Offthemat

Do you believe that it also empowers state courts in Alabama and Mississippi to determine who is insurrectionist and kept off their ballot?

Best advice I ever got was reading that Paul Polosi bought a bunch of Nvidia stock. It was around 17, now 45.

This is a good example of how most people understand this preposterous ruling. If each state followed suit it would be chaotic. How supposedly intelligent people can study law, and be considered good enough to make it to the bench, only to churn out this kind of partisan garbage is what destroys the people’s confidence in the institutions of our civilization.

Interesting history of your self-execution theory: “Jefferson Davis contended in 1868 that Section Three was self-executing and barred his treason prosecution, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase agreed with those arguments as a circuit judge presiding over the proceedings in Virginia.[8] But shortly thereafter, the Chief Justice issued the first opinion on Section Three and held that the text was not self-executing in Virginia and—in the absence of congressional action—did not apply to a Black criminal defendant there.[9] Following these inconsistent rulings, Congress enacted a Section Three enforcement statute and federal prosecutors brought many actions to oust ineligible officials, including half of the Tennessee Supreme Court.” https://constitutionalcommentary.lib.umn.edu/article/amnesty-and-section-three-of-the-fourteenth-amendment/

So, where’s the conviction?

Maybe. Maybe it indicates how difficult it is to get a straight deal.

This case has more holes than a Swiss cheese. Is it any indication that of eight dimocrat judges involved, the vote is split 4-4? Maybe 4.5-3.5.

No. It gives Congress the power to write a statute that would be enforced by the executive and judicial branches. The court is not given the power to act independent a conviction of the statute.

A textualist would read that as: Congress (not the court) shall have the power (unless so legislated by Congress)

I don’t understand your question. You may not realize that the sentence is Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

That is the 14th Amendment. Section 5 to be specific. What textualist would only read three fifths of an Amendment to guide his decision?

Read on down to section 5 and you see: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Which they did by writing statute that covers prosecutions and convictions of insurrection. Dimocrats don’t allow democracy within their party, there’ll be no dimocrat primary election for president. Will they be stopped before they destroy the country, because they certainly will be afterwards. Maybe by China. Maybe by Persia.

That’s the one I was thinking of too. When they handcuffed the mother to keep her from going in, when freed she went in and brought her children out while the cops were looking for keys. Or something.

To save democracy you must destroy democracy?

If I was an illegal I’d want to get out of Texas.

Williams showed better; Robb looked pretty good until he didn’t. They all looked bit by the altitude.

With this ref there’d be multiple stall calls.

Using combinations to finish them off.

Hughes at 141.

Supposed to be @ https://themw.com/watch/ for those without flo.

I suppose, technicalicly.

And Carter Young?

Declaring sanctuary is more unconstitutional than state sanctioned border control, to my mind.

It is a tough one. He is a coward, but even worse, I believe he knew he was a coward and by taking the job he prevented someone who wasn’t from filling the position. While it may not be actionable for him declining to react to the shots, if he is found to be derelict in preventing the shooter from entering the school, that may be.

Yet he displays an uncanny dynamic of common sense and critical thinking skills that burn the TDS inflicted.