In case you missed reading them, here are the links to my diaries from the past few days.
I’ll post a few more editorial cartoons in the comments section. Thanks.
It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over
Waving the Stability Banner When Convenient
An article in Slate magazine takes the SCOTUS majority to task for ignoring the original intent of the framers — something conservative jurists profess to believe in when interpreting the Constitution of the United States.
Except when they don’t.
As the three liberal justices pointed out, in a separate opinion that glows white-hot with indignation, the majority’s overreach “attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office.” They are, of course, correct. After this decision, it is impossible to imagine a federal candidate, up to and including the president, ever being disqualified from assuming office because of their participation in an insurrection...
The Republican Party is about to renominate the alleged insurrectionist in this case as its candidate for the presidency in 2024. The party is complicit in the violent events of Jan. 6. It will not allow any insurrection-related laws to clear the Senate filibuster. The whole point of a written constitution is that it can protect individual rights and democracy even when the democratic process itself is corrupted or compromised. SCOTUS has backtracked from that guarantee just when American democracy needs it most.
In their incandescent opinion, the liberal justices walk right up to the line of accusing the majority of doing a special favor for Trump. They are right to do so, and they would have been justified to cross it. The majority had no reason to nullify the insurrection clause other than an obvious desire to ensure that no other federal candidates are nixed from the ballot because of their participation in Jan. 6. An optimist might say that by doing so, the majority was just trying to inject stability into the upcoming election. But close court-watchers know that every time this Supreme Court waves the flag of stability, it does so on behalf of Trump and his allies. Anderson’s bottom-line outcome is certainly defensible. But the rest of it serves as an unwarranted gift to Donald Trump and the oathbreakers who violently assisted his efforts to overturn a free and fair election.
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y
Attribution for the above cartoon: Ward Sutton @WardSutton
Miscarriage of Justice
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Monday knocking down Colorado’s move to remove Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot was a clear legal win for the former president, but the court also struck a blow to a central theme of Trump’s presidential campaign: that the American legal system is hopelessly corrupt, conflicted and rigged against him,” ABC News reports.
“The justices were fully aware their unanimity sent a message to a country where the leading Republican candidate has portrayed the myriad legal proceedings involving him as a political witch hunt orchestrated by his political opponents.”
He Still Has Lots of Problems
Not Fashionable
They Let HIM Do It
The Divine Right of Kings?
Grifter in Chief
The Next Hurdle
Not Found Guilty Doesn’t Mean He’s Innocent
Now the Problem of the US Congress
He Still Has to Deal With This
The Choice in 2024