Trump got what he wanted from an inexperienced federal judge he appointed shortly before leaving office, but her rulings were riddled with favoritism and legal errors, and an 11th Circuit panel (2 Trump judges, 1 Obama judge) struck most of them down (see story here; read their order here). He coul[...]
Archive for September 21st, 2022
September 21st, 2022 - 11:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Will Trump’s Supreme Court judges turn on him?
September 21st, 2022 - 2:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP candidate exaggerated his military service
Are we still surprised when a Republican politician is caught lying? I’m not, it’s so routine now. I have a theory about why Republicans lie so much, that goes like this: They think they’re on a Mission From God to “save America” from liberal heathens (who behave like [...]
September 21st, 2022 - 1:27 pm § in Science
PHOTOGRAPHY: Neptune’s rings
Top image below, brought to you by the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, you may ask why Voyager 2 photos — bottom image below — don’t show the rings. After all, Voyager 2 was millions of miles closer than JWST is. The answer is Webb has infrared cameras and Voyager 2 doesn’t,[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 2:18 am § in Politics, Republicans
How to find imaginary voter fraud
Make a wrong turn on a dirt road and go into the trees. “In late 2021, a group of volunteers turned onto Coulter Creek Road on a mission to uncover fraud and incompetence in Mason County elections,” a Seattle TV station says. They found an empty lot where, they believed, four people were[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 1:12 am § in Law and Courts
The guy who raped your sister can now legally carry a gun while stalking you
Until yesterday, a federal law prohibited people under felony indictment from buying guns. But that public safety protection is now gone, thanks to a ruling by an Obama-nominated, Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas (see his bio here). I’m not sure it’s his fault. In striking down the[...]