Politics

[BSO Dave]

But she is no idiot, and she is absolutely qualified for the role.

WOW..! Just wow...! I could not disagree more... I have no idea what you see to make this assertion... She's an embarrassment to the Court by any measure...

Might ought to get use to her - she is only 54

That terrifying thought proves how important and significant these SCOTUS picks truly are... God help us when the dems regain power and make good on their threat to pack the court with more of these idiots...

 

[Brent in Az]

House passes bill to deport noncitizens for DUI.
Hopefully, this can make its way thru the idiots in the Senate.

 

[Hunt anything]

House passes bill to deport noncitizens for DUI.
Hopefully, this can make its way thru the idiots in the Senate.

About 5 years ago one of our H2A workers got a DUI, they didn’t deport him but he received all of the fines and punishment a citizen would receive. When he applied to come back the next year he was denied entry back into the US.

 

[mdwest]

House passes bill to deport noncitizens for DUI.
Hopefully, this can make its way thru the idiots in the Senate.

I think we should deport any non citizen (legal or illegal) for any Class A misdemeanor or higher..

They are a guest in our country (invited, or uninvited)… if you can’t abide by the rules, you need to go somewhere else..

For what it’s worth, most of the world will send you packing if you are convicted of a crime.. whether you’re a tourist, or hold a resident visa, or anything in between…

That’s sensible policy to me..

If you want to be here.. whether it’s for a week to visit Disney or for decades to work.. behave yourself.. or face the consequences… which include being told to go home..

 

[Ray B]

With regard to Sotomayor, Kagen & B Jackson being appointed to Supreme Court based on each having held previous "elite" positions, I knew several military officers and senior staff whom were shining examples of the Peter Principle.

 

[Altitude sickness]

If you read her entire argument. (Justice Jackson) It’s very convincing and shows she is no hack. And in some ways she is correct. Too much power has been grabbed by every President since the founding.

Usually, it’s because Congress is too partisan and frozen. So the Executive acts. Right or wrong.

Justice Jackson is correct. We have to have some checks on Presidential power. And we still will.

It will just be circuit level injunctions not nationwide. Then when each area of the circuits and several states bring individual cases back to the Supreme Court, they can decide again.

My prediction is Barrett will eventually rule siding with Jackson when those cases come back in front of them.


When this dust up first hit the headlines, I was worried the famous Arizona car auction was coming to an end. When I heard Barrett Jackson was feuding.

 

[Scott CWO]

Interesting you mention REAL home ownership--DeSantis made the same remark recently and promised that property taxes in Florida would not put the elderly out of their homes because of increased tax valuation since their purchase. I support that idea. Government should know its place or be put in its place.

In Colorado many years ago, the voters voted through a state constitutional amendment called the “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR for short. It mandates that all tax increases in the state must be approved by the voters. This has saved us from what other states, counties and cities have done and are doing to y’all. Y’all should gather signatures on a similar measure and get it approved for the ballot.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Wow Scott liberal Colorado actually has that ?
I’m surprised that hasn’t gained more traction nation wide.

In the 90s through the 2000s I was buying Colorado land next to National forests to hunt from. It was a great market and I would make enough off each sale to buy a larger piece each time. What surprised me was how low the property taxes were for undeveloped land. Drastically cheaper than undeveloped land taxes in Michigan. Even with me being a non resident.

The only catch was it was a free cattle grazing area and you could not fence cattle out or any land you fenced to keep Cattle out, that land would be taxed at a higher rate.

 

[BSO Dave]

If you read her entire argument. (Justice Jackson) It’s very convincing and shows she is no hack. And in some ways she is correct. Too much power has been grabbed by every President since the founding.

I guess it depends on how you define "hack"... Her opinions are formed through the lens of partisan ideology and not from that of an impartial jurist therefore making her a hack in my view... Her ability to form or articulate sentences does not make her a competent jurist capable of interpreting the Constitution literally and impartially as the founder's intended...

Justice Barrett's scathing rebuke of Jackson's dissent was spot on.... Bottom line is that KBJ and the other 2 minority dissenting Justices have once again failed to interpret the Constitution correctly which exposes their partisanship... Hence, the reason for the founders' creation of 9 Justices and not 1...

Justice Jackson is correct. We have to have some checks on Presidential power. And we still will.

She is correct to the extent of that single statement, but certainly not in the context she intends... Those checks on the Executive power are already delegated to the Legislative and Judicial Branches of our government, and are not to be imposed by regional lower courts as the majority has just correctly decided... Checks on Presidential power lie with Congress and the SCOTUS alone...

 

[Brent in Az]

I think we should deport any non citizen (legal or illegal) for any Class A misdemeanor or higher..

They are a guest in our country (invited, or uninvited)… if you can’t abide by the rules, you need to go somewhere else..

For what it’s worth, most of the world will send you packing if you are convicted of a crime.. whether you’re a tourist, or hold a resident visa, or anything in between…

That’s sensible policy to me..

If you want to be here.. whether it’s for a week to visit Disney or for decades to work.. behave yourself.. or face the consequences… which include being told to go home..

Persona non grata

 

[fourfive8]

In Colorado many years ago, the voters voted through a state constitutional amendment called the “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR for short. It mandates that all tax increases in the state must be approved by the voters. This has saved us from what other states, counties and cities have done and are doing to y’all. Y’all should gather signatures on a similar measure and get it approved for the ballot.

