Substantive due process reduces to procedural due process. Once the nomination process (beginning with the ongoing/background rot of the Electoral Clg) to the federal judiciary is corrupted, the substantive nightmares are predictable as flies on shit. Gorsuch was nominated according to an obscure rule (Purcell), originally intended for the ballot-box alone, that was later discarded in order to seat Catholic Disneyland's ACB during the Presidential election itself. The ringleader for this robe theft is, of course, our Chief Justice, who once discarded African American ballots at more than ten times the rate of Caucasian ballots on behalf of the idiot son of an Iran Contra war-criminal. Shelby later discarded preclearance for the entire Confederacy, not just Florida. Husted scrubs Ohioans off the voting rolls for skipping an election, thereby reversing the burden of proof for ballot eligibility from government to governed. John Roberts, Jim Crow for the new century, always assigns the majority opinion in ballot-destruction cases to himself.
Clarence Thomas carries porn mags underneath his robe. Sam Alito is mean as a yard dog. Brett Kavanaugh is an intoxicated rapist whose $200K bar tab at Nationals Park was paid off by an enabling parent. Unelected, for life, remains a corruption two-fer. The most dangerous man in America ain't Chump. Why, that ain't a gavel in the hand of Jim Crow, metaphorically speaking: It's the bony finger of Death, exiting the sleeve of his black robe and pointed directly at you and me.
"I thought Brett was going to kill me." --Christine Blasey Ford
In the second paragraph of its decision, the majority writes that it has “balanced” the risk of harm to the government (by allowing an officer to continue exercising authority) against harm to the individual officer (by being denied continued service in performance of their duties). Not one word about the interests of the public at large or the class of people whose interests are at stake. Specifically, crickets about the people that agencies like the NLRB and MSPB were created to protect. Would the Justices explain their omission by saying that the interests of the people and the interests of the government are the same? Even interchangeable, for purposes of this balancing test? There was a time when a claim to that equivalency might have flown. But in this term and in his previous term, the president has demonstrated that the single interest his government serves is the ascendency of his personal power. Any other interest is disloyalty, and disloyalty is cause enough to tip the "balancing" of harms that so concerned the majority.
JW brought fire this time for sure! IF Substack hadn't already sucked up my discretionary spending for last year and this year I would be throwing a donation just for this piece.
And how are we so disorganized that there isn't someone megaphoning this stuff EVERY TIME a ShitshowCOTUS powermonger shows their smug face in public or print?
Substantive due process reduces to procedural due process. Once the nomination process (beginning with the ongoing/background rot of the Electoral Clg) to the federal judiciary is corrupted, the substantive nightmares are predictable as flies on shit. Gorsuch was nominated according to an obscure rule (Purcell), originally intended for the ballot-box alone, that was later discarded in order to seat Catholic Disneyland's ACB during the Presidential election itself. The ringleader for this robe theft is, of course, our Chief Justice, who once discarded African American ballots at more than ten times the rate of Caucasian ballots on behalf of the idiot son of an Iran Contra war-criminal. Shelby later discarded preclearance for the entire Confederacy, not just Florida. Husted scrubs Ohioans off the voting rolls for skipping an election, thereby reversing the burden of proof for ballot eligibility from government to governed. John Roberts, Jim Crow for the new century, always assigns the majority opinion in ballot-destruction cases to himself.
Clarence Thomas carries porn mags underneath his robe. Sam Alito is mean as a yard dog. Brett Kavanaugh is an intoxicated rapist whose $200K bar tab at Nationals Park was paid off by an enabling parent. Unelected, for life, remains a corruption two-fer. The most dangerous man in America ain't Chump. Why, that ain't a gavel in the hand of Jim Crow, metaphorically speaking: It's the bony finger of Death, exiting the sleeve of his black robe and pointed directly at you and me.
"I thought Brett was going to kill me." --Christine Blasey Ford
In the second paragraph of its decision, the majority writes that it has “balanced” the risk of harm to the government (by allowing an officer to continue exercising authority) against harm to the individual officer (by being denied continued service in performance of their duties). Not one word about the interests of the public at large or the class of people whose interests are at stake. Specifically, crickets about the people that agencies like the NLRB and MSPB were created to protect. Would the Justices explain their omission by saying that the interests of the people and the interests of the government are the same? Even interchangeable, for purposes of this balancing test? There was a time when a claim to that equivalency might have flown. But in this term and in his previous term, the president has demonstrated that the single interest his government serves is the ascendency of his personal power. Any other interest is disloyalty, and disloyalty is cause enough to tip the "balancing" of harms that so concerned the majority.
"To call this hackish is insulting to hacks; to call it unprincipled is insulting to Marco Rubio’s career in politics."
Love this line!
JW brought fire this time for sure! IF Substack hadn't already sucked up my discretionary spending for last year and this year I would be throwing a donation just for this piece.
And how are we so disorganized that there isn't someone megaphoning this stuff EVERY TIME a ShitshowCOTUS powermonger shows their smug face in public or print?