[Well, my proposal in the 12feb20 Scattershots for a new Dem candidate reader participation contest heading into the convention went over like a fart in church. It would have been fun to see how the perceived fortunes of Super-Tuesday's survivors changed over the next few months. Oh well, … sigh. gjr]

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450 responses to “Sandbox – 18feb20”
Well, if the Dems want to make this election all about women with dongs, be my guest. Once the Blue Mob destroys women’s sports and science, they can focus on the other 72 genders….and having men in your 13 year old daughter’s locker room.
You could see this coming a mile away.
‘Female Inmate Claims She Was Raped by Transgender Inmate Who Was Placed in Illinois Women’s Prison’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/female-inmate-claims-she-was-raped-by-transgender-inmate-who-was-placed-in-illinois-womens-prison/
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fish 425pm – I found this comment along with a bunch of identical ones in the spam folder. When TypePad goes nuts like that, please post another comment in the same stream to alert me so I can go and fish it out (pun intended).
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Bernie’s greed will impoverish us all.
‘Bernie Sanders, Not Jeff Bezos, Is the Face of Greed’
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/bernie-sanders-not-jeff-bezos-face-greed
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fyi oral arguments 2 April at the 9th Circus in Pasadena over Duncan v. Becerra, the large cap magazine case, with “large” arbitrarily set at 11 or more round capacity.
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The Commie bastards in SAC are at it again.
“Senate Bill 1079 would allow local officials to adopt ordinances to fine “in an unspecified amount” corporations and companies that leave residential buildings vacant for more than 90 days. The money would then have to be used for “homeless diversion, rental assistance and other affordable housing purposes.”
The proposal also permits cities and counties to buy or take over a company’s residential property if it’s been vacant for at least 90 days. The local agency would then have to maintain the home and rent it at an affordable price to “families of low or moderate income” or sell it to a community land trust or housing sponsor, according to the bill language.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article240480226.html
And just how long before they decide to seize YOUR rental properties because you dragged your feet to rent it out?
A nice endround of the “takings” clause of private property.
The LIBS are out to shred the Constitution at every turn.
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DAMN..
Forgot the BEE is a dick about reposting.
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Posted by: George Rebane | 21 February 2020 at 09:32 AM
,,,Fish comments in the trash??? Typepad algorithms are working!!!😜
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The Commies in SAC are out to seize private (rental)property
if it’s vacant for more than 90 days. Ain’t that special?
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Yet your garbage gets through Dougy..
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Posted by: Walt | 21 February 2020 at 10:03 AM
Typepad is a lib App obviously
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Silly time. Economy
https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/594672387780700/
The Libs are melting down because they will have jobs and have to go to work. Freak out time
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This hot mess from Burnie will show up soon enough.
Who will play the card first? The DNC to torpedo Bern,
or the Repubs if by chance the Proggys fail??
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/14/bernie-sanders-women-gang-rape-fantasy-essay/
“Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders once wrote a weird essay about women having gang rape fantasies, but he’s yet to face any scrutiny for it so far in his 2020 presidential campaign.”
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Gregory: “fyi oral arguments 2 April at the 9th Circus in Pasadena over Duncan v. Becerra, the large cap magazine case, with “large” arbitrarily set at 11 or more round capacity.”
Arguably the stupidest gun control law ever conceived. Maximum hassle and rights restriction for gun owners, minimum real-world effect for criminals.
Of course, it is California. Home of the Bakersfield Bullet Train and other potential ways to spend money like so:
https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230889348167434240
Although, like Der Governor sez: “10 million Californians—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition.”
Perhaps a state law making those 25% wear pussy hats might be just the thing. Makes ’em easier to avoid.
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“—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition.”
Yup.TDS.
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Walt@10:02
I thought you were kidding.
“Corporations that own California properties could soon be fined for keeping homes vacant for more than three months under a proposed law to give tenants, nonprofits and cities more say over what happens to empty buildings.”
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article240480226.html
Is it just me, or is California insanity increasing at a faster rate? I suppose you could argue that the nuts were always there it’s just that they can now advance an agenda under cover of Trumphate. After all, if you don’t get on board to most ridiculous progressive proposal, you are probably a Nazi.
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Walt@10:02
I thought you were kidding.
“Corporations that own California properties could soon be fined for keeping homes vacant for more than three months under a proposed law to give tenants, nonprofits and cities more say over what happens to empty buildings.”
http://alturl.com/nybd7
(oddly, if I put in the real link, typepad makes the post disappear. I can’t say I’m surprised)
Is it just me, or is California insanity increasing at a faster rate? I suppose you could argue that the nuts were always there it’s just that they can now advance an agenda under cover of Trumphate. After all, if you don’t get on board to most ridiculous progressive proposal, you are probably a Nazi.
