Justice D E-I Cites "Black Codes" Which Stripped Post-Civil-War Blacks of Right to Bear Arms As Good Law In Order to Justify Endless Gun Control

Justice D-EI is making it as hard as possible for other DEI judges to ever get confirmed.

What were the Black Codes? They were post-Civil-War state laws enacted by the defeated Confederacy in spite.

They were almost immediately declared unconstitutional.

The Black Codes were a series of racially discriminatory laws enacted by Southern states immediately after the Civil War (primarily in 1865--1866) to restrict the rights and freedoms of newly emancipated African Americans (freedmen) and maintain white supremacy, often as a continuation of pre-war slave codes.
These laws frequently included provisions that severely restricted or outright prohibited Black people from owning, possessing, or carrying firearms (and often other weapons like Bowie knives or dirks). The intent was to disarm freed Black individuals, leaving them vulnerable to violence from white supremacists, including groups like the Ku Klux Klan, while preventing any potential armed resistance or self-defense against oppression.
Key examples from prominent Black Codes include:
Mississippi Black Codes (1865) -- One of the earliest and most explicit. In "An Act to punish certain offenses therein named, and for other purposes" (often part of the Penal Code section), it stated:
No freedman, free negro or mulatto, not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition, dirk or bowie knife...
Violations resulted in fines (up to $10), costs, forfeiture of the weapons/ammunition, and potential arrest by any civil or military officer. A license from a local police board was required, which was discretionary and rarely granted to Black individuals. Whites faced no such requirement.
South Carolina Black Codes (1865) -- Similar restrictions applied, stating that persons of color could not keep a firearm, sword, or other military weapon without written permission from a district judge or magistrate.
Louisiana (1865) -- Laws required consent before bringing firearms onto another's property, explicitly aimed at freedmen to disarm them.
Other Southern states adopted comparable measures, often requiring licenses (discretionary and biased against Black applicants) or imposing total bans on Black firearm possession unless in military service. These were not race-neutral; contemporary accounts and later analyses confirm they targeted freed Black people to prevent self-defense and enable terrorization.These disarmament provisions were short-lived in their original form -- many Black Codes were repealed or overridden by Reconstruction-era federal actions, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Freedmen's Bureau Act, and the Fourteenth Amendment (ratified 186, which aimed to protect freedmen's rights, including to bear arms against discriminatory state restrictions.The Black Codes' gun restrictions are widely recognized by historians and legal scholars as part of a broader pattern of racist gun control in U.S. history, designed to deny Black people the means of self-protection.

Justice D E-I needed some kind of precedent to "prove" her argument that the Constitution allows governments to strip citizens of their right to bear arms as it pleases. She wants to uphold a Hawaiian law that strips citizens of their Second Amendment rights.

So this genius decided to cite the Black Codes as good law which should control in gun control cases.

Specifically, the Bruen ruling says that we should look at the history and tradition of the Second Amendment in the US to determine if a new gun control law is constitutional.

She decides that the Black Codes are part of that tradition -- even though they were ruled unconstitutional days after they were passed. She says they were on the books for a couple of weeks (before being repealed or ruled unconstitutional), so why shouldn't we take them as good constitutional law? After all, this MacArthur Genius Grant candidate reasons, they were only ruled unconstitutional later, after they were passed.

Note to Justice D E-I: All laws ruled unconstituional are so ruled later, after they're passed. You can't rule on a law before it's passed. Not only is that nonsensical Because of How Time Works, but the Supreme Court actually forbids what it calls "advisory opinions," or opinions of the Court about whether a law would be constitutional, if it were passed. The Court ruled that only actual "cases and controversies" -- real cases -- could be adjudicated by the court, and never any future hypothetical ones. The Constitution just doesn't allow for that.

But sure she's qualified like the Wise Latina is.

Principal Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris’s response to Justice Gorsuch’s question on the relevance of the Black Codes was spot on:

“It is 2026, and it is somewhat astonishing that Black Codes, which are unconstitutional, are being offered as evidence of what our tradition… pic.twitter.com/Xt9Bg7HY0K
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) January 20, 2026

Must Listen: Justice Alito reveals the obvious irony of citing the Black Codes as justification for Hawaii’s 2023 firearm restriction law.

“They wanted to disarm the Black population in order to help the Klan terrorize them...they wanted to put them at the mercy of racist law… pic.twitter.com/GHerQmmM7C
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) January 20, 2026

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson draws sharp pushback from Gorsuch, Alito, and Roberts after invoking unconstitutional Black Codes to defend Hawaii’s gun restrictions under the Bruen test. pic.twitter.com/9cs7sGUf4Q
— Robert Gouveia Esq. (@RobGouveiaEsq) January 21, 2026

Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical.

Posted by: Ace at 02:54 PM

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1 I don't understand.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 21, 2026 02:55 PM (HXT0k)

2 Hey there!

Posted by: Doof at January 21, 2026 02:55 PM (3r1VB)

3 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2026 02:55 PM (FMAqD)

4 Doof!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 02:56 PM (bFu5X)

5 Any port in a storm for leftists. Who cares about hypocrisy when you have no shame?

Posted by: Gaff at January 21, 2026 02:56 PM (EqzMw)

6 The Black Code

The Black Code Talkers were instrumental at the beach invasion of Iwo Jima.

Japanese could not translate the ebonics.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 21, 2026 02:57 PM (w9Wax)

7 As to further destruction of the irony meter, native Hawaiians are very racist toward non-natives.

So, we have a black woman citing racist laws to uphold a racist law written by racists.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 21, 2026 02:57 PM (HXT0k)

8 ‘How many bubbles in this bar of soap?’
- Poll Captain

Posted by: Eromero at January 21, 2026 02:58 PM (yw3eV)

9 Jumanji needs some new Law Clerks...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 21, 2026 02:58 PM (VE6XX)

10 "Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical."

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That is not who we are!
Murkowski
Collins
Grassley
Rand Paul

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 21, 2026 02:59 PM (9mw3J)

11 Listen up Raciest Honky Rednecks Bastards .....

Once you go black, you never go back..

So, stick your Stars and Bars Flag up your White Supremist Ass ....

Posted by: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at January 21, 2026 02:59 PM (X7dyz)

12 The markets sure jumped up the last half hour. Sudden optimism. Did the Supreme Court rule on the tariffs? Did Denmark sell Greenland?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 21, 2026 02:59 PM (jc0TO)

13 Serious question, can Supreme Court judges be impeached?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM (zb4y7)

14 Imagine if Kavanaugh had supported Black Laws in oral argument.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

15 12 The markets sure jumped up the last half hour. Sudden optimism. Did the Supreme Court rule on the tariffs? Did Denmark sell Greenland?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 21, 2026 02:59 PM (jc0TO)

I was wondering about that too...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM (VE6XX)

16 DEI or no. That chick's just retarded.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM (dK+Kv)

17 if she had a modicum of self-awareness she would resign

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 21, 2026 03:01 PM (emBoF)

18 What were the Black Codes?

Laws that dems enacted.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 21, 2026 03:01 PM (zHVsH)

19 Japanese govt. bond rates were, according to Bessent - who made his living successfully playing exactly these markets and topics - the cause of yesterday's market movement.

