President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Wonkette had a post saying the most likely suspect was Peter King from Long Island. Made a good case.

 

They will be reducing your benefits so they can give rich people more money. Is that OK?

 

Starting to feel a little Bern here!

“President Trump has no legal authority for broadening the war in Syria, If President Trump believes that expanding the war in Syria will bring stability to the region and protect American interests, he should come to Congress with his ideas."

 

The Court, in a 9-0 verdict, struck down racial segregation in public schools. If you think that ruling was faulty, how could you not be a proponent of segregation? Where's the distinction? How would you thread that needle?

 

How you arrive at the right decision is not always a trivial matter.

 

Activist judges!!!

 

Bannon Aims to Best Jared Kushner’s Biggest Mistake in Modern Political History – emptywheel

 

The court in Brown relied on some very flawed social science in reaching and justifying its decision. This was problematic for two reasons. One, we shouldn’t be basing Constitutional law on bad social science. And two, we shouldn’t be using social science, even good social science, to establish Constitutional law when there are more clearly Constitutional justifications at hand! The Warren court had the 14th Amendment at its disposal; the right decision was already in its grasp. Having eschewed the more obviously Constitutional pathways to the right decision, the Court set the stage for subsequent kerfuffles. That’s what could be meant by saying that Brown was “wrongly decided.”

 

I see our Shitty Opinion Retranslators are working overtime this week.