Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, weighed in Tuesday on Biden’s yet-unnamed Supreme Court pick by saying, “No. 1, I want a nominee who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog,” and, “No. 2, I want a nominee who’s not going to try to rewrite the C[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Who will replace Justice Breyer?
Liberal justice Stephen Breyer, who turns 84 this year, has either decided to take it easy or bowed to pressure to vacate his Supreme Court seat while Biden still has the Senate votes to replace him with another liberal. It’s not 100% sure a Biden pick couldn’t be confirmed if Democrats [...]
January 18th, 2022 - 11:32 am § in Health, Law and Courts
Justice Gorsuch is a jerk
“Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch doesn’t just sit in a stolen seat on the nation’s high court,” Huffington Post says (here). “He’s also apparently a terrible co-worker [according to] an NPR report that said Gorsuch refuses to wear a face mask to protect against COVID-1[...]
Making sense of Supreme Court’s vaccine ruling
The Supreme Court issued a baffling ruling on Thursday upholding Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds, but struck down an OSHA rule that covered the employers of 80 million American workers. The next day, Friday, January 14, 2022, fo[...]
Flag desecration
Republicans should be more careful about what they wish for, because this would be illegal under the flag desecration laws they propose. (Note: The Supreme Court has ruled that desecrating the flag is protected by the First Amendment.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 24th, 2021 - 6:03 pm § in Law and Courts
How much free speech are students entitled to?
Kids — and specifically, public school students — don’t have the same free speech rights adults do. In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools could punish students for disruptive speech (read the decision here) because, as Vox put it (here), “Teachers and school ad[...]
Barrett confirmation getting shakier but it’s not earthquake-shaky yet
This article contains news with liberal commentary. It’s too soon to play a requiem mass for Trump’s pending Supreme Court nomination, but with 3 GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee now Covid-19 positive, the situation is getting interesting. It’s more complicated than ju[...]
A Democratic strategy: Count votes, and if necessary, threaten massive retaliation.
If Trump wins reelection and the GOP keeps the Senate, the math is very simple: Game over. In every other scenario, it’s a lot more complicated. To grapple with this, let’s divide the coming days and weeks into three discrete periods: (Period 1) The 45 days before the election, (Period 2[...]
September 18th, 2020 - 6:06 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Quick and dirty situation report: The Democrats’ options now
Democratic hopes that Justice Ruth Bader Ginbsburg would survive Trump’s presidency have vanished. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has already declared the “Merrick Garland rule” inoperative. He won’t wait for the election results to ram through a Trump-appointed replacemen[...]
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:41 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Democrats issue Supreme Court threat
“Democrats are warning Republicans not to fill a possible Supreme Court vacancy this year after denying President Barack Obama the chance in 2016, saying it would embolden a push on the left to add seats to the court,” NBC News said on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, under the headline, “Dem[...]