Little Andy, b/k/a New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, may new have never opened a law book, but he never passes up a chances to lead a parade or to make an ass out of himself, the Washington Times:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is warning the Supreme Court: We’ll sue you.
Mr. Cuomo made the odd threat Wednesday, pushing for a bill in the state legislature that would establish abortion as a right under New York state law.
That bill is being sold as preparation for the possibility that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made abortion a national constitutional right and a ruling that liberals believe to be in jeopardy from the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the high court.
Where is Little Andy going to find a lower court willing to sue the Supreme Court of the United States? Even if he could, what standing would Little Andy have? Roe v. Wade did not legalize abortion. Rather the decision made it illegal for the several states to ban abortion, in theory before the third trimester. Abortion was already legal in several states to include New York State. In fact New York City was called the Abortion Capital of the Nation. Reversing Roe would not make abortion illegal. Rather it would return to the several states their rightful constitutional power to regulate, or ban, the procedure. Little Andy spend more time with the Law and less on publicity stunts.
First thing on the agenda here is going to be a destruction of the Democrats and their call for a moderate u. S. Supreme Court judge. We can best to do that with the words of Antonin Scalia who I still insist died under less than above-board circumstances…
And and that’s precisely the problem that the Democrats are having with Trump and his Supreme Court appointee. And mind you, I’m writing this before he’s even told us who it is.
(Edit… Though I posted it afterward. it seems fair, the Democrats were ready to protest whatever nominee Trump offered up. It’s amazing how many pre-printed protest signs got tossed away… But Mr Soros won’t have to worry. He’s got enough to cover it.)
The Democrats are screaming about Roe v Wade and how it’s going to be overturned. Well, let’s be honest about this. First of all it’s probably not going to be overturned in the near future. Justice Roberts is far too enamored with Stare decisis for that to occur in his lifetime. Roberts has far more of a history of respecting legal ground that’s already been established that he has been in tearing it down.
That said, if Roe v Wade had actually been decided on law as opposed to pretending that the constitution contain something that wasn’t there, the left wouldn’t be making all this noise about it being overturned.
I think the truth is they know it isn’t going to be overturned as well. But they’ve got to have something to playcate their base with.
Taking it one step further if, the government wasn’t so powerful it wouldn’t matter anyway. That’s the Fatal flaw of the left, governmental power has a tendency to get away from people who think they can control it.
And control is the word.
Democrats believe that the constitution is a document that must bend to the will of their policy ideas and preferences rather than it acting as a limitation on government, and in support of individual liberty. There is after all very little that ruins the aspirations of the loony left than a limitation on the power of government… A limitation that the constitution was expressly written to provide. In other words, the Constitution was written so as to keep the government from growing too large and too powerful, and if the left actually followed the Constitution they wouldn’t be so worried about who was controlling courts now.
I can’t point to anything specific for the future, except Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be departing the court soon one way or another, and that Trumps next nominee, particularly if it happens within the next year, will be giving the left fits again because he or she will be another originalist.
The United States Supreme Court has been the Battleground for the left for years because it is the easiest and fastest way to get big government enshrined in constitutional law. It’s my sense that that’s going to come to a crashing halt, as will the respect of the left for the Supreme Court, who is past is prologue will tell us that the Supreme Court is outdated and useless to their causes, because it will no longer be the relativistic and easily malleable body then it has been since the 50s.
Thing is, that’s precisely as it should be. It isn’t Trump that they fear, nor is it the Supreme Court as such. What the left fears Above All Else is the original meaning and intent of the Constitution.
We are about to spend the next 30 Years seeing that fear exemplified.
You are what you are, not what you think you are, even in the United Kingdom, from Legal Insurrection:
Doctor David Mackereth worked for the NHS as a medical assessor for 26 years until recently when he was “sacked” and ruled “unfit” to continue working with the Department because “he refused to identify patients as being of a sex that they did not see themselves as.”
More from Telegraph(UK):
Mackereth, who registered as a doctor in 1989 and spent most of his career working in Accident & Emergency wards, said: “I’m not attacking the transgender movement. But, I’m defending my right to freedom of speech, and freedom of belief.
“I don’t believe I should be compelled to use a specific pronoun. I am not setting out to upset anyone. But, if upsetting someone can lead to doctors being sacked then, as a society we have to examine where we are going.”
Dr Mackereth, a Reformed Baptist, started a training course in May to become a health and disability assessor for the DWP. His role would have meant interviewing and then writing independent reports about the health of those claiming disability benefits.
However, when his instructor stated that reports must only refer to the patient – or “client” – by the sex that person identified themselves as, a discussion took place among the medics about the “fluid” nature of gender, Dr Mackereth claims.
