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The same SCOTUS that said yesterday that states don’t have the ability to regulate guns have today given states the power to regulate women’s bodies.

You had me at Federalist Society ...

Perhaps his idea is that he'll simply replace anyone in leadership who quits with loyalists just competent enough to do his exact bidding. And if rank-and-file employees quit by the thousands, he'll either recruit out of C and D county law firms, or simply defund Justice at the field level and make do.

On the other hand, this may energize women otherwise in the middle to move off the sidelines. We'll see ...

Wait until the capital punishment crowd gets a hold of this one ...

Looks like the Court cut off the limb with me hanging out on it! They must like Republicans' chances in the midterms even with a re-energized D voter base—unless they have polling showing that's not going to be the case, or insider knowledge that the fix is in for November.

Remember when the top Ilitch fired the previous GM? He didn’t hire a guy with a new broom to sweep clean. He just moved everyone else up one slot. Meet the new boss … This ownership has been married to this front office administration for nearly 20 years. Ilitches are very conservative people, and Chris has shown no indication that he’s not that as well, so blowing up the whole thing and starting over, while totally warranted, would be completely out of character for them. But also, within the upper echelons of the front office are established loyalties to Ilitch that would be swept away and would have to be re-established with an entirely new regime from the outside that could come in and muck things up on some corporate level in a way none of us can see from outside the mirrored windows. Loyalty among the officers is crucially important to tycoons. In any event, we must remember: “The rebuild is 100% over”. So firing top front office staff willy-nilly at this moment would project an image of chaos and confusion, and Ilitches certainly have no interest in that. So I would expect, at minimum, that Al lasts into the winter, and that if he does go, he will go in some gentle way that moves him upstairs to a less hands-on but still powerful role, and, as stated earlier, he will likely hand-pick his own successor, one who will lean heavily on Al for organizational guidance. What are the odds he hires a wunderkind who’s far more competent than he? We may get the culture change of increased competence we all long for, but if so, I would guess it would happen very gradually, and over a term of years.

Well, not exactly, what what … 😅

Adam Kinzinger at the end, with the quote of the day: The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you've committed a crime.

This part reminded me how important it would have been just to set a very pubic, highly-publicized election investigation in motion, for the explicit purpose of lending legitimacy to the entire conspiracy story, regardless of how the investigation would have come out.

You can’t tell what what I can’t do. I can tell you what you can’t do.

“Let me tell you a story … when I came home from fighting in Iraq …”

Not for long, though. There will be an evening out of rates once all restrictions on ownership, out-of-home possession and brandishing of guns are removed.

Not for nothing, the Supreme Court is also why baseball is being overrun by gambling interests.

Because the Court’s ruling in Heller eliminated that requirement.

Far and away my favorite line from the proceedings so far.

I don't know why you keep pretending I am taking Lynn Henning's word over yours, but you should realize that everyone here can see I am clearly not.

Good call. The sniffly tearing-up while he was reading his statement about his solemn and unshakeable oath based on the tenet of his faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired, of his most basic foundational beliefs. And so, for him to do that, to undermine the election just because somebody associated with Trump just asked him to, is foreign to his very being ... And then we learn he's just going to turn around and vote for the very guy who pressured him to do all this, all over again in 2024.

Am I supposed to take this at face value or something?

Oh, it means something. It most definitely means something.

Just because Lynn Henning is full of shit doesn't mean Al Avila is a gold standard-bearer of the truth. Talk about a false dichotomy ... 😅 Keep yourself open to the idea that they could be both full of shit. That, and not that I must choose between one or the other, is why I don't know what to believe.