You must be as exhausted as we all are, being human. Yet here you are. It’s one of the reasons, along with the analysis and insights I value you so highly
Agreed! Also, could Jack Smith just get on with it and indict the "co-conspirators" and those who conspired in the coup - like Ginni Thomas, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and all the others?
Especially, the co-conspirators, need indicting for spreading the lies, misleading their constituents, and being general a-holes. I’m so sick of all the pansy-ass politicians working so hard to spread the lies to the folks who elected them, while they present themselves as crusaders for justice. 😤☹️
Habeas corpus, apparently a liberal invention, is a declaration to the Executive that the court knows of a person detained thereby, and orders their appearance before the court to inquire if there is a lawful cause for detention.
It strikes at the core duties of the Executive, and now is unenforceable.
I’d like to see 100 million people show up at rallies around the country to protest the Supreme Court’s most recent disgraceful, disgusting, detestable ruling. Let’s unite! Pick a day!
It served as a model of pulling off massive marches with dignity. Without disorder or violence. Agreed that it did nothing because we didn't keep it up. And no one and nothing was going to stop the venal minority, trump and his Magats from ruling over us, the majority. And we spent 3 years doing nothing but talk to ourselves.
And let’s have supportive rallies at each State Capitol on Labor Day? Rejuvenate the Nation! Get ready to rally the voters back home to Save Our Democracy by registering the unregistered (particularly younger voters) to support abortion and IVF! We can do it, can’t we? Indeed, we must do it!
It’s going to take more than that to rattle the iron-clad confidence of those Congressional incumbents smugly betting on re-election. Why not storm the streets? Why not roar in protest? Why not stand as a seething, united front?
Agreed! Actually, we need a revolution if the court is doing what I think it is doing, which is gradually upping the temperature of decisions they are making. First Roe v. Wade, now this, and finally, they will hand the election to Trump after he does not win it on some spurious reason that everyone can see right through, as they thumb their noses at the American public. Just as with Gore, nothing was done and that enabled Bush to put some of these reactionaries on the court, with unpopularly elected Trump following up with more of these criminals masquerading as justices.
Yes, and Thomas and Alito not recusing from the immunity case is a crime on its own, IMO. Recusal is such a joke … absolute power corrupting absolutely is on full and unadulterated display in our “Supreme” Court.
This SCOTUS decision provides a fairly good example of judges acting like common con men. Judges who change their methodology for addressing similar issues provide evidence that their "reasoning" is not legitimate, but merely a disingenuous and dishonest rationalization. Here, SCOTUS justices ignored some of the most obvious aspects of our Constitution and its context. The Founders were very concerned with people acting like Trump. They even specifically expressed concerns about and addressed methods of dealing with a president who abused his position and powers. The Founders repeatedly emphasized the vital importance of the ability to prosecute such people criminally.
Chief Justice Roberts four years ago, same plaintiff, same issue of Presidential Immunity but a different take on evidence. I think he should be held to the first decision.
The opinion he wrote in '20 tRump v Vance included this;
In our judicial system, “the public has a right to every man’s evidence.”1 Since the earliest days of the Republic, “every man” has included the President of the United States.
Roberts and 5 others declared that no evidence may be considered of the President’s intent or motivation in deciding whether the “act” was “official” or merely personal? That is lunacy by reference to the established rules of evidence and just plain common sense! Ridiculous and obviously intended to preserve the alleged President’s officialdom hell or high water? written to protect Trump in his establishing a quasi-dictatorship!!
Agreed! IMO a few are potentially co conspirators in some acts (see Gohmert v. Pence for example) and should be prosecuted accordingly. They may have lifetime appointments but supposedly no one (certainly not their spouses) are above the law.
I'd like AG Garland to remind him of it, since it was the Courts decision at the time of the additional crimes and subsequent investigations and warranted indictments. The new (shit) ruling should be considered to apply to future crimes, as it couldn't’t possibly be retroactive when so contrary to the previous decision, IMO.
Very well said. They, the Republican members of the Court (hate having to designate members that way), will say “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds”, smirk, and congratulate themselves on taking bold action in a “Decision for the Ages”. My hope is that this “Decision” has less staying power than that of the Third Reich, which was supposed to stand for “the next thousand years”. But, we will have to beat the Electoral College to even have a chance to bring sanity and humility back to a Supreme Court that is drunk on its own arrogance.
The pre-planning of the return to election loser Trump the nuclear launch codes even prior to voting has been my greatest fear.
Can you imagine all the effort to GOTV, all the postcard writing, door knocking, etc, being a waste of time because 6 SCOTUS members already told Trump his election is "in the bag??"
You'd see him telling MAGA he "doesn’t need the votes" and rambling on about sharks and batteries while the Biden campaign busts their bottoms for nothing.
Kevin Roberts of Project 2025 leadership is conflating mainstream American Democrats with "The Left!" This abuse of language is fascist propaganda and we should all be wary of it.
I wouldn't have seen this if you hadn't posted it, Linda. It's appalling! Kevin Robert's last statement is truly chilling: "And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
Yes! We've been letting this happen for over 40 years. Our leadership has been asleep at the wheel as the radical right took over state houses, governorships, the courts. We should have taken to the streets when Mitch detailed Garland's nomination. We're like the slow boiling of the frog. Isn't is time we do something dignified, peaceful, but big?
And we reasonable people don't have the guns! We need to show up, dignified and purposeful. Maybe even dead quiet, since we are mourning the loss of our democracy. In every city in this country. I don't care what Kevin Roberts says, but let's shed a very bright light on his saying these things. Light, a great disinfectant.
Absolutely. I think that is what Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghist says that we need to speak truth to our elected representatives. It is on my to do list today. I do not want to see my democratic senators, rep, or governor of Illinois waiver on backing Biden. https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-debate-and-the-firehose-of-falsehood
You should read what she says and look at the video links. The majority should prevail against the tyranny of the minority.
I follow Ben-Ghist too. I agree. We've been too passive....and we don't like to get our hands dirty. We're fighting bullies. Bullies need us to fight back. Tyranny of the minority is what I've been saying for decades. Writing postcards won't cut it. I do believe the trumpers are feeding this fire and feeding those media outlets I used to trust. Selling papers and ads just seem to be more important to them then churning up MAGA chaos. I'm disappointed. And afraid!
