He is a smart Politician. West Virginia will make out like a bandit on this next round of stimulous.
Captain Ahab
2 years ago
Speaking of takeaways, #6: It was wrong when the Republicans did it, and it is wrong now.
Those bad-Donald trade tariffs on China come to mind; however, Biden (aka President Cluster Fudge) seems to be continuing same, and eliminating exclusions for when China is the only supplier.
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration assures us that they are preparing a ‘worker-centered trade policy’; likely following on their recent success with their allies-centered retreat in Afghanistan.
Casual_Observer2020
2 years ago
Ivermectin overdoses filling up ER. Great job guys.
Ivermectin has been prescribed over 3.7 billion times and is a very safe drug used as directed, even for Covid.
Drugs are legally prescribed off label by doctors. The FDA is corrupt in opposing the use of Ivermectin by doctors and hospitals. Dr.s should actually be free to treat patients as they see fit, with any FDA approved drug.
People are only seeking animal Ivermectin because the FDA is blocking any early treatment of Covid. This is costing lives.
The U.S. hospital treatment for Covid is Remdesivir. The WHO recommends against Remdesivir, as they say it doesn’t work. Remdesivir failed clinical trials, yet the FDA approved it.
In African countries where they are using Ivermectin, they don’t have surges of Covid deaths.
If I could upvote this in an unlimited fashion I would. Our medical establishment has utterly failed. And if they have colluded wiht Pfizer and Moderna on this it constitutes Crimes Against Humanity, as defined by the UN
The key point is that if the FDA hadnt BANNED one of the safest drugs ever invented (WHO list of 100 essential medicines, for having saved over a billion people over the years in Africa from River Blindness), NO ONE would be going to the ER for overdosing on something created for animals that weigh 10 times more than humans, when there are human dosages available.
CO2020 and PNO, your completely ignorant and uneducated sneering is abhorrent.
Casual_Observer2020
2 years ago
But the fingers of instability, the total credit system, are seemingly growing with more red sand dots every month. All are inextricably linked. One day, another Thailand or Russia or something else (it makes no difference which) will start a cascade.
Remember, very astute people saw the subprime crisis and made a lot of money shorting that market. I saw it coming but didn’t know how to trade it. I guarantee you, I’m paying attention now to who can profit from the next credit crisis. Maybe I’ll succeed, and maybe I won’t, but just once, I would like to be on the right side of a crisis.
The shadow docket will have more of an effect on lives than a spending bill:
Rulings without explanations
The Supreme Court opinion link to nl.nytimes.com was different from most major rulings by the court.
This one came out shortly before midnight on Wednesday. It consisted of a single paragraph, not signed by the justices who voted for it and lacking the usual detailed explanation of their reasoning. And there had been no oral arguments, during which opposing lawyers could have made their cases and answered questions from the justices.
Instead, the opinion was part of something that has become known as link to nl.nytimes.com In the shadow docket, the court makes decisions quickly, without the usual written briefings, oral arguments or signed opinions. In recent years, the shadow docket has become a much larger part of the Supreme Court’s work.
Shadow-docket rulings have shaped policy on voting rights, climate change, birth control, Covid-19 restrictions and more. Last month, the justices issued shadow decisions forcing the Biden administration to link to nl.nytimes.com and to reinstate a Trump administration immigration policy. “The cases affect us at least as much as high-profile cases we devote so much attention to,” Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor, told me.
Shadow-docket cases are frequently those with urgency — such as a voting case that must be decided in the final weeks before an election. As a result, the justices don’t always have time to solicit briefs, hold oral arguments and spend months grappling with their decision. Doing so can risk irreparable harm to one side in the case.
For these reasons, nobody questions the need for the court to issue some expedited, bare-bones rulings. But many legal experts are worried about how big the shadow docket has grown, including in cases that the Supreme Court could have decided in a more traditional way.
“Shadow docket orders were once a tool the court used to dispense with unremarkable and legally unambiguous matters,” link to nl.nytimes.com. “In recent years the court has largely dispensed with any meaningful application of the irreparable harm standard.”
Why the shadow docket has grown
Why have the justices expanded the shadow docket?
In part, it is a response to a newfound willingness by lower courts to issue decisions that apply to the entire country, link to nl.nytimes.com. By acting quickly, the Supreme Court can retain its dominant role.
But there is also a political angle. Shadow-docket cases can let the court act quickly and also shield individual justices from criticism: In the latest abortion case, there is no signed opinion for legal scholars to pick apart, and no single justice is personally associated with the virtual end of legal abortion in Texas. The only reason that the public knows the precise vote — 5 to 4 — is that the four justices in the minority each chose to release a signed dissent.
Critics argue that judges in a democracy owe the public more transparency. “This idea of unexplained, unreasoned court orders seems so contrary to what courts are supposed to be all about,” Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard law professor, link to nl.nytimes.com. “If courts don’t have to defend their decisions, then they’re just acts of will, of power.”