I only know what I read in the papers.

But Bessent is pretty credible when discussing the bond markets.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 21, 2026 03:01 PM (U/Byj)

20 Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical.

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"But I love going to the opera with her."
-Zombie Alito

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

21 Guess the parties didn't switch after all....

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (wEF4H)

22 There is no such thing as a male or female in this world...

People are either birthing persons or not.......

Posted by: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Jeferson Davis King Cobra Tongue at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (J9q9v)

23 Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq jump as Trump says US, NATO have 'framework' of a deal for Greenland

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (jc0TO)

24 "The markets sure jumped up the last half hour"

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"Dow rallies 600 points after Trump calls off Europe tariffs related to Greenland"

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (9mw3J)

25 On what basis could you impeach her? I think stupidity doesn't qualify. I think only one SC Justice was impeached - Samuel Chase ? - he continued to serve somehow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (ix8EF)

26 Serious question, can Supreme Court judges be impeached?
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM

Yes. And shall hold office "during good behavior". No high crimes or misdemeanors needed, afaik.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (bFu5X)

27 I am thinking she needs a buzzer on her chair. Every time she does something like this, Kagan zaps her so she shuts up.

Did it dawn on her she was making an argument for the other side? .

Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (OoFl2)

28 codes experiencing blackness

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

29 My guess is one of her clerks asked an AI bot for examples where the government had taken away people's 2nd Amendment rights away before and weil...it told her just not all of the specifics...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

30 It is in fact a great benefit to have this mumbling leftwing Step’n’fetchit on display weekly as the exemplar of Leftist thought. I can’t thing of any thing that would discredit them more than this.

The notorious RBG was hard left, but she was very smart about and knew how to make intellectually consistent arguments. Her corpse must be spinning like a top.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (y4wXR)

31 And you thought I was retarded.
- Tampon Tim Walz

Posted by: Really?? at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (Ryx1w)

32 Stocks surged upward in the afternoon from earlier, smaller gains after Trump posted to Truth Social saying that he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had reached a framework for a deal on Greenland and the surrounding Arctic region.

The post comes after Trump struck a less aggressive tone on Greenland in his keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, calling for "immediate negotiations" and saying that the US wouldn't use force to gain control of the Danish territory.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (jc0TO)

33 She will never understand.

Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (ZcsJV)

34 23 Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq jump as Trump says US, NATO have 'framework' of a deal for Greenland

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (jc0TO)

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Oh, look...the thing that the left had talked up, military action in Greenland, that never had a chance of actually happening is not happening.

Everyone buy!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

35 I'm probably more intelligent than Judge Jumanji, and I'm a f***ing idiot.

Posted by: XTC at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (iXqHn)

36 Justice D E I has a ball of timey wimey, that's why she can justify the black codes

Posted by: Blanco at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (q83gU)

37
Why Racist 'Black Code' Laws Are the Dictionary Definition of True Conservatary Conservatism and Why Only a Racist Would Oppose Them

The Bulwark

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (wEF4H)

38 >>>13 Serious question, can Supreme Court judges be impeached?

yup

I assume incompetence is a justification for it.

Posted by: ace at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (1wjle)

39 26 Serious question, can Supreme Court judges be impeached?
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM

Yes. And shall hold office "during good behavior". No high crimes or misdemeanors needed, afaik.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (bFu5X)

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Will 24 Democrats in the Senate and all GOP Senators vote to convict?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

40 And you thought I was retarded.
- Tampon Tim Walz

No...we know you're retarded.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (bFu5X)

41 Did it dawn on her she was making an argument for the other side? .
Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (OoFl2)

I highly doubt that. To realize this would mean that she had an ounce of self-awareness and/or intelligence. There is nothing in the record to support either assertion.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (a/dOO)

42 Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical.

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She's the DEI Affirmative Action poster child.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (L/fGl)

43 Yesterday is forgotten by liberals, because only the fight of today matters.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (0U5gm)

44 Woohoo! Finally, 3/5 is back on the table, boys!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (dGCAG)

45 Will 24 Democrats in the Senate and all GOP Senators vote to convict?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM

Oh, fu*k no!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (bFu5X)

46 Didn't the Hawaiian attorneys also bring up some law of King Kamehameha's?

So, Black Codes and monarchy. You go with that, lefties.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

47 Wait. You don't think Democrats don't actually give a shit about blacks or racism or history or anything else besides pure wretched power, do you?

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (wEF4H)

48 "Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical."
Name a democrat (male of female, besides Fetterlump) that doesn't fit this description...

Posted by: UncleJefe at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (gAuAm)

49 Trump does nots like persins of coler and his breath stinks two.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (KYCXs)

50 But, according to my hate feed, SCOTUS will have to use this case to over-turn Braun.

Because, it argued, the Braun test, historical precedent in existence at the time of the Founding, is unworkable--according to several judges who are writing opinions trying to reverse Braun.

The argument is, if I can understand it, is that we just can't know what laws are the laws we're supposed to rely upon as parallels.
Basically, deliberately confusing the issue since there were so few restrictions--but we must have restrictions!

And Stupid Jackson is, poorly, trying to echo that, she's citing these laws, trying to make is seem like the historical laws that Braun referred to, can and must include ... laws passed decades to centuries later!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (HXT0k)

51 39 26 Serious question, can Supreme Court judges be impeached?
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 21, 2026 03:00 PM

Her nomination should be ruled invalid.. Biden was unfit to serve...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (VE6XX)

52 Gubz iz bayud.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (Kt19C)

53 45 Will 24 Democrats in the Senate and all GOP Senators vote to convict?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM

Oh, fu*k no!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM (bFu5X)

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So, impeachment is failure theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

54 29 My guess is one of her clerks asked an AI bot for examples where the government had taken away people's 2nd Amendment rights away before and weil...it told her just not all of the specifics...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 21, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

That explanation is so stupid that it has to be the truth.

Of course a DEI Judge would have a staff full of DEI clerks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (y4wXR)

55 Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical.
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Further, Biden promised to appoint a woman. But we can't be sure s/he/it is one. So out s/he/it goes.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (s0JqF)

56 Are we sure she passed any bar exam? Has anyone actually verified this?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (Vvh2V)

57 The notorious RBG was hard left, but she was very smart about and knew how to make intellectually consistent arguments. Her corpse must be spinning like a top.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January

RBG was pretty racist, so I am thinking she wouldn’t be happy regardless. What I find stunning is the Women of the Left who fawn over her words like she is the equivalent of Socrates.

Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (OoFl2)

58 I thought the stylebook was Affirmative Action Jackson

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (wEF4H)

59 Crooked Joe's Reign of Error fuckups continue.

Of course it's not just him, how many Republicans voted to confirm her?