Just watched the Velshi segment. Thank you. There are only two people I follow, watch and trust now on MSNBC: Ali Velshi and Lawrence O'Donnell. Otherwise, I've been turning off all cable outlets except BBCAmerica (just so I know what's going on in the world). Mostly I'm following people like Ben-Ghist and reading a lot.
Yes, a revolution in needed. I read Heather Cox Richardson's daily letter earlier this morning where she talks about our original revolution when the colonies broke apart from the King and Great Britain. Things then got to an irreparable level and I feel they are moving that way right now. We know Trump will never concede and with this current scotus group, they will declare him the victor, the king per se.
Yes. I had been talking to a friend yesterday about how we need a revolution in the USA if SCOTUS does what I see them doing, which is stealing the presidency for Trump. When I read HCR this morning I felt she was suggesting Revolution by reminding us of the reasons for one, as well as giving us a historical context for the upcoming July 4. My Democrats Abroad group is reading 24 articles from The Atlantic discussing the content of Project 2025, as preparation to read the Project and discuss it ourselves. I really think that besides making sure that Biden wins legitimately, everyone who does not want the constitution overthrown by SCOTUS of Trump needs to be thinking about what to do next to prepare for this possibility. It will be important to find out what the military will do, and what our allies will do. The Trump network is making the circuits of other countries and meeting with their right-wing parties whether or not they are in power, and encouraging them, and offering advice and support. Richard Grenell, Trump's former ambassador to Germany is doing this, and Steve Bannon is trying to bring his program The War Room to Germany and to organize the right wing party AfD to be even stronger. Again, I recommend Prof. Kathleen Belew's book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. In it she discusses a meeting of White Power groups, which I think was right after the Oklahoma City bombing, where they decided that instead of being overtly against their governments, they would make themselves appear more mainstream and infiltrate from within, until they could take over their countries politically and then there would be war of White Nationalists to take over the planet, or at least all White dominant countries. It makes everything going on right now in the USA, Oceania, and Europe clearly part of this plan. It is the most frightening point of my life. I am not in the USA, though I will be in a couple of weeks, and I am frightened of how authoritarianism is taking over in so many places because they know how to manipulate with propaganda and violence, not because they are offering most people the lives they want to lead.
I thought the same thing about HCR’s letter of today with the talk of revolution.I think Russian AI and bots are also contributing to this Replace Biden narrative.Of course they and other authoritarian leaders would want Biden gone.I’m sure Putin’s mouth is watering right now at what is going on here in America.
I have been saying the same thing. In fact, I have to start calling them Russian Bots. It is absolutely Putin's training in fascist propaganda and manipulation from his days as both KGB and Stasi that give him a lot of strategies to work with the AI and other tech tools. People are so easy to manipulate and yet when my mom came to the states from Germany, everyone acted like she was a Nazi. She was born after Hitler came to power and not old enough to have a cause, but was not a Nazi. There was a lack of understanding of how the German people could have been so manipulated by the master manipulators Hitler and Goebbels, but now I am watching Americans fall for the same sorts of manipulations. That is so many people who supported Biden got spooked by the response of the Russian-Bot-like US press calling not for the fascist-convicted criminal to step down, but Biden the best president in my lifetime to step down. Putin is happy, although setting us up to end in Nuclear Holocaust is not great, or the more likely human Holocaust under the guise of dealing with the "immigrants" that I can see Trump enacting with his faithful vicious dogs like Abbott, DeSantis and more. I do feel it is unfortunate that Democrats in the US (Biden) and abroad (Scholz), are feeling pressure to take on the right-wing immigration agenda in part. See this article in Foreign Affairs. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/28/far-right-populism-france-rn-le-pen-trump-united-states-modi-india-majoritarianism/
I had a strong feeling, while witnessing the arguments on immunity, that Alito and Thomas had rehearsed their questions with Trump’s counsel. It was just so very phony in the way Alito would not ask questions on the actual case and instead say, “I don’t want to talk about that. I want to know blah blah blah” to set up a hypothetical that pointedly had to do with exactly what they already had conspired with Leo and others to do and indeed, did.
- Personal residences of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who just made one of the most disgusting, disgraceful, detestable decisions in the history of the United States of America.
Apparently the 2 million woman march on 45 did not do a damn thing. Demonstrations will just provoke a militaristic response much like that of Kent State or worse Tiananmen Square under a new ex-45 administration. I am afraid his reign may eventually end violently because that is all he knows.
Google Neil Young's song "Ohio," which is about the Kent State massacre. Four students died, and others injured, at the hands of the Ohio National Guard, because they dared to have a demonstration.
Fast forward from 1970 to 2024 and multiply the hostility from MAGAs and Trump a couple of thousand times, throw in six members of SCROTUS who will be there until they take their last breath, add several "yes, man" judges, and this is what we'll have to face when we get together to protest.
The one thing we HAVE to remember is make these protests PEACEFUL. The consequences could be very, very dire.
Send me time and place. SCOTUS is too partisan and a few unethical to continue as is. Should start with impeaching, or whatever it takes, Thomas and Alito. Increase number on bench, establish meaningful and traceable ethics rules and provide retroactive term limits. I can dream can't I!
The late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream, and so must we. He was instrumental in getting both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Acts passed so that all minorities could enjoy the same privileges as any other American. Had the "bad six" of our current SCOTUS been serving during that time in history, there's no doubt in my mind that his dreams and efforts could have been in vain.
It seems that every time Trump gets another "free pass" from the very judges who CLAIM that no one's above the law, things get worse.
Unfortunately, given the fact that this SCOTUS and their REFUSAL to accept democracy, or even give a shirt, we have to get busy and fight like HELL. There is no Option #2.
Holy cow! I've been saying this since Dodd. And any protests must be dignified, like the Women's Marches all over the country. Yes! I'm ready! In every city across the nation!
I’m concerned about the general stress level for intelligent, engaged citizens at this time. I am in Canada. I have close friends here who are all stressed to the max and it is not even our country. Assuming most following Joyce and so many others feel as horrified as we do - 4+ months more of living every day at this elevated stress level. Truly it must be having a devastating effect on everyone’s general well-being.
My intent is to be an emotional support Canadian. And I try to take a break from time to time. But each day seems to land more punches. I’m so sorry you are all going through this.
