Supreme Court

Most polled Trump supporters were adamantly opposed to his signature of the US $1.3 trillion omnibus liberal porkulus-filled establishment-sponsored, stinky, foul spending bill. (Did we include enough epithets?) It was received with incredible distaste and on talk shows even as conservative as Rush Limbaugh’s own call-in program, many callers were completely outraged, even threatening to cut off their support of the President and his work.

My best friend Roland is a public school teacher in Compton.

Horse-trading determines who goes to jail and for how long.  That is what plea bargaining is.  It is not some adjunct to the criminal justice system; it is the criminal justice system.
— US Supreme Court Justice Kennedy (2012)

The Republicans got greedy and now the whole state will be redrawnA friend of mine called last night and I could practically hear him biting his nails. He was being driven to distraction over his fear that the U.S.

Between Donald Trump’s historic unpopularity and an unprecedented number of resignations in the House and Senate, this year’s midterm elections could prove to be a blue wave for Democrats, even with much of the congressional map gerrymandered against them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
— Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858, at Springfield, Illinois.

The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to save us.
— Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates,We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Everyday the future looks a little bit darker.
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

The gradual erasure of the words ‘Babri Masjid’ from our everyday memory actually began in 1986, when the Hindu community was granted the exclusive right to worship there. This happened without any regard ownership disputes the and illegal conversion of this mosque into a temple in 1949. This story of the dispute itself is disputable. … Continue reading What’s in a Name? The Demolition of ‘Babri Masjid’, the Name and the Mosque: Hilal Ahmed

The open-ended ban, announced in September, targets people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea.
(MEE) — The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday to allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect.