Today's "nonposition" of the White House on the targeting of justices at their homes is one of the lowest moments in American politics. We have finally hit the bedrock of rage in American politics...
If neither the President nor the left can muster the courage to condemn such conduct, we have reached a tragic but familiar point in our politics:
...Psaki was asked what should have been an easy question on whether it is appropriate to target justices at their homes. She responded "I don't have an official U.S. government position on where people protest."
...No one is doubting the legal right to protest but the appropriateness of targeting justices or judges at their homes should not be a difficult question of the Biden White House.
......There are good-faith objections to this draft opinion. There are also good-faith questions of whether Congress can truly codify Roe. Those are worthy debates. Doxxing and harassing justices should have no place in such debates.
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A liberal group calling itself "Ruth Sent Us" is going to target conservative justices at their homes. foxnews.com/politics/liber… Putting aside the question of what this is supposed to achieve, the suggestion that RBG would approve such a campaign is a denigration of her legacy...
...RBG was closest on the Court with Justice Scalia despite their jurisprudential differences. She opposed liberal causes like court packing and even questioned whether Roe went too far.
...RBG would be the first to denounce this campaign. Using her name is like the ACLU using her quotes while editing them to remove what they considered to be offensive. jonathanturley.org/2021/09/23/acl…
President Biden's apocalyptic warning that the Court will now allow our children to be segregated by gender identity is part of an ever lengthening parade of horribles from Democratic leaders that undermines, rather than enhances, their arguments...
...It seems to embrace the call from MSNBC analyst John Heilemann "to scare the crap out of [the Democratic base] and get them to come out. [The Democrats] can't motivate them on the basis of hope or their pocketbooks...They have to scare the crap out of them."
So Rep. Raskin is foretelling "Handmaid's Tale regulations" while Pres. Biden is warning of children being segregated by gender identity. The danger is that the dystopian rhetoric will reach a point of over-saturation with voters...
President Biden just said that the draft opinion could mean that state can pass laws that "children who are LGBTQ cannot be in classrooms with other children." It is not clear how this draft opinion would justify such discrimination.
...According to the President, rejecting Roe and its privacy based analysis would allow states to segregate children based on their sexual identity. The idea that this returns the country to a type of state of nature is hardly a compelling argument.
...People of good can obviously disagree with this opinion, but the parade of horribles should end short of sending children off to segregated rooms based on their presumed gender identity.
The alleged leak of the opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is nothing short of breathtaking. It would constitute one of the greatest breaches of security in the history of the Court.
...The article represents the greatest crisis that Chief Justice John Roberts has faced in his tenure on the Court. It is a breach of the most fundamental obligations and traditions of the Court.
...If this is a true copy of the draft opinion it is hard not to view this as a malicious act. What is the motivation of releasing such a decision? The only intent of such a leak is to trigger a response from outside of the Court.
In Shurtleff v. Boston, the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Boston violated the First Amendment in refusing to allow a Christian group to hoist a flat outside of City Hall. This one of the blockbuster cases of the term. jonathanturley.org/2021/10/03/tra…
Here is the opinion: scotusblog.com/wp-content/upl…
The Court continues to defy critics who insist that it is hopelessly and ideologically divided. jonathanturley.org/2021/06/01/unp… Notably, this was a religious speech case that still secured unanimity on the Court in reversing the First Circuit.
Justice Breyer ruled that "The city's practice was to approve flag raisings, without exception. . . Under our precedents, and in view of our government-speech holding here, that refusal discriminated based on religious viewpoint and violated the Free Speech Clause,"
Alter insists that “Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech...because most trained as engineers, not as writers or readers, and a lack of a humanities education might make them less attuned to the social and political nuances of speech.” jonathanturley.org/2022/05/01/why…
...It appears that Alter’s humanities education in college allows her to see “nuances” that escape the rest of us. Just for the record, Alter has a degree in English Language and Literature/Letters (Harvard)...
...Musk has his undergraduate degrees not in engineering but a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics (both from the University of Pennsylvania)...