Well Laura, it is stress now or worse in January 2025. We must have friends and strategies (fortitude) to press forward for the next four months, at least.
And let’s be clear, whatever the election results there will continue to be a long, hard fought battle to save our country. The right has worked for decades to come to this moment. As we have seen with this term’s SCOTUS rulings the right is not going to waste their opportunity or go quieting into the history books.
John's comment made me think of Ukraine. They have been fighting for their country for two and a half years. Physically fighting and dying. We haven't (except for the Capitol officers) had to physically fight, yet, but we've been resisting for nine years now, and I'm feeling a little beat down. It is still surreal that all this hoopla is about Donald Trump. Really?
Well, it really is surreal. He is a master of keeping the focus on him. Regretfully, he has been hugely aided by right wing and main stream news sources that have unfairly and foolishly focusing on age rather than Trump’s criminal conduct.
As an 81 year old, my stress level has been high worrying about the future. I see years of progress and forward movement being threatened. Thank you for your emotional support.
The only way out of this quagmire is to add 3 or 4 more justices to the Supreme Court. If Biden or another Dem candidate wins, and Congress is won too, it should be the top priority. The very circumspect Melissa Murray said today that this current Supreme Court is now- “An existential threat to democracy.”
But you need issues that are popular to the people and border control is one such issue which we have failed at. I know I’ve said this repeatedly. But it’s the truth.
First the poster boy for employer sanctions for hiring illegals was Donald J. Trump who was fined by my agency for using Polish workers on his jobsires.
Second, even today Trump uses foreign temporary visa workers on his properties to displace locals.
Third, he was in the business of importing, among others models like his two wives who may/may not have entered the US under questionable circumstances. His current wife brought her communist parents to live with him, using "anchor" visas he condemns.
Fourth, Biden policies have resulted in the same volume at the border than when Trump was in office.
Fifth, Trump stopped the Congressional deal that was a fix to the problem.
And I can go on for a month. At one time I was a member of the BALCA (DOL board of alien certification appeals) board, and I also heard about 22 kinds of visa cases. The antidote to "economic" immigration is employer sanctions. If employers won't here them without documentation, they won't come.
If that’s the case with Jack Smith, we should be looking at Weiss , Special Counsel who indicted Biden jr. Maybe that case should be thrown out as he may have been appointed illegally and the other Special Counsel who was charged with reviewing Bidens case. If you do one you’ve got to do all SPECIAL counsels( sorry for my spelling ) it’s late but thank you as always for gads of information
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If it's OK to do CRIME as an "official act," perhaps the reactionary Justices are also setting limits to ensure they won't be be prosecuted for filing false IRS, not paying IRS taxes due, taking bribes -aka "gratuities," enabling an attempted coup, lying to Congress, profiting from their office, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if we learn more unpleasant stuff about these six justices.
I always assumed that the President only orders an action after White House lawyers determine if the act is legal and constitutional. If it is determined the action is not legal and constitutional, then I also assumed the action, if ordered and carried out, is deemed illegal and the President can be held accountable for it. How naive'!
I think your assumption was fine because that’s how normal citizens of this country would assume that legal business is conducted in the White House. But that’s the old days, pre-Trump. With Trump I think what we had in the legal staff of the White House were a clubby collection of federalist society ideologues, who looked for (and found) weaknesses in our constitutional fabric and then gave the orange nutjob the green light (or get fired). And down the road to perdition we went. When we finally put all this bullshit in our rearview mirrors, I hope somebody is keeping track of all of the changes we’re going to have to make to rehabilitate our reputation.
It certainly SEEMS like all the evidence gathered by the House select committee on January 6 suggested that TFG's intent was to stay in office after he was defeated in the 2020 election. Is there nothing ILLEGAL about this? Has SCOTUS actually said that actions taken to subvert the will of the people in electing their leaders is covered by presidential immunity? Since when is subverting the electoral process part of even the "outer perimeter" of a president's official duty? What about NY's conviction of TFG for paying off a porn star? Actiions conceived and initiated before the 2020 election can somehow be covered by presidential immunity because he signed some checks written on company accounts while in office? Since when is "company business" part of his official duties? Much less payments supporting an illegal coverup action for personal behavior? God help us all if this is where American juris prudence is headed
It has said working with the Attorney General is covered. They have or soon will have punted all the rest back to DC Federal to examine. They will likely overrule any or most of anything she judges to be unofficial or presumptively immune but government can overcome that presumption by proving the making not immune will not constrain the executive too much --
Now interesting - deciding that many of those actions not being immune wouldn't constrain the executive too much since they are things it shouldn't be doing. That's one of the bases for Judge Chutkan's original working -- paraphrased: Forcing the executive to consider the legality of his actions might be considered a feature, not a bug!
Biden now has all the powers trump will have if GD forbid he is elected. My feeling is that Biden should take this new power and do one official act. Reenact Roe vs Wade as an executive power. Or expand the Supreme Court or have Garland investigate Thomas and Alito for their involvement in Jan 6 and Kavanaugh for lying to congress for his nomination. One of these alone would get Biden the win, especially Roe
Joyce, what you are saying is that to overcome presumptive immunity. the government must demonstrate that the prosecution of a former president won't impair any future president's performance of official duties. How does prosecution of criminal behavior impair any future president's performance of official duties, unless those are also criminal acts?
Good question! The decision is written deliberately as convoluted gobble-gook so as to make it difficult to understand and apply. The “supremes” created gigantic holes for themselves to leap through should they need to. I think we ought to just ignore them and carry on with what we already know to be constitutional precedent.
The insurrectionists Thomas and his lovely wife should be in jail already.
I have been told that the issue is whether information about immune official acts were used as evidence.
Don't that anyone has done a competent review of evidence yet. I suspect Merchan has initiated one. If there were "official acts" but they had only presumptive immunity and then government can pierce that linen I suppose it could be used. I would say the Supreme Court has only specifically identified working with the Attorney General as a real core immune act. Though they present a pretty good cased that the President consulting with the Vice President about Executive Branch matters @ least is immune; I( think they might have decided that except for the feature that Trump's pressure on Pence concerned his role as President of the Senate In which role the President is not his boss. Do you remember when Pence thought he might have some legal exposure, he was claiming immunity through Congress's speech and debate clause.
Joyce, can can the men and women of our nations, judiciary, federal and state take action against certain individuals of the Supreme Court for clear bias and accepting, and not revealing large donations?
