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127-year-old senator has plan for giving the SCOTUS a fresh-faced new look

Charles Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a man who thinks ahead: Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley named two conservative senators as preferred replacements for a potential Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Samuel Alito‘s retirement, as Republicans race to lock in a younger conservative before control of the chamber potentially shifts hands. Grassley told reporters on Capitol Hill that he would recommend either Senator Ted Cruz of Texas or Senator Mike Lee of Utah if Alito stepped down. “I hope he doesn’t retire,” Grassley said. “But if he does retire, I’m going to suggest that either Lee or Cruz be put on the Supreme Court.” Cruz and Lee are 55 and 54. Alito is 76: Clarence Thomas will be 78 in June but I think it’s a pretty safe bet that he’s going to be carried out feet first (next month he’ll become the second-longest tenured justice in the mostly dismal history of that institution). Just spitballing here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the play is something like, Alito announces early in the fall that he’s retiring, if only to juice turnout among the fundie base in November. In October, the Senate holds fairly cursory hearings for one of their own — as absurd as any deference would be in this situation, you know that’s how it will play, even with someone as personally loathsome as Cruz, and as cult-like in his fealty to Trump as Lee (not that Cruz is far behind him in that category either). Then if the Dems win the Senate, one of them will be formally confirmed during the lame duck session. But if the GOP holds on, don’t be surprised if Alito has a change where his heart is supposed to be, and sticks around for a couple more years. In case you’re wondering, Alito’s announcement of his pending resignation can always be made contingent on the successful confirmation of a successor, so he could pull the plug on the whole thing at any time before that, and naturally there would be a nudge nudge wink wink understanding all along here. Say no more. The post 127-year-old senator has plan for giving the SCOTUS a fresh-faced new look appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Apr 15, 202611 votes

To Sir with love

I remember reading somewhere or the other that a big problem at Stalin’s speeches was that nobody wanted to be the first man to stop clapping, so the ovations would go on and on. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who served as President Donald Trump’s defense attorney during his New York City criminal trial in 2024, said he would thank the president and tell him, “I love you, sir,” if Trump fired him or chose another person to serve as Pam Bondi’s permanent replacement for attorney general. Blanche served as the Justice Department’s deputy attorney general until the president fired Bondi last week amid scrutiny of her handling of the Epstein files and prosecutions of Trump’s political foes. The president has yet to nominate a permanent replacement, who will need to be confirmed by the Senate. Trump is reportedly considering Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin and Utah Sen. Mike Lee, among others, as he has shaken up his Cabinet in recent weeks. “As to whether or not I want this job, I did not ask for this job. I love working for President Trump, it’s the greatest honor of a lifetime,” Blanche said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday, April 7. “And if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting [attorney general], that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that’s an honor,” he continued. “If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the [deputy attorney general], that’s an honor.” Blanche added, “If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say ‘Thank you very much. I love you, sir.’ I don’t have any goals or aspirations beyond that.” Puts on Sinatra and starts to cry. The post To Sir with love appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Apr 9, 202618 votes

