So Secretary of State Raffensperger’s lawyer sent a pretty scathing letter to the State Election Board saying, you really shouldn’t change these rules.

Ooh! Scathing!

That she is still, at her core, a republican piece of shit

Seconded. I like to remind people that while in office, she voted with Trump over 92% of the time.

Name five cops who don’t.

As Billy Joel said, “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun.”

It’s shit like this that makes me not give a shit when cops get ambushed or murdered. The whole profession is a cesspool of sociopaths that the world would be better off without. I try no to subscribe to the whole ACAB attitude and believe that they aren’t really all bad, but it’s virtually impossible to hang onto that belief when dangerous officers like this are kept on the force.

Wouldn’t that mean that this transparent political hit job was a colossal waste of time on the part of the Republicans?

Not really. Their whole goal is to make sure they can say that Biden is impeached at least as many times as Trump even though they know that they’ll never get a conviction in the senate. The whole investigation is not in the interest of justice or good governing. It’s pure politics. When you point out that it’s all just for show, they’ll turn around and say that the Trump impeachments were the ones that were all for show. And their base, the only one’s they care about, will believe it.

Here’s the kicker. The reason they want to be able to say that is because they are trying to 100% equate Harris with Biden. Watch the first few seconds here (youtube) where Vance says, “It’s hard to believe just how bad the Kamala Harris administration has been…” There hasn’t been a Kamala Harris administration. It’s been the Biden administration, obviously, and Sofa King knows it. This is not a mistake on his part. This is the new play, everything Biden has done, they will try to lay at Harris’ feet including Biden’s impeachment.

That’s the Republican method of operation. Accuse your opponent of doing what you are doing. When you point out that it’s their guy doing it, they just claim you are the one lying. Their base is so deeply programmed they believe it.

I don’t think it’s a fair assumption that the faith groups are doing that. The facility itself really isn’t a prison. The article says:

“It will cost millions to renovate that building to get it up to the jail standards,” she said. “There’s no bars, there’s no doors. It’s like a dormitory. And the women have it beautifully decorated.”

An good argument could be made that the type prisoners sent to such a facility are very unlikely to re-offend in the first place. That chance is further reduced simply by the fact that it’s not a facility that is focused on punishment and is focused on rehabilitation with or without religious overtones. I don’t for a moment believe evangelizing them helps keep them out of prison.

“She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that’s through committees and everything else.”

“She got it for…” And he cut himself off? She got it for what, Donnie? What did she do to deserve the highest civilian honor that you are too afraid to say out loud?

I was basing that on Biden’s 18 year term limit proposal that allowed an appointment every 2 years.

President Biden supports a system in which the President would appoint a Justice every two years to spend eighteen years in active service on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has too much power and Article III of the U.S. Constitution contains the solution. The important part is in the second paragraph below. The Supreme Court, by design, has original jurisdiction only over “cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.” SCOTUS has appellate jurisdiction in all cases mentioned in the first paragraph, and here is the critical part, “with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”

Congress has the authority to take away the court’s appellate authority in the vast majority of cases. They could create a Supreme Appellate Court that would decide the vast majority of the cases that SCOTUS now decides. Congress could strip SCOTUS of all authority other than that specifically defined in the Constitution; that of “cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.”

Article III, Section 2

The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;–to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;–to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;–to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;–to controversies between two or more states;–between a state and citizens of another state;–between citizens of different states;–between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.

As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted during the oral arguments when SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade:

“there’s so much that’s not in the Constitution, including the fact that we have the last word. Marbury versus Madison. There is not anything in the Constitution that says that the Court, the Supreme Court, is the last word on what the Constitution means. It was totally novel at that time. And yet, what the Court did was reason from the structure of the Constitution that that’s what was intended.”

Each branch of government is supposed to be a check on the power of the others. The Legislative and Executive branches are not powerless against the current court, except for the fact that the Republicans in the House and Senate stand in the way of meaningful reform. Vote blue at every level if you want to save this country. Because right now we have a royal court backed up by the GOP in the legislature that is really ruling the land and that’s the only way we will ever change it.