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Posted by: Walt | 21 February 2020 at 11:28 AM
,,, Judging my the MASSIVE crowd sizes!!! at Trump rallies… Deluded Trumper Syndrome DTS ”’The DTs”’ is a far more prevalent psychological syndrome similar to Stockholm Syndrome…
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Walt@11:01 The Bernie Rape Short Story
That’s been floating around for a while along with the video of singing nekkid (or somewhat nekkid) with Russkies. And getting kicked out of the commune for laziness.
Dunno if it’ll leave a mark. Sanders is so much a representative of his own place and time and people in America, I doubt anyone will be surprised. It does make for a highly argumentative man though. It’s hard to say what the Deep State would make of him.
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Comma-man: “,, Judging by the MASSIVE crowd sizes!!!,,,,,,,”
Bummer, man.
I’ll bet they’re all comin’ after ya. Jackboots twinkling in the sunlight, singin’ Christian hymns, drivin’ NASCAR cars.
The plans for Utopia on Earth will have to be put off 1-5 years I’m afraid.
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Posted by: scenes | 21 February 2020 at 11:39 AM
Yes, they are really in to shining those Jackboots!!!
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,,,Coming to a neighborhood near ScottO,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-tiniest-nuclear-plant-coming-193900256.html
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Posted by: odlaw | 21 February 2020 at 11:52 AM
Yes, they are really in to shining those Jackboots!!!
Ugh……that was weak! I’ll tell you the same thing I told jetsy…….I don’t care what you say!
Just don’t make me feel sorry for you!
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Damn Scenes,, ya’ thought I was making it up? I ain’t Dougy….
Ouch…
On another note, the wannabes are burning cash to try and out Commie the others.
They ain’t going to have a buck left to take on Trump.
Guess they will have to do plenty of knee work to special interests to get funding.(getting bought, and behold’n)
Short/round standing on a milk crate, is looking to buy the DNC convention.
Short/round, standing on that milk crate said he is giving all his money away. Maybe Dougy, Babs, & Emery can tell us how much the check was they got in the mail.
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Yuck. Polls, polls.
NEW POLL: Satisfaction With U.S. at Highest It’s Ever Been Since 2005
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/shock-poll-satisfaction-with-u-s-under-trump-is-highest-its-ever-been-since-2005/
Which leads into this; the man with the magic wand.
‘This Historic Poll Holds The Key To Donald Trump’s Second Term’
“Polls have always been a troublesome thing, but as landline-use decreases and publicly professed political correctness increases, they have become even more difficult.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/21/this-historic-poll-holds-the-key-to-donald-trumps-second-term/
Guess who just read the polls? Glad you asked. She’s back with the same old song and dance. Second verse, same as the first. CYA time. She starts spreading and then gets so outraged over that which she hatched, lol.
‘Hillary Clinton Peddles Russia Collusion 2.0, Labels Trump ‘Putin’s Puppet’
2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lashed out at Donald Trump Friday characterizing her former rival as “Putin’s Puppet” following new reports that Russia is attempting to interfere in the upcoming presidential election
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/21/hillary-clinton-peddles-russia-collusion-2-0-labels-trump-putins-puppet/
It’s her turn!…….. again and again.
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Anyone know why it’s a surprise that Russia will again seek to influence US elections? They’ve been doing it since Lenin’s day, and so have we. How dense do you have to be to take such news as something extraordinary and significant? But no one wants to talk about any evidence for a measurable effect from such meddling – why? because there ain’t none.
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The socialist dem clown car is running on fumes –
Trump Is Smiling: 5 of the 8 Democrats Running for the Nomination Need Money
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-smiling-5-8-democrats-180200904.html
😉
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Boris and Natasha have been chasing Moose and Squirrel around Frostbite Falls since I was a kid.
And with the not quite untimely death of Rocky’s and Natasha’s voice (June Foray was nearly 100), there will be no catching them.
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Where is warmonger Emery?
Look what TRump is up to.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/21/united-states-taliban-afghanistan-peace-deal/
“The United States will sign a peace deal with the Taliban by the end of February, the State Department and Secretary Pompeo announced Friday afternoon.
The official peace deal is preceded by a reduction in violence, that went into effect just after midnight on Saturday, Kabul time.”
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What the “Fuc*”? The Ruskies were supposed to be helping Trump.
That’s what you Proggycrats have been yapping all this time.
