How do you deal with situations when emotions are running high? Soldiers in combat and airline pilots facing emergencies rely on their training and discipline. In civilian life, well-adjusted adults fall back on principle and social norms to guide their behavior in times of stress. We’ve seen [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Had enough of this yet?
Republicans talk about responsibility; let’s make them practice it. They had a chance to ban assault weapons, or at least raise the age for buying them. They refused. Solution? Vote against them until they straighten out. (Note: Conservatives are explicit about why they, as private citizens, &[...]
July 3rd, 2022 - 7:43 am § in Law and Courts
Supreme Court thoughts
The Supreme Court conservatives’ judicial philosophy is “originalism,” the idea the Constitution should be interpreted today according to its authors’ original intent 236 years ago. But they wrote the Constitution for a society based on white supremacy, see article here, and many of the Fou[...]
Will the Supreme Court destroy the rule of law?
The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority appears to be as reckless as the president who appointed them. In just the last 10 days, “the court has gutted limits on gun possession, severely weakened the wall between church and state, and taken away a right that has existed for nearly 5[...]
June 28th, 2022 - 3:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Is the United States about to become a confederacy of states?
The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority is all about states’ rights and stripping the federal government of power. Its most high-profile decision, Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade, said it’s up to states to regulate abortion. But conservative justices are also going after [...]
June 28th, 2022 - 9:48 am § in Law and Courts
GOP lying spreads to Supreme Court
There’s no limit to Republican lying. That’s the lesson from a pair of Supreme Court rulings last week. In the first, the 5-4 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, it became evident that all three of Trump’s nominees to the court lied to win confirmation. They told key senators that Roe [...]
June 10th, 2022 - 12:13 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Ginni Thomas’ selfie
“Never before in our nation’s history have our elections been so threatened by fraud and unconstitutional procedures,” Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, wrote in a Dec. 13, 2020, email. She was right about that, but was talking about Trump and herself, although you&#[...]
May 24th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Law and Courts
SCOTUS reactionaries are blind to dubious death sentences
The Supreme Court’s conservatives don’t want federal judges to consider death row inmates’ innocence claims. Still want to argue they’re pro-life? Read story here. Clarence Thomas finally got to do what he’s been itching for years to do: Write a majority opinion saying [...]
May 16th, 2022 - 3:19 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Supreme Court: What’s lurking behind 3 leaks in 9 days?
A Supreme Court leak is highly unusual, but not unprecedented. Three leaks in nine days is unique in American history. The first leak was Alito’s draft on May 2. The second, on May 7, was inside information about the justices’ deliberations. The third, on May 11, was information that c[...]
May 15th, 2022 - 5:39 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Dave Horsey explains Alito’s reasoning (cartoon)
The following by none other than Seattle’s own Dave Horsey, editorial cartoonist extraordinaire. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]