Not what I wanted to be the first thing I read this morning. Yet not surprising, just another soul-destroying development in the dismantling of our country by the morbidly rich. It would be nice we’re SCOTUS to do the right thing, Thomas. It will, of course--the far right thing. Unfortunately, not enough people understand just how import…
Not what I wanted to be the first thing I read this morning. Yet not surprising, just another soul-destroying development in the dismantling of our country by the morbidly rich. It would be nice we’re SCOTUS to do the right thing, Thomas. It will, of course--the far right thing. Unfortunately, not enough people understand just how important and pervasive these agencies are. I remember still my great satisfaction in casting my absentee ballot voting for the California Coastal Act when I was a student at Harvard Law School. It may be that blue states will, until their sovereignty is destroyed by SCOTUS (ironic, that), have to try to fill the gap for their citizens as best they can. But that may well prove too expensive, and our taxes and regulatory environment are already costing us people and businesses. Watching this country March backwards since Reagan, and much faster since 2016, has been the most depressing thing in my life, even more than the health problems that forced me to retire and become a virtual recluse over 20 years ago.
I spent eight happy hours with our impish, adorable, incredibly curious and energetic kindergarten grandson yesterday. I know now I will have to leave him a letter to open after he turns 18 apologizing for the dystopian country he will be facing because not enough of us fought hard enough against the malignant plutocrats and the ignorati who follow them. If it were not a death sentence for me, I’d start drinking again, feeling utterly powerless as a feeble 75-year old who spent his professional life as a lawyer with great respect for the law, and his entire life as a quietly patriotic American, son of a career Navy officer who received a Purple Heart for injuries he suffered when his destroyer was shelled by the Japanese in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Both sentiments dead now, as we cease to be a nation of laws and bend the arc of history backward, against the belief so strongly held by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I don't understand is why the parties have not filed motions to voir dire some of the justices.
28 U.S. Code § 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge
(a)Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his [or her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
Daniel, Good question. Might the answer be the parties know the nine members (definitely six) consider themselves of high ethics and incorruptible? Not to mention the fear of a justice’s wrath the next time around.
“What comes around, goes around”. Justice Kavanaugh
Not what I wanted to be the first thing I read this morning. Yet not surprising, just another soul-destroying development in the dismantling of our country by the morbidly rich. It would be nice we’re SCOTUS to do the right thing, Thomas. It will, of course--the far right thing. Unfortunately, not enough people understand just how important and pervasive these agencies are. I remember still my great satisfaction in casting my absentee ballot voting for the California Coastal Act when I was a student at Harvard Law School. It may be that blue states will, until their sovereignty is destroyed by SCOTUS (ironic, that), have to try to fill the gap for their citizens as best they can. But that may well prove too expensive, and our taxes and regulatory environment are already costing us people and businesses. Watching this country March backwards since Reagan, and much faster since 2016, has been the most depressing thing in my life, even more than the health problems that forced me to retire and become a virtual recluse over 20 years ago.
I spent eight happy hours with our impish, adorable, incredibly curious and energetic kindergarten grandson yesterday. I know now I will have to leave him a letter to open after he turns 18 apologizing for the dystopian country he will be facing because not enough of us fought hard enough against the malignant plutocrats and the ignorati who follow them. If it were not a death sentence for me, I’d start drinking again, feeling utterly powerless as a feeble 75-year old who spent his professional life as a lawyer with great respect for the law, and his entire life as a quietly patriotic American, son of a career Navy officer who received a Purple Heart for injuries he suffered when his destroyer was shelled by the Japanese in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Both sentiments dead now, as we cease to be a nation of laws and bend the arc of history backward, against the belief so strongly held by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I don't understand is why the parties have not filed motions to voir dire some of the justices.
28 U.S. Code § 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge
(a)Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his [or her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
Daniel, Good question. Might the answer be the parties know the nine members (definitely six) consider themselves of high ethics and incorruptible? Not to mention the fear of a justice’s wrath the next time around.
“What comes around, goes around”. Justice Kavanaugh