Excellent, excellent analysis. I agree with the above comment: this should be on the front page in every newspaper in the country. (Aside from everything else, Jim’s writing is the best.) If this were a movie--and I guess it will be!-- Amy Conan Barrett is the twist. It does feel like we’re living in the knife edge of history before the page is turned. Thank you Jim.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ on a flaming hoverboard, how did we get to the point where due process, the bare-minimum safety net against authoritarian dickery, hangs by the rosary beads of a Handmaid?
Let me say it plain: if you’re deporting legal residents to foreign black sites because they have a tattoo your moist-fingered fascist whisperer labeled “gang-ish,” then congratulations, you’ve fully weaponized the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 relic so dusty it was last used to cage Japanese-American families in the desert during WWII. And even then, they got hearings. FDR didn't outsource the camps to El Salvador.
This is not justice. It’s banana republic cosplay; instead of cheap uniforms, Kristi Noem’s sporting a Rolex that costs more than a nurse makes in a year while parading broken lives like zoo exhibits.
And now it’s up to Amy Coney-Barrett, the Handmaid of Habeas Corpus, to maybe, possibly, remember that she swore an oath to the Constitution, not to her cult’s “high coordinators.” If she folds, the rest of us aren’t citizens anymore; we’re suspects waiting for rendition.
Perfectly stated. This article should be printed on the front page of every newspaper in America. Failing that, it is up to each of us to share it with everyone we know. Great thanks, Jim.
Interesting. I wonder if Kavanagh might be more rational than Comey-Barrett, who is in a Catholic cult after all. Thoughts, Mr. Stewartson?}
I don’t see the hype around ACB’s SOTU gurning. She’s always been a face-ache.
If you want to see proper gurning, look for “Les Dawson - candle joke” and “Cissie and Ada”.
Excellent, excellent analysis. I agree with the above comment: this should be on the front page in every newspaper in the country. (Aside from everything else, Jim’s writing is the best.) If this were a movie--and I guess it will be!-- Amy Conan Barrett is the twist. It does feel like we’re living in the knife edge of history before the page is turned. Thank you Jim.
I've told my wife for some time now that Amy Coney Barrett is our only hope. This is the litmus test. I'm not sure how long I can hold my breath.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ on a flaming hoverboard, how did we get to the point where due process, the bare-minimum safety net against authoritarian dickery, hangs by the rosary beads of a Handmaid?
Let me say it plain: if you’re deporting legal residents to foreign black sites because they have a tattoo your moist-fingered fascist whisperer labeled “gang-ish,” then congratulations, you’ve fully weaponized the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 relic so dusty it was last used to cage Japanese-American families in the desert during WWII. And even then, they got hearings. FDR didn't outsource the camps to El Salvador.
This is not justice. It’s banana republic cosplay; instead of cheap uniforms, Kristi Noem’s sporting a Rolex that costs more than a nurse makes in a year while parading broken lives like zoo exhibits.
And now it’s up to Amy Coney-Barrett, the Handmaid of Habeas Corpus, to maybe, possibly, remember that she swore an oath to the Constitution, not to her cult’s “high coordinators.” If she folds, the rest of us aren’t citizens anymore; we’re suspects waiting for rendition.
Perfectly stated. This article should be printed on the front page of every newspaper in America. Failing that, it is up to each of us to share it with everyone we know. Great thanks, Jim.