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   Message 117 of 348   
   Ubiquitous to atropos@mac.com   
   Re: Leftist Fran Lebowitz: "Biden Should   
   02 Oct 24 13:23:35   
   
   XPost: alt.stupidity, alt.tv.hbo, rec.arts.tv   
   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   In article , atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   > On Oct 1, 2024 at 1:40:36 PM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >> On 10/1/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>> "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?   
      
   Thatn is debatable and most likely false, althought it's a fact that   
   Sotomoyer uses her position to her her crappy books   
      
   >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.   
      
   The premise of your question is incorrect. They've done nothing wrong.   
      
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