Now they are rooting for Burnie? So much for Trump being Putin’s stooge. Wrong again Proggys.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/21/report-bernie-sanders-briefed-that-russia-trying-to-help-his-campaign/
“U.S. officials have warned Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Russia is attempting to boost his prospects of winning the White House in 2020”
“I don’t care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president,” Sanders said. “My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do.”
Sure Burnie… Whatever ya’ say.
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Most interesting – Pelosi made a big point yesterday in calling Trump “Putin’s Puppet” as she maintained that Russia was backing Trump in 2020. Well, it turns out that our intelligence reported that Russia is actually backing Bernie AGAIN in 2020. I almost decided to hold my breath until Pelosi acknowledged her hysteria, but then changed my mind.
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Bernie bros aka the red guard getting an early start to the weekend –
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/02/21/police-couple-ran-teen-boys-off-road-for-trump-flags/
😉
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Ah, the ole Zionist conspiracy.
ILHAN AND THE COMMUNISTS
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/ilhan-and-the-communists.php
Interesting that 3 out of 4 Squad members are under investigation for campaign finance violations.
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California bringing the nation down, down, down.
‘Students and teachers said California didn’t have a plan to teach kids to read. Now, the state has to pay $53 million’
“When it comes to literacy and basic education, California is bringing down the nation,” the complaint said.
Currently 45 million Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read above a fifth-grade level, according to the Literacy Project Foundation. Only 25% of students in California school systems are able to perform basic reading skills and about one-third of fourth-graders reach the proficient reading level.
The literacy proficiency of the students mentioned in the complaint varies, with most performing in the bottom 5% of their grade, and others reading several grades below their actual grade and failing state performance tests.
“On measures of literacy and basic education, in the 200 largest school districts in the country, California has 11 of the lowest performing 26 districts, including three among the lowest performing 10 districts,” according to the complaint.“
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/us/california-literacy-lawsuit-trnd/index.html
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What no wailing from cnn, msnbc, nbc, abc, cbs?? Of course not, they are fakenews –
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/21/report-bernie-sanders-briefed-that-russia-trying-to-help-his-campaign/
😉
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@ 5:48 PM
Is it just a coincidence that right after the Dems disastrous debate the Russian Collusion suddenly reappeared? The writer of the NYT piece is no other than Adam Goldman, the notorious Russian Collusion Hoaxer, lol.
Bernie looks like he is may run the table (so far), the Great White Hope MiniMike looks like he won’t be able to stop the Democrat Communists, the Dems are in disarray, and Pesto!, the Russians are back. The Russians are back, just in time to deflect attention from the Progressive Dumpster Fire.
Yep, Nancy and Hillary and CNN and the usual panicked Fakenews Cabal are putting it in overdrive to pump some oxygen into the Russian Collusion Delusion Witch-hunt…only to snare Bernie, lol.
What is the definition of insanity? Something akin to the definition of Leftinistas. They will do it different this time….it just was not tried right the last time.
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The DNC will screw the Bernie bros and they will stay home and on the flip side you have WINNING –
President Donald Trump has a 49 percent approval rating, according to the latest Gallup poll, with satisfaction with “the way things are going in the U.S.” at its highest since 2005.
President Trump’s 49 percent approval rating remains the same as the previous Gallup poll, though up 5 percent from early January.
Interestingly, 43 percent of independents now support the president — the highest its been during Trump’s entire presidency.
“The latest survey finds a further increase in national satisfaction, with 45% now satisfied, the highest since February 2005,” Gallup reported.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/shock-poll-satisfaction-with-u-s-under-trump-is-highest-its-ever-been-since-2005/
😉
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Nothing to see here, move along.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/couple-arrested-after-driving-kids-with-trump-flags-on-their-bicycles-off-the-road-shouting-yall-scared-just-like-your-president/
https://i.redd.it/3irer17zpci41.png
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Well of course he did –
Twitter Inc. on Friday said it had begun suspending 70 accounts that posted identical messages in support of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg in a pattern that violates the social-media company’s rules.
A Twitter spokesman said in a statement that it had taken “enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam.”
The Los Angeles Times first reported the enforcement action.
The campaign has reportedly hired hundreds of employees to pump out campaign messages on social media platforms. In accounts reviewed by the L.A. Times, the organizers used identical texts, links and hashtags. Many of the accounts had been created in the last two months, after Bloomberg entered the presidential race on Nov. 24.
The Bloomberg campaign had no immediate comment on the enforcement action.
