Imagine:
Trump convicted of federal crimes by Jack Smith, sentenced to prison and imprisoned during 2024 election cycle, wins election and proceeds to pardon himself. The Supine Court upholds his self-pardon, Thomas writing for the majority.
Are you sufficiently scared? To forestall this, he must be convicted of serious felonies at the state level: a president's power to pardon only bears on federal crimes.
Hence my title: Godspeed, Fani Willis!!
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The Supine Court upholds his self-pardon, Thomas writing for the majority....
[ This is horribly offensive. There is no reason for such offensive writing. ]
This post is what is scary; thoroughly authoritarian. Extreme writing or speaking such as this will turn ordinary voters away from Democrats.
I do hope this blog will continue.
Please notice how fair the Supreme Court ruling was:
[ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html
Supreme Court Rejects Voting Map That Diluted Black Voters’ Power
Voting rights advocates had feared that the decision about redistricting in Alabama would further undermine the Voting Rights Act, which instead appeared to emerge unscathed. ]
The Supreme Court is working just the way it was intended to work, and Americans have long accepted this.
Should Sandwichman find this: The Governance of China by Xi Jinping is a superb writing on socialism with Chinese characteristics. Simply superb, and worth study even by an expert such as Sandwichman. There is a reason Chinese development has been so successful, and here is the reason.
The Supreme Court has been making ideological flexible decisions this session; decisions that well accord with legal reasoning, and that is what the court is meant to do. The Court is a terrific institution, even if a decision may displease "me" at times.
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