“I said that I had a problem with this. I believe that gender is defined by biology and genetics. And that as a Christian the Bible teaches us that God made humans male or female. I could have kept my mouth shut. But, it was the right time to raise it.
“The tutor took me aside and said he had passed my comments up the chain to the DWP.”
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, calling a dog a horse, will not make Rover like to eat oats. Calling a biological man a woman, will not make his a woman. So why does the state insist of substituting delusion for reality?
Passing thought, can Mrs. Clinton become President Clinton is just really believes she is the President? Film at Eleven.
File under: Social Justice
The silence on this one will be deafening;
>“And we will say, ‘I will give you a million dollars, paid for by Trump, to your favorite charity if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian,” Trump said. “And we’ll see what she does. I have a feeling she will say no but we will hold it for the debates.”
We both know she’s never going to go for that.
Remember guys, this is the guy that was chosen by Barack Hussein Obama to lead the Democrat Party.
WASHINGTON – “Socialist” appears to be the new “Democrat,” according to the leader of the Democratic National Committee.
DNC Chairman Tom Perez has declared a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, who recently won a primary for Congress, “the future of our party.”
Basically basically what he has succeeded in doing it’s confirming what Americans have known about the Democrat Party All Along.
Well this didn’t quite work out the way the naysayers told us it would.
Germany’s chancellor said Thursday she’s willing to back lower tariffs on U.S. auto imports as a potential European Union (EU) concession to the Trump administration – just one day after CEOs of Germany’s biggest carmakers reportedly voiced support for eliminating such tariffs entirely.
Maybe it’s time to just sit back and observe what happens as opposed to making dire predictions about the consequences of tariffs in this case.
I’ll just leave this here…
“In its great era of capitalism, the United States was the freest country on earth—and the best refutation of racist theories. Men of all races came here, some from obscure, culturally undistinguished countries, and accomplished feats of productive ability which would have remained stillborn in their control-ridden native lands. Men of racial groups that had been slaughtering one another for centuries, learned to live together in harmony and peaceful cooperation. America had been called ‘the melting pot,’ with good reason. But few people realized that America did not melt men into the gray conformity of a collective: she united them by means of protecting their right to individuality.
The major victims of such race prejudice as did exist in America were the Negroes. It was a problem originated and perpetuated by the non-capitalist South, though not confined to its boundaries. The persecution of Negroes in the South was and is truly disgraceful. But in the rest of the country, so long as men were free, even that problem was slowly giving way under the pressure of enlightenment and of the white men’s own economic interests.
Today, that problem is growing worse—and so is every other form of racism. America has become race-conscious in a manner reminiscent of the worst days in the most backward countries of nineteenth-century Europe. The cause is the same: the growth of collectivism and statism.”
(Ayn Rand — “Racism”, The Virtue of Selfishness, p. 30)
Color Susan Collins(Senator – Maine) as confused. She thinks judicial fiat from five or more Justices in Black Robes something akin to Moses’s proclamation from the Mount, from American Spectator:
Declares Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican moderate from Maine, whose vote could prove essential to confirmation of whatever nominee the White House puts forward: “A candidate for this important post who would overturn Roe v. Wade would not be acceptable to me. That would indicate an activist agenda that I don’t want to see a judge have. And that would indicate to me a failure to respect precedent.”
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In any case, how useful to note Sen. Collins’ confusion between the abiding principles of law and the politics of the moment. It is a very modern kind of confusion, making the stakes in Supreme Court confirmation hard to discern. It is enough to know the present stakes are altitudinous: far, far less about Roe vs. Wade than about prospects for the survival of American freedoms.
Mark Levin, from Conservative Review:
“Look at the cases of Dred Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu v. the United States. They were abominations,” Levin argued. “The Supreme Court has done some horrific things that have led to horrific outcomes, and yet the Left wants you to believe the Court is better than the other branches of government.”
Colins has decided to draw and defend her line on stare decisis. Her problems are twofold. One a blind acceptance of precedence would endorse so the Supreme Court’s great judicial travesties of all time, to include Franklin Roosevelt’s interment of over one hundred thousands citizens and residents of Japanese descent. Two, a nuanced defense would require Collins to find a constitutional basis for the Supreme Court’s invention of the Right of Privacy. Good luck Susan.
How did the new socialist “it girl”, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, win the nomination for the congressional seat in New York City?
Easy… A lack of voter Engagement.
Crowley, who is paler than birch trees, had no shot at the new 7th. But he settled down comfortably in the 14th, winning 70% of the vote by just showing up, without the fuss of a primary challenge. While representing a Hispanic district in Queens, he was allegedly living comfortably in Arlington, Virginia.