Twitter said it had determined that the posts were in violation of its “Platform Manipulation and Spam Policy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-suspends-70-accounts-pro-025203858.html
😉
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re: DonB
“What no wailing from cnn, msnbc, nbc, abc, cbs?? Of course not, they are fakenews –
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/21/report-bernie-sanders-briefed-that-russia-trying-to-help-his-campaign/
;-)”
Hang on, isn’t something wrong here? Standard procedure is to get some FISA warrants, plant bugs, put informants into the Bernie campaign. I’d say that someone is getting lazy.
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https://babylonbee.com/news/badly-beaten-bloomberg-rushed-to-tiny-hospital-in-tiny-ambulance
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@847 Where are John Macine and Comey and Richard steele when you need them.
😉
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Looks like gavin is in bed with the chi coms and is selling out the pension fund. 2019 massive investments in the worst chi com economy eva!? –
The CEO of California’s public pension fund said Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) had made “baseless accusations” about the fund’s chief investment officer being involved in Chinese espionage — but did not deny that Yu Ben Meng had been recruited to the “Thousand Talents Program.”
Marcie Frost, the head of California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), also admitted that her organization — the largest public pension fund in the country with “approximately $400 billion in global assets — had increased its Chinese investments in 2019 after shifts in “well-established indexes.”
“CalPERS rebalanced its portfolio in light of these changes accordingly, resulting in the removal of 143 stocks and the addition of 198 stocks. Nearly half of the companies added were Chinese companies because the MSCI and FTSE indices changed to include China A-Shares,” she wrote in a Thursday letter to Banks.
Banks told National Review that Frost’s comments “failed to answer two fundamental questions raised in my letter to Governor Newsom,” which he sent last week over concerns about Meng’s history.
Meng emigrated to the U.S. from China to study at the University of California, Davis. He initially worked for CalPERS in 2008, before returning in January 2019 as CIO. From 2015 to 2018, Meng worked as deputy CIO with China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), which oversees China’s U.S. Treasury security holdings.
In his letter to Newsom, Banks highlighted a 2017 Chinese article which mentioned Meng’s role in Beijing’s Thousand Talents Program, which provides under-the-table funding to U.S. citizens in exchange for valuable information.
“First question: Is Mr. Meng a member of the Thousand Talents Program, something the FBI called a ‘non-traditional espionage program?’” Banks said Friday after Frost’s response. “Second question: Since Meng came back as Chief Investment Officer of CalPERS, has CalPERS invested in companies that are affiliated with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army?”
The Indiana Republican added that he wanted to hear from Meng over comments he gave to “the Chinese communist rag People’s Daily.”
In the 2017 article, Meng mentions that his “roots were in China,” and says that “in human life, if there is an opportunity to serve the motherland, such responsibility and honor cannot be compared to anything.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-pension-fund-does-not-170908444.html
😉
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YOU DON’T NEED A SPY TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE RUSSIAN WIND BLOWS
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/you-dont-need-a-spy-to-know-which-way-the-russian-wind-blows.php
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Another example of why holding the senate is a strategic issue –
SHADOW DOCKET
Justice Sotomayor calls out the US Supreme Court in a sharp dissent
Washington DC1 hour ago
By Ephrat Livni
Senior reporter, law & politics, DC.
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court granted the federal government’s emergency request to stay an injunction in an Illinois case about the “public charge” rule in immigration. The order came with no explanation from most—not those in favor or opposed—just a vote count and a a damning dissent (pdf) from justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The five conservatives on the bench approved the government’s request and the four progressives voted no. Sotomayor accused her colleagues in the majority of undermining fairness and process by continually granting the Trump administration’s allegedly urgent demands.
“Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited Court resources in each. And with each successive application, of course, its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow,” Sotomayor writes.
But the disingenuous alarm isn’t what bothers her most. “Perhaps most troublingly, the Court’s recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others,” she notes.
That litigant is the federal government under president Donald Trump. Though she didn’t name the president in her dissent, the justice is clearly unimpressed with the Trump administration’s exceptional neediness, and even less taken with her colleagues’ willingness to be its supreme enforcers.
It’s not the first time Sotomayor has complained about the administration’s reliance on emergency action, and she’s not alone in seeing a disturbing practice emerging.
An active shadow docket
University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck wrote in the Harvard Law Review last year about the high court’s unusually active “shadow docket.” The federal government now turns to the justices for emergency relief, circumventing the usual appellate process, more than ever before. It doesn’t wait for lower courts to decide matters but goes straight to the top, claiming extraordinary needs—often with little supporting evidence—and has created this alternate docket, a shadow caseload the high court continually considers prematurely.
