Nevertheless,
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You might say the same about womenâs rights to access birth control and abortion, which I thought we had settled in the 70s.
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Once again, olâ Jeff Sessions, the closet KKK supporter, is fighting a war most of America thought was long-ago decided:
âthe Seventh Circuit [fed. Court of Appeals in Chicago] held today [04-04-2017] that SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION IS A FORM OF SEX DISCRIMINATION forbidden by⌠the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The vote was 8-3. The opinion in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, by Judge Diane Wood, reasoned that sexual orientation discrimination is essentially indistinguishable from sex discrimination because the former relies on stereotyped concepts about how men and women should behave sexually and about with whom they should associate in their intimate lives.â
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âArgument not going anywhere?â
If he throws in âbecause cootiesâ would that help?
Seriously, at lunch I was on a supermarket checkout line and before I could cover up the Enquirer displayed there I noticed that that the corner had fallen open to a headline inside âSex virusâ in big type.
That graphic layout person probably pulls down more than Americaâs 100 greatest public-school teachers combined.
I put a copy of People on top of it.
For the children.
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How do you handle the âbut forâŚâ problem?
But for TrumpâŚPence.
But for SessionsâŚunknown obsequious toady who will be worse.
Seriously, Iâm conflicted on how I think this clusterfuck should be managed. Itâs like, OK, shitâs on fire yo, but the flames are the only thing keeping worse horrors from escaping.
Is a racist, bigoted, backwards shitbag who is in conflict with Donny Two-Scoops worse than the racist, bigoted shitbag yes-man DTS will appoint?
I struggle with this. The thing that makes me lean towards âDO IT YOU COWARDLY MANBABY!â is that firing Sessions might just be enough for a few GOP senators to find a spine and stand up to DTS.
If the Senate does not go into full recess - I guess by doing that little pro-forma thing each day? - that will be a clue as to whether theyâre serious in their defense of Sessions.
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I was sorry to see all the bookstores close because I used to spend time in Borders turning Ann Coulterâs books over, hiding Bill OâReillyâs latest and generally making work for the staff but it felt good to me.
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Thank you. That was your random act of kindness for today.
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Throw in the discharge of aggression, and it was a winner.
@tena Just as well, in some places theyâre looking at laws to police such heresy.
Other than Spicer, for all the lawyering up, everyone is still in place, no?
Well, someone like that has no chance of being confirmed. If Congress recesses, and that is not at all certain, and he makes a recess appointment and that appointment fires Mueller, then we have quite a circus on our hands and something will finally have to give and weâll know where we are.
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Weâll also know who we are and what we stand for.
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Woa there!
The Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution protects them, not the Civil Rights Act.
The SCOTUS made this clear in the Same-Sex Marriage ruling that all LAWS must be applied equally, so prior rulings DO apply already.
The Circuit Court judges can use that ruling as a âGet out of my Courtroom Freeâ card.
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Yep - thatâs another reason this argument is spurious.
They canât use the Equal Protection Clause -it would violate it. So they are trying to use the Civil Rights Act instead and itâs not relevant.
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As to how to manage it, itâs asymmetric: once the Carnage is triggered it canât be undone. Doing nothing can be reversed anytime.
WHY??? WHY do they have to be such AHOLES? This is a totally dick move (no pun intended). We move ahead. We proclaim that no one is âa little more equalâ than others under the law and these bigoted pieces of dung roll it back BECAUSE THEY CAN??? I will never make it through the next 3.5 years.
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Heâs in it for the ChixâThe chik-fil-aâs. Heâs got a lifetime gift certificate.
Itâs just mean - absolutely.
Colbert went off on that last night.
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Then FIX IT by getting out there and working your ass off to elect every single Democrat (or Independent) you can to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and your State and Local Governments.
The US Congress is the ONLY body that has the Constitutional Power to tell Trump to go fuck himself so we have to make sure 2018 is not only a WAVE ELECTION, but a TSUNAMI ELECTION that sweeps Republicans from power in BOTH houses of Congress.
ONLY THEN will we have the ability to actually reign in the Malignant Narcissist in Chief and begin to repair the damage already done.
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This has Sessions, Pence & Bannon written all over it.
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Umm, AP, âŚ, Trumpler doesnât want Sessions to continue to serve.
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