This judge was appointed AFTER 45 lost! Many legal experts have question her ruling. Coincidentally, Heather Cox Richardson's column today is about this ruling and offers a bit of background on the make up of our courts shift to the hard right, thanks in large part to McConnell's finagling! This quote is most disconcerting: "Philosopher Jason Stanley of Yale University, best known for his 2018 book How Fascism Works, tweeted today: “Once you have the courts you can pretty much do whatever you want.” Elections matter and we see the consequences in real time as our democracy is endangered! If any of you are voting gQp you need a check up from the neck up?!?
Prepared diligently for decades in advance by right-wingers running for school boards and county administration and then up into state legislatures. While floating initiative after initiative that filed because crazy repressive-- but accustoming the public to crazy meanness as part of smart public discourse. And also while sneering to liberals and lefties that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result."
The decision is stunning in its ignorance. DOJ isn't going to base its case on a "love" letter from Kim Jong-un to Trump -- although that's government property, too. And if he had personal "privileged" documents mixed in with the classified ones, maybe he should have taken better care to keep the personal documents somewhere else.
And to think I didn't take the bar exam because I thought it would be too hard.
When democracy doesn’t work for the privileged, when one person one vote does not favor the interests of the powerful, then it’s time to scuttle the system.
So much for the Federalist Society picking judges that would follow the Constitution. These folks do even attempt to justify doing what they want , just give out gold stars from the bench
Oh come on, just trying to keep it light for a change. I’m deep into this crapola. Even wrote a book about it, “Donald’s Vanity Tantrums.” Let’s trade books. I want your book on Frog Hallow.
Back on topic. I have always known The Federalist Society to be an organization for one purpose and we are watching it played out today and yesterday. Why can’t we also have a group whose sole intent is to promote liberal causes and promising legal talent. Why must we always play catch-up.
I’m afraid our side is just to elitist (yes, you heard that word used before) and to high minded to get things moving. I once spoke at a public meeting at the capital on the issue of eminent domain. I have always been in favor of correcting and highlighting the abuse of this act. My family lost our homestead on Laurel St in the 1960s after Underwood Typewriter sued for our lands with Hartford redevelopment agency. They won. My father lost in Superior Court and again, on appeal at the state Supreme Court. (By the way, did you include this in your book on Frog Hollow community? Maybe in your next edition, you can include this because this was a travesty.)
The land that redevelopment acquired remained fallow for decades. (Knox Foundation now exists right over the land my house was on and I’ve told them if they dig down far enough, they will likely find some of my toys that were left behind when we had two weeks to vacate the property in the dead of winter and we rushed into my mother’s family house on York Street.)
The typewriter company moved out of Hartford. We think we live in a free and just society? After speaking at this meeting which concerned Kelo verses New London, and I spoke in favor of the injustice of the eminent domain clause, a Federalist rep approached me (I don’t believe one needs to be an attorney as commented elsewhere) later asking me if I was interested joining them. So I ask, where were my liberal allies in protecting a private citizen’s right to their land? Was this, is this an exclusive domain for conservatives to support?
I’ll never understand why we are so fucken hard-wired partisan idiologed to refuse to support basic rights of citizens and sometimes just sometimes, it should have nothing to do with conservative or liberal. Where were my liberal allies on the Court on eminent domain? I do not follow partisan ideology.
So where were my liberal allies? Where? No where to be found, that’s where. Ha… ha… Is that better, my dear Susan. You did tacitly give me permission to use cuss this morning.
I know of someone about to be sentenced to most likely 3-4 years in Niantic for evading responsibility. She’s in her 50’s & will lose plenty. Think she’ll get special consideration at sentencing because of how far she’s fallen? I give her credit though she’s told family & friends to not stress for one minute, she did wrong, she’s ready to pay the price & will be OK. What has TFG, who’s supposedly worried about his reputation, done in response to being caught breaking the law? Blamed the left, the DOJ, the FBI & raised millions. It doesn’t look like to me like he’s worried about his reputation, I don’t know why the Judge is. 🤯
This judge was appointed AFTER 45 lost! Many legal experts have question her ruling. Coincidentally, Heather Cox Richardson's column today is about this ruling and offers a bit of background on the make up of our courts shift to the hard right, thanks in large part to McConnell's finagling! This quote is most disconcerting: "Philosopher Jason Stanley of Yale University, best known for his 2018 book How Fascism Works, tweeted today: “Once you have the courts you can pretty much do whatever you want.” Elections matter and we see the consequences in real time as our democracy is endangered! If any of you are voting gQp you need a check up from the neck up?!?
