To satisfy Trump's appeal, the Supreme Court would have to find that any future president who loses an election and is unhappy about it will be able overturn it so long as he labels everything he does an “official act.”
Lucian K. Truscott IV
It isn’t the gaffes made by these two old men in their contest to become the next president of the United States. It is what they have said clearly and distinctly about their intentions should they be elected.
The insurrection the justices seemed so reluctant to talk about happened in their neighborhood, across the street. It was an attack on their Constitution. The one they are sworn to support and defend.
The court seemed to think that if they were to rule in favor of Colorado, they would be rubber-stamping Colorado’s assertion that an insurrection took place—something that conservatives clearly do not want to do.
This decision is a powerful rejection of every one of Trump’s arguments claiming immunity on Constitutional and practical grounds.
We live in a world where Capitalism is King, there is competition between aircraft manufacturers and between airlines, and some of that competition involves doing things faster and cheaper.
If we give our soldiers in Iraq and Syria and Jordan jobs we think are important enough for them to be stationed there, we should give them any and all defenses that will prevent them from being killed.
Some members of the far right "parental rights" movement, self-styled morality police, show that hypocrisy appears to be a feature, not a bug in right-wing Republican politics.
Polls are shifting more in Biden's favor. But things in Trump's world are only getting worse as more of his scams come to light.
As the Chiefs won their game, you could feel the Fox pundits and the MAGA keyboard warriors going nuts as the images of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tumbled forth into American living rooms.
It’s hard to tell from here what the military value of the basecamp in Jordan called “Tower 22” has, especially given the fact that we didn’t even know it was there before Sunday.
The biggest gamble of Nikki Haley’s life is whether being on the right side of history will mean anything after Donald Trump has left the Republican Party in ashes.
E. Jean Carroll has endured almost five years of hell at the hands of a soulless monster. And shown the world who Trump is, what he did, and how he behaves when a woman stands up to him.
There is not enough thanks in the world to reward E. Jean Carroll for doing what she has done to Donald Trump. She has shown him to be the coward that he truly is.
So go, Nikki, go! Nikki Haley may not be one of us, but she’s giving Donald Trump fits, and folks, that’s a good thing.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Trump's appeal on his Colorado ban on February 8. It’s too bad Dali isn’t alive to be there and sketch the proceedings, because it would take his talents to put it across.