What Law School did Kamala Harris Attend?
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In a recent interview she said-
"I think that, to be very honest with you, I — I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believed that certain issues are just settled," she responded. "Certain issues are just settled."
Does she also feel this should have applied to Dred Scott v. Sandford?
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No one wants to believe how brazen the far right is today.
I believe in any means necessary to shut them up.
They even deserve sjgs autistic commandos.
Icee, that sounds like you are advocating violence against conservative supreme court justices.
They're settled until they're not.
Dred Scott and Plessy were settled at one time, too. Why should Roe be more sacred then any other precedent when even RBG said the legal reasoning was shoddy?
I’m no legal scholar, but even I was scratching my head hearing that.
It was a bizarre thing for her to say. It doesn’t make sense to me.
https://youtu.be/Y4fjA0K2EeE
She's a blank slate. She'll do or say whatever the consultants tell her to do while getting a woke pass. She's never been in the spotlight like now though so no one had any idea of how vapid she was.
Biden got away with it by hiding in his basement. I guess it was a winning strategy for him.
SJG
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Hardly a rational argument for settled
Plessy was older than Roe when it was overturned so one can’t argue time
It means you should not expect that it would be changed. And more specifically this, when Clarence Thomas went through his confirmation hearings, they asked him about Roe, and he said that he had never thought about it.
Well no one gets onto the court if they say that about brown v board. So what these 7 justices were saying was that someone who said what Thomas said should not be on the court.
And so Harris is repeating accepted legal doctrine, as likely she was taught in school.
ROE V. WADE: HOW DID 'SETTLED LAW' GET UNSETTLED?
https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/05/04/undoing-a…
How the Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Helped Preserve Abortion Rights
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
^ Harris is just repeating what lawyers are taught. ^ might explain about the O'Connor statement, with 7 total.
SJG
Find the clause in the constitution that says some decisions are irreversible, or cope harder.
Dems should have solidified this when they had a filibuster proof majority, instead they jerked off trying to rework the healthcare system and failed at that too.
Today this portion of the electorate is voting for Republicans. The country did not move to the Right, its just that some voters of the Right switched parties.
Anyway, Harris is not making up the language of "settled law" up. It was applied by the court to Brown V Board. And in the early 90's, responding to the Casey challenge when they upheld Roe, and responding to the insult to the court of the moron Clarence Thomas being seated, they issued their statement that Roe v Wade was settled law.
Doesn't mean that that it could not possibly ever be changed, but it meant that they don't think it should be changed, and that someone like Clarence Thomas should not be on the court.
O'Connor being part of this was significant because she is of an anti-Choice leaning and Roman Catholic, and she did not really like the Trimesters concept in Roe. But still, she did not think Roe should be changed, and really, someone who says they had never thought about it and who did not voice support for Roe, as they do for Brown v Board, should not be allowed on the court.
So Harris is simply repeating what is taught, up until now, in our finest law schools.
SJG
Could have should have whatever. There is no higher standard for precedents Democrats hold dear. It's yet another Democratic excuse for their own failure.
In fact, Dems are showing a disturbing tendency towards changing rules when they don't yield their preferred outcomes. Republicans built up an anti Roe majority over 50 years. Democrats want to pack the courts and strip jurisdiction.
As the Right has gotten more determined to over turn Roe and to have no limits on gun rights, the Dems and their voters have become more unified around protecting Roe and having some sensible gun limits.
The Dems are not making excuses for anyone or anything. They don't need to. THey know that this is a democracy and that there are a lots of people who hold opposing views.
And these deep red vs blue divides are getting deeper.
SCOTUS has an anti-roe 5 to 4 majority. BUt in pole after pole, the population supports a compromise like Roe. And these people will come out to vote in Novemeber.
SJG
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What's at the top? Inflation. Gas prices. The economy. Immigration. Abortion is down the list.
Gun issues are high, but that's among Democrats _and_ Republicans. And Republican gun owners care about them all year long while Democrat activists care about them right after a shooting.
We have 4 months to go, and barring another ruling or major shooting, abortion and guns will slide while the economy will linger. Inflation is unlikely to fade, and even if it decelerates prices will remain high. This month we might officially be in a recession.
This November will not be pretty for the blue team, unless the Republicans do something very, very stupid (some of their Senate noms qualify).
Biden is President of a Constitutional Democracy, not a dictator. And our nation is gowning even more divided.
If Biden could get more of his stuff passed it would beat inflation.
Biden beats Trump in poles. BUt a large numbers on both sides want another candidate.
SJG
Jefferson Starship - Jane - 2018 School of Rock AllStars Team 6
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What kind of 'poles'?
MORON!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls…
Unseating an incumbent president in a primary is hard, so it looks like you're stuck with an 82 year old man who wasn't Harvard material in his long-ago prime.
Brace yourself.
But how the voting will go is hard to predict. Trump and his SCOTUS picks have widened an already deep gap.
Some say that both parties will implode, and then eventually their will be two new parties.
I don't know now which better candidates either of the two parties could offer up.
SJG
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Only 13% believe the country is on the right track
64% of _Democrats_ want someone else
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…
SJG
With a whole lot of Republican obstructionists, that is really hard.
SJG
You must get really lonely thinking that. Take away the people who only think that in comparison to Trump, and you must get _really_ lonely.
