I know you’re wondering…
Barrett Did Not Affirm the Illinois Lockdown Order.
Twitter is awash with false claims that Judge Amy Coney Barrett should not be nominated to the Supreme Court because she supported the draconian lockdown orders issued by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. More mendaciously, some are claiming that she supported the Democrat Pritzker in excusing violent rioters from the lockdown requirements through which ordinary law abiding citizens are required to suffer.
This falsehood is magnified because it obscures what Barrett actually did in the case: she affirmed a hard-won exemption for religious worship from the generally odious lockdown.
The plaintiff in the case, the Illinois Republican Party, challenged only the worship exemption (not the lockdown generally), arguing that it was wrong to exempt only religious services from the lockdown. Why the GOP geniuses didn’t just challenge the constitutionality of subjecting their own political activities to the lockdown is anybody’s guess. –
more at the link above.
h/t Commenter at Conservative Treehouse.
Better her than another 37 days with the Noxious RBG clinging on to her seat and deciding who won the 2020 election.
This is why I hate lawyers. If even one small, minuscule piece doesn’t fit a law, then it is legal.
I do not blame the Judge for this, though I do not like her ruling, I blame the system. I still don’t have a better system, especially one that might actually get implemented. Except maybe: Agree with me for everything. Go ahead. Any judge is welcome to call me up and I will give them my opinion. Which is one of the reasons I will never be a judge. That, and not being a lawyer, despite not needing to be a lawyer to be nominated as a judge (that still does confuse me, even though it might even things out)
Well. Like Pelousy said…I guess they’ll have to pass her before we find out what’s in her, huh? lol
Sadly there are a lot of so called republicans that privately and publicly are seething over Trump getting this nomination and I would not doubt some of them, particularly the losers on The Integrity Project, provide misinformation to thwart support.
“And I love our Constitution”
If she means it, good enough for me. Just don’t try and re write it.
If she was well thought of by Scalia that’ll do it for me.
You’d have to study every decision she’s made to know everything you’d like but that’s unreasonable.
We’re all nervous about judges after so many disappointments but we just have to hope she’ll not be another letdown.
I’m not digging on this pick. 🙄
Hopefully she proves me wrong and I’ll eat my words. 🤔
Thus, it begins.
Let’s see how this plays out.
I was hoping for the 50 cal. rifle ! Instead we got the blank.
If nothing else she’s a huge leap upward from Ginsburg!
well that ranks right up there on ‘The Worst Kept Secrets of the Trump Administration’ list
It’ll be interesting to see how the bolshies attack her; will it get as ugly as the Kavanaugh confirmation? I pray she’ll have the ability to stand fast against the coming ess storm.
The leftists will dislike her intensely because she clerked for Justice Scalia. At her worst, she will be a 1000% improvement over Ginsboig!
Best choice? I don’t know.
The confirmation hearings should be informative.
I was raped!
Did McConnell schedule the floor vote yet? It’s been over an hour already.
Vote her in, then convince roberts to retire.
This is a great quote from her. ““We agreed to live by the Constitution until it’s lawfully changed,” she said at a Hillsdale College event in 2019. “And judges can’t change it. That’s not Democratic.”
Consider this: The year two thousand and twenty and we’re swimming in a veritable sea of 0s and 1s of data; an age of facts, information, and opinion like none before it, and we may never know the truth of any given situation.
God help us.
Looks like we’ll just have to grin and Barrett.
😉
Ironically, Trump picked the tougher fight. Lagoa would have brought more bipartisan support, which could backfire with Republicans before the election.
I think Trump did the right thing. We need to close the deal soonest.
I wonder who the Dims will accuse her of raping.
The very first time I have seen that clarification. Thanks for nothing MSM
😒
“ Well. Like Pelousy said…I guess they’ll have to pass her before we find out what’s in her, huh? lol”
I think I know what’s in her….a buncha kids.
UNFUCKINGREAL, mark my words, she will disappoint
I give them props for doing more for Haitian kids than the Clintons
ever have.
Lie barometer:
When twits are awash on their twister site you can be sure that whatever they are pushing is agitprop bullshit.
It would be refreshing to find a judge who can read.
The Supremes really only have one job: does THIS law conform with the Constitution? Yes or No. No bullshit, No interpretation, No establishment of a new “rule” to substitute for THAT failed law.
Pretty fuckin simple.
But the bench seems to attract maggots who are angry that THEY aren’t God.
Law is a shadow of Justice (somebody once said) – and we have to make the best of it.
izlamo delenda est …