During a House hearing on the shadow docket in February, members of both parties link to nl.nytimes.com. “Knowing why the justices selected certain cases, how each of them voted, and their reasoning is indispensable to the public’s trust in the court’s integrity,” Representative Henry Johnson Jr., a Georgia Democrat, said. Representative Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said, “I am a big fan of judges and justices making clear who’s making the decision, and I would welcome reforms that required that.”
The shadow docket also leaves lower-court judges unsure about what exactly the Supreme Court has decided and how to decide similar cases they later hear. “Because the lower-court judges don’t know why the Supreme Court does what it does, they sometimes divide sharply when forced to interpret the court’s nonpronouncements,” link to nl.nytimes.com, a University of Chicago law professor and former clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts. Baude coined the term “shadow docket.”
Six vs. three
The court’s six Republican-appointed justices are driving the growth of the shadow docket, and it is consistent with their overall approach to the law. They are link to nl.nytimes.com willing to be aggressive, overturning longstanding precedents, in campaign finance, election law, business regulation and other areas. The shadow docket expands their ability to shape American society.
The three Democratic-appointed justices, for their part, have grown frustrated by the trend. link to nl.nytimes.com, Justice Elena Kagan wrote, “The majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this court’s shadow-docket decision making — which every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent and impossible to defend.” In link to nl.nytimes.com, Justice Stephen Breyer said: “I can’t say never decide a shadow-docket thing. … But be careful.”
Roberts also evidently disagrees with the use of the shadow docket in the Texas abortion case. In his dissent, joining the three liberal justices, he said the court could instead have blocked the Texas law while it made its way through the courts. That the court chose another path means that abortion is now all but illegal in the nation’s second-largest state.
The justices are likely to settle the question in a more lasting way next year. They will hear oral arguments this fall in a Mississippi abortion case — the more traditional kind, outside the shadows — and a decision is likely by June.
anoop
2 years ago
fear not. it has 9 lives.
Casual_Observer2020
2 years ago
Whatever happens, it is better than January 6th and insurrection.
hahahaha.Keep spewing the party line. Biden will be the most hated President if he makes it 4 years; not because the media tells everyone he is bad, but because is actually is a horrible President.Meanwhile, Trump’s Presidency will look better and better over time.
I voted for Trump in 2016. Mostly the reason things are bad is the mess Trump left. Too bad for America because he could still have been President had he managed crises better.
Insurrection is cool. Revolutions, even. At least once per generation; as pointed out by someone infinitely more competent and trustworthy than either Trump or Biden.
Instead, it’s the lack of revolutions which have enabled the totalitarians to perpetrate the atrocities we are stuck with today. Wether under Trump or Biden.
QTPie
2 years ago
The 3.5T bill is toast at this point. The big question now is will Pelosi let pride get in the way of passing the 1.2T infrastructure bill also?
Eddie_T
2 years ago
Wish we could put Manchin in the White House, frankly.
Compare what he just wrote to the blithering bullshit that characterized the Presidential contenders in the last election cycle.
In the debates.
In the national discussion.
Do you remember any Democrat asking…..maybe we can’t afford that? Maybe we should think about the future for our kids and grandkids?
I remember diversity and inclusion and equity and UBI. More special rights for more special people.
You mean like restricting rights of women ? I predict 2022 midterms turn out to be less about debt or economy and more about rights of women, especially in the south. What good is arguing about debt when you cant even choose anything. Texas Republicans have gone overboard and the elections of reckoning are coming.
Not the religious conservatives who voted for Bush 43 in 2000 and gave him a bigger majority in 2004. They certainly voted against their economic best interests.
Pretty sure it’s going to be about personal rights in general. Not just women’s right for abortion but also the right not to be forced to take a vaccine to work or participate in society. They go hand-in-hand.
It’s the ultimate in hypocrisy to claim your for pro-choice (OK to kill an unborn child) while at the same time saying your for forced vax (not OK to possibly spread Covid that might kill someone).
Women also technically have the right to abortion too by going to another state or country so their rights aren’t restricted at all.
Back to mandatory Vax, there are increasing calls to have this on a national level, not just for some jobs.
And we haven’t even touched on the no eviction clause that is also infringing on property owners rights. There are a lot of rights in play at the moment in this country that will be forefront during midterms.
You must still think government debt matters. Manchin despite all his control of spending represents possibly the poorest state in America with very little infrastructure to speak of. Meanwhile China doesnt worry about debt when they spend on infrastructure or anything that grows their economy including green energy.
But the fingers of instability, the total credit system, are seemingly growing with more red sand dots every month. All are inextricably linked. One day, another Thailand or Russia or something else (it makes no difference which) will start a cascade.
