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I was in the vanguard of those calling for President Biden to announce he will not seek reelection. Yes, I cited prevailing concerns about his age. He’s 80. But I also noted back then that, among other things, he promised he’d serve only one term – as a transitional president; he risked the backlash that befell… Read more.
A few months ago, AOC and her (expanded) Squad were all over TV and social media appealing to Justice Stephen Breyer to retire – to save American Democracy and to seal his judicial legacy. But it appears either uncertainty or frustration has gotten the better of them. Because, as Spectrum News NY 1 reported on… Read more.
The Justice Department alarmed voting-law experts Thursday by announcing an investigation into nine discarded ballots found in northeastern Pennsylvania, a case immediately seized upon by the Trump campaign as evidence of a dark Democratic conspiracy to tamper with the presidential election. President Trump also appeared to cite the case, telling reporters at the White House… Read more.
Reports are that 120 of her law clerks are participating in her funeral service now underway. They conveyed an impressive show of respect when they all lined up on the steps of the Supreme Court to receive her coffin. But am I the only one who was hard-pressed to find more than two Black faces… Read more.
On Friday I published a commentary on Ginsburg’s death. Therefore, I had no intention of recording a podcast too. But requests for me to do so were such that, well, here it is: Episode 2: Death of RBG… Listen.
Here is what I wrote in “OK, RBG. But…,” January 5, 2019, after Justice Ginsburg survived yet another life-saving surgery: _________ You’ll cause mass heart attacks if you have another health scare while Trump is still president. So please stop tempting fate … yours and ours! That said, it’s funny to see liberals poking fun… Read more.
You’ll cause mass heart attacks if you have another health scare while Trump is still president. The 85-year-old justice underwent a pulmonary lobectomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center last week to remove two malignant nodules in her left lung. Friday’s procedure went smoothly, doctors said, and there was ‘no evidence of any remaining disease elsewhere… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote on this topic in “Delusional Kaepernick Standing Up by Sitting Down During National Anthem,” on August 30: [T]his protest smacks of grandstanding. And it’s only slightly less lazy and misguided than people who think (re)tweeting slogans about injustice is tantamount to fighting for justice. Of course, Rosa Parks and the… Read more.
One of the many things that distress me about politics in America today is the extent to which erstwhile intelligent people spew out viral talking points as informed thought. This herd-like mentality was on full display yesterday. That’s when commentators across the political spectrum began parroting the same condemnation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader… Read more.
