[Powerline via Hot Air] Note that Sotomayor dishonestly fails to characterize the majority’s holding correctly. She claims that immunity attaches when the president "uses his official powers in any way," such as by ordering a political assassination. But obviously, ordering assassinations, pulling off military coups, and taking bribes are not "actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority." The president has no constitutional authority to order murders, carry out military coups or take bribes. On the contrary, murders and coups would be high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Constitution specifically calls out taking bribes as a ground for impeachment.
Do these justices seriously think that if a future president were to carry out a political assassination, and the case were to come before this Court’s majority, they would say, "Yes, that is what we had in mind. Political assassination is A-OK!" Of course not. These three are not intellectual giants, but they can’t possibly be that stupid.
The Democrats’ dissent is so dishonest, and so obviously a political rather than a judicial document, that it must sadden anyone who believes in the rule of law, and who has any respect for the Supreme Court as an institution. It was obviously intended to provide fodder to rile up Democratic voters so as to help Joe Biden (or whoever) win the 2024 election. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson should be ashamed of themselves, but it seems that on the Left, shame is an obsolete concept.
#5
Sometimes Jackson acts sane and Barrett goes statist. It is a weird mix where even Roberts does something decent 30% of the time. Mostly the direction of the rulings is towards the good.
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#6
The problem is, they're used to deciding things based on how they feel about it. That doesn't work in their current job.
Someone needs to explain to them, the only reason that they have any authority at all is because the Constitution gives it to them.
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#7
ed, I'm not a constitutional scholar or anything, but I believe it was Marbury v Madison where the court gave itself the power of judicial review.
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#8
I think they lack the kind of motivation required to be absolutely crazy.
That said, they plainly aren't bright enough to do minimal research (cough, cough CLERKS) if for no other reason to not appear the public fool.
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[RedStar] From June 30 to July 2, 1941, the SS and their Ukrainian nationalist henchmen carried out the Lemberg, or, in other words, Lvov, pogrom.
by Alexander Tikhonov
The Public Relations Center of the FSB of Russia publishes on the official website of the agency in the “Archive Materials” section of the “History” section a digital copy of a previously unpublished interrogation protocol of Corporal Hans Isenman, a serviceman of the SS volunteer division “Viking”, who participated in the mass extermination of Jews in late June – early July 1941 in Lvov and in the executions of civilians in other territories of Western Ukraine.
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[IsraelTimes] When you appoint dangerous incompetents to vital ministerial positions, don’t be surprised when the result is dangerous incompetence.
Thus, on Monday, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City’s Shifa Hospital, who was arrested in November for alleged complicity with Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... , was released from detention in Nafha Prison in the Negev and sent home to Gaza. Under Abu Salmiya’s watch, Shifa had developed into a major Hamas command center, where the IDF has killed hundreds of button men and uncovered a substantial tunnel network, where hostages were held, and where, according to the IDF, at least one hostage, Noa Marciano, was killed.
The mind boggles at the denunciations and threats that would have rained down from the far right on any other government that presided over the debacle of Abu Salmiya’s homecoming. But the far right, of course, is a core and dominant part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, and far-right Netanyahu appointee Itamar Ben Gvir is the minister of national security, responsible for the Israel Prison Service, in turn responsible for the incarceration of Abu Salmiya and the fiasco of his release.
An oft-arrested thug horrifyingly placed by Netanyahu in charge of the forces of law and order, which he is now in the process of brutalizing, Ben Gvir is entirely incapable of fulfilling ministerial responsibilities or, obviously, of acknowledging his failures to do so.
#1
What makes Leftists so dangerous is that they really believe their own shit.
The scum who penned this article is really unhappy that Ben Gvir set the police on Israeli analog of Antifa.
#2
Killing or removing anyone inside a territory is harder than it looks. The Germans had years with zero opposition, none, and they couldn't finish the job. I don't think with another decade they could have done it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
