SCOTUS RULES agin (don't let the door hit you on the way out)

By artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:11pm |

#SCOTUS rejects an 11th hour challenge to Biden’s presidential win. https://t.co/iiXuK6bWc4
— Nina Totenberg (@NinaTotenberg) December 12, 2020

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https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945617913/supreme-court-shuts-door-on-trump-election-prospects

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Trump alluded to idea he needed Barrett in place to settle the election outcome well before Election Day and as he was nominating her. She did not rule in his favor in this suit.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:13pm

A sample of the takes on Parler; some out there theories, some “civil war,” some people moving on pic.twitter.com/QQteF18ouI
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:23pm

Jonah Goldberg on that crew:

Gotta say that today I am very proud to work for this guy. https://t.co/yRfbPn8x82
— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:39pm

I'm not a lawyer

But I wonder if people with a law degree can face sanctions for filing a frivolous case and wasting the court's time.

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:33pm

Rep.Kinzinger of IL on TexasGOP response to Supreme Court:

I believe @TexasGOP should immediately retract this, apologize, and fire Allen West and anyone else associated with this. My guy Abraham Lincoln and the Union soldiers already told you no. https://t.co/A9M8ePJUkJ
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:45pm

Sasse: "Since Election Night, a lot of people have been confusing voters by spinning Kenyan Birther-type, ‘Chavez rigged the election from the grave’ conspiracy theories, but every American who cares about the rule of law ... " (1/2)
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 12, 2020

" ... should take comfort that the Supreme Court — including all three of President Trump’s picks — closed the book on the nonsense."
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:51pm

fancy Yankee globalist boy gotcha on succession threats: they are all hat, no cattle,y'all

The problem with any kind of secession movement is American politics has less regional conflict than ever before — the cities are blue and the low density areas are red almost everywhere.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:57pm

a few more deep thoughts from Matt Y., this time on the Supremes:

imo the 2020 trend of conservatives dunking on liberals for liberals having believed that republicans were advancing justices who believed in the legal theories republicans espoused is odd https://t.co/mIYpyk5CZk
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 12, 2020

Again, conservatives dunking on liberals for believing conservative legal movement figures when they praise Donald Trump is odd. https://t.co/CyblFlbzB6
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 12, 2020

Should liberals have known all along that the Federalist Society was only pretending to admire Trump as part of a plan to manipulate him into appointing certain judges while GOP members of congress and AGs pretended to believe in the merits of their own lawsuits? Maybe, but...
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 12, 2020

... I think you should be able to see that to a movement outside it’s difficult to know which elements of conservative legal doctrine we’re supposed to take seriously rather than literally or whatever.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 8:15pm

“Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”

The court is flirting with poetry.

by moat on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 7:57pm

Trump tweet from this afternoon:

This Supreme Court case I have intervened in to SAVE our great (greatest ever now!) nation FROM FRAUD (biggest most terrible sneaky underhanded!) and SOCIALISM (WORSE THAN BERNIE!) Is so large, sizeable, substantial, considerable, great, huge, immense, enormous, extensive, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, prodigious, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, mighty, stupendous, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, epic, mountainous, megalithic, monstrous, Brobdingnagian, towering, tall, high, lofty, outsize, oversized, overgrown, cumbersome, unwieldy, inordinate, unlimited, goodly bigly IN HISTORY! that YOUR LIVES AND FUTURE depend on MY JUSTICES CONFIRMING with GREAT WISDOM AND COURAGE I won every state by tens of millions of votes, JUSTICES DO YOUR SACRED DUTY TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY! @RealDonaldTrump

by NCD on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 8:32pm

There's no way Trump knows that many words or that he's capable of using a thesaurus.

by ocean-kat on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 9:01pm

Steve Schmidt of the Lincoln Project before the ruling, waxing florid on the signers of the Amicus brief

Signing onto this Amicus brief is not a legal act. It is a political act. Think about it as essentially repudiating and unsigning the Declaration of Independence. They want a ruler not a President. It is a declaration of repudiation and hostility towards the
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 11, 2020

American Republic. They want their leader Trump, who lost the election to remain in power. They are lying about an election @JoeBiden won. They are poisoning faith and belief in democracy by explicitly repudiating it. The actions of the 17 GOP State AG’s and 126 GOP House
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 11, 2020

