Contempt Cult Club

Fuck it if he does this (he won’t) then we rename whichever it is Billy and the other one gets Frank

If Alito's picking his successor, I think that's right. But if Trump and his advisors wants to troll so hard and create a female SCOTUS majority, then

Bet only works if the b&ws are from Lassen & Hennigs

Won't affect her chances at nabbing Alito's seat when he announces his retirement next month after Republicans lose the Senate in the midterms

Because they're stuck in a bind of their own making and were hoping Trump would just let it go

Yes, 6-3 or 5-4. So long as it's "for cause" and she's afforded the requisite process, then Kavanaugh will go back to his team and Roberts will likely do the same, leaving the Dem justices free in dissent to unload in ways they couldn't when they needed Roberts and Kav for the majority.

This whole bad faith enterprise shoulda been punted into the sun, but John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh insisted on affording Trump the presumption of regularity, and their votes were needed for a majority, so instead we get a sham “process” that Roberts and Kav will return to their fold to approve

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

18 impeachable offenses a day

Given that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible.

While Ernie Chambers’s spirit ruefully laughs

May everything they do continue to counter their intentions

It takes a special kind of magic for a Democrat to begin an answer with “Georgia has Voter ID and that’s good” and follow that pragmatic concession to statewide sentiment with an answer so merciless against the neoconfederates that his opening heresy is immediately forgotten and forgiven

May his every move continue to counter his every intention

Cuz

“[I]f anything can overcome our viscerally retributive desire, it is our visceral repulsion to watching human life be extinguished. For all the clamoring to bring cameras into the Supreme Court, there should be equal clamoring to open up executions for all to see.”

Bingo