On 9/28/2020 9:22 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
The GOP is interested in rushing this through so Don-the-Con t'Rump
has a 6 to 3 "voting block" on SCOTUS. A point of concern are state
legislatures overruling the popular vote and appointing Trump electors
or simply throwing out results. This could well happen in red states
that turn blue. There could then be states not returning electors or
with state legislatures that may appoint GOP electors. This would then
go to the SCOTUS
Would it? The Constitution provides that if no candidate gets a
majority of the electoral votes, then the House will elect the President
from among the top three receiving electoral votes. In this election
each state gets one vote...so Repugs would carry the vote. Similarly,
the Senate selects a Vice President.
I don't see SCOTUS having any part in this and given their make up they
certainly will have no motive to intervene.
Brent
and t'Rump has a near guarantee of a rubber stamp approval. This is a
big reason for this rush. The GOP leaders, including McConnell, know
t'Rump is at 40-43% with Biden 55% or so. This is a huge gap, and only
with various shenanigans can they get around this.
If this happens and it sticks I will no longer believe in this
country. I will certainly no longer believe in the government and it
will be clear the Constitution is shredding material. Even more though
I will no longer believe in the American people, where I think for
decades there has been a celebration of ignorance, superstition and
honoring of brutes. Think of the Rambo films. We will be witnessing
the passing of the American Republic, which is as momentous to our age
as was the end of the Roman Republic.
LC
On Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 5:05:38 PM UTC-5 [email protected]
wrote:
The new US supreme court nominee will be Amy Coney Barrett, and
she is just the sort of person you would expect, a religious
crockpot. She is a member of an extreme right wing Catholic cult
called "The People of Praise"; they speak in tongues, believe in
biblical prophecy, and in divine healing. Members of the cult
swear a lifetime oath of allegiance to one another and are
assigned a ideology coach called a “head” for men and a “HANDMAID”
for women to make sure nobody strays from the official dogma. The
"heads" and "handmaids" issue orders on who to date, who to marry,
where to live, whether to take a job, whether to buy a home, and
how to raise children. Part of the ideology of People of Praise is
that husbands should give orders to their wives and only men
should have authority over the family.
During her confirmation hearing in 2017 to be a federal judge
Barrett said "/I take my faith seriously and I’m a faithful
Catholic/". In 2013 she said: "/I tend to agree with those who say
that a Justice’s duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus
more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the
Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks clearly in
conflict with it/"; and as a judge she approved a Indiana law
banning abortions of a deformed fetus (although her opinion was
later overturned by a higher court and the Indiana law ruled
unconstitutional). So when she is approved Roe v. Wade Will be as
dead as a doornail and we're back to the 1950's and coathanger
abortions. Barrett also criticized Chief Justice Roberts for his
opinion that saved Obama’s Affordable Care Act; so in the middle
of a global pandemic the health care coverage of tens of millions
of people will be as dead as a doornail too when she hears her
first case on October 10.
To those who claim Barrett's religious views will not effect her
legal opinions I will remind you that in 2006 she said “/If you
can keep in mind that your fundamental purpose in life is not to
be a lawyer, but to know, love and serve God, you truly will be a
different kind of lawyer./” Amy Coney Barret would also be the
youngest justice on the bench, so she could be around for many
decades.
John K Clark
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