Originally published at: Trump Admin Takes Short Break From Agency Rampage To Defend FCC In Intra-GOP Fight
The new world order has created odd bedfellows. Previously, the momentum of the political right surged behind efforts to get the Supreme Court to bite on nondelegation, the “doctrine” that Congress can’t outsource any of its legislative duties to the executive branch. In practice, this would mean defanged agencies that have to wait on Congress…
It’s hard to tell who’s acting out of principle and who is acting Trumpian.
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Alito expressed concern? For people?
Did he get into Leon’s ketamine?
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The photo at the top of the article, from the pseudo-SOTU
shows Trump with an IV-type bruise on the back of his hand.
March 4 was more than a week after Macron shook his hand too hard.
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Reversing course on non-delegation makes perfect sense when the felon and his minions (or is that the other way round) are arguing that Congress has delegated all power to the executive even when the clearly stated letter of the law says otherwise.
But there has to be a tiny fig leaf of concern for (in Alito’s mind) mostly older, mostly white rural dwellers who might otherwise not get their daily doses of propaganda.
People need to call these Trumpers’ out for their abusiveness. It’s uncalled for, unproductive, juvenile, corrosive to our nation, generally completely wrong, unprofessional, and makes them look look like pathetic losers.
He’s the Editor-in-Chief of a well respected publication that has over a million subscribers, has been in publication since 1857, is read widely throughout the Washington DC biosphere. The National Security Advisor should know all about the DC and National Press, especially those who have been at it and have risen to a position of responsibility that gives them access to the higher levels of our government. Yet Waltz says this:
“I can tell you 100 percent I don’t know this guy,” Waltz said. Then, deploying a tactic long used by Trump and his allies of attacking the media, he called him “the bottom scum of journalists.”
I imagine Jeffrey Goldberg isn’t bothered personally by Waltz assessment, it only shows his inadequacies for his position as National Security Advisor, as a leader for our country, and as a person. I’d like to hear the media en masse or en general push back on his garbage, and maybe break through a few hard heads that are as ill-served by these frauds as the rest of us are.
The only saving grace of the whole incompetent and inadequate National Security apparatus, CIA, NSA, FBI, et al, is that why would some outside group interrupt our own self destruction as a democracy and as a force for good (however imperfectly) to launch a terrorist attack to unite us against an outside enemy?
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What should not be missed is that a ruling consistent with the past rulings of this court would hurt mostly Republican voters. So the question is how obvious will the court make it that there are now 2 sets of standards and principles the court applies, one for White Republicans and another for everyone else.
That is what I get out of this article from what Alito in particular but other Republican justices showing some concern over who will be harmed if they apply what they claim to be their constitutional reading is that there decisions are and always been results based.
Justice Samuel Alito made a rare appeal to sympathy for the largely rural Americans who would be cut off without the FCC’s program.
“I am quite concerned about the effects of a decision in your favor on grounds that you have been pressing this morning,” Alito told Consumers’ Research’s Trent McCotter, a former Trump deputy assistant attorney general. “What would be the effect on people in rural areas if this is held to be unconstitutional and Congress does not act?”
It was a telling moment from the justice who once wrote that “women are not without electoral or political power” when striking down abortion rights.
The only reason this decision might be different and why the Republican justices are showing any concern is the people who are going to get the shaft if the Republican justices are at all consistent with their rulings are White Republicans.
I mean if the harm was going to be to Black people in Chicago instead of White in rural towns there is no doubt how Alito would rule and that he would gloat about it.
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Notice Clarance Thomas has no fucks to give about “the people from the wallmart parking lots” he claims to spend so much time with when cruising about the country in his billionare purchased “not a bribe” RV.
Not long before RT is giving away Starlinks to rural america to broadcast Russian propaganda Fox news.
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Warm, malleable. Like a shit.
They won’t give them away – they’ll do like elon and say the first month is free but then you have to either pay the inflated subscription price or pay to send the equipment back. (Or both.)
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This is so typical MAGA. “Never heard of the guy in my life. Obviously a total nobody. Many people have told me he’s scum.” They don’t give a damn that their insults contradict each other, and why should they? The media never calls them on it, except for hugely destructive outlets that nobody reads and everbody knows is loony-left Marxist like TPM.
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Well, the justices are just being dumb. All they need to do is phone up the Convict King, ask what he wants as a verdict, and then make it sound “legal.”
Don’t they understand their role yet in The New Trumpianistic States?
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NO. Just NO. You actually want We the People to “unite around” Donald friggin’ Trump? Because of some external “terrorist” attack that was caused by his own Maladministration’s stupidity? You want us to suddenly start supporting him for his own incompetence that led to our destruction??
We did this in 2001, as you may recall. And it’s gone very, very badly for the United States ever since.
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You misunderstood my comment. I’m not advocating that at all. I’m just saying it would be stupid for a terrorist group to attack us, with the inevitable rally round the flag that would follow.
Trump is destroying the biggest economy in the world. In 6 months we’ll probably be on a par with Paraguay or Morocco. Rally around this bunch of traitors and thieves?
Only to piss on them.