It seems to me that the judges of the lower court must hold the Supreme Court to the same standards. Or, is that just a pipe dream?
I seem to be having that same pipe dream. Day by day, my pipe dreams are turning into nightmares.
I agree about holding SCOTUS to a higher standard. Over the years, I never thought a lot about them because I always thought that they'd have our best interest with every decision they made.
Fast forward to today, July 3, 2024, when my pipe dreams have gone away, and now I see very clearly just how crooked, selfish, unsuitable two-thirds of them really are. The other three are the exception to the rule, so they are chastised by their own Leader when they dare to disagree with their "co-workers."
One of the problems is that they're not what I'd call "real men." Real men would not accept bribes or decide what a woman can do with her own body.
Real men wouldn't take advantage of never having to answer to anyone, no matter what they do --- or don't do. Arrogance IS the best description for these guys.
It's hard not to notice that the female Trump admirers aren't receiving such huge benefits. Who knows what that's about?
I love your take on this, Dianne. The first thing i thought of was our current president, who clearly IS a real man. Basically, the lack of honesty is what keeps those men from being "real men".
The wives must have a helluva book club. Weird that the media is simply clueless behind their computers. Gumshoe reporting or do the wives of SCOTUS move thru the world in total secrecy and protection from accountability?
Except for Clarence's charming wife (I mean that with sarcasm), and Mrs. Flag, they make me think of the movie "The Stepford Wives." Little zombies lead by what WOULD be the most powerful of the powerful as members of SCROTUS. Unfortunately, their hubbies exceeded the allowable limits once they received blessings from their almighty master Trump.
Makes me wonder if it's their idea to keep a low profile, and how much accountability they should admit.
Agree with the comment! Why can’t the committing of a crime waive immunity- much like the attorney/client privilege does not exist in a similar manner when conspiring or committing crimes. Seems like the SC (or the majority) has lots its collective common sense.
With the exception of The Good Trio, I'd say that their co-workers have collectively and mysteriously forgotten about the Constitution and the actual rights of the people, and they have definitely lost their collective sense of decency. Too bad we don't get to vote for The Supremes. Unfortunately, when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written, I'm pretty sure those authors would never have expected such travesty and abuse by our own Supreme Court.
Unfortunately, I think they're more interested in a fat wallet that they already know will keep stuffed until the day they leave this earth. Every job I had before I retired REQUIRED me to do actual work, and I earned every penny that I got, after taxes, of course. I didn't get a lot, but at no point did I ever allow myself to stoop to such a disgustingly low standard as the Sextet has done.
No immunity in the Bible unless. you want to call Jesus's sacrifice as a sin offering granting of immunity. @ that, it may be more like a complete pardon and expungement.
I believe Jefferson and Madison were framers and had to live with the Marbury decision, which started this nonsense. The Court appropriating to itself powers the Constitution did not grant.
I am immobile with grief. I can't even take solace in the experts anymore. Because the experts are just as flabbergasted as I am. And news about Biden keeps getting worse. Now Obama has worries. And there are too many (Bernie) people who won't vote for Harris. I feel like I've been fighting uphill and just saw a whole new army appear at the top.
Please listen to Heather Cox Richardson on her fb video yesterday. She addresses this. She says she spent time with Biden in the last 6 weeks and he is fine. I was where you are and it helped.
Carrie, I have no input on who is leading Team Democracy. But if Team Democracy calls on me I will be there. As individuals we can get involved in many ways and I encourage you to do that. Robert Hubbell’s Today’s Edition Newsletter can give you many ideas on how to get involved.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and NEVER give up!
I have to admit that I have basically gone silent since the God awful ruling from SCOTUS before they hightailed it out of town. Thanks for this one. I yield back my time.
You must be as exhausted as we all are, being human. Yet here you are. It’s one of the reasons, along with the analysis and insights I value you so highly
Agreed! Also, could Jack Smith just get on with it and indict the "co-conspirators" and those who conspired in the coup - like Ginni Thomas, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and all the others?
Especially, the co-conspirators, need indicting for spreading the lies, misleading their constituents, and being general a-holes. I’m so sick of all the pansy-ass politicians working so hard to spread the lies to the folks who elected them, while they present themselves as crusaders for justice. 😤☹️
Why even bother? A writ of habeas corpus intrudes on the core duties of the President to get criminals off the streets. Nice while it lasted, folks!
It won’t stand.
What are you talking about? What does habeas corpus have top do with this?
Habeas corpus, apparently a liberal invention, is a declaration to the Executive that the court knows of a person detained thereby, and orders their appearance before the court to inquire if there is a lawful cause for detention.
It strikes at the core duties of the Executive, and now is unenforceable.
Don't forget the speaker of the house.
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Me, too. I always envy her law school students.
Likewise.
I’d like to see 100 million people show up at rallies around the country to protest the Supreme Court’s most recent disgraceful, disgusting, detestable ruling. Let’s unite! Pick a day!
That day has already been selected. November 5.
Yay! If there aren't any rallies here, I'll drive to DC and sit on the SCOTUS steps --- and definitely peacefully.
At least you could be sure that THIS president wouldn't shoot you for peacefully protesting.
DIgnified! Like the Women's Marches.
Which did what exactly ?
No gun laws ,Roe gone, voting is still left to us.....sort of
It served as a model of pulling off massive marches with dignity. Without disorder or violence. Agreed that it did nothing because we didn't keep it up. And no one and nothing was going to stop the venal minority, trump and his Magats from ruling over us, the majority. And we spent 3 years doing nothing but talk to ourselves.
Excellent point, Kathleen. So said, let’s double down on GOTV!!
Yup, it’s all about GOTV, both in battleground states for the Presidency, and in all states at all office levels including school boards!
And let’s have supportive rallies at each State Capitol on Labor Day? Rejuvenate the Nation! Get ready to rally the voters back home to Save Our Democracy by registering the unregistered (particularly younger voters) to support abortion and IVF! We can do it, can’t we? Indeed, we must do it!
It’s going to take more than that to rattle the iron-clad confidence of those Congressional incumbents smugly betting on re-election. Why not storm the streets? Why not roar in protest? Why not stand as a seething, united front?
I will definitely spend the next four years doing that if Trump is reelected. promise.
