Donald Trump

[SebastianBlue]

He is almost certainly clinically insane.

Yes...

Yes he is.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Yes...

Yes he is.

It’s incredible, it really is.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Just boarded a flight to the US (work for 2 weeks). In the air for just over 9 hours. Sadly, there are a bunch of Rag chavs 2 rows in front. Meh!

I wonder what f*ckwhitery Trump can get up to in that time?

 

[SWP's back]

It’s weird that most top GOP politicians have attacked Trump most than Dax.

 

[Bigga]

It’s weird that most top GOP politicians have attacked Trump most than Dax.

Means fook all if they bend the knee to Caesar...

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Disinformation campaign from the National Security Adviser.

"I haven't 'seen' any evidence".

GOP translator - "there is sh*t tonnes of evidence of Russian interference in the 2020 election, but if I don't look at it I'm not 'technically' lying when I say I haven't seen it"

 

[SebastianBlue]

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sotomayor has publicly and candidly called out the conservative majority on the Supreme Court for doing exactly what we said they would do: make decisions based on a bias and/or deference to the Trump administration’s wishes.

Although this is nothing surprising to most active in this thread — we all knew this was happening / will continue to happen — it is a quite an action for her to publicly call out her colleagues in this way. There are very few instances of this sort of open condemnation of fellow justices in the past and, when it has happened, it has been due to very concerning actions being taken by certain members of the court (some leading to impeachment of a justice).

By the way, the majority that decided to allow the implementation of the immigration “wealth test”, comprised of the conservative justices, over the injunctions enacted/upheld by two lower federal courts, didn’t even bother to formally explain the decision, which is also a new and dangerous precedent. They are now just deciding for and against some cases without formal documentation of the reasoning for the ruling, presumably so that dubious reasoning cannot be scrutinised and specifically challenged publicly.

This is exactly why many of us have said that you absolutely cannot expect them to check Trump’s action in the future, including any assertion of emergency powers.

Sonia Sotomayor Just Accused the Supreme Court’s Conservatives of Bias Toward the Trump Administration

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/sotomayor-trump-wealth-test-bias-dissent.html

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Justice Sotomayor had publicly and candidly called out the conservative majority on the Supreme Court for doing exactly what we said they would do: make decisions based on a bias and/or deference to the Trump administration’s wishes.

Although this is nothing to most active in the thread — we all knew this was happening — it is a quite an action for her to publicly call out her colleagues in this way. There are very few instances of this sort of open condemnation of fellow justices in the past and, when it has happened, it has been due to very concerning actions being taken by certain members of the court.

By the way, the majority that decided to allow the implementation of the immigration “wealth test”, comprised of the conservative justices, over the injunctions in acted by the lower federal courts, didn’t even bother to formally explain the decision, which is also a new and dangerous precedent. They are now just deciding for and against some cases without formal documentation of the reasoning for the ruling, presumably so that dubious reasoning cannot be scrutinised and specifically challenged publicly.

This is exactly why many of us have said that you absolutely cannot expect them to check Trump’s action in the future, including any assertion of emergency powers.

Sonia Sotomayor Just Accused the Supreme Court’s Conservatives of Bias Toward the Trump Administration

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/sotomayor-trump-wealth-test-bias-dissent.html

We still don't know who magically made all Brett Kavenaugh's substantial debt's disappear.

Also, Trump's sister resigned from a life appointment to the Federal court to avoid an investigation in to her finances.

 

[SebastianBlue]

We still don't know who magically made all Brett Kavenaugh's substantial debt's disappear.

Also, Trump's sister resigned from a life appointment to the Federal court to avoid an investigation in to her finances.

Indeed. Though, I think we can all make an educated guess.

This passage from the article is especially instructive for what to expect in the future from the conservative majority on the Supreme Court:

Normally, “to justify upending the normal rules,” the government “must also show a likelihood of irreparable harm.” And “it has not made that showing here.” But this shortcut to SCOTUS has become “the new normal”; it has happened over and over and over again, as the DOJ leapfrogs over the lower courts to seize a victory at the Supreme Court. Sotomayor explained:

Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited Court resources in each. And with each successive application, of course, its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow.

But the Supreme Court’s conservatives repeatedly accept the DOJ’s declarations of an “emergency,” giving Donald Trump whatever he wants.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Indeed. Though, I think we can all make an educated guess.

This passage from the article is especially instructive for what to expect in the future from the conservative majority on the Supreme Court:

Roe v Wade will be overturned if Trump wins in 2020, and even if he doesn't, it may still be overturned anyway.