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   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Oct 1, 2024 at 2:35:19 PM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Sotomayor is a boob, too.   
      
   Next?   
      
   > You should be pissed about the Court because it's happy to sell out personal   
   > freedom.   
      
   As in?   
      
   (Under this Court, I've regained freedoms that were taken from my by   
   Democrats.)   
      
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