Posted by: Thrawn at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (9Ovst)

60 I assume incompetence is a justification for it.
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (1wjle)

That's what SHE said.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM (dGCAG)

61 Gubz iz bayud.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 21, 2026 03:05 PM

Dah rye

Posted by: Gabby Giffords at January 21, 2026 03:07 PM (jc0TO)

62 I am thinking she needs a buzzer on her chair. Every time she does something like this, Kagan zaps her so she shuts up.

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Or maybe a gong like on The Gong Show.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 21, 2026 03:07 PM (L/fGl)

63 Jumanji Jackson is a bare-ass embarrassment.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 21, 2026 03:07 PM (CNXyM)

64 Her nomination should be ruled invalid.. Biden was unfit to serve...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 21, 2026

But she was confirmed and the critters from our side of the forest helped that happen.

Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (OoFl2)

65 I just want Thomas and Alito to retire this year, replaced by 40 year old clones of themselves, and for Sotomayor to decide to spend more time with her donuts as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

66 The Left claims Margaret Sanger gave a speech to the KKK about systematically eliminating black people because she "had to" because that was the style at the time. And they say it like *you're* the idiot.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (wEF4H)

67 So, impeachment is failure theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM

I never said it wasn't. I only said that it was possible, not probable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (bFu5X)

68 The idiotic KBJ comment is just a spectacular rendition of the underlying farce of the whole "debate" or judicial tussle.

Instead of "looking to the history and tradition of the 2A", how about, you know, *looking at the 2A itself*.

Pretty stark example of the enormous coral reef of court-made law that has rendered the constitution merely a suggestion.

Imagine the ridiculous concept of "originalism" applied to, say, your mortgage documents. "Sorry, but this is not what was meant when I said I'd pay back the loan".

Posted by: rhomboid at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (U/Byj)

69 Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical....

I would add super retarded without the benefit of having super retard strength.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (KDPiq)

70 62 Or maybe a gong like on The Gong Show.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 21, 2026 03:07 PM (L/fGl)

Gene Gene the Dancing Machine would make a better SCOTUS than Judge Jumanji.

Posted by: XTC at January 21, 2026 03:09 PM (iXqHn)

71 64 But she was confirmed and the critters from our side of the forest helped that happen.

Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (OoFl2)

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Well, 3 of the GOP Senators.

And one of them isn't in Congress anymore (Romney).

Worst performance by a Dem nominated SCOTUS appointee in history.

So, that's a nice salve of some sorts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

72 I say Sheet Bro that's not what we be talking about when it comes to Black Laws.

You honky racist rednecks need to listen to my hero Reverend Al and get onboard.

I am nots talking Ebonics here because you be too damn dumb to understand persons of color language white craker.

Posted by: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Jeferson Davis King Cobra Tongue at January 21, 2026 03:09 PM (J9q9v)

73 But she was confirmed and the critters from our side of the forest helped that happen.
Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (OoFl2)

That's why I don't live in the woods.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2026 03:09 PM (dGCAG)

74 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??

Posted by: dantesed at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (Oy/m2)

75 Justice DEI sounds, to me like someone who doesn't do much, if any, homework.

Her basic premise is off - once something is ruled unconstitutional it is considered unconstitutional for all time, including the time when it was considered constitutional. It is fully retroactive. A judge would never, ever say "well it once was unconstitutional, now it isn't." Nope once ruled constitutional, always unconstitutional. That is how the law works. Unless that ruling is overturned, there is nothing to discuss.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (vOtXJ)

76 67 So, impeachment is failure theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:06 PM

I never said it wasn't. I only said that it was possible, not probable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (bFu5X)

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Yeah, I know.

I just...get tired of the impeachment talk. It's everywhere about everything, and no one ever addresses the second half: the Senate trial.

If you have no chance of winning at the Senate trial, then don't do the impeachment. It ultimately just strengthens the impeached individual politically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

77 Don’t impeach her at all! Leave her there as a weekly display as to the absolute ignorance and incompetence of DEI hires.

She’s a laughing stock to us, a permanent embarrassment to the left (at least those few who can still think). She’s the living proof that credentialism pushes drooling, mumbling retards to the very top of our institutions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (y4wXR)

78 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??

Posted by: dantesed

Paper clips have a practical value.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (0U5gm)

79
Paper clips have a use......

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (3ek7K)

80 74 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??
Posted by: dantesed at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (Oy/m2)

You'll be hearing from our Lawyers

Posted by: Paper clips international at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (VE6XX)

81 So, impeachment is failure theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Which is the reason that Parliament quit doing it. Back when Parliament was fighting kings, it allowed an avenue to attack the king via his ministers without being able to charged with treason (see Earl of Buckingham for example). When UK kings receded in power, during the 1700's, it became a useless thing for Parliament to do.

Under a party system, the Democrats will never vote to impeach and convict a Dem and only a few famous 'principled' types like Cassidy, Romney, or Murcow would cross the aisle to do it to a GOP president. Just to make it bipartisan reach arounding.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

82 65 I just want Thomas and Alito to retire this year, replaced by 40 year old clones of themselves, and for Sotomayor to decide to spend more time with her donuts as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

It's time for her Diabetes to evolve into Deadabetes.

Posted by: XTC at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (iXqHn)

83 Didn't the Hawaiian attorneys also bring up some law of King Kamehameha's?

Yes, that's right. The No Kings left cited a king.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (2ocoG)

84 On what basis could you impeach her? I think stupidity doesn't qualify. I think only one SC Justice was impeached - Samuel Chase ? - he continued to serve somehow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (ix8EF)

You can impeach her for having cobwebs in her noggin. Getting a conviction is another story. 67 stories to be exact.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (k1gZr)

85 There is a reason why she so frequently says "I don't understand." She really doesn't. I feel like I'm watching a first term law student in class challenging the professor.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (vOtXJ)

86 Gene Gene the Dancing Machine would make a better SCOTUS than Judge Jumanji.
Posted by: XTC

Torgo from Manos, the Hands of Fate would make a better SCOUS justice than Jumanji.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

87 82 65 I just want Thomas and Alito to retire this year, replaced by 40 year old clones of themselves, and for Sotomayor to decide to spend more time with her donuts as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

It's time for her Diabetes to evolve into Deadabetes.

Posted by: XTC at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (iXqHn)

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I remember seeing her at Trump's inauguration and thinking she looked like shit and would pass soon.

His...first inauguration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

88 Did you ever see eight people roll their eyes at the same time? This is one reason why we'll never see live video of the Supreme C.ourt

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (22dac)

89 69 Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical....

I would add super retarded without the benefit of having super retard strength.

Posted by: Opinion fact

I don't understand this comment.

Posted by: Supreme KBJ at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (Dv3i1)

90 >>>Note to Justice D E-I: All laws ruled unconstituional are so ruled later, after they're passed. You can't rule on a law before it's passed. Not only is that nonsensical Because of How Time Works, but the Supreme Court actually forbids what it calls "advisory opinions," or opinions of the Court about whether a law would be constitutional, if it were passed.

that sounds like some serious whitesplaining there mister

a black woman is speaking -- listen and learn

Posted by: Justice Jumanji Kia Sorento Jackson at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (jGJov)

91 >> Because, it argued, the Braun test,

Like Wernher Von Braun, the Nazi? His test might be something like tying a Jew to a rocket or something similar.

