So, if protest organizers can be sanctioned for the illegal action of any protest attendee, no one in their right mind would ever organize a political protest again.
Functioning as intended, of course. Gotta keep the plebes in their place.
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no one in their right mind would ever organize a political protest again.
Which makes me appreciate all the more people who can stay in their âleftâ mind.
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Itâs making me appreciate the people who managed to organize flash mobs without being identified.
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Oral arguments in the Trump immunity case.
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Alito seems to be setting up the idea that the President should be immune from prosecution unless his actions are not plausibly legal. Heâs floating a compromise. Such fucking bullshit.
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If Trump had the right to put forward fake electors in 2020, does that mean that Nikki Haley has the right to put forward a fake slate of Republican electors in 2024? After all, she won the DC and Vermont Republican primaries and so has some delegates for the Republican National Convention (nearly 5% right now, though that percentage will drop as the rest of the primaries or caucuses take place over the next month or so) as well as over 20% of the popular vote according to Wikipedia.
Something tells me Trumpâs lawyer would be a lot less supportive of such a plot.
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Unlike T****, Haley might actually have a legal case to do so, citing the 14A sec3 and declaring T**** ineligible to be the Republican nominee.
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The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)
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I think she doesnât have electors - she has delegates at the Republican Convention. Electors get elected after the Convention.
But she should definitely try it at the Convention!
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⌠a hell of a poem but Yeats was kind of a dick
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Oh definitely a regrettable life, replete with seriously bad choices, that guy.
That poem, though⌠
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[â â â â â ] v. United States is an easy case made difficult only because we can so easily imagine [â â â â â ] behaving in ways that would actually raise difficult constitutional questions.
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Iâm sure some clever person at the ACLU or some other civil rights legal group has already thought of this and rejected it, but why doesnât someone sue the Catholic justices on the Supreme Court for violating the Establishment Clause? Itâs obvious that theyâve established their own religion as supreme in rulings like Dobbs and 303 Creative and they canât reasonably argue that those rulings do not act as the law of the land. The trick of it is that, by suing the specific justices, they would unquestionably have to recuse themselves from any SCOTUS deliberations of the lawsuit.
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the sound of Clarence Thomas gaffawing
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But even his fellow conservative justices would hold him to that standard. Ok, not Alito but definitely Roberts. Roberts would try to find a way to weasel out of it, but he wouldnât let Thomas so obviously tarnish the courtâs legitimacy as to let justices who are being sued to rule on a case where they are defendants.
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