And the state of journalism, period

The NYT dropping a bombshell and implicating Scalia, Thomas, and Alito in ethical corruption twice as bad as anything Fortas was forced to step down from to the deafening silence of legal journalists is all you need to know about the state of legal journalism.

— Jenn 🏳️‍🌈✡️🇺🇦 (@JennieTetreault) November 22, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

Demented and sad

Kory Langhofer, a conservative lawyer from Arizona, said this week that since we already know how Antonin Scalia would vote on the cases the Supreme Court has heard this term, that his vote should still count despite the fact that Scalia is dead. 

(Funny that, since republicans are always screaming for voting restrictions out of their fears that dead people vote in general elections....)

Here we have an abject lesson for those who claim that there's no difference between Democrats and republicans:  The Democratic Party at times may be unwieldy, bungling, and obtuse, but at no time are we Democrats ever completely and totally out of our fucking minds.

Judging from Mr. Lanhofer's comments re Antonin Scalia's voting prerogative, we most assuredly can tell that the wheels have come completely off the tracks for the crazy train that is the republican party.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Peace,
emaycee

Can we please dispense with the bullshit?

In his private life, Antonin Scalia may very well have been a wonderful man.  But as a public figure he was a cretinous goon who in his role as a Supreme Court Justice made life immeasurably worse for the vast bulk of Americans, and especially those who were not white, heterosexual, and wealthy.  For Democrats to claim that he merely "disagreed" with us is the height of disingenuousness--Scalia's actions and words were the antithesis of everything we as a party stand for.

His death also creates a very real gut check for the Democratic Party.  While we may not be able to get an Obama nominee through the Senate, we must make republicans pay for their obstructionism each and every day until his replacement by a Democratic nominee--in the court of public opinion and at the ballot box (especially in this year's Senate races),

By any means necessary.

The time to prop up American's poor and middle class, and to empty the feeding trough that the Roberts court has been for Corporate America, is now.

Peace,
emaycee

Things don't go better with Koch

I hate to sound like a cynical old fart (basically because I am a cynical old fart) but with the 2012 elections just around the corner I have serious doubts that the DOJ is going to do much of anything concerning Justices Scalia and Thomas and their all too cozy relationships with the Koch brothers. For one, as Digby points out, the Boss (President Obama) and his re-election team think he may need to raise over a billion dollars for the 2012 campaign. For two...uh, when was the last time justice triumphed over dollars in America? Still, it warms my heart a little--someone, somewhere is fighting the good fight. And even the shitty Free Press had a tiny blurb about Common Cause's actions. It's the little things, ain't it? Peace, emaycee