Agreed! Actually, we need a revolution if the court is doing what I think it is doing, which is gradually upping the temperature of decisions they are making. First Roe v. Wade, now this, and finally, they will hand the election to Trump after he does not win it on some spurious reason that everyone can see right through, as they thumb their noses at the American public. Just as with Gore, nothing was done and that enabled Bush to put some of these reactionaries on the court, with unpopularly elected Trump following up with more of these criminals masquerading as justices.
Yes, and Thomas and Alito not recusing from the immunity case is a crime on its own, IMO. Recusal is such a joke … absolute power corrupting absolutely is on full and unadulterated display in our “Supreme” Court.
This SCOTUS decision provides a fairly good example of judges acting like common con men. Judges who change their methodology for addressing similar issues provide evidence that their "reasoning" is not legitimate, but merely a disingenuous and dishonest rationalization. Here, SCOTUS justices ignored some of the most obvious aspects of our Constitution and its context. The Founders were very concerned with people acting like Trump. They even specifically expressed concerns about and addressed methods of dealing with a president who abused his position and powers. The Founders repeatedly emphasized the vital importance of the ability to prosecute such people criminally.
Change of methodology example 1;
Chief Justice Roberts four years ago, same plaintiff, same issue of Presidential Immunity but a different take on evidence. I think he should be held to the first decision.
The opinion he wrote in '20 tRump v Vance included this;
In our judicial system, “the public has a right to every man’s evidence.”1 Since the earliest days of the Republic, “every man” has included the President of the United States.
law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-635
Roberts and 5 others declared that no evidence may be considered of the President’s intent or motivation in deciding whether the “act” was “official” or merely personal? That is lunacy by reference to the established rules of evidence and just plain common sense! Ridiculous and obviously intended to preserve the alleged President’s officialdom hell or high water? written to protect Trump in his establishing a quasi-dictatorship!!
Agreed! IMO a few are potentially co conspirators in some acts (see Gohmert v. Pence for example) and should be prosecuted accordingly. They may have lifetime appointments but supposedly no one (certainly not their spouses) are above the law.
Guess he just forgot this?
I'd like AG Garland to remind him of it, since it was the Courts decision at the time of the additional crimes and subsequent investigations and warranted indictments. The new (shit) ruling should be considered to apply to future crimes, as it couldn't’t possibly be retroactive when so contrary to the previous decision, IMO.
Very well said. They, the Republican members of the Court (hate having to designate members that way), will say “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds”, smirk, and congratulate themselves on taking bold action in a “Decision for the Ages”. My hope is that this “Decision” has less staying power than that of the Third Reich, which was supposed to stand for “the next thousand years”. But, we will have to beat the Electoral College to even have a chance to bring sanity and humility back to a Supreme Court that is drunk on its own arrogance.
The conservative members of the court are originalists-when-convenient. The rest of the time, they are loose cannons.
The pre-planning of the return to election loser Trump the nuclear launch codes even prior to voting has been my greatest fear.
Can you imagine all the effort to GOTV, all the postcard writing, door knocking, etc, being a waste of time because 6 SCOTUS members already told Trump his election is "in the bag??"
You'd see him telling MAGA he "doesn’t need the votes" and rambling on about sharks and batteries while the Biden campaign busts their bottoms for nothing.
Not only that, but the Heritage Foundation is threatening that there will be blood shedding if we do not allow them to overthrow our government in a Right-wing Revolution. https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/heritage-foundation-president-celebrates-supreme-court-immunity-decision-we-are
Kevin Roberts of Project 2025 leadership is conflating mainstream American Democrats with "The Left!" This abuse of language is fascist propaganda and we should all be wary of it.
I wouldn't have seen this if you hadn't posted it, Linda. It's appalling! Kevin Robert's last statement is truly chilling: "And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
Yes! We've been letting this happen for over 40 years. Our leadership has been asleep at the wheel as the radical right took over state houses, governorships, the courts. We should have taken to the streets when Mitch detailed Garland's nomination. We're like the slow boiling of the frog. Isn't is time we do something dignified, peaceful, but big?
Hey, guess what TOMORROW is!
Yes! And the so-called MAGA patriots will use it to their advantage while we eat hotdogs and have a day off.
And we reasonable people don't have the guns! We need to show up, dignified and purposeful. Maybe even dead quiet, since we are mourning the loss of our democracy. In every city in this country. I don't care what Kevin Roberts says, but let's shed a very bright light on his saying these things. Light, a great disinfectant.
Absolutely. I think that is what Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghist says that we need to speak truth to our elected representatives. It is on my to do list today. I do not want to see my democratic senators, rep, or governor of Illinois waiver on backing Biden. https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-debate-and-the-firehose-of-falsehood
You should read what she says and look at the video links. The majority should prevail against the tyranny of the minority.
I follow Ben-Ghist too. I agree. We've been too passive....and we don't like to get our hands dirty. We're fighting bullies. Bullies need us to fight back. Tyranny of the minority is what I've been saying for decades. Writing postcards won't cut it. I do believe the trumpers are feeding this fire and feeding those media outlets I used to trust. Selling papers and ads just seem to be more important to them then churning up MAGA chaos. I'm disappointed. And afraid!
Just watched the Velshi segment. Thank you. There are only two people I follow, watch and trust now on MSNBC: Ali Velshi and Lawrence O'Donnell. Otherwise, I've been turning off all cable outlets except BBCAmerica (just so I know what's going on in the world). Mostly I'm following people like Ben-Ghist and reading a lot.
We should all wear black for our demonstration(s). After all, black IS a symbol for mourning.
The more I read these posts and Substacks, the more and more depressed, disappointed, afraid, and concerned I get.
Yes, a revolution in needed. I read Heather Cox Richardson's daily letter earlier this morning where she talks about our original revolution when the colonies broke apart from the King and Great Britain. Things then got to an irreparable level and I feel they are moving that way right now. We know Trump will never concede and with this current scotus group, they will declare him the victor, the king per se.
