They absolutely will. All they need is enough compliant judges. They damned near pulled this off here. If this case had ended with NC courts, Griffin would have been installed as state Supreme Court justice.
Once more, Jennifer waxes prolific about a few brave judges, a few critical rulings, some small steps to shore up the dykes Trump and his minions keep trying to destroy. All well and good, all important, all we need to catalogue and publicize.
But what happens when he ignores their orders? A federal judge ensuring a state election's choices in North Carolina are carried out is one thing --- what happens as other judges order the release of people picked up in the middle of the night and shipped off to a foreign gulag? Has Abrego Garcia been returned and I just somehow missed that? What about when the screaming brat orders our military to bomb the Danish fleet protecting Greenland? What federal bailiff is going march into the Department of Justice and take out a manacled Pam Bondi who refuses to acknowledge -- along with the rest of his goons -- that there is such a thing as Due Process, laid in out in the 4th Amendment.
Even Nixon obeyed Supreme Court rulings. Trump ignores them. Every day he violates the Emoluments Clause --- an impeachable High Crime our Founders considered so important it's spelled out in the Constitution's Article I. Has any Republican in the House filed a motion to impeach that I'm not aware of? Our republic literally hangs by a constitutional chad somehow not yet made it to the paper shredder. How do we stop this?
May these small wins will add up to a resurrected Constitutional Republic!
Maybe we "can keep it", in honor of Benjamin Franklin and the Continental Congress fought so hard and risked everything to build this great nation for their posterity.
It’s refreshing that these judges are playing by the rules! Now, congress needs to make it clear to the executive branch that they won’t allow their games to destroy 250 years of democracy and freedom.
Shame on the Roberts Court for expanding presidential power by granting immunity from official acts. That ruling is coming back to bite them right now.
We can only hope. My confidence falters when I look at te' 6-3 vote of the Supine Court on the alcoholically damaged Hegseth's order to fire transgender honorable members of the military simply because of their gender status.
Seems to me, trump has tried to trivialize the trade war with China talking about dolls and pencils but not daring to mention auto parts, antibiotics, oncology drugs, cardiovascular medications and the many other essentials we import from China.
Republicans have shown that they are totally against due process - albeit for migrants or election rules, to name two examples. They hate the Constitution and hate America. Have any Republicabs spoken up against the despicable course Griffin pursued? Griffin should be disbarred for sure.
Those of us who live in NC and have had to put up with republican [gerrymandered] control of the legislature are very familiar with their tactics of changing the rules after the game is over. The republican-dominated legislature on the verge of losing their veto-proof majority when the new session began, spent their remaining days in veto-proof land by changing the powers of the governor, attorney general and other members of the council of state [all Dems, to clarify].
I'm old enough to remember when an entire country was told we had to accept the outcome of the 2000 election when the Supreme Court intervened [the above-cited Bush v Gore] which handed the election to George Bush on the basis of a 500+/- votes. But in 2024, a state appeals court judge, no less, Jefferson Griffin wouldn't accept his 700+ vote defeat, and mounted an outrageous - and dangerous - challenge to voting integrity. The fact that our [republican-dominated] state Supreme Court went along with it and tried to oust one of their own colleagues tells you everything about the one-party rule in this state.
I'm deeply grateful to Judge Myers not only for his ruling, but for the brutal fact-checking in his opinion. Let's hope this brings an end to Jefferson SoreLoser's legal crime spree, but with the Leonard Leo-backed groups funding his attempted coup, I won't rest easy until that weasel finally concedes.
"“That principle will be familiar to anyone who has played a sport or board game. You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done.”"
Let this cogent statement be applied and pointed out to all current and future elections. It's good to hear that there are competent judges who will uphold the tenets of democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
This is why it is important at the grassroots level in the states to elect Democrats. Most of the changes are being pushed at the state level by Republican state government majorities.
We have to resist the notion that a federal judge is an unqualified right-wing nutjob simply because Trump appointed him or her. In Chicago, the judges Trump appointed to the US district court and court of appeals during his first term have turned out to be capable and reasonable, if more conservative than Democrats would like. (I'm a Democrat.) People have to be judged on their own merits. You can't just tar everyone with the same brush.
That's why it's unhelpful to refer to federal judges by the president who appointed them. Does it tell you something useful? Maybe in some cases, but in most cases no.
I should add that this is why we have lifetime appointment under Article III: so federal judges don't have to be beholden to the presidents who appointed them or to anyone else for that matter. Every time a Supreme Court justice reaches a decision people don't like, those people call for something other than lifetime appointment, usually term limits. My view is, be careful what you wish for. I prefer judicial independence.
Although I might take offense at the term 'squishy progressives' given that it's been the progressive side of the house that's remained faithful to the Constitution and the rule of law throughout the Trump era.
This ruling warms my heart & bolsters my sense that our judiciary is attending to their democratic responsibilities at this crucial time!
Congratulations, Justice Riggs!
To be honest the NC election could have broken the camel's back. We may live yet another day. Or election cycle.
That was the whole point of this exercise. To set a precedent for other red states to follow.
Right. An I have zero doubt that they will try again
They absolutely will. All they need is enough compliant judges. They damned near pulled this off here. If this case had ended with NC courts, Griffin would have been installed as state Supreme Court justice.
