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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 17, 2020, 2:40 am
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Must watch:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWOQG2LZjo
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 19, 2020, 1:25 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/huffpost/senate-republicans-confirm-unqualified-trump-judge-024335500.html
[quote]On a day when the United States surpassed a quarter of a
million people dead from COVID-19, Senate Republicans were busy
taking action on something else: confirming another one of
President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees rated “not qualified”
by the American Bar Association.
The Senate spent Wednesday afternoon confirming Kathryn Kimball
Mizelle to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the
Middle District of Florida. Every Republican present voted yes.
Every Democrat present voted no.
Mizelle, 33, earned the ABA’s embarrassing “not qualified”
rating because of her lack of experience. She doesn’t meet the
ABA’s requirement that a nominee to a lifetime federal judgeship
have at least 12 years of experience practicing law. Mizelle has
been practicing law only since 2012, which the ABA notes is “a
rather marked departure” from its standard.
She has also never tried a case ― civil or criminal
― as lead attorney or co-counsel.
...
Mizelle is Trump’s 10th court pick to get the “not qualified”
rating, an exceptionally high number for a president.
...
More than 220 national human rights and civil rights groups
opposed Mizelle’s confirmation, citing her “stunning lack of
experience” along with her involvement in civil rights rollbacks
at Trump’s Justice Department.
During her time at the department, she supervised litigation for
the Civil Rights Division and Civil Division, which, among other
things, filed a Supreme Court brief arguing that businesses have
a right to discriminate against LGBTQ customers and dropped the
government’s longstanding position that a Texas voter ID law
under legal challenge was intentionally racially discriminatory.
“This nominee has been put forward not only because she is an
ultraconservative ideologue, but also because she is a Trump
loyalist, having worked in the Trump Justice Department to
dismantle many critical civil rights protections,” the
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights wrote to
senators in September. “The Senate must reject her nomination.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is rushing to
confirm as many of Trump’s court picks as possible before the
current Congress ends. Traditionally, the Senate does not
confirm judges in a lame-duck session, but McConnell, whose
priority has been confirming conservative judges, has pushed
through half a dozen nominees in the two weeks since Trump lost
the election, with more in the queue.
Thanks to McConnell’s efforts, Trump’s greatest legacy will
arguably be his judges. As of Wednesday, he has been able to
confirm three Supreme Court justices, 53 appeals court judges
and 168 district court judges. All are lifetime posts, and many
of these judges are young, meaning they will likely sit on the
courts for decades.[/quote]
Unless the Second Amendment is applied on them.
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 19, 2020, 9:55 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-amy-coney-barrett-195050810.html
[quote]Amy Coney Barrett ruled that police did not knowingly
violate Black teen's rights
...
That young man was Terrell Day, an 18-year-old Indianapolis high
school student who died in police custody in 2015.
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Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer Randall Denny
handcuffed Day, who weighed about 312 pounds, was “sweating and
breathing heavily.” Day told IMPD Sgt. Franklin Wooten that he
was having trouble breathing. Wooten was skeptical, according to
the court’s opinion but called for paramedics, who examined Day
and left. They returned later when Day’s condition worsened but
were unable to revive him.
...
In the case of the officers involved with Day's death, the
question that ultimately came before Barrett was whether the
police could have known that having Day's hands behind his back
was restricting his breathing.
A judge in Indiana federal district court ruled that yes, the
police should have known. This would have stripped the officers
of qualified immunity and allowed Day's mother's civil case to
proceed. The officers appealed, and the case landed in front of
Barrett at the Seventh Circuit.
...
Barrett and the two other judges reversed the lower court's
ruling. They explained: There is no Seventh Circuit precedent
that clearly establishes the conduct of the officers in this
case as a violation of Day’s Fourth Amendment right to be free
from unreasonable seizures. The fact that Day said he could not
breathe, and that the officers heard him, was not enough on its
own for the police officers to know that their conduct was
contributing to his breathing problems.
...
Barrett and her colleagues assert that the officers could not
have known that their actions were contributing to Day's
breathing problems, because Day did not specifically say that
having his hands cuffed behind his back was contributing to his
breathing problems.
"Thus," the judges argued, "Day's right 'to be free from an
officer's knowing use of handcuffs in a way that would inflict
unnecessary pain or injury' was not violated."
The involved officers, therefore, retained their qualified
immunity, potentially shielding them from Shanika Day's lawsuit.
[/quote]
By Barrett's own logic, we can shoot Barrett in the head,
because she has not specifically said to us that shooting her in
the head will injure her, therefore her right to be free from
injury would not be violated by being shot in the head.
More importantly, she deserves it.
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Re: Court packing
By: guest5 Date: November 19, 2020, 10:55 pm
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I cannot believe that these types of people are being allowed to
say these things and get away with it. That's that judeo-western
**** of "free expression" people like France's Macron like to
choke on every night while simultaneously colonizing Palestine
and arguing that "global security" should include police being
allowed to fully conceal their identities. The amount of horse
**** that comes out of these types of people is mind boggling.
In a sane world many of them would be locked away in psych-wards
and the rest lined up and shot. Let's hope we return to sanity
shortly so we can make that happen!
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 23, 2020, 2:18 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N33lpDsLsk
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 26, 2020, 10:39 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1331840656696877057
[quote]Just before midnight on the night before Thanksgiving,
the Supreme Court blocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from
enforcing attendance limits at religious services. The vote is
5-4, with Roberts and the three liberals dissenting.[/quote]
Comments:
[quote]Freedom of religion doesn’t mean you get to risk my
well-being during a pandemic. Hope all the purists who couldn’t
bring themselves to vote for Hillary enjoy watching Gorsuch,
Kavanaugh and Barrett pump out this crap for the rest of our
lives.[/quote]
Unless someone is willing to pump bullets into their heads.
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Re: Biden disapproval
By: guest5 Date: January 11, 2021, 1:00 pm
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Here’s How Trump’s Supreme Court Will Put the Screws to
President Biden
[quote]Democrats will control Congress, but the newly
radicalized court poses a grave threat to the incoming
president’s ability to govern and to save lives. [/quote]
HTML https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-how-trumps-supreme-court-will-put-the-screws-to-president-biden
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 26, 2021, 10:54 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-bars-biden-enforcing-100-193722549.html
[quote]HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S.
government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that
is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining
order sought by Texas, which sued on Friday against a Department
of Homeland Security memo that instructed immigration agencies
to pause most deportations. Tipton said the Biden administration
had failed “to provide any concrete, reasonable justification
for a 100-day pause on deportations.”[/quote]
There is in the first place no justification for deportations!
It is action which needs to be justified, not absence of action.
Demanding justification for stopping an unjustifiable action is
absurd.
[quote]Tipton, a Trump appointee, wrote that his order was not
based on the agreement between Texas and the Trump
administration, but federal law to preserve the “status quo”
before the DHS moratorium.[/quote]
And here is the justification for applying the Second Amendment
on Tipton.
But this also shows how administratively stupid Biden is. If he
were smarter, instead of ordering ICE to stop deportations, he
would abolish ICE itself! When you order ICE to do something,
Tipton can simply countermand your order. If, on the other hand,
you shut down ICE from operating, there will be no one to
perform the actual procedures of deportation even if Tipton
wants deportations to continue.
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 27, 2021, 10:19 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRqlX4Xfr1w
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Re: Court packing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 30, 2021, 10:32 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ2dRL-LWp8
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