Yes. I had been talking to a friend yesterday about how we need a revolution in the USA if SCOTUS does what I see them doing, which is stealing the presidency for Trump. When I read HCR this morning I felt she was suggesting Revolution by reminding us of the reasons for one, as well as giving us a historical context for the upcoming July 4. My Democrats Abroad group is reading 24 articles from The Atlantic discussing the content of Project 2025, as preparation to read the Project and discuss it ourselves. I really think that besides making sure that Biden wins legitimately, everyone who does not want the constitution overthrown by SCOTUS of Trump needs to be thinking about what to do next to prepare for this possibility. It will be important to find out what the military will do, and what our allies will do. The Trump network is making the circuits of other countries and meeting with their right-wing parties whether or not they are in power, and encouraging them, and offering advice and support. Richard Grenell, Trump's former ambassador to Germany is doing this, and Steve Bannon is trying to bring his program The War Room to Germany and to organize the right wing party AfD to be even stronger. Again, I recommend Prof. Kathleen Belew's book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. In it she discusses a meeting of White Power groups, which I think was right after the Oklahoma City bombing, where they decided that instead of being overtly against their governments, they would make themselves appear more mainstream and infiltrate from within, until they could take over their countries politically and then there would be war of White Nationalists to take over the planet, or at least all White dominant countries. It makes everything going on right now in the USA, Oceania, and Europe clearly part of this plan. It is the most frightening point of my life. I am not in the USA, though I will be in a couple of weeks, and I am frightened of how authoritarianism is taking over in so many places because they know how to manipulate with propaganda and violence, not because they are offering most people the lives they want to lead.
I thought the same thing about HCR’s letter of today with the talk of revolution.I think Russian AI and bots are also contributing to this Replace Biden narrative.Of course they and other authoritarian leaders would want Biden gone.I’m sure Putin’s mouth is watering right now at what is going on here in America.
I have been saying the same thing. In fact, I have to start calling them Russian Bots. It is absolutely Putin's training in fascist propaganda and manipulation from his days as both KGB and Stasi that give him a lot of strategies to work with the AI and other tech tools. People are so easy to manipulate and yet when my mom came to the states from Germany, everyone acted like she was a Nazi. She was born after Hitler came to power and not old enough to have a cause, but was not a Nazi. There was a lack of understanding of how the German people could have been so manipulated by the master manipulators Hitler and Goebbels, but now I am watching Americans fall for the same sorts of manipulations. That is so many people who supported Biden got spooked by the response of the Russian-Bot-like US press calling not for the fascist-convicted criminal to step down, but Biden the best president in my lifetime to step down. Putin is happy, although setting us up to end in Nuclear Holocaust is not great, or the more likely human Holocaust under the guise of dealing with the "immigrants" that I can see Trump enacting with his faithful vicious dogs like Abbott, DeSantis and more. I do feel it is unfortunate that Democrats in the US (Biden) and abroad (Scholz), are feeling pressure to take on the right-wing immigration agenda in part. See this article in Foreign Affairs. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/28/far-right-populism-france-rn-le-pen-trump-united-states-modi-india-majoritarianism/
Has anyone thought yet of organizing an underground?
I had a strong feeling, while witnessing the arguments on immunity, that Alito and Thomas had rehearsed their questions with Trump’s counsel. It was just so very phony in the way Alito would not ask questions on the actual case and instead say, “I don’t want to talk about that. I want to know blah blah blah” to set up a hypothetical that pointedly had to do with exactly what they already had conspired with Leo and others to do and indeed, did.
Why not July 4th? Isn't this about freedom from tyranny?
This July 4th will be about irony.
And sadness.
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-Law.
MARCH!
WHEN:
Saturday July 13th and Sunday July 14th
WHERE:
- Personal residences of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who just made one of the most disgusting, disgraceful, detestable decisions in the history of the United States of America.
- And the National Mall in Washington, DC
No Kings or Queens in America!
They (the Maga 6) are all off on vacation, and could care less what we little people do or say.
Except when Trump gives them their latest "instructions," the MAGA 6 are ALWAYS on vacation, even if they're physically in their DC offices.
You're spot on about the MAGA 6 Dianne. They certainly do not deserve their salary since they barely work.
Apparently the 2 million woman march on 45 did not do a damn thing. Demonstrations will just provoke a militaristic response much like that of Kent State or worse Tiananmen Square under a new ex-45 administration. I am afraid his reign may eventually end violently because that is all he knows.
Google Neil Young's song "Ohio," which is about the Kent State massacre. Four students died, and others injured, at the hands of the Ohio National Guard, because they dared to have a demonstration.
Fast forward from 1970 to 2024 and multiply the hostility from MAGAs and Trump a couple of thousand times, throw in six members of SCROTUS who will be there until they take their last breath, add several "yes, man" judges, and this is what we'll have to face when we get together to protest.
The one thing we HAVE to remember is make these protests PEACEFUL. The consequences could be very, very dire.
Send me time and place. SCOTUS is too partisan and a few unethical to continue as is. Should start with impeaching, or whatever it takes, Thomas and Alito. Increase number on bench, establish meaningful and traceable ethics rules and provide retroactive term limits. I can dream can't I!
The late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream, and so must we. He was instrumental in getting both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Acts passed so that all minorities could enjoy the same privileges as any other American. Had the "bad six" of our current SCOTUS been serving during that time in history, there's no doubt in my mind that his dreams and efforts could have been in vain.
It seems that every time Trump gets another "free pass" from the very judges who CLAIM that no one's above the law, things get worse.
Unfortunately, given the fact that this SCOTUS and their REFUSAL to accept democracy, or even give a shirt, we have to get busy and fight like HELL. There is no Option #2.
Holy cow! I've been saying this since Dodd. And any protests must be dignified, like the Women's Marches all over the country. Yes! I'm ready! In every city across the nation!
No more marching, vote.
I’m concerned about the general stress level for intelligent, engaged citizens at this time. I am in Canada. I have close friends here who are all stressed to the max and it is not even our country. Assuming most following Joyce and so many others feel as horrified as we do - 4+ months more of living every day at this elevated stress level. Truly it must be having a devastating effect on everyone’s general well-being.
My intent is to be an emotional support Canadian. And I try to take a break from time to time. But each day seems to land more punches. I’m so sorry you are all going through this.
I love the term, “Emotional Support Canadian.”
Is Canada accepting refugees? 😊
If not, y’all had better get started on your “wall”.
Well Laura, it is stress now or worse in January 2025. We must have friends and strategies (fortitude) to press forward for the next four months, at least.
And let’s be clear, whatever the election results there will continue to be a long, hard fought battle to save our country. The right has worked for decades to come to this moment. As we have seen with this term’s SCOTUS rulings the right is not going to waste their opportunity or go quieting into the history books.
