Unreconstructed Curmudgeon

@ems1944.bsky.social

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Husband, father and, really, nothing else matters. Retired publisher & consultant.

Platner=72%, Mills=19.5%, Costello=8.1%
46 lb. blonde Labrador-looking Pittie near the reservoir in Central Park
Alice the rescue romps with good friends Leia the Husky/Shepherd mix, and Mischa, the Malamute
It never happens with GOP, but too damn often in our party folks try to build themselves up by tearing Dems down. You can demand better from us without pissing all over the house we've built together. I'm sick of it. If you make a name for yourself by trashing the party, I'm calling you out.
I don't know if John Roberts has ever read this passage. But I can imagine that he did, and thought to himself, "you say that like it's a bad thing." His entire project has been that of imposing strict limits on the remedial power of the courts. That this has the effect of permitting the "bad men" of American public life to make the law their perch and not their terror, that it provides safe harbor for them to flout core constitutional commitments without fear of redress, is so predictable that I cannot believe Roberts does not know what he's doing.