If each president gets to appoint 2 judges over a 4 year period, how would that make the problem worse without one party winning every election?

My late godson was epileptic. Many years ago, he was working at a local theater selling candy and popcorn. He was the only one behind the counter and the manager was selling tickets up front. A woman walked up to the manager and complained that his worker, my godson, was on drugs or something and she wanted to buy popcorn. He was having a seizure but the clueless woman decided he must be on drugs. But she was just some clueless Karen.

Now, I tell that story to demonstrate that most people don’t understand seizure disorders. I could understand, maybe (big maybe) if the cops didn’t understand. But how could the paramedics be so clueless? They were called for a medical issue. The mother, at the scene, told them he was having a seizure. Why were the cops there at all?

On the one hand, it shows that when you don’t treat people like animals, they are far less likely to act like animals. So it’s a shame that the place is closing. On the other hand, the “faith groups” are probably just upset that they are loosing their captive audience for evangelism.

Others were in there, but he apparently ignored them…

According to the Herald, the order said that Prasad “continued to insert the scope despite being told to wait and began to thrust the scope into (the patient’s) rectum while (the patient) shouted in pain.”

…or misunderstood them?

The outlet also reported that a hospital administrator had been present in the room and told Prasad he needed to wait, to which the gastroenterologist "leaned over (the patient) and shouted “I know!” to the administrator, yet continued to manipulate the scope.”

Dude needs to lose his license.

I am not an expert, but I am assuming that the interference would slow down mobile data, lower sound quality on mobile phone calls, and probably more dropped calls. Much as I hate AT&T, I am on their side for this one. An “an 18% average reduction in network downlink throughput” sounds significant to me.

Hey! He survived his own personal Vietnam!

“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.

The only way to get around the court is to amend the constitution itself.

That’s not actually the case. The Constitution says this about the court system.

Article III - Section 2.

The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;–to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;–to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;–to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;–to controversies between two or more states;–between a state and citizens of another state;–between citizens of different states;–between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

Emphasis mine. The inferior courts have jurisdiction over all matters other than “cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.” For those, SCOTUS has original jurisdiction. SCOTUS handles appeals to the judgements of the inferior courts “with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”

We do not need to amend the constitution to rein in SCOTUS. Congress, under the this article of the constitution, Congress has the authority to create legislation that limits the power of the supreme court on all matters other than “cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.” Congress can increase the size of the court allowing the current president to add judges. They can add term limits and other limits to SCOTUS. The problem is that one party doesn’t want to fix the problem and that party is running the House and obstructing the Senate thanks to the filibuster rule. If we had a functioning Congress, we could pass regulations forcing the justices to abide by ethics rules. We could make it illegal for justices to accept gifts from billionaires.

Sadly, this will not happen without a Democratic controlled House and a Senate with at lease 60 actual Democratic Senators, and a Democrat in the White House. Still far more likely than a Constitutional Amendment, though.

You’ve posted this 5 times in this thread in the last 20 minutes. Take a moment to read your own link…

Election law expert Richard Hasen wrote that there is “no credence” to the notion that the Democratic Party could not legally replace Biden on the ticket, as he is not the nominee yet – the nominating process generally takes place during the Democratic National Convention.

With a wannabe fascist dictator who wants to create a Christian nationalist country on the one hand, and abortion rights on the ballot, in one way or another, in many states on the other, it’s possible for a lot of states to become swing states this time around. A lot of people who might not otherwise vote may show up to vote for pro-choice candidates and ballot measures. That could be enough to turn some red states purple. Please don’t waste your vote on a third party Presidential candidate even if you think your vote doesn’t matter.

If you want to support third parties, do it at the state and local levels. You might find that hard to do though, since most of them, including West’s Justice for All party and RFK’s we the people party don’t have any other candidates running for any other offices at any other level.

These people are only running to siphon votes from other candidates and sway the election. West even has Republican operatives working for his party in North Carolina and Arizona to help him get on the ballots. We only know that because those states require signature gathers be registered with the states. You can bet your bottom dollar that they are helping him, RFK, and Stein in other states too.