….on all Trump, or Trump related, matters! While “elections have consequences”, I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2020
Courtesy of HuffPo:
Trump has a history of attacking prosecutors and judges. Earlier this month, he slammed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who presided over the case against longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. Jackson also handled a case that concluded last year against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Trump earlier tried to insult U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in Indiana, by describing him as a “Mexican.” He also called U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar a “disgrace” and an “Obama judge” for ruling against his administration in an immigration case.
Trump’s latest attack seems to be in response to a dissent Sotomayor wrote last week in which she accused the Supreme Court’s conservative wing of being biased toward the administration, saying they’ve been “all too quick to grant the Government’s ‘reflexiv[e]’ requests.” She warned that such actions could “erode the fair and balanced decisionmaking process that this Court must strive to protect.”
Great now we are going to see Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan start to receive death threats from Trump’s lunatic supporters.
Sotomayor was not wrong in her obervation, but this is an administration that always punishes those who tell the truth.
Wow, I cannot believe how quickly we slid into totalitarianism.
Democracy is fragile folks, and you are watching it die right before your eyes.
Another 5-4 DEPLORABLE ruling.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-hernandez-v-mesa_n_5e553bd7c5b66729cf62b95b
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided that the family of a Mexican teen who was fatally shot on Mexican soil by a Border Patrol agent does not have the right to sue for damages under the U.S. Constitution.
The 5-4 ruling was a blow for the family of Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca, who had been playing along Mexico’s border with the U.S. when agent Jesus Mesa shot him in the face in 2010.
Lawyers for the boy’s family argued that Mesa had violated the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unjustified deadly force and that Hernández was denied his right to due process under the Fifth Amendment.
The 15-year-old had been playing a game with friends that involved running into a dry cement culvert separating the two countries along the Rio Grande and touching a tall fence on the U.S. side before running back. Mesa contended that the group had been throwing rocks at him and was trying to get into the U.S. illegally, but cellphone video indicated that was not the case, according to The Washington Post.
The conservative justices had previously expressed concern that allowing relatives of foreigners killed on foreign soil by U.S. law enforcement to then sue in U.S. court might have foreign policy and national security implications. During arguments in November, Chief Justice John Roberts pointed to the Department of Justice’s investigation into the incident, which determined that the agent had not violated Border Patrol policies. Mesa did not face criminal charges. Roberts also noted that the incident had been addressed through diplomatic communication between the U.S. and Mexico as another argument for the courts not to get involved.”
So border patrol agents now have carte blanche to shoot across the border and kill people. They can make up any lame reason and get away with it as we know any “investigations” by their colleagues will clear them.
“In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued that the possibility of civil litigation could help prevent abuse of force at the border. “Regrettably, the death of Hernández is not an isolated incident,” she wrote.”
Now we know what Trump is targeting Sotomayor and Ginsburg. Ruth better stay in peak health until January 20 2021 or McConnell will see a Trump nominee replacing her on the Supreme Court within 24 hours of her death. Because we know that fucker’s “let the next president decide” excuse goes out the window when there is a Republican in the Oval Office.
trump “demands”… well they should just tell trump to go to hell, he is in no position to DEMAND anything.
Speaking of the dictator in the WH, this is where we are at, because donald trump only wants to hear LIES and spread LIES
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How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
…..China’s use of technology to ratchet up surveillance and censorship may have made things worse, by making it less likely that Xi would even know what was going on in his own country.
Mao didn’t know famine was at hand, because he had set up a system that ensured he would hear lies…….
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Here we go again FFS.
If this mutherfucker wins another election, going to Canada. Which is kind of weird because in my day, a shit pot full of people fled to Canada to avoid the draft. Now they are going to avoid a draft dodger. WTF?
There has to be a message in that.
It looks like the snowball is picking up speed and is getting too big to be stopped. Even the anti-Sanders network is forced to pivot after other media has noticed that MSNBC’s biased campaign coverage has been looking more and more like Fox News (agenda news) vs real news.
WILL MSNBC’S PUNDITS BE FORCED TO SWALLOW THE BERNIE PILL?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/will-msnbcs-pundits-swallow-bernie-sanders-pill
“PHIL IS DOING HIS BEST TO GIVE BERNIE HIS DUE”: AFTER A SANDERS SURGE AND A MATTHEWS GAFFE, MSNBC PREPARES TO PIVOT
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/after-a-sanders-surge-and-a-matthews-gaffe-msnbc-prepares-to-pivot#intcid=recommendations_default-popular_060c1c97-3aca-48be-88a6-9c370ffa7e61_popular4-1
Don’s Dow Down A*gain?
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/dow-falls-900-points-second-day-straight-coronavirus-spreads-n1142671
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/trump-says-markets-are-down-over-bernie-sanders-worries
dow closes -880
but, but, but, demented donnie told us the stock market is just fine, and the resident troll told us folks are going to vote for trump because of the 401Ks are doing just fine, wonder how much of their 401ks just disappeared?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trump-demands-two-supreme-court-justices-recuse-themselves-from-all-of-his-cases-i-only-ask-for-fairness/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/they-are-investigating-matt-gaetz-miami-democrats-celebrate-florida-bar-investigation-into-gop-lawmaker/
Ahhhhh.
But “jesus saves” – which makes it all not only okay, but endorsed by jesus.
Such absurd stupidism.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ginni-thomas-supreme-court-trump-clarence-wife-justice-groundswell-a9354126.html?fbclid=IwAR2LvROPY1_VnSasCgVbiyFqag-kR1KJXDyxGmQpZAF5Af51CfLA_KB2pI0
“A group of pro-Trump activists led by Ginni Thomas has reportedly compiled lists of “disloyal” government officials it wants sacked.
It is alleged that Ms Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is part of a network of conservative activists called Groundswell, which has close ties to Trump and senior administration officials.
Detailed memos are said to have been assembled by the group over the past 18 months.”
Because of his wife’s inappropriate “lobbying” on behalf of far right organizations (like anything involving the Kochs and their billionaire ilk), Clarence Thomas should have resigned decades ago. He’s never recused himself as far as I know and he’s as compromised as a SC justice could possibly be. Think “Citizens United”!
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-makes-preposterous-demand-that-ginsburg-sotomayor-step-aside-from-cases-that-matter-to-him/
Democracy left the building. An old stodgy white nazi in its place. Chaos riegns as hiel hitler and his nonimaginative cohorts sit on the throne of discontent and bias. When people come to their coolective senses there will be inhumane junk to clean up. Right now people all have their heads up trumps ass.how embarrassing history will be for them.
fairness? what does trump know about fairness? he is acting more and more like a dictator. i’m sure he’s sitting with his “advisors” trying to find some way of declaring the Constitution illegal, so he can declare himself king.