Her take was fascinating. Trump was systematic in his court appointments, like a machine. It was his greatest success and it’s been devastating.
Prepared diligently for decades in advance by right-wingers running for school boards and county administration and then up into state legislatures. While floating initiative after initiative that filed because crazy repressive-- but accustoming the public to crazy meanness as part of smart public discourse. And also while sneering to liberals and lefties that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result."
Grrrrrrr.
Grrrrrrr.
Yep. We've been had. Now what should we do about it?
As a smart person I know says, "Swords up!"
And as she would agree, "Mouths loud!"
That’s not so easily done. Because money will always convince the near majority to vote for their worst possible choice. Over and over again.
If we cannot achieve success we can at least make the effort, and ought to. Life may suck, but you can choose the best life available.
The decision is stunning in its ignorance. DOJ isn't going to base its case on a "love" letter from Kim Jong-un to Trump -- although that's government property, too. And if he had personal "privileged" documents mixed in with the classified ones, maybe he should have taken better care to keep the personal documents somewhere else.
And to think I didn't take the bar exam because I thought it would be too hard.
You’d have aced it. This is disappointing on so many levels.
Argh! The Dems/liberals have been too complacent and concerned about fairness to mount a campaign against this. It’s high time we rose up. 🤺
Oh, may this sequence of events at least generate more attention to state and local elections on the non-right....
Right. Elections matter.
When democracy doesn’t work for the privileged, when one person one vote does not favor the interests of the powerful, then it’s time to scuttle the system.
I couldn't agree more.
Sigh.
Stigma.!? Really!?
Right. The judge may be the only person publicly worrying about this. As far as I'm concerned, that reputational damage has been done and redone.
So much for the Federalist Society picking judges that would follow the Constitution. These folks do even attempt to justify doing what they want , just give out gold stars from the bench
There have been some laudable decisions from Trump-appointed judges, but this one? Stinks to high heaven.
Oh my… you’re beginning to cuss like me, dag gone it.
That’s what you took from this? Interesting. I have never had a problem cursing, friend.
Oh come on, just trying to keep it light for a change. I’m deep into this crapola. Even wrote a book about it, “Donald’s Vanity Tantrums.” Let’s trade books. I want your book on Frog Hallow.
Back on topic. I have always known The Federalist Society to be an organization for one purpose and we are watching it played out today and yesterday. Why can’t we also have a group whose sole intent is to promote liberal causes and promising legal talent. Why must we always play catch-up.
I’m afraid our side is just to elitist (yes, you heard that word used before) and to high minded to get things moving. I once spoke at a public meeting at the capital on the issue of eminent domain. I have always been in favor of correcting and highlighting the abuse of this act. My family lost our homestead on Laurel St in the 1960s after Underwood Typewriter sued for our lands with Hartford redevelopment agency. They won. My father lost in Superior Court and again, on appeal at the state Supreme Court. (By the way, did you include this in your book on Frog Hollow community? Maybe in your next edition, you can include this because this was a travesty.)
The land that redevelopment acquired remained fallow for decades. (Knox Foundation now exists right over the land my house was on and I’ve told them if they dig down far enough, they will likely find some of my toys that were left behind when we had two weeks to vacate the property in the dead of winter and we rushed into my mother’s family house on York Street.)
The typewriter company moved out of Hartford. We think we live in a free and just society? After speaking at this meeting which concerned Kelo verses New London, and I spoke in favor of the injustice of the eminent domain clause, a Federalist rep approached me (I don’t believe one needs to be an attorney as commented elsewhere) later asking me if I was interested joining them. So I ask, where were my liberal allies in protecting a private citizen’s right to their land? Was this, is this an exclusive domain for conservatives to support?
I’ll never understand why we are so fucken hard-wired partisan idiologed to refuse to support basic rights of citizens and sometimes just sometimes, it should have nothing to do with conservative or liberal. Where were my liberal allies on the Court on eminent domain? I do not follow partisan ideology.
So where were my liberal allies? Where? No where to be found, that’s where. Ha… ha… Is that better, my dear Susan. You did tacitly give me permission to use cuss this morning.
I know of someone about to be sentenced to most likely 3-4 years in Niantic for evading responsibility. She’s in her 50’s & will lose plenty. Think she’ll get special consideration at sentencing because of how far she’s fallen? I give her credit though she’s told family & friends to not stress for one minute, she did wrong, she’s ready to pay the price & will be OK. What has TFG, who’s supposedly worried about his reputation, done in response to being caught breaking the law? Blamed the left, the DOJ, the FBI & raised millions. It doesn’t look like to me like he’s worried about his reputation, I don’t know why the Judge is. 🤯