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His decision to endorse Trump’s disciminatory travel ban was perhaps the most speciously, corruptly reasoned–corrupt by virtue of putting partisan agenda ahead of legal probity– and written decision the court had handed down since Bush v. Gore, which, let us … Continue reading →

First he’s all in with several democracy-destroying death ray decisions by the fanatical Supreme Court majority. Then he turns the Court over on a silver platter to Herr Trump. We know who Anthony Kennedy is.

Richard Painter warns us on Ari Elber’s show that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee will be a hand-picked fanatic chosen to inoculate Trump from legal scrutiny and elevate him above the reach of law.

“We should have shut down the Senate,” Sen. Schatz tells the Huffington Post about McConnell’s 2016 judicial theft. Sen. McConnell will, of course, completely reverse himself now that it’s a GOP judicial vacancy in play during an election year and … Continue reading →

Pelosi is NOT going to get with it. Nicole Lafond at Talking Points Memo writes that the Minority Leader “said Wednesday she didn’t think that what happened in the New York Queens district was reflective of a broader trend in the … Continue reading →

Her prissy, pious, Lady Bountiful scolding of Democratic office-holders who refuse to be courteous when it comes to the abhorrent behavior of Donald Trump and his minions — Drop It. Her apparent belief that she can run this election as … Continue reading →

I once temped for a couple of days for Justice Anthony Kennedy’s son at a Wall Street brokerage.  This was in 2000, right after Kennedy and his disreputable brethen had engineered a judicial coup d’etat to ensure that George W. … Continue reading →

I know that so many well-meaning people believe that Obama was a knight, or simply a victim of GOP baddies, but the reality is that Democrats must never again, given the savagery of today’s GOP, put forward a presidential candidate who … Continue reading →

Nothing could embolden Islamic terrorism more than an official policy of hate and religious discrimination.

And they can’t stand dissent from the electorate they screw over every single day. So last night, when a small crowd got loud as the Majority Leader and the Transportation Secretary left some GOP event, reality intruded into their hermetically … Continue reading →