I think you meant Bruen.

Posted by: That Guy at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (IfQzb)

92 I think only one SC Justice was impeached - Samuel Chase ? - he continued to serve somehow.
>>>>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2026 03:02 PM (ix8EF)

That's not what impeachment means.

Posted by: Same Old at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (OuiFV)

93 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??
Posted by: dantesed at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM

"It looks like you're trying to write a Supreme Court Decision..."

Posted by: Associate Justice Clippy at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (bFu5X)

94 It ultimately just strengthens the impeached individual politically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

Something tells me that theory is going to be tested... in about a year.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

95 Kunta Kinte Brown Jackson is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with her, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (IKhxE)

96 if she had a modicum of self-awareness she would resign
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Well that right there explains why it'll never happen...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (zHVsH)

97 This is what we get for allowing an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (0U5gm)

98 Something just made me remember " the fickle finger of fate"

Posted by: Ben Had at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (0KSrI)

99 King Kamehameha's law of come on I wanna lay ya.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (L/fGl)

100 She is such an embarrassment. But hey - if she wants to get guns out of the hands of black people, who am I to argue?

Lord knows the criminals will just hand over their firearms like the decent law-abiding citizens that they are 🙄🙄🙄

Oh, and Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (SRRAx)

101 81 Under a party system, the Democrats will never vote to impeach and convict a Dem and only a few famous 'principled' types like Cassidy, Romney, or Murcow would cross the aisle to do it to a GOP president. Just to make it bipartisan reach arounding.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

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It's one of the flaws in the Constitution.

I don't know what could replace it, but it is based on the unspoken assumption that political parties wouldn't form.

Oh, I know...Limiting government power so that a bad president or elected official or judge can't fuck up that much!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

102 Under a party system, the Democrats will never vote to impeach and convict a Dem and only a few famous 'principled' types like Cassidy, Romney, or Murcow would cross the aisle to do it to a GOP president. Just to make it bipartisan reach arounding.
Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

Cassidy's bullshit on why he voted "Yes" on Trump's second bullshit impeachment (without any formal hearings...etc, etc), is why I voting to primary him out this year. Hopefully it sticks, but we'll just see.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (9Ovst)

103 I actually love listening to her talk. Her ever utterance undermines leftist's ideas.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (vOtXJ)

104 I think short of a miracle we are well and truly stuck with her for a long time to come.

At least she will be an on-going example of the danger and damage this whole DEI thing does and will be a continual reminder of just how bad Sleepy Joe and the Auto Pen really were, even if he did 'answer all the questions....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (QGaXH)

105 Seriously, if I was Alito, I would have turned to her as said, What the f**k is wrong with you b***h?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (XV/Pl)

106 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??

Posted by: dantesed at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (Oy/m2)

Hey!

Posted by: The paper clips at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (wEF4H)

107 Didn't the Hawaiian attorneys also bring up some law of King Kamehameha's?
Yes, that's right. The No Kings left cited a king.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (2ocoG)

What is wrong with King's Hawaiian Bread ??

You people are clueless when comes great tasting bread !!!
And you call me a bag of rocks ???

Posted by: Kami Harris at January 21, 2026 03:13 PM (Es4vZ)

108 Which is the reason that Parliament quit doing it.
Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

Yeah, but what about Funkadelic.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2026 03:14 PM (dGCAG)

109 I just...get tired of the impeachment talk. It's everywhere about everything, and no one ever addresses the second half: the Senate trial.

If you have no chance of winning at the Senate trial, then don't do the impeachment. It ultimately just strengthens the impeached individual politically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Used strategically, impeachment is like a supercharged investigation vehicle (due to Scotus precedents) of the executive branch. Like how Parliament originally used the impeachment, it is best directed at government ministers and judges rather than Presidents or VPs.

But Congress nowadays is probably unable to function legislatively except when absolutely required like some sort of continuing resolution on spending and some rare oddball bipartisan bills.

It has taken itself out of the game intentionally so as to better feed their grift.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)

110 Trump does nots like persins of coler and his breath stinks two.
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein
****
Misspelled your own name, dummy.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 21, 2026 03:14 PM (LdBR/)

111 94 It ultimately just strengthens the impeached individual politically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

Something tells me that theory is going to be tested... in about a year.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

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Trump was impeached twice and came back and won the presidency again anyway.

If Democrats take the House (they probably will, barely) and spend all their time impeaching a president whose going to be out of office in less than two years anyway...all while ICE keeps deporting hundreds of millions of people a year and DOJ keeps suing to have voter rolls cleaned up...

Well, they can have their moral victories.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

112 78 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??

Posted by: dantesed

Paper clips have a practical value.

Sheeeeit, I can't even help her

Posted by: Clippy the Microsoft assistant at January 21, 2026 03:14 PM (HcoTw)

113
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a black afro-american wymyn of color.

She, by definition, cannot be a raciss.

Posted by: Auspex at January 21, 2026 03:14 PM (Y8DZL)

114 After she's impeached and removed from the Supreme Court for retardation, her pension will consist of forty acres and a mule, ,just to be consistent.

Posted by: zombie at January 21, 2026 03:15 PM (se8lQ)

115 King Kamehameha's law of come on I wanna lay ya.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

On top of Mount Iwannahockaloogie.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

116 I'm probably more intelligent than Judge Jumanji, and I'm a f***ing idiot.
Posted by: XTC at January 21, 2026 03:04 PM (iXqHn)
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My cats' toe fungus is more intelligent, so that's not a very high bar.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 21, 2026 03:15 PM (ESVrU)

117 Posted by: Same Old at January 21, 2026 03:11 PM (OuiFV

I didn't think they were the same thing, Just noting it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2026 03:15 PM (PFs9e)

118 I believe the "I don't understand" phrase is just a crutch. What she means is "I disagree" and follows up with her argument. Such as it is.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 21, 2026 03:15 PM (22dac)

119
Like Wernher Von Braun, the Nazi? His test might be something like tying a Jew to a rocket or something similar.

I think you meant Bruen.

Posted by: That Guy

Von Braun wrote a book, 'I Reach for the Stars.'

A British reviewer added the subtitle, But Sometimes I Hit London.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:15 PM (0U5gm)

120 Let's replace her with a box of paper clips. Would anyone know the difference??
Posted by: dantesed at January 21, 2026 03:10 PM

"It looks like you're trying to write a Supreme Court Decision..."
Posted by: Associate Justice Clippy at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (bFu5X)

LOL!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 21, 2026 03:16 PM (PSEDc)

121 Citing overturned precedent to support your argument is actually allowed due to the legal principle of "Black Gurl Magic"

Posted by: the more you know at January 21, 2026 03:16 PM (jGJov)

122 I only wish Justice DEI had shared the bench with Scalia. Oh Gawd, the verbal bear downs would have been epic.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 21, 2026 03:16 PM (8yx7s)

123 Would it be ironic if she were carried away on shoulders of hooded men and then lynched? Metaphorically, of course.

Posted by: epador at January 21, 2026 03:16 PM (TRnzq)

124 Well, 3 of the GOP Senators.

And one of them isn't in Congress anymore (Romney).

