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Late Night Open Thread: Bill Barr Shows Himself Out

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Late Night Open Thread: Bill Barr Shows Himself Out

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From what I can tell, the last few weeks have been an elaborate dance between Barr’s desire not to have his reputation (further) besmirched by being around when the Oval Office Occupant is finally packed off, and Trump’s natural instincts to ‘punish’ anyone he perceives as insufficiently loyal… or anyone who happens to be around when Trump needs an object on which to vent his rage. Neither party could risk giving the other an excuse to — shall we say — release the kraken.

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Sunday Evening Open Thread: (Move) On Wisconsin

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Sunday Evening Open Thread: (Move) On Wisconsin

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: NOPE

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Actual Justice Open Thread: Four More SCOTUS Judges

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… Which will bring the tally to one for each of the current thirteen U.S. circuit courts. (Or, for the ‘Christian nationalists‘, one for each Apostle and their leader.)

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Stay Mad (Open Thread)

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About 30 seconds after swearing to “administer justice without respect to persons” and “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform” her duties, Barrett walked out onto the balcony of the White House with Trump as his co-star in an political ad.

Stay Mad (Open Thread)

I know what you’re thinking: at what point does the makeup Trump slathers on to hide his splotchy pallor cross the line into “blackface,” and why doesn’t he apply it to his fucking ears and blend at the hairline so it’s not so obvious?

But let’s focus here for a second — a SCOTUS nominee participated in a rushed, farcical process. Then she chose to cut a campaign ad as her first act as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In one sense, it’s like buying your dream home and then taking a shit on the carpet and smearing poop on the walls — within seconds, Barrett defiled the court she’d just joined, and now we all have to live with the stench.

From Barrett’s own actions, not partisan rancor, we must conclude she has poor judgment and zero integrity. So, what do we do with that information? Vote for Democrats who oppose this charade, first of all. Done and done, for many of us. Next, we have to hold the people we vote in accountable to fix this mess, using any action that doesn’t violate the Constitution.

Mitch McConnell made up a rule to deny President Obama a SCOTUS nomination, then made up another rule to ram this unethical, low-quality Trump hire onto the court. The rules McConnell pulled out of his ass weren’t in the Constitution, nor did the Constitution expressly forbid his actions. So, if Democrats take the Senate, it’s time for a new set of rules.

Expanding the court will be a heavy lift, but I’ve been encouraged in the last few days by seeing the likes of Senators Chris Coons and Angus King speak favorably of it. Especially Coons. When you’ve radicalized the mild-mannered Senator Coons of all people, you may have over-reached.

Anyhoo, as voters, perhaps our most important task is staying good and mad about this outrageous theft. Republicans are strutting around today. Let’s wipe the smirks off their faces, not just a week from today but two years from now too. We’ve got to hang this corrupt travesty around their necks at every opportunity.

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The Barrett Hearings: Justice Blank Sheet of White Paper

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Caligula only appointed one of his horses to the Senate. The GOP Death Cult is about to give Trump his third ‘LOL, because we can’ SCOTUS seat…

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Barrett Hearings (Open Thread)

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It’s the third and final day of the Judiciary Committee portion of the charade. Here’s a livestream for those who want to watch it:

I’m looking forward to Senator Whitehouse’s follow-up to yesterday’s presentation, in which he detailed how phony wingnut “civic” organizations and dark money outfits create a conveyor belt that deposits ideologues on the federal bench:

Through an amazing series of coincidences, the titans of independent legal analysis the Federalist Society barfs up deliver rulings that dovetail with donor wishes 100% of the time! I mean, what are the chances?

But according to a Stanford anthropology professor who studies charismatic evangelical Christianity (writing for The Atlantic), Barrett might surprise us because Jesus:

More profoundly, these communities inhabit a world charged with divine meaning, which their members must interpret in order to know God’s will. Every decision—what to eat for dinner, where to go to school, even what to wear—is an invitation to think about what God wants. Members may feel a strong sense of having been called out by God to do their jobs.

And these calls involve a process of discovery, as members’ sense of self is always emerging out of their own growing, changing understanding of God. A skeptic will say that such a sense of God’s purpose is entirely determined by their community. But charismatic evangelicals say that God feels more real when he startles them—when he tells them to do something surprising that they would never have chosen on their own. What makes Barrett unpredictable is the possibility that she will interpret God as speaking in ways that she, and the broader conservative world, might not have anticipated.

With all due respect to the professor, it’s far more likely that Barrett’s interpretation of God’s will also just happens to dovetail with the Federalist Society donor wish list. Open thread.

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