Everything has gone to shit on his watch.
1. Put forth an excellent economic plan, from Build Back Better to Upper INcome Tax Hikes.
2. Led us out of COVID idiocy, though I wish had never endorsed that so called vaccine, and even tried to mandate it.
3. Got us out of Afghanistan which was a serious problem we inherited. Every day we stayed it would have gotten worse.
4. Responded forcefully to the Ukraine crisis and giving tough words about Taiwan tensions.
5. Responded as definitively as one President can over Roe v Wade being gutted.
6. Strong position about Jan 6th.
Sure I wish more was done, but he is only the President, not SCOTUS or the Congress.
SJG
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That would have exacerbated inflation. Oh and it was never passed. Presidents don't get participation medals. Not even in 2022.
2. Led us out of COVID idiocy, though I wish had never endorsed that so called vaccine, and even tried to mandate it.
You're giving him credit for mandating a vaccine that you hated, and for slowly removing restrictions you didn't think were necessary? Talk about grading on a curve.
3. Got us out of Afghanistan which was a serious problem we inherited. Every day we stayed it would have gotten worse.
In the most shambolic, embarrassing possible way, leaving $87 billion in military equipment that I'm sure is being reverse engineered as we speak by Russia and China.
4. Responded forcefully to the Ukraine crisis and giving tough words about Taiwan tensions.
How's Ukraine going right now? I notice you've gone radio silent about that. We're half in half out. And he's no tougher than Trump on Taiwan.
5. Responded as definitively as one President can over Roe v Wade being gutted.
Which is to say he's done absolutely nothing because there's nothing he can do. You're really reaching for things to give him credit on.
6. Strong position about Jan 6th.
No, Congress has, and about 3 people outside of Congress and Democratic newsrooms care about.
Man, with "accomplishments" like that. Lulz.
“First Lady Jill Biden told a group of progressive Texas Hispanic voters they were as “unique” as “breakfast tacos” during a speech Monday in San Antonio.
Biden addressed a crowd assembled for the UnidosUS Annual Conference, which began on Saturday.
She also mispronounced the word “bodega” when she said “bogeda.”
1. Build Back Better Payout are all tied to increased job and business opportunities. These are not creating inflation. Extreme inflation is present because of the very irresponsible and immense size of the COVID bailout payments. And all that money has served to do was to fatten landlords and mortgage lenders. Now we need to get it back via upper income tax hikes and a wealth tax.
2. Biden led us out of COVID idiocy. BUt I mark him down seriously for endorsing the so called vaccine and for having tried to mandate it.
3. Afghanistan was ugly and evoked negative emotion. There are books written about it now. These are where I would look for a critique about what might have been better. But overall Biden did what was necessary as best as possible with a problem he did not create.
4. Biden has pitched for even larger military aide for Ukraine. Real solution depends on Ukrainians. Taiwan is not something we want to agitate about. Want it to diffuse. But it also depends on the Asian parties. And I am not saying Trump did anything wrong pertaining to Taiwan. Pertaining to Ukraine he make us all look like dick heads by playing games with them.
5. Biden has signed an order to give some protection to abortion access on federal lands, out of reach of state laws.
6. Biden and his US DOJ are supporting the actions over Jan 6.
When FDR came in the congressional members of both parties were being inundated with letters tell them to give this President and his party whatever they want. These are not such times. So most of what might happen is tied up in am impasse and literal filibuster.
The problem is in the population, and it is why there are such office holders.
Fox News, the Right Internet, and the idiotic logic of the Right are the reason for this.
Biden more than jus about anyone knows how to take it on the chin and not lose his cool.
SJG
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"The problem is in the population, and it is why there are such office holders. Fox News, the Right Internet, and the idiotic logic of the Right are the reason for this."
LOL. Every head of state since Emperor Sargon of Akkad has faced opposition. You win them over, or you get shit done despite it, or you get remembered as a failure.
A new NYT poll put him underwater at a jaw-dropping 27 points.
With Kennedy, LBJ, and Carter I don't think people looked at it this way. But ever since Reagan, the issue for Democrats has been to try to dismantle the Supply Side Idiocy. But instead of doing that it continues to get worse as industrial and information technology advance and labor becomes less and less important and we become more and more like a third world country, dividing into the very rich and the very poor.
Sure, I wish AOC were President. I love the stuff she says. But I know that if she were, she would not be able to get anything done either.
The real battle is for the hearts and minds of the American People, not for any one specific office holder.
Biden is real good because he doesn't wince when he gets his teeth kicked in.
SJG
Jane - School of Rock
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Up through the mid 60's the US was generally on track with Western Europe and Scandinavia, moving slowly to the Left towards Social Democracy. Canada's first national healthcare plan was named after ours, Medicare.
But then in 1968 Richard Nixon unveiled his Southern Strategy, getting White Southerners, people who had always been Democrats, to vote for Republicans and for Nixon, because of coded racism and their rejection of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Since that time we have continued to move further and further to the Right, and with lots of the people believing completely idiotic things, and putting their faith in securities and real estate ponzi schemes and believing in social Darwinism.
SJG
I agree!
Listen to Biden before the IBEW and the AFL-CIO. He is wonderful!
And Trump and his party's idiocy are not worth talking about.
SJG