klbmsw

[klbmsw]

There are very few old-school orators anymore. People with the presence, wit, intellect, and (above all) the bravery to bite the fat-takers to the bone.

Magicians really, whose words are their own sort of spell.

People who do not mince or quibble.

Justin Jones is one of those.

May we all be as firm in our demand for what we are righteously owed.

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

Biden needs to get congress to change the justices to term limits

[klbmsw]

The GOP started repeating history in 2016

[klbmsw]

They stood up to Trump and other Republicans didn't. That's not bravery, that just shows they have integrality

[klbmsw]

This is an amazing work of art

[klbmsw]

We may never find out everything Republicans did on J6. They just all need to be held accountable.

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

[klbmsw]

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos:

The U.S. Supreme Court heard Donald Trump’s immunity claim in his federal criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election Thursday, and the conservative majority is likely going to give Donald Trump what he wants: a delay of the trial until after the election. If Trump wins again, the conservatives have essentially signaled that they would be open to blanket immunity for him against any future criminal charges.   The fact that Supreme Court justices are suggesting that the president is above the law proves why the court must be reformed. Four of the justices—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch—even went so far as to suggest that special counsel Jack Smith’s entire prosecution is unconstitutional, and they reinforced Trump’s argument that the president is immune. Kavanaugh even told Michael Dreeben, a lawyer from Smith’s office, that it’s a “serious constitutional question whether a criminal statute can apply to the president’s criminal acts.”

That would be the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for the chief executive, rubber stamped by the highest court of the land. It’s worth remembering that Thomas refused to recuse himself from this—and most of the Trump election interference cases—despite the fact that his wife, Ginni Thomas, was deeply involved in Trump’s coup attempt. When she testified to the Jan. 6 special congressional committee, she maintained that the election was stolen.  His failure to recuse himself comes after a new ethics code has supposedly been enforced, saying that “a Justice should disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, that is, where an unbiased and reasonable person who is aware of all relevant circumstances would doubt that the Justice could fairly discharge his or her duties.” So much for that suggestion from Chief Justice John Roberts. His code has no teeth, which is yet another reason why ethics reform—and indeed court reform and expansion—is essential. 

Joan McCarter writes in Daily Kos that the Trump v. United States "immunity" case is a good reason to reform and expand SCOTUS.

[klbmsw]

VOTE BLUE 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

[klbmsw]