John's comment made me think of Ukraine. They have been fighting for their country for two and a half years. Physically fighting and dying. We haven't (except for the Capitol officers) had to physically fight, yet, but we've been resisting for nine years now, and I'm feeling a little beat down. It is still surreal that all this hoopla is about Donald Trump. Really?
Well, it really is surreal. He is a master of keeping the focus on him. Regretfully, he has been hugely aided by right wing and main stream news sources that have unfairly and foolishly focusing on age rather than Trump’s criminal conduct.
I think it's really about what Putin is doing to all the suckers who are too afraid of trump (Putin's puppet), to stand up to him.
we all need an emotional support Canadian! Thank you, Laura
As an 81 year old, my stress level has been high worrying about the future. I see years of progress and forward movement being threatened. Thank you for your emotional support.
Half of my family is from Canada, some still there, and I had asked the same question. Seriously.
Lucky you. I'm trying to figure out where and how to go.
I'm sure a LOT of countries are stressed to the max over who's next to be The Leader of the Free World.
Well… France is apparently all of a sudden ahead of us.
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The only way out of this quagmire is to add 3 or 4 more justices to the Supreme Court. If Biden or another Dem candidate wins, and Congress is won too, it should be the top priority. The very circumspect Melissa Murray said today that this current Supreme Court is now- “An existential threat to democracy.”
Stop kidding yourselves,it'll be Biden or the Nazis!
Register more Democrats to defeat the Nazis!
https://www.fieldteam6.org/
But you need issues that are popular to the people and border control is one such issue which we have failed at. I know I’ve said this repeatedly. But it’s the truth.
First the poster boy for employer sanctions for hiring illegals was Donald J. Trump who was fined by my agency for using Polish workers on his jobsires.
Second, even today Trump uses foreign temporary visa workers on his properties to displace locals.
Third, he was in the business of importing, among others models like his two wives who may/may not have entered the US under questionable circumstances. His current wife brought her communist parents to live with him, using "anchor" visas he condemns.
Fourth, Biden policies have resulted in the same volume at the border than when Trump was in office.
Fifth, Trump stopped the Congressional deal that was a fix to the problem.
And I can go on for a month. At one time I was a member of the BALCA (DOL board of alien certification appeals) board, and I also heard about 22 kinds of visa cases. The antidote to "economic" immigration is employer sanctions. If employers won't here them without documentation, they won't come.
Moreover many of the folk at the border were encouraged to come by right wing Republicans who vilify them after they get here. https://danielsolomon.substack.com/p/dos-caudillos
Michael Steele said yesterday that part of the project 2025 plan is to add 4 more seats to the Court.
If we had the House and Senators with guts who'd end the filibuster, we could do it now.
4 more....to win....
If that’s the case with Jack Smith, we should be looking at Weiss , Special Counsel who indicted Biden jr. Maybe that case should be thrown out as he may have been appointed illegally and the other Special Counsel who was charged with reviewing Bidens case. If you do one you’ve got to do all SPECIAL counsels( sorry for my spelling ) it’s late but thank you as always for gads of information
Hello to the chicks and your gorgeous dog🇺🇸Happy 4th
If it's OK to do CRIME as an "official act," perhaps the reactionary Justices are also setting limits to ensure they won't be be prosecuted for filing false IRS, not paying IRS taxes due, taking bribes -aka "gratuities," enabling an attempted coup, lying to Congress, profiting from their office, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if we learn more unpleasant stuff about these six justices.
Laurie, what a thought-provoking comment! Before all is said and done, I'd pretty sure that this can of worms may explode any day now.
I always assumed that the President only orders an action after White House lawyers determine if the act is legal and constitutional. If it is determined the action is not legal and constitutional, then I also assumed the action, if ordered and carried out, is deemed illegal and the President can be held accountable for it. How naive'!
I think your assumption was fine because that’s how normal citizens of this country would assume that legal business is conducted in the White House. But that’s the old days, pre-Trump. With Trump I think what we had in the legal staff of the White House were a clubby collection of federalist society ideologues, who looked for (and found) weaknesses in our constitutional fabric and then gave the orange nutjob the green light (or get fired). And down the road to perdition we went. When we finally put all this bullshit in our rearview mirrors, I hope somebody is keeping track of all of the changes we’re going to have to make to rehabilitate our reputation.
Brigette, you're not alone. The rules don't matter when it comes to the Faux King.
No one ever has to take the advice of their lawyer. It might be foolish not tom but your lawyer is not your boss.
It certainly SEEMS like all the evidence gathered by the House select committee on January 6 suggested that TFG's intent was to stay in office after he was defeated in the 2020 election. Is there nothing ILLEGAL about this? Has SCOTUS actually said that actions taken to subvert the will of the people in electing their leaders is covered by presidential immunity? Since when is subverting the electoral process part of even the "outer perimeter" of a president's official duty? What about NY's conviction of TFG for paying off a porn star? Actiions conceived and initiated before the 2020 election can somehow be covered by presidential immunity because he signed some checks written on company accounts while in office? Since when is "company business" part of his official duties? Much less payments supporting an illegal coverup action for personal behavior? God help us all if this is where American juris prudence is headed
Thank you for this incisive comment. You cut right to the heart of the matter.
It has said working with the Attorney General is covered. They have or soon will have punted all the rest back to DC Federal to examine. They will likely overrule any or most of anything she judges to be unofficial or presumptively immune but government can overcome that presumption by proving the making not immune will not constrain the executive too much --
Now interesting - deciding that many of those actions not being immune wouldn't constrain the executive too much since they are things it shouldn't be doing. That's one of the bases for Judge Chutkan's original working -- paraphrased: Forcing the executive to consider the legality of his actions might be considered a feature, not a bug!
Since Biden is now a king, can he instruct Garland to fire Cannon?
Yes he can. I think it would have to go through Garland but he apparently can ignore that too.
I'm wondering if he's contemplating extreme measures like this that are so contrary to his traditionalist heart.
Biden now has all the powers trump will have if GD forbid he is elected. My feeling is that Biden should take this new power and do one official act. Reenact Roe vs Wade as an executive power. Or expand the Supreme Court or have Garland investigate Thomas and Alito for their involvement in Jan 6 and Kavanaugh for lying to congress for his nomination. One of these alone would get Biden the win, especially Roe
Don't believe so. Removal of a federal judge is by impeachment. Judges are not executive branch officers.