Members is an almost inconceivable act of betrayal. They have broken faith with America and desecrated the blood sacrifices of Patriots from Lexington to Gettysburg from Normandy to the Edmund Pettus bridge. Trump has birthed an Autocratic movement. It has made its first move.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 11, 2020

If we lose this this country there is no place else for us to go. We are free because we are sovereign. We are a government of the people, for the people by the people. Politicians work for us and we can fire them. We choose. We are in a dangerous hour. It will be a long fight
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 11, 2020

and after hearing the news:

.@reedgalen and I live in the great State of Utah, the 45th state. @ProjectLincoln is HQ’d here and we came together to fight Trump in Utah. @TheRickWilson can show the flag he hangs in his office. @stuartpstevens loves Utah. That’s bad political news for @SeanReyesUT.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 12, 2020

We are going to light him up in Utah. He has been properly repudiated by the Governor and Governor-Elect. His actions crossed an irredeemable rubicon. We will impose political accountability. Standbye
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 8:34pm

p.s. it's gonna be all 126

I want to thank these 126 Republican Congress members for providing @ProjectLincoln a convenient and well organized list for the mid-term races. You beclowned yourselves for nothing. You undermined our democracy out of cowardice.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 8:40pm

GOP/RepairRepublic activist Miles Taylor, this morning:

GOP Hill staffer texted me the below. Works for one of the 106 Congressmen trying to overturn the election. pic.twitter.com/lBfAeUaIZb
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) December 11, 2020

My reply: “Resign in protest. We’ll help you find a job.”
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) December 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 8:47pm

Change Führer to Trump, the psychology of leadership cults is subservient unquestioning obedience and groveling:

Affirmations

At present we need courage and a brave heart, but above all confidence in what fate has given us, our Führer.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (Speech in Breslau on 19.10.1940)

If the Führer calls and commands, each of us must obey without question, whatever he may say. With the Führer we are everything, without him we are nothing.

Hermann Göring

You who carry the flags and banners and who march behind them, remember that you are fighting for the greatest cause that patriots have fought for in a thousand years, and do not forget who also gave you the symbol that goes with the idea: Hitler!

Alfred Rosenberg

The highest that a man can reach on this earth is to give his name to an historic era, stamping it indelibly with his personality. That is true in the broadest sense of the Führer. The present world is unimaginable without him.

Dr. Joseph Goebbels 1939

by NCD on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 9:07pm

Poetic (supreme) justice. https://t.co/KtnH8UBWjI
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 8:50pm

Used to be a famous pollster for Republicans, tho fairly jovial and fair minded; now I actually dunno what he does for a living:

Here's a full list of state election results overturned by the Trump legal team. pic.twitter.com/ZFqpnfs4Zf
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 9:16pm

seeing a lot of talk about guns and “marshall” law
— Moscow Mitch's Shell Corporation Is People Too (@opus17) December 12, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/12/2020 - 3:35am

Abortion pill success - Judge nixes limits

https://apnews.com/article/public-health-abortion-coronavirus-pandemic-a...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/12/2020 - 9:24am

it's really getting like harassment of the judicial branch, and masochism as well, cause they are still at it

A federal judge appointed by President Trump threw out a lawsuit filed by his campaign in Wisconsin that sought to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory in the battleground state https://t.co/nJC7szvKE7
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) December 12, 2020

Wisconsin Supreme Court judge tells Trump attorney his phony lawsuit "smacks of racism" https://t.co/3NsTdZUBRR
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 12, 2020

they have lost so many in so many places that the conspiracy story he is going to have to make up better be his greatest whopper or all times? YUGE

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/12/2020 - 9:37pm

oh geez fucking unbelievable:

Trump appeals the ruling of the last appointee of his who eviscerated his case—on the merits. https://t.co/fjefZzeU95
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 13, 2020

Which means he still has a chance to lose the case on standing, too!
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 13, 2020

It’d be more productive than his usual appeals.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/12/2020 - 10:19pm

more from the (Trump-appointed) judge in Wisconsin:

“This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of racism,” Karofsky said. “I do not know how you can come before this court and possibly ask for a remedy that is unheard of in U.S. history. … It is not normal.” https://t.co/bcC02j3KX4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/12/2020 - 10:25pm

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Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.

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