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Of course, the same

jollyroger — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:56:53 +0000

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Of course, the same arithmetic cuts two ways...Dean ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, UC Irvine Law School, sounds the alarm and calls for Ginsburg (and perhaps Breyer) both to resign at the end of this term so that Obama would be assured the replacement nomination (and confirmation) before electoral catastrophe intervenes...a variation on the emergency resignation I envisioned when it looked like Romney would win in 2012.

I had not actually included

jollyroger — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:07:53 +0000

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I had not actually included the electoral college in the catalog of horrors, because it is somewhat more outcome neutral than the shenanigans played with pol accessibility and gerrymandering, but to answer the question (and looking for as much utility as might be found) it operates to magnify the margin of victory and thus quell post election dissension.

The easiest analysis of this is to imagine an election where the popular majority was fifty votes in favor of the victor, spread so that in each of the 50 states the margin was one. This would produce an electoral college victory of 535 to 0.

As to whether that is a good or bad thing, fuck if I know...

Is it allowable to make

Resistance — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:46:47 +0000

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Is it allowable to make personal attacks against yourself? How about If I quote you in the future?

BTW Thanks for sticking up for me.

Tell me Jolly, Why do we even have the electoral college in this modern day. When the popular vote is so readily available? Is it a bulwark for PTB? While they flood the streets with PCP?

I am seriously full of shit.

jollyroger — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:20:53 +0000

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I am seriously full of shit.

As I re-read this, it is perfectly obvious that the PTB like things just the way they are...it is easier to vote for the American Idol than the American President, and that's no accident.

Since the loser in an election (most times) doesn't care enough to sue over the insane voting system, it would have to be one of us poor schmucks who are getting screwed by the brain-dead voters in other states.

Don't know if we have standing to complain.

Truth to tell, it's a long

jollyroger — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:00:41 +0000

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Truth to tell, it's a long shot...The courts have studiously shied away from confronting the obvious equal protection transgressions that attach to the insane checkerboard county by county voting system, let alone the authority we habitually give to partisan state officials, and the self-serving legislatures who draw insane district boundaries for utterly (and transparently) venal reasons.

All this, they subsume under the arcane heading "political questions" which means "we ain't picking up this hot potato for anything!"

That said, there are judges who would go the other way. Assuming the left four (Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor) would support the wholesale overhaul envisioned here, there are plenty of candidates for the fifth (assuming a vacancy might arise, failing the fantasy cardiovascular misadventure that I once envisioned for Scalia)

In fact, I still look for David Cole to sit on the court someday..His father, Bob Cole and I were once partners of a sort...we were both fucking the same girl when I was in law school and he was our Con Law Prof. David looks today just like he did back then.

Edit to add: The Nation article about sums it up, except it predates the semi-nuclear option that should have cleared the way for district and circuit court judges of liberal bent.

Except that the sniveling phony still doesn't pick such judges, and in the recent heartbreak surrounding 6 Georgia slots he has held to a deal originally struck during the pre filibuster reform days, seeming to indicate that "bold" and "Obama" will never be mentioned in the same sentence...

We can hope. Who is in the

Resistance — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:29:22 +0000

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We can hope.

Who is in the pool of likely candidates?

Obama's Federal Judiciary Failures | The Nation

" Second, he has neglected to think and act strategically with respect to those he has nominated. The lack of strategic thinking is reflected in the philosophy and relative age of Obama’s judges. Where the Republicans made sure to appoint solidly conservative judges who would serve for many decades, Obama has focused on finding nonideological or middle-of-the-road candidates.