Once more, Jennifer waxes prolific about a few brave judges, a few critical rulings, some small steps to shore up the dykes Trump and his minions keep trying to destroy. All well and good, all important, all we need to catalogue and publicize.
But what happens when he ignores their orders? A federal judge ensuring a state election's choices in North Carolina are carried out is one thing --- what happens as other judges order the release of people picked up in the middle of the night and shipped off to a foreign gulag? Has Abrego Garcia been returned and I just somehow missed that? What about when the screaming brat orders our military to bomb the Danish fleet protecting Greenland? What federal bailiff is going march into the Department of Justice and take out a manacled Pam Bondi who refuses to acknowledge -- along with the rest of his goons -- that there is such a thing as Due Process, laid in out in the 4th Amendment.
Even Nixon obeyed Supreme Court rulings. Trump ignores them. Every day he violates the Emoluments Clause --- an impeachable High Crime our Founders considered so important it's spelled out in the Constitution's Article I. Has any Republican in the House filed a motion to impeach that I'm not aware of? Our republic literally hangs by a constitutional chad somehow not yet made it to the paper shredder. How do we stop this?
All the more reason for like-minded Contrarians to vote in record numbers in the elections this year and next year in the mid-terms.
We ride at dawn!
Yes
May these small wins will add up to a resurrected Constitutional Republic!
Maybe we "can keep it", in honor of Benjamin Franklin and the Continental Congress fought so hard and risked everything to build this great nation for their posterity.
It’s refreshing that these judges are playing by the rules! Now, congress needs to make it clear to the executive branch that they won’t allow their games to destroy 250 years of democracy and freedom.
Kudos to these judges who are following the law.
Shame on the Roberts Court for expanding presidential power by granting immunity from official acts. That ruling is coming back to bite them right now.
Democracy is on our side. Remarkable! Keep going, Contrarians and all those who want to save our country.
We can only hope. My confidence falters when I look at te' 6-3 vote of the Supine Court on the alcoholically damaged Hegseth's order to fire transgender honorable members of the military simply because of their gender status.
Seems to me, trump has tried to trivialize the trade war with China talking about dolls and pencils but not daring to mention auto parts, antibiotics, oncology drugs, cardiovascular medications and the many other essentials we import from China.
Republicans have shown that they are totally against due process - albeit for migrants or election rules, to name two examples. They hate the Constitution and hate America. Have any Republicabs spoken up against the despicable course Griffin pursued? Griffin should be disbarred for sure.
Those of us who live in NC and have had to put up with republican [gerrymandered] control of the legislature are very familiar with their tactics of changing the rules after the game is over. The republican-dominated legislature on the verge of losing their veto-proof majority when the new session began, spent their remaining days in veto-proof land by changing the powers of the governor, attorney general and other members of the council of state [all Dems, to clarify].
I'm old enough to remember when an entire country was told we had to accept the outcome of the 2000 election when the Supreme Court intervened [the above-cited Bush v Gore] which handed the election to George Bush on the basis of a 500+/- votes. But in 2024, a state appeals court judge, no less, Jefferson Griffin wouldn't accept his 700+ vote defeat, and mounted an outrageous - and dangerous - challenge to voting integrity. The fact that our [republican-dominated] state Supreme Court went along with it and tried to oust one of their own colleagues tells you everything about the one-party rule in this state.
I'm deeply grateful to Judge Myers not only for his ruling, but for the brutal fact-checking in his opinion. Let's hope this brings an end to Jefferson SoreLoser's legal crime spree, but with the Leonard Leo-backed groups funding his attempted coup, I won't rest easy until that weasel finally concedes.
"“That principle will be familiar to anyone who has played a sport or board game. You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done.”"
Let this cogent statement be applied and pointed out to all current and future elections. It's good to hear that there are competent judges who will uphold the tenets of democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
And the republicans are desperately trying to change the election rules before the next election!
This is why it is important at the grassroots level in the states to elect Democrats. Most of the changes are being pushed at the state level by Republican state government majorities.
sadly PA voted McCormick in and Casey out but barely.
We can work for the winds of change to start to blow. Hope is not effective enough any more.
We have to resist the notion that a federal judge is an unqualified right-wing nutjob simply because Trump appointed him or her. In Chicago, the judges Trump appointed to the US district court and court of appeals during his first term have turned out to be capable and reasonable, if more conservative than Democrats would like. (I'm a Democrat.) People have to be judged on their own merits. You can't just tar everyone with the same brush.
That's why it's unhelpful to refer to federal judges by the president who appointed them. Does it tell you something useful? Maybe in some cases, but in most cases no.
I should add that this is why we have lifetime appointment under Article III: so federal judges don't have to be beholden to the presidents who appointed them or to anyone else for that matter. Every time a Supreme Court justice reaches a decision people don't like, those people call for something other than lifetime appointment, usually term limits. My view is, be careful what you wish for. I prefer judicial independence.
Slowly but surely…keep going!
Not “squishy Progressives” at all, Jen!
Although I might take offense at the term 'squishy progressives' given that it's been the progressive side of the house that's remained faithful to the Constitution and the rule of law throughout the Trump era.
‘Squishy’ apparently means kind , caring, and law abiding.
That is how the other side is describing us—don’t lose a sense of humor!
I haven't lost my sense of humor, but that phrase 'squishy progressives' rubs the wrong way in the current circumstances.
Screwed up on those judges. More than a few have scruples.