have not seen anything yet but hope you're right!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]

the real world says 0

Nice flame-out by the way.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]

So Andy Samberg's character Connor 4 Real is reading the reviews of his new album "Connquest" and he's reading Rolling Stone's review and out of five stars, they gave it a 💩, so I figured Trump gets the same grade!

Tiny hands will be flipping and flopping

n/t

he keeps chatting away with some republican while MSNBC has already gone into detail. Wolf has not even announced yet.

This is the guy who got his ass whooped $65000 to -$5000 on Celebrity Jeopardy by ANDY RICHTER. Proving that Blitzer wouldn't even qualify as a SIDE KICK if he was auditioning for a late night talk show

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]

The same can be said of him.

But in lower-case letters-- always

given that he himself referred to another official of the U.S. government that way.

*So-Called Ruler of the US

"So-called president" might be even better (I'm sensitive to capitalization-- esp where HE is concerned)

Or if they are elected? Does he only get to appoint when they quit? I know some are lifetime.

The POTUS can't fire them. They would have to be impeached.

The courts are independent of the other two branches, may they be the ones to save us from the tyrants in the other two branches!

And now he has to deal with the battle with his nominee for SCOTUS.

A blow for sanity, which is in scant evidence in the other branches of government these days. Thank Goddess for the judiciary!

I sure hope that when this goes to SCOTUS that Kennedy sides with the moderate/liberals, otherwise things will be totally fucked with 2 courts and 2 decisions.

Now, if it goes to the USSC before Mr Trump's toady is seated, we could have a flashy 4-4 tie, which would mean the stay is upheld. Wouldn't that be nice?

-- Mal

Generally, federal overreach cases are JUST the kind of cases that Justice Kennedy crosses over on most of the time.

It's even possible that Justice Roberts would cross the line, especially after 45's verbal attacks on the judicial branch.

You need four justices for certiorari, right? Does that mean we could predict a 4-4 tie?

With the current SCOTUS numbering 8, I think a 4-4 split is the BEST case that #45 could possibly hope for. Not a chance that Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Breyer, or Kegan would decide to uphold the decision.

Kennedy has long been the wild card, and this is just the kind of federal overreach type of case he's famous for crossing over on.

Justice Roberts has at least a fair chance of crossing over and deciding in our favor. He's been fairly good about maintaining the decisions of the lower courts.

Alito and Thomas have a tendency to align their decisions with conservative causes, but in this case, especially with #45's criticism of the court, it's actually possible that the SCOTUS to give a unanimous decision to uphold the lower court decision..

Damn that would be a SWEEEEEEEEET result.

yes indeed

... and poor 45 won't be able to tweet "See you in court" after that.

However, on a sober note, it appears from things seen on the 'Net that some agencies are upholding the ban anyway. Makes no difference how the courts rule if the criminals won't follow the ruling.

-- Mal

Alito and Thomas for the dissent, sure, but Breyer should come down with the liberals on one (I would think) and that leaves Roberts. If he's feeling like the president is ignoring the court as a co-equal Branch, he will side with the liberals just to let the executive know he probably shouldn't be fucked with in his own house. I think this could be a nice test to see how much rope the executive will be extended by the Chief, but if they piss him off I think Roberts will have no problem jerking that leash a little.=)

I don't think it will be a tie, that's if the court even takes it to hear. A 3-0 decision is pretty airtight already...I would think the only reason to take it would be to closely examine an argument to overrurn, and that seems unlikley

I think a 4-4 split is about the worst we would face. I wouldn't even completely rule out Alito and Thomas making it a unanimous decision to uphold the lower court ruling in this particular case. That'd be a longer shot, but daaaaamn that would be sweeeeeet.

But it would have to be so airtight for Alito to agree that the slow chimp of the group could fix the concepts in their minds; any opportunity for him to be a dick and empower the Imperial Executive he will likely take (I think he might secretly be one of the better-educated Deplorables)

And now we are actually seeing the judicial branch (excluding the Supremes) step up to save us from the predators in the executive and legislative branches.

So, in a way, the system of checks and balances is finally starting to function.