To Sir with love

Apr 9, 202612 votes

The uses of the 25th amendment

The mainstream media are beginning to run stories about how there are now “bipartisan” calls for removing Trump via the 25th amendment: Democratic lawmakers and right-wing voices are expressing concerns about just how far Trump is about to take things in the Iran war, as an 8 p.m. EST deadline for Tehran to cut a deal approaches. The president’s threats to strike power plants and other civilian infrastructure have been decried as war crimes, and some even say they fear his latest comments are alluding to the use of nuclear weapons (which the White House has denied considering). It’s mostly Democrats who are calling to invoke the amendment — more than two dozen of them, in fact. That includes potential presidential hopefuls like Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. (Of course, they have little to no power at the moment to initiate removal proceedings.) But notably, some conservatives and other recent Trump allies have taken up the call, as well. “How do we 25th Amendment his ass?” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked his guest on Monday’s show. By Tuesday morning, right-leaning advocates for the step spanned from more-extreme influencers to former Trump White House official Anthony Scaramucci to more-moderate Never Trumpers. “25TH AMENDMENT!!!” former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, posted on X about an hour after Trump’s post about Iran’s civilization dying. She called it “evil and madness.” Some congressional Democrats re-posted Greene’s words. “The 25th amendment needs to be invoked,” right-wing podcaster Candace Owens added later in the morning. Scaramucci, who served briefly as Trump’s communications director during his first term, advocated for Trump’s removal and claimed Trump was threatening to use nukes. “Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE,” Scaramucci said. “Seek his removal immediately.” When others suggested online that Vance had implied Tuesday morning that Trump could order a nuclear strike, the White House denied he was saying anything of the sort. The vice president had talked about using “tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use.” Some Never Trump conservatives like New York Times columnist David French were also calling for the 25th Amendment. “This is obvious 25th Amendment territory, but people are so desensitized that they can’t see it,” French said. Others didn’t go quite so far, but have begun raising new levels of concern about Trump’s intentions. One of them is former Trump ally Tucker Carlson, who on his show Monday criticized Trump like never before. Carlson said Trump was threatening to commit “a war crime, a moral crime” in Iran by attacking infrastructure in ways that would lead to mass death, and he even seemed to suggest Trump might be the antichrist. Also on Tuesday, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who has been a loyal Trump ally in Congress, told the Wall Street Journal that Trump “loses me if he attacks civilian targets” like infrastructure. Johnson signaled he saw such attacks as indeed illegal. This is still fairly thin gruel: Jones and Owens are complete lunatics themselves; Carlson is a 1930s-style anti-Semite; and MTG is now a pariah in her own party. Ron Johnson, currently in a steel-cage death match with Tommy Tuberville for title of dumbest GOP senator, is a much more interesting data point, but OTOH he’s not saying anything about supporting actual removal. Still, this kind of thing is valuable in terms of pushing the narrative that Trump is completely out of his mind, which both happens to be true, and could potentially provide an off-ramp from this nightmare, since arguments about inherent incapacity are in some senses not as fraught as purely political/ideological arguments about what constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Things of course would have to go a good deal further before either off-ramp has any viability, but the bad/good news is that things seem to be going further very rapidly. Following up on Cheryl’s post on this topic, the belief that there’s no legal way to remove Trump from the presidency — an argument in which some people are now including the 2028 election as an example of the futility of any sort of legality — is not self-evidently correct. Things are impossible until they become possible with changing circumstances, and ruling such possibilities out is a kind of fatalistic cynicism that can become self-fulfilling. Trump has got to go, and there’s no way to make that happen at the moment, but there could be a way, or ways (beyond traditional Roman imperial solutions and the like), sometime between now and the official end of his second term. The more talk of the 25th amendment the better, because the unthinkable has to become thinkable as a prerequisite to becoming doable. The post The uses of the 25th amendment appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Apr 7, 20269 votes

The uses of the 25th amendment

Apr 7, 20268 votes

The uses of the 25th amendment

Apr 7, 202620 votes

Democrats likely to expand their Wisconsin Supreme Court majority

With a lot less drama this time: Wisconsin Republicans are bracing for a lopsided state Supreme Court race next week, as liberals are all but expected to expand their majority. It underscores how the state GOP has struggled to compete in critical elections over nearly the last decade. Democratic-backed judicial candidate Chris Taylor leads the conservative favorite, Maria Lazar, in recent polling, and Taylor’s campaign has outraised her opponent by a roughly 5-to-1 margin in the race that will determine whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court remains a 4-3 liberal majority or expands to 5-2 edge. The unusually sleepy nature of Tuesday’s judicial race comes as Wisconsin Republicans have struggled to match the Badger State’s Democrats in state party apparatus and fundraising abilities in recent years. “The [conservative] campaign apparatus is really degraded over the course of the last 10 years or so, particularly in the … fundraising side of things,” said Republican strategist Ben Voelkel, a former longtime aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who once ran for lieutenant governor. “The state party really does not have the same kind of money, oomph, that it has had in the past, certainly not what Democrats have going now.” The relatively low-profile nature of the race is excellent news for Democrats above and beyond the polls, given that they now have a higher-propensity-turnout base. Still, maybe Elon could make a couple of appearances in Wisconsin for old time’s sake. Remember absolutely kicking his ass after he tried to buy the election last year? That was awesome. The post Democrats likely to expand their Wisconsin Supreme Court majority appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Apr 5, 202610 votes