During the first 30 months of the Trump administration, the government sought emergency or extraordinary relief from the Supreme Court with “unprecedented frequency,” Vladeck argues. It applied for at least 20 emergency stays, filed petitions for review before judgment in nine cases, and sought writs of mandamus against three judges. That’s a stark contrast to the past 16 years, during which the government sought only eight stays total, four reviews before judgment, and no mandamus writs.
Vladeck, like Sotomayor, partly blames the court for the uptick in action. “[T]he Justices have largely acquiesced in the [government’s] newfound aggressiveness,” the professor writes. He argues that the justices mostly now seem to go with the government’s contention that it suffers irreparable harm from lower court rulings without attempting to measure actual likely damage. That’s precisely Sotomayor’s complaint in the latest case.
The professor, unlike the justice, however, also puts the people at fault. He says the public’s indifference to the additional activity is problematic. The emergency requests are granted and denied with great consequences, little notice, and “no public opprobrium.”
Ultimately, all of this extraordinary action on behalf of the government by the highest court in the land undermines a central premise of the American legal system—that all litigants come as equals and can expect the same process, and consideration, whoever they may be. It’s merely an ideal, of course, but even concepts can erode. Sotomayor believes that is what’s happening now.
She condemns colleagues on the bench who are more susceptible to continual calls from the government about irreparable harm warranting emergency relief than they are to cries for help from prisoners being put to death. “This Court often permits executions—where the risk of irreparable harm is the loss of life,” the justice writes.
Yet here, where the government didn’t prove any harm would come from waiting for a lower court’s decision, and there’s less than a week to wait, the high court stepped in to answer the administration’s pleas for extraordinary relief.
The public charge rule fights
Yesterday’s order stems from an Illinois court, which halted application of the updated “public charge” rule in that state pending litigation. The government’s new reading of this longstanding rule requires officials to consider an immigrant’s self-sufficiency and the likelihood they will become a burden by assessing reliance on any and all government benefits. Previously only monetary assistance was a mitigating factor.
The updated rule was challenged in courts around the country. A New York matter yielded a nationwide injunction barring its application while that case was pending. But two federal appeals courts declined to block it. The Trump administration thus challenged the New York court’s expansive stay in an emergency request to the high court, and the justices in a 5-4 vote granted it last month.
That means the new public charge rule goes into effect everywhere but Illinois in the coming week, just as the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals considers the Illinois injunction specifically. Sotomayor doesn’t see why the new grant was warranted under the circumstances. ”The Government’s only claimed hardship is that it must enforce an existing interpretation of an immigration rule in one State—just as it has done for the past 20 years—while an updated version of the rule takes effect in the remaining 49. The Government has not quantified or explained any burdens that would arise from this state of the world,” she writes.
Sotomayor believes the emergency stays waste valuable time and resources on matters that are still being fleshed out in lower tribunals, eroding the whole appellate process. “[T]he Court—in this case, the New York cases, and many others—has been all too quick to grant the Government’s reflexive requests. But make no mistake: Such a shift in the Court’s own behavior comes at a cost,” the justice warns.
https://qz.com/1806689/justice-sonia-sotomayor-calls-out-supreme-court-in-sharp-dissent/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo
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Bernies red guard at play again –
Bloomberg campaign office in Utah vandalized, one day after pointing finger at Bernie supporters for similar incident
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-campaign-office-vandalized-utah
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Well, well, well. After three runs for the Presidency, Slow Joe finally picked up his first delegates. Got six of them. The Comeback Kid.
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Trump congratulates Sanders on Nevada caucuses: ‘Don’t let them take it away from you’
Boy, I loved Trump’s second tweet. Funny man.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-nevada-win-trump-twitter
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I love the socialists are finding their voice with comrade Bernie on the march it should be worth 10% independents and a few percentage points from some key minority groups who love God. –
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/22/why-bernie-sanders-is-just-the-beginning-of-an-american-turn-to-the-left/
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MSNBC BLOWS GASKET.
I haven’t seen them this let down since Trump won in 2016. Meltdown! ‘WFT are the voters thinking? WTF are the Latinos thinking? Do they even think?????’’ Big painful sorrowful dejected sigh.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/22/msnbc-melts-down-bernie-nevada-caucuses/
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and the wailings and lamentations were heard across the newsrooms.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/22/opinions/bloomberg-needs-to-take-down-sanders-lockhart/index.html
It’s a funny situation. Fer sure there’s an opposition research book a foot thick on Sanders in both parties. Team Blue can’t really use it since they want to retain the Bernie Bros, Team Red is locked and loaded.
Waiter, free popcorn for everybody.
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