Tag: Amy Coney Barrett

• The January 6, 2020 Insurrection Actually Began In 2016 With “Putin Pays Rohrbacher & Trump”

  Cause and effect. That’s really the puzzle we’re tasked with solving. If the effect in question is the January 6, 2020 insurrection then what is its cause? Its real cause – not the icing level “causes” our news media plunks down: “because angry”, “because love of Trump”, “because kitchen table economics” (our news media loves…

  A L Katz

  May 24, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, Election 2016, Russia, Treason, Trump

  Amy Coney Barrett, Bush v Gore, Dana Rohrbacher, Electoral College, Insurrection, Kevin McCarthy, Koch Brothers, Merrick Garland, Paul Ryan, Polling Questions, Putin, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, White Hegemony

• The Best Thing One Can Say About Originalism Is That It’s Total, Utter Nonsense

  Antonin Scalia — the King of Originalism — should have taken originalism to the grave with him. Not that the worms deserve either. Intellectually, originalism is the quintessential make-it-up-as-you-go-along, “White Guy” argument. “But the rules! But the rules!” says the one who wrote the rules, then broke them repeatedly then got upset when others threatened…

  A L Katz

  October 12, 2020

  Election 2016, Magical Thinking, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Rule of Law, SCOTUS, Trump

  Amy Coney Barrett, Antonin Scalia, Bush v Gore, Cynicism, Living Constitution, Magical Thinking, Originalism, Republican rabbit holes, Senate Judiciary Hearing