Sunday, April 02, 2023

The Calls Are Coming From Inside The House (of Representatives)

The extra "g" is for emphasis. Because it's really, really rigged! Even the blunt object knows you don't badmouth the judge. So, that's something? The funny thing is, I knew Mike in elementary school. I wonder, as he grew up in the same town I did if he thought the anti-war protestors and civil rights marchers were attacking the country from within? I kind of expect he did, as most of the people my age reflected their parents' attitudes, and felt some semblance of that about the times.

If Pence had caved to Donald Trump’s demands and refused to count the electoral votes, Judge Luttig told the House January 6th Committee last summer, the nation “would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis.”

Makes me wonder how he feels about the election of 1876 and the Hayes-Tilden crisis.  (In the article he derides Trump for breaking "the sacred trust" of the American people towards constitutional office holders.  I must admit "sacred trust" gives me the willies, since it's not exactly a legal argument (Luttig is constantly praised as a jurist, probably rightly so), and I hesitate to use the term "sacred" so freely, if at all.  Permit me to break for an example:


The nuns object to the teachings of the Church because:

“we will remain oppressors until we — as vowed Catholic religious — acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people in our own congregations. We seek to cultivate a faith community where all, especially our transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive siblings, experience a deep belonging.”

As Sister Barbara Battista explained:

The nuns were explicit about their disagreement with legislators and church leadership.“Battista noted that many of the bills working their way through state legislatures revolve around the health care needs of trans people, an issue that hits home for her as a licensed physician’s assistant in Indiana.

"She described her work as “participating in the healing ministry of Jesus,” rooted, she said, in a “sacred trust” between patients and providers.“ But Catholic leaders and government officials, she argued, have tried to “insert themselves into the private, very personal and intimate conversations and decisions made between patients and the health care provider.

My sympathies are with the women "participating in the healing ministry of Jesus" among the people, far more than it is with the men far, far away from such human beings, concerned with what is kept "sacred."  Seems to me Jesus had a lot to say about that, too.
Won't keep the internet from trying. See? In short: tell me you don't know how the legal system works, without telling me you don't know how the legal system works.

Fortunately, the legal system is unaffected by such inane opinion pieces.  That's why Trump has lost every effort he's taken to court since November, 2020.

Speaking of which, just get on Twitter if you have to, and watch this.  You can thank me later:
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  1. ntodd9:42 PM

    Yeah, whenever I see "sacred" come up in such discussions, I think of how Franklin edited Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration, and changed "sacred and undeniable" to "self-evident" for rational reasons:

    https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005150-2,00.html

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