Big news day

First the Senate Republicans, as promised, destroyed years of Senate traditions in order to place another conservative vote onto the Supreme Court, a long-term goal of theirs. It started with Bush v. Gore, when five conservative justices abruptly halted the recount of Florida’s ballots in the 2000 election and made George W. Bush president. [snip] …

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Justice Ginsburg and the talking yam

Maybe the Notorious RBG did speak out of turn when she expressed her opinion of Donald Trump, but it seems to me Justices get to have opinions just like the rest of us. I used to agree with Glenn Greenwald a lot more than I have in the last few years, but when he says …

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