Worst performance by a Dem nominated SCOTUS appointee in history.

So, that's a nice salve of some sorts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

Yes, the mangey, wormy critters known as Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. Not shocking, of course, but the resided / reside (technically) on our side.

Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:16 PM (OoFl2)

125 The "I don't understand" gambit is old stale passive aggressive shit designed to get the person talking more. The more they say, the more you can twist to your ends. Anyone who has been in an argument with {clears throat}, can rightfully attest to this.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:16 PM (wEF4H)

126 "It looks like you're trying to write a Supreme Court Decision..."
Posted by: Associate Justice Clippy at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (bFu5X)

👏

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 21, 2026 03:17 PM (KDPiq)

127 "It looks like you're trying to write a Supreme Court Decision..."
Posted by: Associate Justice Clippy at January 21, 2026 03:12 PM (bFu5X)

Ok that was good

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:17 PM (wEF4H)

128 Well, if she's that into racist old laws, starting today, all black ballots count as 3/5 of a vote. Totally legit, according to her legal reasoning.

Posted by: zombie at January 21, 2026 03:17 PM (se8lQ)

129 Hundreds of thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from the U.S.

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Straight trade!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 21, 2026 03:17 PM (L/fGl)

130 Well, when the Left takes back power they plan to stack the court so the majority reflects the Ketanji Brown Jackson types, but even more radical.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (NpAcC)

131 I just want Thomas and Alito to retire this year, replaced by 40 year old clones of themselves

I know nothing about Alito, but I expect Thomas is looking to retire. But… who are the clones?

What this Senate has done in the last year doesn’t exactly give me confidence.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (CSK7p)

132 Sarah Harris is so beautifully spoken, here.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (SSiCQ)

133 Jackson isn’t an embarrassment. She’s doing exactly what she was put on the court to do. Read up on some of the legal theories and concepts she’s an adherent of. That any senator voted to confirm this purposeful buffoon is pathetic.

Ahem, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney. This is your gal. You must be so proud.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (khrVb)

134 Who is she an embarrassment to really?

She can't say what a woman is, and she was still confirmed. So you think she or the people who support her are capable of embarrassment?

The Court as an institution is embarrassed? It's not really that respectable an institution.

All she's really guilty of is being too stupid or too Soviet to know she should dissemble like Kagan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (eO11x)

135 My hate feed is also strongly wishcasting that SCOTUS will uphold Humphries and allow Lisa Cook to stay.

They cite to the pointed questions of ACB and Kavanaugh along the lines of "what comes next if we [over rule it]?"

And the horror of horrors was that ... future Presidents could fire the entire Fed and appoint their own.
Well, that's pretty weak.

1) Rulings should not be forward-looking. And I don't think there's any opinions from those two that say, "we don't think this is Constitutional but we're going to have to leave it 'cause it'll cause problems."
2) That doesn't address the Constitutional issue, that the Fed's "independence" has no place under our Constitutional order of each branch having political accountability.
3) If I want to wishcast, it's those two are probing the future dissent argument, that those, exposing that future concerns are not a basis for finding constitutionalality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (HXT0k)

136 Ace, what's your source for the gray block quote?

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (SSiCQ)

137 Clerking for this lunatic will not be a resume enhancer

Posted by: Ben Had at January 21, 2026 03:19 PM (0KSrI)

138 It's one of the flaws in the Constitution.

I don't know what could replace it, but it is based on the unspoken assumption that political parties wouldn't form.

Oh, I know...Limiting government power so that a bad president or elected official or judge can't fuck up that much!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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We are not the same people nor culture that created the Constitution and using Scotus and the judiciary as a continuing Constitutional Convention was a horrible idea.

My sad conclusion is that sooner or later the system will fail and we will get some sort of despot, king, or worse, a corrupt aristocracy that sells out the country to the point where the system ends in catastrophe or tear itself apart in a civil war.

There will be some sort of America with people in it but what that will look like depends on just exactly how the Republic fails.

But we fight today regardless as Trump is on the side of angels in this fight, not the Democrats in service to Stan.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

139 131 I just want Thomas and Alito to retire this year, replaced by 40 year old clones of themselves

I know nothing about Alito, but I expect Thomas is looking to retire. But… who are the clones?

What this Senate has done in the last year doesn’t exactly give me confidence.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (CSK7p)

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Alito is actually rumored to be retiring this year.

And the rumored replacement is Andrew Oldham from the Fifth Circuit.

RUMORS!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

140 its like a traffic ticket, now, it doesn't matter except it's own goal

Posted by: miguel cervantes at January 21, 2026 03:19 PM (bXbFr)

141 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson draws sharp pushback from Gorsuch, Alito, and Roberts after invoking unconstitutional Black Codes to defend Hawaii’s gun restrictions under the Bruen test."

Nevertheless Roberts will do whatever Jackson tells him to do.

Posted by: Mhandisi at January 21, 2026 03:19 PM (Sq0ye)

142 Hundreds of thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from the U.S.

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Straight trade!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Works for me. They could move the capital to Solvang.

The Euros really don't understand us, do they?

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:19 PM (77rzZ)

143 well the clerts are probably as moonbatty,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (bXbFr)

144 ThInKiNg ClEaRlY aNd MaKiNg SeNsE iS wHiTe SuPrEmAcY!!!

Posted by: Courtney X, Eskwire at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (qUkBO)

145 Supreme Court justices can be impeached but it takes a 2/3 vote of the senate to make it happen.

I think we'd have more of a chance of getting the 37 or so states needed to pass a constitutional amendment ending her term upon passage of the amendment.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (QGaXH)

146 145 Supreme Court justices can be impeached but it takes a 2/3 vote of the senate to make it happen.

I think we'd have more of a chance of getting the 37 or so states needed to pass a constitutional amendment ending her term upon passage of the amendment.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (QGaXH)

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"It takes a majority of the House to impeach. It takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict."
-Pedant

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

147

Kamala and Ketjani for president and VP!!

What a shitshow that would be, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:21 PM (3ek7K)

148 What Justice Alitio has said here is a tearjerker. It sounds like he is tapping on his desk to emphasize his points toward the end.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:21 PM (SSiCQ)

149 >>Hundreds of thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from the U.S.

LOL

They couldn't afford to buy Fire Island.

Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2026 03:22 PM (ZcsJV)

150 I'd sell California but no country could afford my price.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 21, 2026 03:22 PM (KDPiq)

151 Kamala and Ketjani for president and VP!!

What a shitshow that would be, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons

Venn diagrams showing the similarities and differences in the various states' black codes.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

152 Well, if she's that into racist old laws, starting today, all black ballots count as 3/5 of a vote. Totally legit, according to her legal reasoning.

