I'm listening to a fiction book that refers to President Trump every once in a while and it is a total mind fuck each time.

Monkeyboy wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Legit insane the nominee wrote this.

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1 ... 84992?s=19

that's the kind of thing I was referring to. I would be surprised if that wasn't the reason for the pick. The president is above the law. He's a fucking fascist.

Seems he's arguing the President is not above the law but is answerable under the Constitution to Congress. It's also, at least from these excerpts, a seemingly theoretical exercise asking Congress to pass laws that don't exist.

Will be interesting to see what Kavanaugh says during confirmation about all of this, but if this is the Dem focus on his record there's a 100% chance he's confirmed bc nonsense like this isn't moving Collins or Murkowski. Might be useful at ginning up already excited Dem base voters, I guess.

I would be surprised if he didn't walk some of that back. Maybe not the 'a sitting president can't be indicted' part but that's not a completely unpopular opinion.

jerseyhoya wrote: a seemingly theoretical exercise asking Congress to pass laws that don't exist.

i guess if they already existed they wouldn't need to be passed again? #waitwut

Arizona's Republican Primary isn't until August 28th. Jersey (and others who feel like opining) what do you make of the late primary? Favors the Democrat because less time for the Republican to coalesce support? Favors the Republican because the support will coalesce and the Democrat could be caught unaware when polls stop going from hypothetical with three remaining GOP choices to just one? Neither? Both?

very good and normal system of government where a lifetime appointee gets to basically hand pick his lifetime successor.

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 2616706050

JUburton wrote:very good and normal system of government where a lifetime appointee gets to basically hand pick his lifetime successor.

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 2616706050

moderate move by Kennedy to pick a conservative Republican to succeed him

These people care about their legacy, I'll leave it to sharper legal minds, but off the cuff it makes me think that he cared more about his first amendment jurisprudence (Citizens United, the recent abortion speech case) than his social legacy. It could also trigger to his personal belief that Kavanaugh does believe in stare decisis and most of his legacy will remain intact. Who knows, but I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt.

I especially come back to his concurrence in the travel ban case. It was scathing, or as scathing as a Supreme Court opinion can get, but it still ruled in favor of upholding the travel ban. If it was a concurrence to Sotomoyer's hot fire opinion, then I'd be more confident in his legacy and more optimistic about the Court's future (also he would probably have stay on the bench to wrap up gerrymandering and other issues).

pacino wrote:

JUburton wrote:very good and normal system of government where a lifetime appointee gets to basically hand pick his lifetime successor.

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 2616706050

moderate move by Kennedy to pick a conservative Republican to succeed him

forever the centrist, that guy!

jerseyhoya wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Legit insane the nominee wrote this.

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1 ... 84992?s=19

that's the kind of thing I was referring to. I would be surprised if that wasn't the reason for the pick. The president is above the law. He's a fucking fascist.

Seems he's arguing the President is not above the law but is answerable under the Constitution to Congress. It's also, at least from these excerpts, a seemingly theoretical exercise asking Congress to pass laws that don't exist.

Will be interesting to see what Kavanaugh says during confirmation about all of this, but if this is the Dem focus on his record there's a 100% chance he's confirmed bc nonsense like this isn't moving Collins or Murkowski. Might be useful at ginning up already excited Dem base voters, I guess.

seems like it's an indication of how he might rule if the question comes before him, which it just might in the months ahead. I also don't represent all dems, so I doubt it will be the Dem focus. It was just the focus of my post. It's also exactly the type of thing that Trump would look at ... how can this guy help me. And finally, this guy seems like yet another authoritarian asshole dressed up in traditional conservative garb. Oh, and it's not nonsense when you have a runaway executive.

For anyone interested, here is the complete Kavanaugh article as printed in the Minnesota Law Review. The meat of the discussion here is on pages 1459 through 1462 (or 6 through 9 of the pdf):

http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-co ... gh_MLR.pdf


I wonder what Turtle thinks of the section beginning on page 1463.

JUburton wrote:very good and normal system of government where a lifetime appointee gets to basically hand pick his lifetime successor.

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 2616706050

Certainly strains credulity

Trump pardon the ranchers whose actions led the armed occupation of that park in Oregon. You can do crimes as long as they are right wing crimes.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praises President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh: "Judge Kavanaugh possesses an impressive resume, an outstanding legal mind and an exemplary judicial temperament"

So does Merrick Garland, you POS.

feds to suspend payments to high risk pools in order to increase cost of insurance for those shopping for it on healthcare.gov.

long interview with chris hayes and larry krasner.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/h ... a_20180710

JUburton wrote:very good and normal system of government where a lifetime appointee gets to basically hand pick his lifetime successor.

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 2616706050

Original source already retracted story, now saying that there was no transactional nature in the retirement and that Kennedy only provided Trump a list of acceptable replacements.

jerseyhoya wrote:

JUburton wrote:very good and normal system of government where a lifetime appointee gets to basically hand pick his lifetime successor.

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 2616706050

Certainly strains credulity

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/statu ... 7799648257

Hard to believe that wasn't accurate

Well it's not my fault I was fake newsed. I'm a trump supporter now, I see what he means.

Two folks who are very much not members of the vast right wing conspiracy - Noah Feldman at Bloomberg, Kavanaugh’s Papers Don’t Help Trump Avoid Indictment, and Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare, Brett Kavanaugh and the Mueller Investigation: What Do His Writings Really Say? - dump all sorts of cold water on the emerging talking point about Kavanaugh being nominated to protect Trump.