career in institutions with vaccine mandates for students and employees, and nobody has ever suggested that they are incompatible with the Constitution of human rights treaties because this would be extremely silly
These challenges are going nowhere because vaccine mandates are a completely banal practice that don’t violate anybody’s rights, and even conservative judges don’t seem interested in their kids getting whooping cough to own the libs prospect.org/justice/even-c…