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The aroused-by-servility Sen. Graham and other repulsive Trump enablers are defenestrated by Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic. He calls them “the most pathetic men in America.”

about the danger posed by the seditious, authoritarian GOP Supreme Court majority–so says Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman, who castigates the president in Politico for his opposition to court reform. The Biden administration is like a bunch of hamsters on … Continue reading →

That’s the title of a talk I’ll be giving at my local Hudson Park branch of the NYPL in September. Date to be determined.

This is a majority comprised of alcoholics, insurrectionists, cult members, compulsive gamblers, sex offenders, and perjurers, all of them brazenly partisan political activists. It is a court, too that festers in personal grievance and rules according to score settling. Neil … Continue reading →

He wants them as ignorant, as blinkered, as passive, and as brainwashed as possible. The Miami Herald exposes the aspiring-dictator’s teacher training program, which is nothing other than a tutorial in racist Christian nationalism.

because the court has no right to judicial review. That is a prerogative they seized for themselves two hundred years ago, and we, the people, have allowed them that courtesy. Until now. The abuse of that courtesy by the seditious, … Continue reading →

Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett are all veterans of the 2000 judicial coup that illegitimately installed George W. Bush in the White House. Impeach them.

If he continues to refuse to act, WE will act. His former primary opponents like Sen. Warren need to tell the president that they are running if he will not shake the lead out. And AOC needs to get loud … Continue reading →

Yes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a fierce champion of human rights, civil rights, women’s rights. But when she was prevailed upon to retire so that she was not replaced with an Amy Coney Barrett, she declined.

Oh, forgive me, that was when he was running for the nomination. That doesn’t count.