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On Whose Side Is the Judge?
Posted in cartoon, Donald Trump, humor, judiciary, political cartoon, political humor, politics
Tagged Documents trial, Judge Cannon, Nick Anderson
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AOC Talks About Gaza With Stephen Colbert
Posted in America, Congress, foreign policy, Gaza, Gaza, Israel, Joe Biden, Middle East
Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Stephen Colbert
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Confused Cows
An eclipse anecdote: Our nephew is a dairy farmer in Vermont. The solar eclipse confused his cows (while he and his family were looking at the eclipse elsewhere) and thinking it was nighttime, the bovines went back to the barn too early, and by the time my nephew returned in the late afternoon, the cows were asleep!
Should We Worship the Orange Savior?
Monday Halitics: Hal and Arlen disagree on controlling the lies and misinformation over social media. And is Trump talking and acting like a religious leader to counteract secular trends in the U.S.?
Posted in America, Donald Trump, government, media, politics, social media
Tagged Arlen Grossman, Hal Ginsberg, Halitics, secularism, Steven Greenhut
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Monday Halitics
After a bye week, when Hal was vacationing in the Yucatan, I return and discuss the current political climate with Hal: the Baltimore Bridge collapse (near Hal’s home), gun fetishes, wealth inequality and more.
Do We Want This Man To Be President?
Does Donald Trump have the mental capacity to be President of the United States? He never really did, but his advancing age is giving America clues about his even more diminishing capabilities. Are the pressures of a tough election campaign and multiple criminal trials increasing the rate of his dementia? The clues are becoming obvious.
Posted in America, Donald Trump, elections, government, politics, religion
Tagged Forbes, Lee Greenwood, Trump Bible
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Merrick Garland–Watch Out! He’s Almost Ready To Wake Up!
Posted in democracy, government, Justice, political cartoon, politics
Tagged Merrick Garland, Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug
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Ongoing Media Negligence
Posted in America, Donald Trump, media, political cartoon, politics
Tagged Fentanyl, Pedro X. Molina
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How Far Does Free Speech Go?
Political news of the day–Arlen’s regular Monday show on Hal Ginsberg’s Halitics YouTube videocast. How much free speech should there be allowed over social media? And who decides. Some heated discussion today.
Posted in government, media, politics
Tagged Arlen Grossman, censorship, Hal Ginsberg, Halitics
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Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision
By Sarah Fortinsky/ The Hill/ March 14, 2024
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.
In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said all nine justices “dangerously betrayed” democracy in making their decision.
Voters and advocacy groups had filed dozens of challenges to Trump’s ballot eligibility in states across the country, claiming his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack triggered his disqualification.
The high court sided with Trump by ruling Congress has exclusive authority to enforce the 14th Amendment to disqualify federal candidates.
Luttig, who had been vocal in support of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Trump from the ballot, described Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as the Constitution’s “safety net for America’s democracy, promising to automatically disqualify from public office all oath-breaking insurrectionists against the Constitution, deeming them too dangerous to entrust with power unless supermajorities of both houses of Congress formally remove their disability.”
“Our highest court dramatically and dangerously betrayed its obligation to enforce what once was the Constitution’s safety net for America’s democracy. The Supreme Court has now rendered that safety net a dead letter, effectively rescinding it as if it had never been enacted,” Luttig wrote.
Luttig pushed back on the argument that barring Trump from the ballot would be undemocratic, writing, “Disqualification is not what is antidemocratic; rather, it is the insurrection that is antidemocratic, as the Constitution emphatically tells us.”
He continued, “That the disqualification clause has not previously been invoked to keep traitors against the Constitution from having a second opportunity to fracture the framework of our republic reflects not its declining relevance but its success at deterring the most dangerous assaults on our government until now.”
Luttig, who previously submitted an amicus brief in the case, reiterated his core arguments in favor of upholding the Colorado decision.
“What ought to have been, as a matter of the Constitution’s design and purpose, the climax of the struggle for the survival of America’s democracy and the rule of law instead turned out to be its nadir, delivered by a Court unwilling to perform its duty to interpret the Constitution as written,” Luttig wrote.
“Desperate to assuage the growing sense that it is but a political instrument, the Court instead cemented that image into history. It did so at what could be the most perilous constitutional and political moment in our country’s history, when the nation and the Constitution needed the Court most—to adjudicate not the politics of law, but the law of the politics that is poisoning the lifeblood of America.”
Posted in crime, democracy, Donald Trump, extremism, government, law, politics, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution
Tagged J. Michael Luttig, Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill
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