True! But sadly every year or two, for the past 25 years or so, commie CO politicians and voters attempt to erode Tabor. I’m certain most are either influenced by a commiefornia mentality or have moved in from commiefornia.

 

[Brent in Az]

In Colorado many years ago, the voters voted through a state constitutional amendment called the “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR for short. It mandates that all tax increases in the state must be approved by the voters. This has saved us from what other states, counties and cities have done and are doing to y’all. Y’all should gather signatures on a similar measure and get it approved for the ballot.

We vote on tax increases where Im at. Unfortunately, the times we have allowed an increase, the money is never spent on the items in the proposal.
Instead, it's always wasted on some liberal pet project.
Many of us have caught on to that ploy. Sales tax here is already approaching 10%, and they always want a 1/2 cent increase for this or that when they dont even wisely spend what they have.

 

[cwpayton]

Really? Do you actually know her qualifications? I disagree strongly with her overblown defense of nationwide judicial mandates, but calling her a DEI hire is rather ridiculous unless it is her skin color driving your learned assessment - though Justice Thomas might object.

Just a few data points for the let's make an assumption crowd.

She graduated Harvard with a BA in Government in 1992 magna cum laude. She graduated Harvard Law School in 1996 cum laude and was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review (that is not the same as being editor of your high school yearbook.)

Clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer 1999-2000 and two federal judges.

She was a federal public defender from 2005-2007. (That too is rather different than being a public defender at the county courthouse).

She was US District Court Judge, District of Columbia 2013-2021 where she issued over 500 opinions with only 12 reversed on appeal.

She was a US Court of Appeals Judge, DC Circuit 2021-2022

She was rated unanimously qualified for her Supreme Court nomination by the American Bar Association.

As I say, I don't agree with her political philosophy and with respect to this decision, firm constitutional interpretation and judicial precedent are there to argue against it. But to declare she is a DEI hire or somehow unqualified for her position, which seems to be the thing to do on the right side of the internet at the moment, makes the loony right look at least ignorant if not far worse.

The problem Jackson has,{1 of them} is she could not define the difference between a man and a woman. period. when grilled for conformation, now this is amazing a harvard grad cannot define a man or woman. that IS D E I.

 

[Red Leg]

One point to consider with respect to Trump's victory in the courts reference nation-wide injunctions. We will have another democrat president. His or her first executive order may be to ban "assault weapons" or any other of a number of liberal pet issues.

For instance, Biden initiatives revolving around Title IX and transgender athletes, student loan forgiveness, targeted debt relief to black farmers, attempts to pause new gas and oil leases among another dozen or so other issues were all stopped or delayed by conservative judges.

 

[HuntingGold]

Indeed. The sword cuts both ways.

 

[Wheels]

 

[BSO Dave]

The problem Jackson has,{1 of them} is she could not define the difference between a man and a woman. period. when grilled for conformation, now this is amazing a harvard grad cannot define a man or woman. that IS D E I.

It's worse than that...

Aside from her being a partisan hack, I absolutely believe she is quite capable of defining what a woman is. She deliberately chose to not to provide a definition because she knows the actual definition would be offensive and in direct contradiction with the same far left talking points she now uses to adjudicate from the bench...

The notion that being a "Harvard" grad as something to garner respect is meaningless these days... Holding a degree or tenure from one of these liberal indoctrination institutions is not the pedigree it used to be... Higher education no longer equates to higher intelligence... Most of these liberal elites that hail from academia are some of the biggest idiots in the country.

 

[Red Leg]

The notion that being a "Harvard" grad as something to garner respect is meaningless these days... Holding a degree or tenure from one of these liberal indoctrination institutions is not the pedigree it used to be..

LOL. According to whom? You need to let the Fortune 500 in on that rather remarkable observation.

 

[BSO Dave]

LOL. According to whom? You need to let the Fortune 500 in on that rather remarkable observation.

LOL... Condescending as usual... You really crack me up with some of your bullshit lately...

You can laugh all you want... Your observation is dated... There are just as many corporations nowadays that avoid hiring an Ivy League grads as those who would favor them... Obviously, it's field dependent, but very few corporations who actually want to make a profit are actively seeking woke, indoctrinated ideologues working for them...

 

[WAB]

Really? Do you actually know her qualifications? I disagree strongly with her overblown defense of nationwide judicial mandates, but calling her a DEI hire is rather ridiculous unless it is her skin color driving your learned assessment - though Justice Thomas might object.

Just a few data points for the let's make an assumption crowd.

She graduated Harvard with a BA in Government in 1992 magna cum laude. She graduated Harvard Law School in 1996 cum laude and was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review (that is not the same as being editor of your high school yearbook.)

Clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer 1999-2000 and two federal judges.

She was a federal public defender from 2005-2007. (That too is rather different than being a public defender at the county courthouse).

She was US District Court Judge, District of Columbia 2013-2021 where she issued over 500 opinions with only 12 reversed on appeal.

She was a US Court of Appeals Judge, DC Circuit 2021-2022

She was rated unanimously qualified for her Supreme Court nomination by the American Bar Association.

As I say, I don't agree with her political philosophy and with respect to this decision, firm constitutional interpretation and judicial precedent are there to argue against it. But to declare she is a DEI hire or somehow unqualified for her position, which seems to be the thing to do on the right side of the internet at the moment, makes the loony right look at least ignorant if not far worse.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she is academically and professionally qualified. However, if the prime responsibility of the role is to uphold the constitution of the United States, I could make a pretty good argument that she is philosophically and ethically unqualified for the job.