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   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 10/1/2024 5:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Oct 1, 2024 at 1:40:36 PM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/1/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   On Oct 1, 2024 at 1:30:43 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"    
   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   Leftist author Fran Lebowitz said late last week that President Joe   
   Biden   
   >>>>   should dissolve the U.S. Supreme Court because she does not like the   
   fact   
   >>>>   that the majority of justices are constitutional originalists.   
   >>>   
   >>>   I must have missed that day in Constitutional Law class where they   
   taught us   
   >>>   where to find the Constitution's grant of power to the president that   
   allows   
   >>>   him to just wake up one day and wave his hand like a Hogwarts wizard and   
   >>> fire   
   >>>   the Supreme Court.   
   >>>   
   >>>   I've just now reviewed Article II and I still don't see anything   
   resembling   
   >>>   "The president shall have the power to dissolve the Supreme Court   
   whenever   
   >>> it   
   >>>   pisses him off." Maybe it's written in that invisible ink that the   
   NATIONAL   
   >>>   TREASURE movies teach us the Founders were so fond of.   
   >>>   
   >>>   Seriously, though, I'd understand if some green-haired, nose-ringed   
   teenager   
   >>>   said this, because they're just a product of our public schools, but this   
   >>>   Lebowitz idiot is supposed to be a serious scholar, and *this* is how she   
   >>>   thinks our government runs?   
   >>   
   >> "Serious scholar"?  She's a cranky, 73-year old humorist who's as pissed   
   >> about the Supreme Court as the rest of us should be.   
   >   
   > Why should I be pissed about the Court?   
   >   
   > Because Thomas takes gifts? So do all the other justices, including the   
   > leftist ones. I'd be in favor of banning that, but that doesn't answer why I   
   > should be pissed about *this* Court versus previous ones.   
      
   You should be pissed about Thomas because he's a boob.  You should be   
   pissed about the Court because it's happy to sell out personal freedom.   
      
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