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Covered pretty much everywhere (front page of CNN/FOX/younameit).
With the main swing vote in the U.S. Supreme Court leaving, and a replacement nominated by President Trump, the right wing of the court should become clearly dominant, allowing Roe v. Wade opponents, and other right-wing causes, a new chance at victory.
takyon: SCOTUSblog has a round-up of coverage:
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement today, effective July 31, 2018. Amy Howe covered the news for this blog; her coverage first appeared at Howe on the Court. Other early coverage comes from Richard Wolf of USA Today, Michael D. Shear of The New York Times; Bill Mears of Fox News; Robert Barnes of The Washington Post; Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News; Nina Totenberg of NPR; Lawrence Hurley of Reuters; Greg Stohr of Bloomberg; and Pete Williams of NBC News. Analysis of Justice Kennedy's legacy comes from Noah Feldman of Bloomberg; Wolf of USA Today; Mears of Fox News; and Reuters staff. Coverage of the reaction from Congress and the President comes from Carl Hulse of The New York Times; Alex Pappas and Mears of Fox News; Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post; and Alex Seitz-Wald and Rebecca Shabad of NBC News. Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg has a piece looking at potential replacements for Kennedy.
Early commentary comes from Jill Lawrence for USA Today; Bill Blum in The Progressive; Emily Bazelon for The New York Times; Elizabeth Slattery for The Daily Signal; Garrett Epps for The Atlantic; Richard Hasen for Slate; Ian Millhiser of Think Progress; and Joshua Matz for The Washington Post. Another piece in the Post comes from Philip Bump, who focuses on control of the Senate. More commentary comes from Scott Lemieux for NBC News and Matt Ford for The New Republic. Andrew Cohen writes for TNR, and he also has a piece in Rolling Stone. Commentary from Vox comes from Dylan Matthews, Andrew Prokop and Matt Yglesias. Pieklo and Imani Gandy released an emergency podcast reacting to the news. Various law professors give their analysis for Stanford Law School Blog.
Anthony Kennedy was sworn in on February 18, 1988.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:30PM (24 children)
With a convincing conservative majority on the Supreme Court to deal with any politically motivated appeals, President Trump finally has a chance to see #CrookedHillary go to jail.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:32PM (14 children)
The idiots are chanting, what say we get one of those big wooden crosses to really seal the deal?
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:34PM (9 children)
Why are the Democrats about to restart their KKK chapters?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:44PM (3 children)
Shhh. We aren't supposed to remind that people that the KKK was the terror wing of the Democratic Party up until Antifa replaced them when the Party made a shift in direction in the 1960s. Ever since the Klan has been a punch line since the first rule of terrorism is you really need a State sponsor or at least a major faction like a national party to provide cover. Without that cover we get the ridiculous current situation where any group of three Klansmen involve one clueless idiot, one actual Klansman and one Fed... or now more likely one idiot, one Fed infiltrator and a local LEO infiltrator stepping on each others' dick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:43AM (2 children)
You go ahead and mention it as often as you want! Racist shitheads were the KKK and I couldn't give two shits what political party they rallied behind. Except the Green party, those people are demons! Oh, and whatever dimension you heil from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:04AM (1 child)
Freudian slip? But Freud as a Jew, who fled Austria, and went to England, to avoid Nazis, but now the Nazis are in England, more than Austria, or even Australia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:43PM
Nope 100% intentional, do you not read the shit jmo writes??
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:01AM
How I wish you posted that under your real pseudoname. ;-) Too awesome.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:45AM
Why are the Democrats about to restart their KKK chapters?
Why bother, the Republicans' are already up and running.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @10:10AM (2 children)
They're not, the parties switched their stances some 50-60 years ago.
I'm not sure how you managed to use Internet, since you have obviously not seen an information source at least since the days of PDP-1.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:02PM
You're not going to get anywhere with these people. They're not thinking; they fire off pre-programmed talking points without ever stopping to assess their truth.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:49PM
You're under the mistaken impression that the GP was trying to present information rather than propaganda.
That said, the KKK isn't all that important a force today, mostly because the cops are doing a fair amount of what the KKK used to do.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:37PM (1 child)
Are you implying that #CrookedHillary is afro-American? I find that hard to believe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @12:15AM
She probably would identify as trans-racial for political gain except being black would apparently make her a Super Predator. [youtube.com] Most and honest and intellectually consistent thing she could do really.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:10AM (1 child)
Upmodding -1 posts because Soylent News doesn't recognize downmodding as useful, which it is. More useful than upmodding trolls.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:19AM
You do whatever the voices in your head tell you to, brother. Just don't complain that everyone else gets to as well if you don't want mocked.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:32AM (7 children)
The most likely scenario, should Hillary Clinton be charged with any crimes (which she hasn't been), is that at least 1 out of the 12 jurors is a Clinton supporter and thus guarantees a mistrial or a not guilty verdict, regardless of whether she's guilty. And US due process doesn't allow somebody to be thrown in jail without a jury verdict finding them guilty of something. The same situation is true if Donald Trump, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or any other well-known political figure is charged with any crimes.
That said, I suspect a lot of Trump supporters would like to see Hillary Clinton thrown in jail without trial, or even summarily executed. If that happened and nothing was done to stop or undo it, then the law no longer matters and we are now living in a dictatorship with Donald Trump as the dictator. Which I suspect isn't something that many Trump supporters would object to.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:22AM (1 child)
They're fucking idiots if they do. Ponder with me for one second how much dirt and national secrets she would spill if she thought she were going down.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:57PM
That's why tyrants make sure their targets don't know it's coming until they've committed suicide with two shots to the back of the head.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Troll) by DannyB on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:44PM (4 children)
A more likely scenario. Midway through Trump's third term in office, he will gain anti-PARDON powers. Just as a pardon can free anyone for no stated reason, an anti-pardon can imprison anyone for no stated reason.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:55PM (3 children)
Then he isn't a president, he's a king.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:11PM (2 children)
Something I remember from a TEDTalk.
VERY roughly parphrased.
The founders puzzled over what to call the executive. They didn't want to use a term like King because it implied too much power. They were looking for a term that implied as little power as possible. They eventually settled on President. As in "to preside over". That would keep everyone from seeing the president from having too much power, even if merely perceived.
After all, who would ever be impressed by a mere title such as: The President Of The United States
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:45PM (1 child)
That's also why George Washington settled on "Mister President" as the form of address for a president.
But they needn't have worried too much: The only Presidents of the United States of America that I've found impressive were these guys [youtube.com].
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:10AM
The whole situation just makes you want to move out in the country and eat a lot of peaches.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:24AM
I think it would go to a jury trial, and H's big lawyers will create enough uncertainty and doubt to save her.
http://econ-ecoff.blogspot.com/2017/01/mock-trial-of-hillary-clinton-regarding.html [blogspot.com]