Consider the possibility that this is all a pre-planned script whereby Jeff Flake is depicted as the Honest Principled Man who ultimately gives everyone else cover to vote for Kavanaugh https://t.co/IqL3b020mh— David Sirota (@davidsirota) September 30, 2018
Defense budgets, nation states, and congressional mugshots + this day in history w/the sinking of the USS Indianaoplis and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for July 30, 2018.
Defense budgets, nation states, and congressional mugshots + this day in history w/the sinking of the USS Indianaoplis and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for July 30, 2018.
Andrew Kreig(Andrew Kreig is the editor of the Justice Integrity Project and he was good enough to do this very relevant guest post for us)Did U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's sudden resignation June 27 stem from corrupt motives?That question looms even as most court watchers focus on the conventional analysis of evaluating Kennedy's proposed successor, U.S.
US President Donald Trump is said to have narrowed his SCOTUS pick down to just three candidates.
Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump has narrowed down his list of potential Supreme Court candidates to three federal appeals court judges: Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge. Among these three candidates, Trump is said to favor: Kavanaugh and Kethledge, according to two insiders.
Did you watch Meet The Press Sunday? The highlight was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but Chuck Todd had another interesting guest as well, Maria Canwell, a standard issue Democrat from Washington (state and DC). Cantell had a warning for senators in regard to Trump's not-as-yet named replacement for Anthony Kennedy. "My colleagues," she said, "on both sides of the aisle know that this vote could be one of the key votes of their entire career.
Divestment festivals, World Cup conscription and the feuding Rothschildren + this day in history w/the final Floyd and our song of the day by Smashing Pumpkins on your Morning Monarchy for July 2, 2018.
Image credit: Mike Thompson / Detroit Free Pressby Gaius PubliusToday’s announcement that Kennedy is retiring only consummates his abdication of responsibility. Kennedy has chosen to let a deeply dangerous president and his allies steer a badly damaged ship out to sea. Is it fair to judge an eighty-one year old man so harshly?
President Trump’s list of Supreme Court candidates has narrowed from a reported 25 originally, down to between five and seven as of Sunday July 1st. Bloomberg News reported that the list includes two women as prospective picks.
The President has been listening closely to the advice given by his counsel Don McGahn and judicial adviser Leonard Leo, the executive Vice President of the conservative Federalist Society.
WASHINGTON (Analysis) — At a conference with Wall Street chief executives in late November of 2008, President-elect Barack Obama’s newly-appointed Chief-of-Staff, Rahm Emanuel, said this of the economic slowdown that had cast a pall over the country:
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.”