Without setting bounds to the lower limits of her legal reasoning, the Constitution’s 3/5 persons count is specifically not citizens (“free persons”). Citizens and 3/5 persons are mutually exclusive.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:23 PM (CSK7p)

153 1) Rulings should not be forward-looking. And I don't think there's any opinions from those two that say, "we don't think this is Constitutional but we're going to have to leave it 'cause it'll cause problems."
2) That doesn't address the Constitutional issue, that the Fed's "independence" has no place under our Constitutional order of each branch having political accountability.
3) If I want to wishcast, it's those two are probing the future dissent argument, that those, exposing that future concerns are not a basis for finding constitutionalality.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Anything about the Fed is obiter dictum. Basically when allowing firings at the NLRB or other bodies, the Court, by rejecting the injunctions already indicate that the executive is likely to prevail for the injunctions to be dissolved.

Retaining the injunction preventing Cook (or Powell if it comes to it) from being removed for cause means simply that the district court has to develop a fact pattern at trial as to what is cause. That requires a judicial opinion as to what statutory language 'cause' means (which the higher court has no requirement to follow) in the Federal Reserve Act, etc.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:23 PM (E4rtv)

154 Let's look to international law. Germany in the 1930s had some pretty restrictive gun laws. Don't they provide a good model for us to follow?

Posted by: Ketanji Jackson Brown at January 21, 2026 03:23 PM (0e5Te)

155 150 I'd sell California but no country could afford my price.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 21, 2026 03:22 PM (KDPiq)

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I'd sell California to Denmark, pocket the money, and then invade California with an army to suppress the communist uprising.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

156 >>>We are not the same people nor culture that created the Constitution and using Scotus and the judiciary as a continuing Constitutional Convention was a horrible idea.

yeah that's the reality of it

Posted by: brak at January 21, 2026 03:24 PM (jGJov)

157 >>I'd sell California but no country could afford my price.

No.

Though, I'd sell them the Californians real cheap.

Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2026 03:24 PM (ZcsJV)

158 Is KBJ making her argument earnestly or taking one for team gun-grabber?

Posted by: mr tmz at January 21, 2026 03:24 PM (rJ48h)

159 They can have California for no less than a farthing.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:24 PM (wEF4H)

160 >>Hundreds of thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from the U.S.

they're offering to pay in LEGOs

Posted by: brak at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (jGJov)

161 Normally I'd try to come up with some way to crack a joke at this dumbass's expense, but she's too fucking stupid for anything to be funny.

At some point this pants-shitting clown went to college, graduated, took the LSAT and scored high enough to get into law school, graduated from that, passed the bar, and eventually got her wide ass installed in the highest court in the land with a lifetime appointment.

It's a pretty impressive indictment of our educational, judiciary, and political systems all at once.

God help us.

Posted by: ballistic at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (5aZAZ)

162 125 The "I don't understand" gambit is old stale passive aggressive shit designed to get the person talking more. The more they say, the more you can twist to your ends. Anyone who has been in an argument with {clears throat}, can rightfully attest to this.
Posted by: ...
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I don't get it.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (E4rtv)

163 Romney, Collins, and Murkowski voted to confirm this illiterate goof.

Sad!

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (9mw3J)

164 More Cultural Marxists BS

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (Ia/+0)

165 162 I don't get it.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (E4rtv)

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hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

166 There is no system one can set up in the earthly realm that could not be used to undermine and destroy itself by bad actors. That's the reality of it but you can't say they didn't try.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (wEF4H)

167 hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

I don't get it.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (wEF4H)

168 Though, I'd sell them the Californians real cheap.
Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2026 03:24 PM (ZcsJV)

I'm not going to Denmark !

Posted by: It's me donna at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (VE6XX)

169 I know nothing about Alito, but I expect Thomas is looking to retire. But… who are the clones?

Judge Ho* of the 5th Circuit for one.

* Yeah, yeah. Make your little joke and move along.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (Fs0KI)

170 163 Romney, Collins, and Murkowski voted to confirm this illiterate goof.

Sad!

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (9mw3J)

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Collins' vote doesn't bother me as much as the other two.

I always assume that Collins does these things to win in ME: vote against us in votes that are going to win anyway whether she votes for it or not.

She's a political survivor, and I kind of respect that.

Romney and Murkowski, though, did it because they hate us. I'm convinced of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

171 If it's still there, Andersen's bakery restaurant on State Street in Santa Barbara is better than any comparable place in Solvang. Same Danish thing going on, but excellent food. State Street sadly is now a touristy Disneyland sort of crappy thing, but whatayagonnado.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (U/Byj)

172 Justice Action Jackson probably thought anything named the Black Codes have to be good. It's right there in the name.

It was the awful White Codes that is racist.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (E4rtv)

173 167 hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

I don't get it.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (wEF4H)

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hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

174 131
...
What this Senate has done in the last year doesn’t exactly give me confidence.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:18 PM (CSK7p)

What HAS the Senate done in the last year? I'll wait.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (N39Ws)

175 Hundreds of thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from the U.S.

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Straight trade!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Works for me. They could move the capital to Solvang.

The Euros really don't understand us, do they?
Posted by: Bulg

Dear Denmark,
This is your lucky day! As an added bonus, you will receive Oregon & Washington State.

The only string attached is, you cannot give away, sell, loan or remotely give them away.

They. Are. Yours.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (FMAqD)

176 Though, I'd sell them the Californians real cheap.

Everything west of Otisville. I want to keep Otisville.

Posted by: Gene Hackman at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (CSK7p)

177 Have a black justice cite black codes in defense of disarming people in defiance of the second amendment is got to be one of the saddest spectacles in Supreme Court History.

Also, hysterical.

Next, she'll argue we once had segregation, so it is perfectly fine to segregate.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (vOtXJ)

178 159 They can have California for no less than a farthing.
Posted by: ...

But then I'd have to sell it for a centime!

(Kudos to the first person who gets the literary reference.)

Posted by: zombie at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (se8lQ)

179 I'm not going to Denmark !
Posted by: It's me donna at January 21, 2026 03:26 PM (VE6XX)

You'll Go and You'll Like It !

Posted by: Judge Smails at January 21, 2026 03:28 PM (KDPiq)

180 174
What HAS the Senate done in the last year? I'll wait.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (N39Ws)

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Been ground to a halt because Democrats are denying unanimous consent for all Trump appointee votes, forcing the floor to be used exclusively for debate on the appointment of the sub manager of some agency or other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

181 Also, pretty retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 21, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)

182 >>>What HAS the Senate done in the last year? I'll wait.

money for Ukraine, of course

Posted by: brak at January 21, 2026 03:28 PM (jGJov)

183 Next, she'll argue we once had segregation, so it is perfectly fine to segregate.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (vOtXJ)

All their talk about racial "safe spaces" is just racial segregation.