Joyce, what you are saying is that to overcome presumptive immunity. the government must demonstrate that the prosecution of a former president won't impair any future president's performance of official duties. How does prosecution of criminal behavior impair any future president's performance of official duties, unless those are also criminal acts?
Good question! The decision is written deliberately as convoluted gobble-gook so as to make it difficult to understand and apply. The “supremes” created gigantic holes for themselves to leap through should they need to. I think we ought to just ignore them and carry on with what we already know to be constitutional precedent.
The insurrectionists Thomas and his lovely wife should be in jail already.
More question, how much jurisdiction does the SCOTUS have over the NY fraud/hush money case? Interesting that ex-45 always speaks about states rights.
Indeed. And actions that were carried out before he was president as well.
I have been told that the issue is whether information about immune official acts were used as evidence.
Don't that anyone has done a competent review of evidence yet. I suspect Merchan has initiated one. If there were "official acts" but they had only presumptive immunity and then government can pierce that linen I suppose it could be used. I would say the Supreme Court has only specifically identified working with the Attorney General as a real core immune act. Though they present a pretty good cased that the President consulting with the Vice President about Executive Branch matters @ least is immune; I( think they might have decided that except for the feature that Trump's pressure on Pence concerned his role as President of the Senate In which role the President is not his boss. Do you remember when Pence thought he might have some legal exposure, he was claiming immunity through Congress's speech and debate clause.
Joyce, can can the men and women of our nations, judiciary, federal and state take action against certain individuals of the Supreme Court for clear bias and accepting, and not revealing large donations?
It seems to me that the judges of the lower court must hold the Supreme Court to the same standards. Or, is that just a pipe dream?
I seem to be having that same pipe dream. Day by day, my pipe dreams are turning into nightmares.
I agree about holding SCOTUS to a higher standard. Over the years, I never thought a lot about them because I always thought that they'd have our best interest with every decision they made.
Fast forward to today, July 3, 2024, when my pipe dreams have gone away, and now I see very clearly just how crooked, selfish, unsuitable two-thirds of them really are. The other three are the exception to the rule, so they are chastised by their own Leader when they dare to disagree with their "co-workers."
The arrogance of these men on the court is astounding
One of the problems is that they're not what I'd call "real men." Real men would not accept bribes or decide what a woman can do with her own body.
Real men wouldn't take advantage of never having to answer to anyone, no matter what they do --- or don't do. Arrogance IS the best description for these guys.
It's hard not to notice that the female Trump admirers aren't receiving such huge benefits. Who knows what that's about?
I love your take on this, Dianne. The first thing i thought of was our current president, who clearly IS a real man. Basically, the lack of honesty is what keeps those men from being "real men".
The wives must have a helluva book club. Weird that the media is simply clueless behind their computers. Gumshoe reporting or do the wives of SCOTUS move thru the world in total secrecy and protection from accountability?
Except for Clarence's charming wife (I mean that with sarcasm), and Mrs. Flag, they make me think of the movie "The Stepford Wives." Little zombies lead by what WOULD be the most powerful of the powerful as members of SCROTUS. Unfortunately, their hubbies exceeded the allowable limits once they received blessings from their almighty master Trump.
Makes me wonder if it's their idea to keep a low profile, and how much accountability they should admit.
Can justices be dis-barred by the state of their license?
I know disbarment would not remove a justice from the court but it would be a conduit for disapproval by their legal communities!
Does the American Bar Association have any statement, position or taken any action on the Supreme Court’s failures?
Alyce, I'd also be interested in knowing that. It would serve them right if they did lose their license.
Great question 😀
Agree with the comment! Why can’t the committing of a crime waive immunity- much like the attorney/client privilege does not exist in a similar manner when conspiring or committing crimes. Seems like the SC (or the majority) has lots its collective common sense.
With the exception of The Good Trio, I'd say that their co-workers have collectively and mysteriously forgotten about the Constitution and the actual rights of the people, and they have definitely lost their collective sense of decency. Too bad we don't get to vote for The Supremes. Unfortunately, when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written, I'm pretty sure those authors would never have expected such travesty and abuse by our own Supreme Court.
The Bad Sextet either believe the Bible is their guide, or a fat wallet is the goal. The Constitution is theirs to trample in this pursuit.
Unfortunately, I think they're more interested in a fat wallet that they already know will keep stuffed until the day they leave this earth. Every job I had before I retired REQUIRED me to do actual work, and I earned every penny that I got, after taxes, of course. I didn't get a lot, but at no point did I ever allow myself to stoop to such a disgustingly low standard as the Sextet has done.
No immunity in the Bible unless. you want to call Jesus's sacrifice as a sin offering granting of immunity. @ that, it may be more like a complete pardon and expungement.
I believe Jefferson and Madison were framers and had to live with the Marbury decision, which started this nonsense. The Court appropriating to itself powers the Constitution did not grant.
And here we are, 200 years later.
The opinion specifically says you can't call an official act not immune just because it's illegal.
I am immobile with grief. I can't even take solace in the experts anymore. Because the experts are just as flabbergasted as I am. And news about Biden keeps getting worse. Now Obama has worries. And there are too many (Bernie) people who won't vote for Harris. I feel like I've been fighting uphill and just saw a whole new army appear at the top.
Please listen to Heather Cox Richardson on her fb video yesterday. She addresses this. She says she spent time with Biden in the last 6 weeks and he is fine. I was where you are and it helped.
Thanks!
Carrie, I have no input on who is leading Team Democracy. But if Team Democracy calls on me I will be there. As individuals we can get involved in many ways and I encourage you to do that. Robert Hubbell’s Today’s Edition Newsletter can give you many ideas on how to get involved.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and NEVER give up!
Oh, I’m involved. I’m defeated. Wrote my second piece on Project 2025 today. I just don’t think it will do any good. https://carriekaufman.substack.com/p/project-2025-know-what-it-is-be-very
I’ve been a journalist for way to long to have hope.
Joyce, your comments last night and again tonight are masterful and give me the much needed clarity to hold on for one more day. Thank you.
I have to admit that I have basically gone silent since the God awful ruling from SCOTUS before they hightailed it out of town. Thanks for this one. I yield back my time.
We need to hear you.