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for whichever extremist McConnell/Trump nominates will assure their constituents that they are fighting for their interests.

“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”

The idea that Justice Thomas’s activist wife Ginni could possibly defend Rep. Jordan, could possibly portray him as anything but an elitist fighting to put elitist predator Donald Trump in a perch way above the law, speaks to the Democrats’ failure to exposure the “elitist” projection that  that the GOP has been running for so long. It’s the go-to defense for right-wing criminality, and the Dems have got to finally reveal the hypocrisy of this trope once and for all.

He will not be able to go anywhere in public without being confronted by American citizens castigating him for what he’s done to destroy America.

He will not, that is, unless he and Trump succeed in establishing a dictatorship here.

In the Harvard Law Journal Blog, Charles Reid reminds us that “the Court has undermined or overturned precedents that embodied longstanding and difficult compromise settlements of sharply opposed interests and principles. These decisions are not the work of a conservative Court.”

Non-stop record-breaking temperatures, flooding and burning on a around-the-clock basis, and they still do not make environmental destruction a campaign issue, nor mock and deride the Republicans for their evil lies about the gravity of the situation.

“Senate Democrats simply do not know how to wage a bare-knuckle fight any more,” Jill Abramson writes in the Guardian.

Obama’s preemptive appeasement when nominating a replacement for Scalia cost him his Supreme Court seat.

“Instead of picking a liberal who would have excited the Democratic base, which had already taken up arms to reject the mainstream Hillary Clinton and embrace Bernie Sanders, President Obama opted for a ‘safe’ pick. In picking Garland, Obama turned to someone so qualified and in the judicial center that even the Republicans would feel obliged to vote for him. Or, at least, that was the theory behind the choice of Garland.”

And now they’re already waving the white flag on the upcoming Supreme annihilation of U.S. justice.

Their refusal to speak out about the full evil of what Trump and his co-conspirators are doing, is one reason why America is a rapidly “declining democracy,”

In the Washington Post, Anna Lurhmann and Matthew Wilson explain why they are more worried than they were a year ago about whether American democracy can survive.  One reason being that “experts lost faith that the opposition party can contribute to overseeing, investigating or otherwise checking the majority party.”

July 10, when the New York City Council convenes its one and only hearing on the Tech Hub project. 9:30 a.m. at City Hall.

Zoning and landmark protections must be put in place or else we will see a wholesale teardown of the northern stretch of the East Village.

The GOP doesn’t care how much sexual abuse Rep. Jordan ignored–nor how much he lies. Lying is exactly what he’s there for: just let the rabid little reptile chomp on our rule our law and our judicial system, just keep up the obstruction of justice, just keep shamelessly trying to deflect blame for Jordan’s transgressions onto, yes, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton and Rod Rosenstein.

The Personal Responsibility Party never, ever takes personal responsibility for anything.

The Kremlin hasn’t hosted such a bunch of pushover saps in 500 years.