Originally published at: Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s National Guard Occupation of Chicago
The Supreme Court upheld a block on the National Guard’s deployment to Chicago Tuesday, dealing the Trump administration a significant blow and embracing an interpretation of the laws that govern the Guard’s activation that differs considerably from the administration’s. The majority was unsigned, though Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate concurrence. Justice Samuel Alito, joined…
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Good. Not good enough for me to change my mind about Supreme Court reform.
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Cheers to Illinois Governor Pritzker, the ACLU, and all the others who fought against Trump all the way to the Supreme Court.
Likewise good on California and Oregon people who have stood up to Trump.
By contrast the TN governor rolled over for Trump and allowed black-majority Memphis to be occupied by the NG. The Texas governor sent his state’s NG to Chicago (Meal Team Six) to gain favor with Trump too.
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Dayyyyam (as my Southern friends would say). Johnny the Robber Baron, the beer drinker and the Handmaiden actually rendering an (unsigned) decision that is based on actual Constitutional law and precedent. Has Sus scrofa domesticus finally mastered the Bernoulli’s Principle?
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Well, that’s surprising. Did somebody drug Kavanaugh’s beer? Because his usual partners-in-crime wrote dissents. We’re kinda used to Amy Coney Barrett jumping back and forth; which side did she land on this time? And Roberts. I really want to know which side Roberts was on.
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I’d like to know if it was 5-4 or 6-3. 6-3 could throw a scare into them;
5-4 could be treated as a fluke.
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6-3, with Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissenting.
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Maybe Roberts is getting worried about his legacy.
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Reminder to self: Tennessee and Texas are south of Mason-Dixon.
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That ship sailed.
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The train has already left the station.
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Sailed, caught fire, and sank to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
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That ship has sailed. And sunk
Maybe it dawned on him that a President who has zero respect for “norms” will come after him.
”Your fired!”
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Trump is weakened at the moment, Roberts may figure Trump won’t completely ignore the SC ruling in such a state.
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I got activated once in 1973 for a postal strike. I never left the unit and most of my fellow soldiers delivered one letter and went to the bar. I got a year off my service for the effort. That’s why I don’t hate Nixon.
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I’m gonna buy a lottery ticket, cuz I sure thought they would let him do whatever he wanted. Maybe my luck is changing….
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Two things:
1- merry fucking Christmas, fatso
2 - Scalito can go fuck himself
3 - there is no third thing!
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There are many reasons why this President is “unable to enforce the laws of the United States”, but none for which deployment of the National Guard would be a remedy.
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It could be the Supreme Court is getting a little tired of presiding over the end of America as they knew it.
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