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Here’s Why the Supreme Court Keeps Writing Trump Blank Checks
SIX MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT do not seem to understand what any high school student knows about the importance of checks and balances to protecting American democracy. Why not?
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🚨OVERTIME🚨
🎵On the Jukebox…🎵 Whitney - Back to the Wind
Trump chose wrath over unity following Charlie Kirk’s killing… After the influential MAGA activist was shot, the president pledged to use the force of government to go after his political opponents, observes Anthony Fischer at MSNBC.
America the Violent… Jay Nordlinger on coming to grips with dark realities (and countering them).
NATO to launch 'Eastern Sentry'… in response to Russian drone attack on Poland (Kyiv Independent)
Senate Republicans trigger 'nuclear option'… changing rules to speed up Trump nominees (MSNBC)
Epstein's Inbox... A trove of emails reveals Ghislaine Maxwell's secrets (Bloomberg)
Senator Ron Johnson… Spoke at a 9/11 truther conference this week. Really.
Overtime Chat room: This week’s discussion prompt: What is something you found recently that unexpectedly improved your daily life?
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SCOTUS conservatives have an unconscious like the rest of us. What's in theirs we cannot know unless they tell us. All we can do is speculate from what they say and write. Their lockstep decisions sure look and feel more harmful than previous "conservative" opinions. It looks and feels as if they want to not only uphold previous patriarchal, sexist, and authoritarian values, but also to further them. Scary (understatement) b/c they erode the separation of church and state, voting rights for all citizens regardless of color or nationality, and support the practice of medicine by politicians and clergy. They appear to me to unwittingly erode the Constitution while purporting to uphold it.
No one has mentioned the century of political violence known as Jim Crow when hundreds of black and brown men became strange fruit hanging from southern trees.