I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Good for Pres. Biden.
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Totally disgusting, morally bankrupt.
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Wonderful to see after the Loon and the Reps. and we all know who the worst ones are. Picture of one is above this piece.
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Prove it —- vote her out.
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Justice Kagan supports ethics code but says Supreme Court divided on how to proceed
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, left, sits onstage for a panel at the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference on Thursday, August 3, 2023, in Portland, Ore., with California bankruptcy lawyer Misty Perry Isaacson, center, and Madeleine C. Wanslee, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Arizona. Justice Kagan publicly declared her support for an ethics code for the Supreme Court during the panel but said there was no consensus among the justices on how to proceed.
BY CLAIRE RUSHUpdated 6:18 PM CDT, August 3, 2023Share
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Justice Elena Kagan publicly declared her support for an ethics code for the U.S. Supreme Court but said there was no consensus among the justices on how to proceed, suggesting the high court is grappling with public concerns over its ethics practices.
“It’s not a secret for me to say that we have been discussing this issue. And it won’t be a surprise to know that the nine of us have a variety of views about this,” she said Thursday at a judicial conference in Portland, Oregon.
The Supreme Court is navigating a fraught moment in its history. It has come under growing scrutiny for its lack of an official code of conduct, and public trust in the body is at a 50-year low following a series of polarized rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade and federal abortion protections last year.
One of the court’s three liberal justices, Kagan said the court could draft and adopt its own code of conduct. Such a move, she said, would do away with questions over whether Congress has the power to impose ethics rules on the high court.
Democrats in Congress have pushed Supreme Court ethics legislation through a Senate committee. But the bill’s prospects in the full chamber are dim amid opposition from Republicans, who say the measure would violate the separation of powers.
Kagan acknowledged there is not much precedent establishing whether Congress can enact ethical rules for the court but added that Congress can regulate various aspects of it.
“Our whole system is one of checks and balances. ... We’re not imperial, and we too are a part of a checking and balancing system in various ways,” she said of the court.
“Congress, when it decides whether to pass legislation ... ought to, and usually does, consider the constitutionality of its own actions,” she added.
Her comments put her at odds with her fellow court member Justice Samuel Alito, who last month said Congress does not have the authority to establish ethics rules for the court.
“I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period,” the conservative justice said in an interview he gave to the Wall Street Journal opinion pages.
Kagan on Thursday was speaking to an audience of judges, attorneys and court personnel from the 9th Circuit, which spans the western states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii.
It’s not the first time she has used the forum to comment on issues surrounding the court. At the 9th Circuit’s conference in Montana last year — held less than a month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — Kagan made headlines for warning the court risks losing its legitimacy if it is perceived as political.
The 63-year-old justice made similar comments on Thursday, emphasizing “the importance of courts looking like they’re doing law, rather than willy-nilly imposing their own preferences as the composition of the court changes.”
Some of the biggest decisions of the past term were made along ideological lines, with the six conservative justices in the majority and the three liberal justices in dissent. These included the scrapping of President Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student debt loans, ending affirmative action in higher education, and issuing a major ruling that impacts gay rights.
However, this past term was overall less divided and included more unanimous or near-unanimous rulings than the previous one.
In four major cases, conservative and liberal justices joined to reject the most aggressive legal arguments advanced by conservative state elected officials and advocacy groups. Those included upholding a Native American child welfare law and a Biden administration immigration policy.
The Supreme Court will next meet in the fall to resume hearing cases.
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No question in my mind.
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These are your people and you said you only hired the VERY BEST, so lets talk about what your problem is. Seems to be something amiss in the stable genius who isn't so stable and was NEVER a genius at all.
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Oh those shoes ir so well Margie-O
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❤️yes, very beautiful.
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Absolutely beautiful!
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"Life is not all sadness," Old Hawk continued. "Yet, without sadness we would not yearn for joy, and strive to find it, and treasure it when it comes. It is also a fact that neither sadness nor joy is with us constantly. And how often one of the other is part of our journey is not always within our control. We all want joy more than sadness and rare is the person who wants sadness at all."
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Don't look now, but I don't know a single solitary person who feels sorry for ya. You bought it, and you can have it. Enjoy.
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Except he won't be and that's a damn shame.
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These guys are never a surprise.
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Is there freezing going on somewhere because they are right.
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BREAKING: Trump goes full-fascist in an unhinged Sunday night rant, announces that he will remove NBC News and MSNBC from the “airwaves” if he’s elected in 2024 because they committed “treason” against him by reporting on his crimes.
In tonight’s deranged rant, Trump declared, “They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast, with its one-side and vicious coverage by NBC NEWS, and in particular MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!), should be investigated for its “Country Threatening Treason.” I say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency of the United States, they and others of the LameStream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events. Why should NBC, or any other of the corrupt & dishonest media companies, be entitled to use the very valuable Airwaves of the USA, FREE? They are a true threat to Democracy and are, in fact, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! The Fake News Media should pay a big price for what they have done to our once great Country!
There you have it, folks. While Trump and his Republican enablers love to falsely accuse Democrats of “weaponizing” the government against Trump, Trump himself is now openly threaten to weaponize the presidency to completely remove entire news channels from the airwaves simply because they expose his rampant criminality.
Unfortunately for Trump, he will never become president again — and with the 91 criminal charges that he is currently facing, he should be more concerned with staying out of prison than with his fascist fantasies.1 -
It is sad that a convicted person cannot vote but a convicted president can run for president. Something is wrong with this system.
I want to know why with all the money Clarence and Ginni have that they have to rely on others to foot the bill for their nephew's education? Something smells to high heavens with that deal.
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Hmm, betrayal, maybe the Thomases just hate having to give up too much of their likely ill-gotten gains. Seems like the Reps. just never have enough.
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I admit it — I had no idea that we are teeming with them.
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