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Judges look for contrition and acceptance of guilt when setting sentences. What Thomas is doing should cause consideration of removal from office. He knows what he did. He simply refuses to admit he was wrong. That's not who we want on the SCOTUS. Just another whacko extremist right wing...

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This also belongs in the police interactions thread or maybe the thread about the campus protests but I think maybe this one because it's discussing the trend toward a police state from somebody who lived in one before they left Turkey pre-9/11. She documents the drift toward ever-increasing...

He's calling well documented reports "nastiness and lies". This guy is going to decide on the claim that presidents order a team of assassins to murder political enemies and anybody else who gets in their way without fear of prosecution and he's calling facts based reports "lies". Because, I...

If, as has been said many times, democracies behave like a pendulum that swing from left to right and back again. If this is true then let us look at what that model looks like: The pendulum's velocity is highest at the vertex or zero position. At each apex, or maximum absolute...

He will appeal to the SCOTUS and delay justice once again. He's going to lose this appeal too. Maybe he's hoping for a pardon from Trump (again). How humiliating, to scrape and kneel before a convicted sexual abuser, rapist and financial fraudster (at the very least). This person's adivce...

Tying a book keeping task that has to be done in order to carry out an election with a nongovernmental political objective and dressing the whole thing up with demagogue histrionics is so MAGA. The so-called "international money" those Ohio MAGA illiberals are voicing grievance about comes from...

Lyndon was doomed before the campaign even started. Fun fact, Noem and Johnson both had puppy problems.

This whole thing is being blown up, way out of proportion. From The Financial Times, today: Come on, man. This is nothing like 1968, nor does it echo of the George Floyd BLM protests in 2020. This isn't anything like those. Trump and his ilk might want to be so. I have no doubt that...

I'm not sure where I stand regarding the protests in the US. It's too confusing. The protesters don't seem to be a monolith to me. Some are earnest young adults who object to the killings of civilians by the IDF. There are earnest pro Palestinian protesters and some radical anti-Semites in...

Itamar Ben-Gvir an Israeli far-right politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022.[2] He is the leader of Otzma Yehudit, a Kahanist and anti-Arab party that won six seats in the 2022 Israeli legislative election, and is part of what has been called the...

Why do you say that it was anti-Israel and not what it claimed to be?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-forcing-vote-oust-speaker-johnson-ukraine-a-rcna148389 House votes overwhelmingly to save Speaker Johnson from Marjorie Taylor Greene's push to oust him Greene lacked much support from within her party to oust House Speaker...

If Hamas could keep their leaders alive through this, they could keep their hostages alive. 'nuff said. >:(

Yes, the Israeli govt and Hamas both have a lot to answer for. But still, negotiating a peace fire using with dead hostages seems cruel, warped and intended to cause Israel to reject the deal. In this one detail, I agree that Israel should reject any offer like that.

Are you advocating that women should NOT have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because of what Jefferson wrote in 1776? I assume you do not advocate slavery and stripping all civil rights from women. So, why should civil rights only extend to cisgender men and women...

You are right. Trump's claims for immunity and rule of law based upon our constitution are not compatible ideas. I think Scotus is not addressing the case brought before it and is spinning this into a classroom exercise. I think some people on that court have ulterior motives for doing so...

If I understand the deal correctly, Hamas wants to count the return dead hostages as part of the deal for the ceasefire. So, probably not.

What you say is true. We are living in a world and economy that doesn't make sense to people who want things to be simple. Like gold bugs who prefer to have an economy based upon bars of gold held in a vault, something they can understand except that system fell apart due to cycles of...

You've been listening to the orange con man too much. Facts, my man. The facts say I'm right in what I said. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/04/biden-us-economy-worlds-best-trump-claims-cesspool-data-is-clear.html Biden says U.S. economy is world’s best. Trump calls it a ‘cesspool.’ Data is...