Moiraine Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 40 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: I can’t fathom why anyone is willing to associate with this party. There weren’t even 3-4 Republican senators who saw a problem with confirming her? WTF? From the same article: Quote Eric Murphy, 40, is up for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He has fought to make it easier to disenfranchise voters and argued against marriage equality in the landmark 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges case before the Supreme Court. Chad Readler, 46, is up for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He filed a brief on behalf of the Trump administration in favor of striking down the Affordable Care Act’s pre-existing coverage requirement. He has also defended efforts to weaken voting rights and defended Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. 2 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 My quote was messed up so I’ll put my comment here. The above is one of many reasons it’s so damn important to fix gerrymandering and get rid of the electoral college. The people who want the above are in the minority. The minority are ruling the country right now. The GOP as it was in 2010 should have died off and been reborn as a better party. Instead they clung to their s#!ttiness and redrew the maps so they could, despite their minority, keep winning elections. 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Maybe we just shouldn't let hateful bigots who don't want people to vote or have healthcare be judges. 1 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 It's a shame, but if SCOTUS screws up this citizenship question and allows the GOP to continue to rig things like the census to entrench their own power, we need to have a strong discussion about ways to depoliticize and fix the court. That will have made two decades in a row the GOP has found new ways to cheat the system for their own political advantage. 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 This, on the other hand, seems far more appropriate. The typical Republican judicial response of "We rule this way without fear or favor regarding politics [so we're advertently going to rule in ways that help our party]" really doesn't fly well with me, particularly at the level of SCOTUS. We should eradicate these types of political ploys to gain and keep power no matter who is doing them. 1 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 4 hours ago, Danny Bateman said: It's a shame, but if SCOTUS screws up this citizenship question and allows the GOP to continue to rig things like the census to entrench their own power, we need to have a strong discussion about ways to depoliticize and fix the court. The question it's self is not unconstitutional. What is done with the information can be. Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 On 4/25/2019 at 4:19 PM, Danny Bateman said: This, on the other hand, seems far more appropriate. The typical Republican judicial response of "We rule this way without fear or favor regarding politics [so we're advertently going to rule in ways that help our party]" really doesn't fly well with me, particularly at the level of SCOTUS. We should eradicate these types of political ploys to gain and keep power no matter who is doing them. I just saw this, but with a glimpse at the map I can tell you exactly why district 14 was drawn that way and why 11 snakes around it. Pontiac and that section of Detroit proper have pretty high minority populations, mostly black and some Hispanic in Pontiac. They are generally poorer neighborhoods. Pontiac cut it's police department about 5 years ago because it could not afford it. District 11 is where you will find your CEOs and excutives living in Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham. The western areas of 11 are middle class suburbs. Districts 8 an 10 are white middle class suburbs, and 9 is a bit of blue collar and upper middle class, but poorer areas too (more of a toss up). 12 and 13 have the highest Muslim population in the nation and some more poorer sections of the metro. Just being generous and assuming 12 and 13 would vote mostly Democratic, they drew the district 5 to 3 in favor of those most likely to vote GOP... I'm going to go look and see if I can find 2016 totals to confirm.y hunch... Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 From wiipedia... I was pretty close 9 was actually more Democratic than I thought. That maybe due to higher union participation since there are a lot of assembly plants in that area. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 Ginsburg being treated for tumor on her pancreas. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753699013/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-underwent-another-round-of-cancer-treatment-this-sum Quote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday. The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis, began Aug. 5, shortly after a localized cancerous tumor was discovered on Ginsburg's pancreas. The treatment included the insertion of a stent in Ginsburg's bile duct, according to a statement issued by the court. Doctors at Sloan Kettering said further tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The treatment comes just months after Ginsburg was operated on for lung cancer last December. The 86-year-old justice has been treated for cancer in various forms over the past 20 years. Link to comment
Ulty Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, TGHusker said: Ginsburg being treated for tumor on her pancreas. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753699013/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-underwent-another-round-of-cancer-treatment-this-sum Hang in there Ruth, just hang on.... Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 With she had retired in 2009. 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 20 hours ago, Moiraine said: With she had retired in 2009. Guess I had a lisp Friday morning. Link to comment
GSG Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 5 hours ago, Moiraine said: Guess I had a lisp Friday morning. Started the weekend a little early, eh? Link to comment
QMany Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 6-3 decision. Kavanaugh dissented. Remember, Senator Collins claimed he was a defender of gay rights to support her vote to confirm. Big middle finger to Trump, Kavanaugh, et al. 4 2 Link to comment
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