Remember, very astute people saw the subprime crisis and made a lot of money shorting that market. I saw it coming but didn’t know how to trade it. I guarantee you, I’m paying attention now to who can profit from the next credit crisis. Maybe I’ll succeed, and maybe I won’t, but just once, I would like to be on the right side of a crisis.
The shadow docket will have more of an effect on lives than a spending bill:
The Supreme Court opinion link to nl.nytimes.com was different from most major rulings by the court.
This one came out shortly before midnight on Wednesday. It consisted of a single paragraph, not signed by the justices who voted for it and lacking the usual detailed explanation of their reasoning. And there had been no oral arguments, during which opposing lawyers could have made their cases and answered questions from the justices.
Instead, the opinion was part of something that has become known as link to nl.nytimes.com In the shadow docket, the court makes decisions quickly, without the usual written briefings, oral arguments or signed opinions. In recent years, the shadow docket has become a much larger part of the Supreme Court’s work.
Shadow-docket rulings have shaped policy on voting rights, climate change, birth control, Covid-19 restrictions and more. Last month, the justices issued shadow decisions forcing the Biden administration to link to nl.nytimes.com and to reinstate a Trump administration immigration policy. “The cases affect us at least as much as high-profile cases we devote so much attention to,” Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor, told me.
Shadow-docket cases are frequently those with urgency — such as a voting case that must be decided in the final weeks before an election. As a result, the justices don’t always have time to solicit briefs, hold oral arguments and spend months grappling with their decision. Doing so can risk irreparable harm to one side in the case.
For these reasons, nobody questions the need for the court to issue some expedited, bare-bones rulings. But many legal experts are worried about how big the shadow docket has grown, including in cases that the Supreme Court could have decided in a more traditional way.
“Shadow docket orders were once a tool the court used to dispense with unremarkable and legally unambiguous matters,” link to nl.nytimes.com. “In recent years the court has largely dispensed with any meaningful application of the irreparable harm standard.”
Why have the justices expanded the shadow docket?
In part, it is a response to a newfound willingness by lower courts to issue decisions that apply to the entire country, link to nl.nytimes.com. By acting quickly, the Supreme Court can retain its dominant role.
But there is also a political angle. Shadow-docket cases can let the court act quickly and also shield individual justices from criticism: In the latest abortion case, there is no signed opinion for legal scholars to pick apart, and no single justice is personally associated with the virtual end of legal abortion in Texas. The only reason that the public knows the precise vote — 5 to 4 — is that the four justices in the minority each chose to release a signed dissent.
Critics argue that judges in a democracy owe the public more transparency. “This idea of unexplained, unreasoned court orders seems so contrary to what courts are supposed to be all about,” Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard law professor, link to nl.nytimes.com. “If courts don’t have to defend their decisions, then they’re just acts of will, of power.”
During a House hearing on the shadow docket in February, members of both parties link to nl.nytimes.com. “Knowing why the justices selected certain cases, how each of them voted, and their reasoning is indispensable to the public’s trust in the court’s integrity,” Representative Henry Johnson Jr., a Georgia Democrat, said. Representative Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said, “I am a big fan of judges and justices making clear who’s making the decision, and I would welcome reforms that required that.”
The shadow docket also leaves lower-court judges unsure about what exactly the Supreme Court has decided and how to decide similar cases they later hear. “Because the lower-court judges don’t know why the Supreme Court does what it does, they sometimes divide sharply when forced to interpret the court’s nonpronouncements,” link to nl.nytimes.com, a University of Chicago law professor and former clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts. Baude coined the term “shadow docket.”
The court’s six Republican-appointed justices are driving the growth of the shadow docket, and it is consistent with their overall approach to the law. They are link to nl.nytimes.com willing to be aggressive, overturning longstanding precedents, in campaign finance, election law, business regulation and other areas. The shadow docket expands their ability to shape American society.
The three Democratic-appointed justices, for their part, have grown frustrated by the trend. link to nl.nytimes.com, Justice Elena Kagan wrote, “The majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this court’s shadow-docket decision making — which every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent and impossible to defend.” In link to nl.nytimes.com, Justice Stephen Breyer said: “I can’t say never decide a shadow-docket thing. … But be careful.”
Roberts also evidently disagrees with the use of the shadow docket in the Texas abortion case. In his dissent, joining the three liberal justices, he said the court could instead have blocked the Texas law while it made its way through the courts. That the court chose another path means that abortion is now all but illegal in the nation’s second-largest state.
The justices are likely to settle the question in a more lasting way next year. They will hear oral arguments this fall in a Mississippi abortion case — the more traditional kind, outside the shadows — and a decision is likely by June.
hahahaha.Keep spewing the party line. Biden will be the most hated President if he makes it 4 years; not because the media tells everyone he is bad, but because is actually is a horrible President.Meanwhile, Trump’s Presidency will look better and better over time.