Thursday, January 18, 2018

[U] The Jeff Sessions/Donald Trump Cert. Petition Is Fairly-Riddled With Glaring Errors Of Law...


As expected, this evening, Jeff "Beauregard" Sessions filed his request to have the Supremes immediately review the able District Court Judge Alsup's preliminary injunction (out of Northern California). That injunction essentially keeps existing DACA-program young people in status quo, and undisturbed, until a final appeal on the merits is decided.

Weighing in at 173 pages, it is. . . turgid.

In fairness, only the first 33 pages are new; the rest of it represents appendices containing the decisions below -- and collateral materials. I will bet that the Supremes (holding their last in-chambers conference tomorrow, before the court's winter recess) will deny review, and allow the Ninth Circuit to weigh in -- in due course. But I do not expect they will decide that tomorrow. Tomorrow, I expect the Supremes will decide to take the Muslim Ban 3.0 case on appeal from the Ninth Circuit (yet again) -- even without the Fourth Circuit's formal opinion having issued -- yet.

Updated — Friday evening: the Supremes just granted cert., again, in Muslim Ban 3.0 — out of Hawaii. See third comment below, for more. [End update.]

But that -- as they say -- is a horse of another color. All of them are, in my opinion though, manifestations of what the editorial page of The Washington Post tonight called the id -- "of the angry man-child" now taking his residence, such as it is -- at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I am sorry that his intransigence has likely led to a temporary shutdown -- tomorrow night. But never before in history has one party controlled both halls of Congress, and the White House -- and been unable to pass a budget. Their OWN GOP budget.

That is the ignominious first that the GOP has set here tonight -- with this "porn-star-pay-off-president" leading them. [Forget the "alleged", there. It is a matter of public record, now.] G'night -- and may Saturday be better than Friday is likely shaping up to be. I'll smile, just the same -- with a sweet baby sleepover Saturday night -- pending. . . .

नमस्ते

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

and the assaults on women continue:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-rolls-back-protections-for-planned-parenthood_us_5a62134be4b01d91b2551fa4?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

condor said...

Agreed. This is. . . deplorable.

HRC was right -- the man is soul-less.

His fawning anti-abortion speech was. . . disgusting -- dressed up in a religiosity that he wants no part of, in truth.

And we all know it.

Disgusting. So tomorrow, here in the City of Big Shoulders -- I march -- again.

Along with some 100,000 to 250,000 others -- the very substantial majority of whom will doubtlessly be. . . women.

Namaste.

condor said...

And the Supremes will hear argument in the April 2018 sitting, on Muslim Ban 3.0 — just as I predicted they would rule, last night.

Onward — to a more perfect union. No decision is likely then, before end of Sumner 2018.

[That’s for the xenophobic anonymous commenter — the one who has recently joined us from somewhere near Bloomfield, New Jersey — over a Verizon connection, running the OS X (Apple) operating system and browsing with Firefox — not Apple’s native browser — on a device with 1440 by 900 pixels of resolution. . . .]

Smile.