The Court has always been politicized. Mitch took it to a different flavor of shitty behavior, and we should absolutely consider clarifying what the Senate’s obligations are in terms of advice and consent in situations of divided government, but from Marshall to Warren to Roberts the essential nature of the Court has…

Kennedy is a classic Mill style liberal - that is, a borderline libertarian - although if anything more pro-business than Mill (which is a pretty high bar given that Mill worked touting the East India Company). He doesn’t think government should get into your bedroom or between you and your doctor, which people…

Slight edit - although Ron acts visibly annoyed, at the end they are family and therefore the Swanson boys wind up coming together in the end to use their crafty awesomeness to help out with Leslie’s zany plan. Perhaps Ron even begrudgingly admits some novel approach resulted in good craftsmanship before telling the…

I don’t know about Kate - she may mean anything from being a judge at a festival to something formal. I know a certified cicerone though, and the process was like becoming a sommelier for wine - basically training followed by a test, and you can take it at different levels. Here’s an older NPR story on the…

Yes, although generally not on this basis (and that is arguably part of the problem for their legal theory). The DOJ sues states and state agencies fairly regularly for things like violating the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disability Act, etc. However typically in those cases you are alleging a failure of the…

Well don’t forget the Orange Asshole thinks everything Obama did from being elected on was criminal - I mean the man is actually convinced DACA was unconstitutional when it is about as vanilla an act of prosecutorial discretion I can imagine, so just by that measure alone Holder was covering up some “massive crimes.”

The EU also came out and specifically said Harleys would be hit with a retaliatory tariff.

But recall Trump openly says (jealously) that Holder “protected” Obama in a way Sessions hasn’t “protected” him - idiot thinks he should be able to dictate to the DOJ/FBI and that therefore Obama must have.

Then you definitely don’t want to go to a rugby match afterparty. They - - - - drink beer together!! And generally don’t fight each other!!!

This is part and parcel of the natural law cult. The people who think Locke (and later Jefferson) were on the speed dial to God when they wrote about “inalienable rights” when most legal scholars would point out the core principles of the concept of individual rights really only came into focus in the Enlightenment…

He just thinks it would make him happy to be dictator for life. Just like he thought winning the election would mean everyone in the media would have to listen to him. He’s an angry, paranoid man who would freak the fuck out if he ever felt actual joy.

He’s taller, faster and did more reps than Jabrill Peppers, and given where Michigan has been as a program compared to UCF last year you’d have to say they played similar talent levels. So yeah he could be - but nothing is no doubt since he didn’t get the same regular season hype.

While I think you in fact understand Trump (and I highly recommend the short book On Bullshit for anyone who wants to see a thorough breakdown of the concept by a philosopher) the expectation of lying by politicians is generally misplaced. Politicians will couch their language so that you can’t later accuse them of…

True, but chill them in the freezer and they become wonderful - especially with some vanilla ice cream.

I kinda wonder if Trump badmouthing the NRA wasn’t an attempt to divert attention from her quitting, not the other way around.

Dating Lewandowski isn’t limited to Wolff. There was a report about a screaming match involving them during the campaign that while some people claimed was about how to announce Paul Manafort’s role on the campaign sure fit a narrative of a personal relationship better and fed a lot of rumors, which were also fed by a…

Even if it does though it might not turn LGBT friendly anytime soon. A lot of Dems in the south are still fine with legislating morality on issues like abortion and gay rights.

Yes, but if the operative theory is that a) any discrimination rooted in a person’s sex (as a matter of biology) is improper, and b) discrimination rooted in “sexual stereotypes” is improper (as previously found by the 7th circuit en banc and this court as well) then c) like the 7th circuit did in a follow up…

Yes states can - that generally leads to the NRA suing claiming the law is too vague or calling for a nationwide law to reverse it (like they already did with products liability for shooting deaths).

Well there’s a pretty well documented story of Don Sr smacking the crap out of him in college for wearing the wrong outfit for a baseball game (he was wearing a jersey Don Sr thought it was inappropriate rather than a suit), so yeah there’s a whole lot of mental fuckery at work.