That was never going to last.
New York City’s working class white population is an endangered species. If you’re not on welfare or earning well in the six figures, you can’t afford to live there. Crowley’s district was 46% Hispanic. It had the second highest share of Latino voters in New York. The machine pol was living on borrowed time.
It’s hard to imagine a more vulnerable politician than doughy Joe, the echo of a 19th century political establishment of barstools and crony government jobs, used to winning ¾ of the vote in safe districts and who had forgotten how to compete in an election (if he ever knew how) facing a Hispanic district.
Of course the woman dubbed by the leftist media as “the girl from the Bronx”, is nothing of the sort, having grown up in well-to-do Westchester. It also turns out that there are charges of anti-Semitism floating around about her campaign staff at the least and possibly with her directly. There are signs that’s not going over well.
Also as Daniel points out, this is hardly the stunning Victory the leftist Press would have us believe. Rather, this is the direct result of the congressional representative having absolutely no connection whatsoever with the people that he supposedly represented, and in particular the Democrats in that District…
At least, the ones that decided to show up to the primary. Democrats tend to turn out less for midterm elections, much less so for primaries, particularly those that are perceived as being uncontested as this one was. It’s been pointed out repeatedly that the turnout for the primary was extremely low even by those standards.
So now the question becomes what happens in the general election. will the rank-and-file Democrats in that District vote for the Socialist? Will they even bother to show up?
This is certainly not over, but one gets the impression that this is most certainly not going to fall out the way the leftist Democrats would have you believe.
In Venezuela the citizens are up in arms and protesting vigorously against socialism, having personally witnessed its direct result.
Here in the United States, citizens are up in arms demanding socialism not having lived with its results.
Look, if Maxine Waters really has been receiving death threats it’s probably from Democrats who are bone tired of having to defend her nonsense.
There is hardly a larger liar on the planet, except maybe Barack Hussein Obama, Chuckles the Clown Schumer, and Hillary Clinton. But even in the highly unlikely event Waters telling the truth, it is far more likely her biggest death threat is her date of birth.
Did anybody notice that the Democrats have suddenly lost interest in their manufactured border crisis, and are now focusing on the Supreme Court?
Maybe all those kids weren’t so important to them after all, huh?
You know one of those things that I keep getting asked of late is am I uncomfortable with Donald Trump and his supposed lack of decorum. Such questions invariably point to his activities on Twitter.
I responf by saying first of all that Trump was never my guy to begin with. Secondly, I’m not much on Twitter.
But that said, perhaps one of the reasons he’s so effective is he refuses to give in to the calls for decorum from the people who are showing so little of it these days.
I refuse to be lectured about decorum by the Democrats who have shown so little of it.
Look, the echo hadn’t even died from Trump taking the oath of office before the Democrats were giving the Girl Scouts hell for having marched in his inaugural parade. Hollywood artists got into the act as well of course.
The kind of attitude and decorum that the left demands of Donald Trump these days is precisely what gave the left credibility and Power in the first place… they expect their statements and their craziness to be the end of the conversation. once the left has stated its position there can be no arguments, no discussion, no dissent.
Of course the fact of the matter is it hasn’t even begun… as a friend of mine told me the other day there’s only a certain level of craziness that you can argue with. Beyond that… There’s Maxine Waters. And beyond that is…. Bernie Sanders.
Give the Trump credit, he’s not playing that game. And that’s what’s got their knickers in a twist.
Let’s talk about Evolution for a moment.
Consider the puffer fish who inhales large amounts of water and expands its body so that it won’t be eaten by predators.
How many generations do you suppose it took to learn that little trick? How many generations got totally wiped out before they learned it was in hell, not exhale?
Would there even be a puffer fish today if learning that trick was evolutionary?
Ever wonder if Kirsten Gillibrand(Dimmycrat – NY) came by her dimness naturally or by Miss Clairol, from Washington Examiner:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because it has become a “deportation force.”
Gillibrand’s comments were prompted after CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked if she concurred with Democratic House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York who has called for the agency to be totally eliminated.
“Well, I agree with it. I don’t think ICE today is working as intended,” Gillibrand said in response.
Gillibrand continued by saying instead, the government should “build something that actually works.”
I suspect Gillibrand comes by her dumbness naturally. One of ICE’s functions is to deport illegal aliens, of whom Gillibrand sees as her future base. ICE is more effective at deporting illegals than Gillibrand is coming up with an unscripted thought. Keep ICE and oust Gillibrand.
It might be amusing to see C-SPAN air a Empire State Dumb Bowl, pitting the states two high profile dumb blonds, Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Gillibrand.
