How Much Damage Will SCOTUS Do In COVID Mandates Cases? | Talking Points Memo

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1399227
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Editor’s Note : After today, Morning Memo will go on hiatus for the holidays. Look for it again beginning Jan. 3, 2022. See you next year!

Enjoy the holidays! We’ll miss you folks!

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Sort of OT… but can anyone explain to me how and why Rapey McBeerface remains on my Supreme Court? What the actual fsck?

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Show me the way to get him off the court (Handmaiden, too, but less needful).

I’ve been through this before with the WI SC last year, when they refused Evers’ mask mandate as they sat in their individual Zoom sessions from the comfort of their home offices. I think we can fully expect the USSC to overturn the mask mandates as they present their opinions, wearing masks.

Yes, the hypocrisy is astounding.

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Here’s a thought:

Expand the Supreme Court by adding two or three MDs. There are some who are MDs with law degrees. David Kessler comes to mind.

At least Biden should put this idea out there, to let the current SCOTUS members know that they need to operate from both legal and public health perspectives.

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Great idea, but the Justices don’t care.

The GQP Senate has already notified us all that they will deny Biden any chance of seating ANY justice, regardless of what number seat is open on the bench.

If we can fully take the Senate next year without Manchin and Sinema gumming up the works (and being insignificant and useless), then maybe something will happen. But the Dems have to take more than half the available seats open in this round of the 1/3 of the total. Best, if they took all of them.

Without a significant win in the Senate, this is a stalemate.

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Maude help me but I initially read “buckle the elf up”…
Damn xmas music getting to me…

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I don’t trust this court to do the right thing. They want their own Dred Scott moment (not all just the frightful 5).

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5 in custody after House Democrat carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia (msn.com)

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A bunch of people who fell ill after a conspiracy conference in Dallas earlier this month that featured Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, Mike Lindell and Eric Trump have fittingly conjured up a new conspiracy for their illnesses: It’s wasn’t COVID but anthrax!

When did TPM converge with The Onion? I realize this is isn’t fake, but it’s priceless, nonetheless. And the anthrax was planted there at the conference by none other than JFK! Or Elvis. One or the other. General Flynn or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Jewish Space Lasers.

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I think we can all agree the good ol’ days of fearing smallpox and polio are sadly missed.

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Jim Jordan Has A Minor Freakout

Humm Jim Jordan “freaking out” with minors?

Yuck! Has he learned nothing? All of the scandal about those wrestlers … and now we are hearing about him getting freaky with minors?

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By January omicron should have chastened us, but if not we join the seven countries, including Greenland, Somalia, Yemen and Sweden that don’t recommend masks.

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In an unserious country like ours, where there are no consequences, it’s a surprise there aren’t two of him on that court.

The general response is ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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OT: Trump has lost the thread… I mean, he was busy telling this another lie, so that other lie got dropped.

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Family Values, Nazi-Loving GOP Congressman Announces Divorce

I guess some marriages last longer then others!!
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Announces Divorce From Wife 8 Months After Wedding (thedailybeast.com)

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I suspect them blaming BLM or ANTIFA, neither of which care enough to do this.

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How can a death cult practice its religion without promoting death?

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Sweden is the only surprise there. Their history of dealing with the virus is an example, pretty much, of what NOT to do to protect from COVID.

COVID-19 and the Swedish enigma - The Lancet

From 2020

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Ah, but that’s what they want you to think! Only you know and I know what they know and don’t want others to know! You know?

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