Major Supreme Court 2022 decisions

There are seven cases left. I think they will probably restrict the EPA in one of them. Another terrible decision in an awful group.

What changed from Justice Alito’s draft opinion to final ruling on Roe 

update after final rulings 6/30/22

Greil Marcus on Rock Death in the ’70s

This great article was originally published in the Village Voice on December 17, 1979.

Rock Death in the ’70s: A Sweepstakes

List of deaths in rock and roll (1970s)

List of musician deaths by car crash – make sure to look at the death of Steve Peregrine Took in the Marc Bolan entry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/rock-stars-who-died-in-absolutely-bizarre-ways/vi-AA1JEXWz?ocid=socialshare

I don’t call the gun bill and infrastructure bill bipartisan

That gives too much credit to Republicans. I don’t think the bills are bipartisan when most Republicans in Congress voted against them.

Infrastructure vote in the House

Infrastructure vote in the Senate

Guns

House: 234 for (including only 14 Republicans) and 193 against (think all were Republicans)

Senate: 65 for (including 15 Republicans) and 34 against (all Republicans)

Infrastructure

House: 228 for (including only 13 Republicans) and 206 against (including 6 Democrats)

Senate: 69 for (including 19 Republicans) and 30 against (all Republicans)

Collins and Manchin are chumps

They think that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied to them. They did but Collins and Manchin should have known better. I and millions of others knew better. Trump made it clear that he was going to appoint anti-abortion judges and he did.

Collins and Manchin should take responsibility for their poor judgment but they won’t. They’ll just blame the lying justices.

If Manchin and Collins wanted to do something to make up for being chumps:

I don’t care if indicting Trump would divide the country

One argument I have heard against charging Trump is that it would divide the country. Thi sis a poor argument for several reasons.

  1. He certainly appears to be guilty. Nobody is above the law. I doubt he goes to jail but I hope he does. The low-level people who invaded the Capitol because of him are going to jail. The insurrection wouldn’t have happened without Trump so he belongs there, too.
  2. Could it divide the country more than it already is? Remember, 70% of Republicans won’t even admit that Biden won a fair election.
  3. Republicans don’t care about dividing the country. The Supreme Court abortion decision made by their judges is very divisive but they clearly don’t care. Democrats shouldn’t care either. The only way to respond to Republican tactics is to fight fire with fire. Biden needs to get over the idea that we’re still in the 1970s. See the tweet below.

More on Ted Cruz, Texas and dildos

I never thought I would write about this once and now I am writing about it twice. Some tweets from this thread:

New low for Supreme Court popularity

Duh. Make decisions that go against history and the will of the people and of course you won’t be popular.