The Generational Divide

Back in the late 90s, I was active in progressive Tennessee politics for a couple of years, when I lived in Knoxville. It was the most active I’ve been in my life in terms of real organizing and such. Something about living in a place like Knoxville brings it out of you since it’s so hard to survive in such a right-wing place. Today, the city is more purple, but the surrounding area is frightening. We had a state legislator at the time named Tim Burchett, who was an idiot known for introducing a bill to make it legal to eat roadkill. Today, he’s still an idiot, but in Congress. Well, at the time there was a rising guy named Steve Cohen in Memphis who we all respected. It was controversial when he ran against Harold Ford for Congress in 1996. The Ford machine was real in Memphis. Harold Sr, retired in 1996 and Cohen ran and lost to Harold Jr. Young Harold had huge ambitions, even presidential, and he decided the way to do this was to be the most right-wing Democrat possible. He didn’t make a lot of friends back home in Memphis, the machine wobbled, and he’s basically the kind of Democrat forgotten by everyone who appears on Fox today. This happened after he tried to take on Bob Corker in the 2006 Senate election and couldn’t pull it off in a state where whites were fleeing to the Republicans. Well, Cohen stayed in the state legislature that whole time and built himself a real power base, even as a white Jewish guy in a Black district. So when he ran for Congress again in 2006, he won, much to the outrage of the rest of the Ford machine, who tried to racebait him. The 2008 primary was very ugly, with black leaders really going all in on the race thing. But Barack Obama intervened here to support Cohen, he won going away, and has represented Memphis in Congress ever since. He’s fine. He’s really become a pork guy, which is fine, nothing wrong with bringing as much to your district as possible. But now, Justin Pearson, one of the legislators briefly evicted from the Tennessee legislature by the fascists who control it, is challenging him for the job. Cohen is very, very old. Pearson is young and energetic and wants to do a lot more fighting against fascism that Cohen is about these days. He’s framing his primary fight against Cohen as a generational divide: The phone call last October was ostensibly a courteous gesture from a onetime intern to his former boss ahead of a campaign announcement. It quickly turned sour. You’re going to run behind me just like everyone else, Representative Steve Cohen, 76, the former boss and a veteran of 10 successful congressional runs in Memphis, told State Representative Justin J. Pearson, 31, who made the call. Mr. Pearson ended the call with his own rebuttal: I’m going to beat you. The two Democrats, who separately described the conversation, have not directly spoken since, and that flash of acrimony — months ahead of the August primary contest — is a sign of how personal the generational battle to remake the Democratic Party this year could become. In a party that until recently was largely run by octogenarians, the push for generational change spans the country. Party stalwarts — from former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the former majority leader, Steny Hoyer, to Senator Richard J. Durbin and reliable rank-and-file liberals like Jan Schakowsky — will retire at the end of the year. …. Mr. Cohen has repeatedly held off challengers with ease in a Tennessee district that overwhelmingly backs Democrats. But Mr. Pearson’s activism has energized some voters, and his brief expulsion from the state House three years ago over a gun control protest has given him national prominence and a considerable war chest. “The elected official that I seek to be is the one that I wanted to grow up having,” Mr. Pearson said, sipping a coffee before speaking at a “No Kings” rally on Saturday. With Mr. Trump in office, he said, “we need active leadership, not passive leadership.” …. At the 2024 Democratic convention, it was Mr. Pearson, standing next to Mr. Cohen, who delivered the speech announcing Tennessee’s delegates for Vice President Kamala Harris. Since then, he has been at the front lines resisting both a federal law enforcement task force sent to Memphis by the president and an artificial intelligence complex built by Elon Musk near a Black neighborhood. Last week, just before Mr. Pearson took the stage at a rally protesting a visit by Mr. Trump to Memphis, Barbara Beaver, 66, acknowledged the “good work” that Mr. Cohen has done. “But,” she added, “I also have to acknowledge that there’s another voice out there that is doing equally good work.” All this has wrecked the previously cordial relationship between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Pearson. When Mr. Pearson didn’t invite him to his recent wedding, it was an unmistakable sign that the younger lawmaker was distancing himself, Mr. Cohen mused. Mr. Pearson described Mr. Cohen’s response to his challenge as unnecessarily abrasive. (In one interview, Mr. Cohen compared it to the attack on Pearl Harbor.) “We weren’t friends — he’s not a mentor,” Mr. Pearson said. Mr. Pearson’s real challenge will be convincing voters that he is more than a fixture on protest lines. Most of the bills he has sponsored in the legislature this year have stalled in committee. To be sure, there are few opportunities for Democrats under the legislature’s Republican supermajority, but some Tennessee conservatives have been opposed to Mr. Pearson’s approach since his first day in office, when he was sworn in wearing a dashiki. Some Democrats have also been rankled by Mr. Pearson’s more confrontational tactics and notoriety. Some political watchers said that the primary challenge could be viewed as an affront to more senior Black Democrats, who have waited for Mr. Cohen’s retirement. Mr. Cohen pointed to the State Senate minority leader, Raumesh Akbari, and Ms. Lamar, as well as other officials from surrounding Shelby County as possible successors. I think it’s fair to say that a guy in his mid 70s who has been around forever should probably consider stepping aside. But Cohen has been good and is hardly the worst of the olds or the oldest of the olds. But I’d also say this–being a politician is not a lifetime appointment. Waiting for someone to retire is a stupid strategy for a politician. It never works because these people never retire. Someone has to take the shot. That’s how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez entered Congress, for example. The idea that just become someone is a reliable vote that we should just reelect them doesn’t hold much water and it is also a pretty recent phenomena. Most of congressional history has seen massive churn every Congress, much more than the last few decades. Everyone has a right to the job. I very much do believe it is time for new blood among Democrats and there’s a lot of reason to feel that Pearson would be good. But again, Cohen is also good. Generational transition is especially good. So let them hash it out and let the Memphis voters pick who they want, it’s all fine. The post The Generational Divide appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Apr 3, 202611 votes

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