Posted by: Robert at January 21, 2026 03:29 PM (7yskd)

184 Doesn't Sponge work for a Danish company? I wonder what they're saying about it there. Has Sponge said anything about that?

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

185 177 Have a black justice cite black codes in defense of disarming people in defiance of the second amendment is got to be one of the saddest spectacles in Supreme Court History.

Also, hysterical.

Next, she'll argue we once had segregation, so it is perfectly fine to segregate.
Posted by: El Mariachi
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Well, we have Don Lemon and the BLM leftovers violating the Ku Klux Klan laws and the FACE Act on MLK weekend.

Irony meter is pegged out this month.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)

186 Kagan- I disagree but see her point.

Sotomayor - I disagree but think she's impassioned.

Kentanji-Brown - Who let this high school debate failure come to work today?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:29 PM (vOtXJ)

187 The "I don't understand" gambit is old stale passive aggressive shit...

The implication is intended to be "I don't understand because your argument doesn't make sense." The correct response (which, no, I wouldn't make to a SCOTUS Justice to her face) is "You don't understand because you don't want to." Or maybe, depending on circumstances "You don't understand because you're a friggin' idiot."

Posted by: Oddbob at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (Fs0KI)

188 146 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (QGaXH)

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"It takes a majority of the House to impeach. It takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict."
-Pedant
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

Yes. I was going for brevity because my more important point was, however unlikely success would be, there is an alternative to impeachment.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (QGaXH)

189 money for Ukraine, of course

Posted by: brak at January 21, 2026 03:28 PM (jGJov)

I thought this said "monkey to Ukraine" and for a moment was wistful I missed the time the Senate sent a monkey to Ukraine.

(I set em up, you knock em down, if you dare)

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (wEF4H)

190 188 Yes. I was going for brevity because my more important point was, however unlikely success would be, there is an alternative to impeachment.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (QGaXH)

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I did get it. I just wanted to be a pedant but in a way that wasn't meant to offend directly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

191 Judge Ho* of the 5th Circuit for one.

Is that good or bad? And do you think he will fill TJM’s implied requirement of longevity?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:31 PM (CSK7p)

192 190 I did get it. I just wanted to be a pedant but in a way that wasn't meant to offend directly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

Hey.

Posted by: XTC at January 21, 2026 03:31 PM (iXqHn)

193 The good news on Ketanji Brown - only 30 more years of having to listen to her.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 21, 2026 03:31 PM (vOtXJ)

194 I look forward to Justice Action Jackson's Black History Month (February) as to why the Black Codes disarming Americans, particularly freed slaves at risk from the Ku Klux Klan, was a good thing and a very valid source of original intent and legal history for use today.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:31 PM (E4rtv)

195 The chances of any mid-high level black politician or judge being impeached and removed ever again are right around the same as a horny Scarlett Johansson showing up at my door tonight with a bottle of Strawberry Hill and a box of chocolates.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 21, 2026 03:31 PM (igU66)

196 It's not stupidity. It's her pounding the square-peg of her ideology into the round-hole of case law. Her whole thought process is, "How can I legally justify my preferred outcome?"

Posted by: Halfhand at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (S1bNl)

197 The correct response (which, no, I wouldn't make to a SCOTUS Justice to her face) is…

“Of course.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (CSK7p)

198 Been ground to a halt because Democrats are denying unanimous consent for all Trump appointee votes, forcing the floor to be used exclusively for debate on the appointment of the sub manager of some agency or other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Because GOPe leadership won't sack up and tell the Dems to jam the "silent filibuster" up their asses, and force Senators to be on the floor seven days a week actually doing their jobs. If the republicans would all just go to the floor and vote, they can move the previous question with a simple majority, which would force some Dem turd to come in and actually execute a talking filibuster.

But no, because we have gentlemen's agreements or some such complete fucking nonsense.

Posted by: ballistic at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (5aZAZ)

199 191 Judge Ho* of the 5th Circuit for one.

Is that good or bad? And do you think he will fill TJM’s implied requirement of longevity?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2026 03:31 PM (CSK7p)

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Ho would be really good. He's also on the Fifth Circuit, and he's only 53 years old.

Could be there for 30 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

200 Would she worry more if she knew the laws were passed because blacks were shooting carpet baggers?

Posted by: braenyard at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (FI1KT)

201 178 159 They can have California for no less than a farthing.
Posted by: ...

But then I'd have to sell it for a centime!

(Kudos to the first person who gets the literary reference.)
Posted by: zombie at January 21, 2026 03:27 PM (se8lQ)

You guys are killin' me...no pun intended...LOL

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (QGaXH)

202 The fatiguers are not just twerking in the ghettos.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (wBaIH)

203 Someone here said it's worth having cameras in the SCOTUS hearings just to watch Alito's live reactions to all the crazy things DEI SCOTUS Barbie is saying.

I'll have to find a vid later and watch Alito's face. I'm listening to Trump's Davos speech in full right now.

Posted by: LizLem at January 21, 2026 03:33 PM (Eng1Z)

204 184 Doesn't Sponge work for a Danish company? I wonder what they're saying about it there. Has Sponge said anything about that?
Posted by: Bulg
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American workers at that company no longer get free Danishes in the mornings or those butter cookies at Christmas.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

205 LOL.

Portland has a program called "Everybody Reads", where everyone is supposed to read one specific book every year.

You'll never guess whose autobiography they assigned this year.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 21, 2026 03:34 PM (n1OCj)

206 The thing I find insane with this whole "I am a SCOTUS justice because I am black" and her stupidity is the fact that she did not come up with this on her own. Her hand picked clerks fed this line of garbage to her to use during questioning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 21, 2026 03:34 PM (0N4FZ)

207 Justice D-EI is making it as hard as possible for other DEI judges to ever get confirmed

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Senator ShainS: "Prospective Justice Nominee, can you define what a Black Female DEI Hire is and provide an example from the current Supreme Court?"

Prospective Justice Nominee: "No, I'm sorry Senator, I am not a Mental Retardation Scientist."

Senator ShainS: "You had me at 'Retard'"

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 21, 2026 03:34 PM (KJPYG)

208 205 You'll never guess whose autobiography they assigned this year.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 21, 2026 03:34 PM (n1OCj)

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"I have thoughts."
-an Austrian painter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

209 Because GOPe leadership won't sack up and tell the Dems to jam the "silent filibuster" up their asses, and force Senators to be on the floor seven days a week actually doing their jobs. If the republicans would all just go to the floor and vote, they can move the previous question with a simple majority, which would force some Dem turd to come in and actually execute a talking filibuster.

But no, because we have gentlemen's agreements or some such complete fucking nonsense.
Posted by: ballistic
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Because since the filibuster was revised in the 1970's, it became an all purpose way for senators to pose, grab donor cash, but do nothing except what benefitted their donors.

