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   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   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.   
      
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