Our congress is why government is in fact dysfunctional and becoming an elected king situation. They simply do not want to legislate in order to retain their seats.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)

210 Loony Thune got the vig and he stays bought doncha know.

Posted by: kingsman at January 21, 2026 03:35 PM (ehY6c)

211 190 I did get it. I just wanted to be a pedant but in a way that wasn't meant to offend directly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

I see. I have no clue what a pendant is and am too lazy to look it up...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:36 PM (QGaXH)

212 These laws frequently included provisions that severely restricted or outright prohibited Black people from owning, possessing, or carrying firearms (and often other weapons like Bowie knives or dirks).
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Hold on to your dirks.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:36 PM (krQz2)

213 206 The thing I find insane with this whole "I am a SCOTUS justice because I am black" and her stupidity is the fact that she did not come up with this on her own. Her hand picked clerks fed this line of garbage to her to use during questioning.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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If I was the suspicious type, I would think her staff is setting her up for failure because they don't like or respect her.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:36 PM (E4rtv)

214
204 184 Doesn't Sponge work for a Danish company? I wonder what they're saying about it there. Has Sponge said anything about that?
Posted by: Bulg

I heard it was at Cinnabon until he cussed out those Somalians.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:36 PM (y4wXR)

215 This was really fun to watch all of these videos.
Is the Hawaii lawyer just a bad lawyer?

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (SSiCQ)

216
I don't have a dick. What am I gonna hold??

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (3ek7K)

217 Have a black justice cite black codes in defense of disarming people in defiance of the second amendment is got to be one of the saddest spectacles in Supreme Court History.

Also, hysterical.

Did she think that up on her own or was it actually part of HI's argument? I watched a vid about the case by William Kirk and he talked about their King Kamehameha exception but I don't recall mention of the black codes and that's the kind of thing he would have torn to shreds.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (Fs0KI)

218 Jackson felt it necessary to summarize and offer her own arguments in favor of Cook's case in oral arguments today.

Posted by: Elto Johnson at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (kF3Oj)

219 "continuing constitutional convention" is a keeper, whig.

Of course it's also a de facto legislature with the de facto dissolution of Congress as a political body dealing substantively with important issues. And under the extremely degraded lawless conditions now prevailing, it's of course trying to become the de facto executive.

That last one could be fixed directly and quickly, but it won't happen.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (U/Byj)

220 >>>Her hand picked clerks fed this line of garbage to her to use during questioning.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess her clerks are DEI hires as well

Posted by: brak at January 21, 2026 03:38 PM (jGJov)

221 Codes of Color

Posted by: wth at January 21, 2026 03:38 PM (UjdFS)

222 It's not stupidity. It's her pounding the square-peg of her ideology into the round-hole of case law. Her whole thought process is, "How can I legally justify my preferred outcome?"

Posted by: Halfhand at January 21, 2026 03:32 PM (S1bNl)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:38 PM (wEF4H)

223 Is the Hawaii lawyer just a bad lawyer?

I guess sometimes you just have to play the cards you're dealt. And the HI legislature dealt him a stinker.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 21, 2026 03:38 PM (Fs0KI)

224 Our congress is why government is in fact dysfunctional and becoming an elected king situation. They simply do not want to legislate in order to retain their seats.
Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)
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Yeah some of that, but also they're all fucking lazy as shit. I worked in the Senate for a number of years. Senators don't actually work. They show up Tuesday morning, have a couple of meetings, maybe a vote if they're really pushing it, go out to a couple of fundraisers and then fly home Thursday afternoon (at no expense to themselves, of course). Over five-ish years I can recall about that many times when the entire body actually spent any significant time in the well of the Senate.

Not a bad way to earn a nearly $200k salary, if you can get it.

Posted by: ballistic at January 21, 2026 03:38 PM (5aZAZ)

225 A pedant is one bit short of a quadrant.

Posted by: braenyard at January 21, 2026 03:39 PM (FI1KT)

226 Codes of Color

Posted by: wth at January 21, 2026 03:38 PM (UjdFS)

African Americodes

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:39 PM (wEF4H)

227 What has the Senate done ? Letter from Grassley today (copy on X): can’t pass the voting security laws because “the good people of Iowa” wouldn’t like it.

There are no words in English that adequately describe how useless this fossil is.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 21, 2026 03:39 PM (UsFXg)

228 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson draws sharp pushback from Gorsuch, Alito, and Roberts after invoking unconstitutional Black Codes to defend Hawaii’s gun restrictions under the Bruen test.

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For all that is holy, she should have.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:39 PM (krQz2)

229 I didn’t say that. The phone did.

Posted by: braenyard at January 21, 2026 03:40 PM (FI1KT)

230 211 pedant not pendant - sorry!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:40 PM (QGaXH)

231 216
I don't have a dick. What am I gonna hold??

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (3ek7K)

Subject to supply, a rubber facsimile will be provided on written request, after execution of forms indemnifying the HQ for any liability.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 21, 2026 03:40 PM (eO11x)

232 There are no words in English that adequately describe how useless this fossil is.
Posted by: Going deep. Out.
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Staff. It might however bestir Iowans to finally put this relic out to pasture. 92 years old is simply too old for any actual legislating.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:41 PM (E4rtv)

233 184 Doesn't Sponge work for a Danish company? I wonder what they're saying about it there. Has Sponge said anything about that?
Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

Now that you have said this, I would like some Danish butter cookies.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:41 PM (SSiCQ)

234
Lol bear

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:41 PM (3ek7K)

235 Self Awareness is NOT an attribute of Leftists.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:42 PM (mP0Kj)

236 She always proves she is DEI and dumb as a box of lint.

Posted by: turambar at January 21, 2026 03:42 PM (Q0yOR)

237
Does Jumanji even know what happened to her today? Is someone going to tell her what a self-pwn this was?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 21, 2026 03:42 PM (jF1M6)

238 Hawaiian Bread >> Hawaiian Lawyer

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:42 PM (QGaXH)

239 231 216
I don't have a dick. What am I gonna hold??

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:37 PM (3ek7K)

Subject to supply, a rubber facsimile will be provided on written request, after execution of forms indemnifying the HQ for any liability.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 21, 2026 03:40 PM (eO11x)

Or... coulda gone to a WNBA game and picked one up off the Court...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (mP0Kj)

240 Self Awareness is NOT an attribute of Leftists.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:42 PM (mP0Kj)

Self absorption OTOH

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (wEF4H)

241 237
Does Jumanji even know what happened to her today? Is someone going to tell her what a self-pwn this was?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 21, 2026 03:42 PM (jF1M6)

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"Black girl magic! Slaw kween!!"
-everyone she talks to

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

242 Brown-Jackson should get the Branded treatment for that argument alone.

Gee, "separate but equal" was a much longer lived "Constitutional" standard of "obeying" the 14th. So, it probably has more standing as a "once-allowed" principle.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (krQz2)

243

m,

I would give you some cookies but the dogs and I ate the entire tin of them.

We're still alive, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (3ek7K)

244 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ukrCvhxP2g

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (jrgJz)

245
Someone should ask her about that horrible Republican President Jim Crow...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (y9nCu)

246
Judge Ho* of the 5th Circuit for one.

* Yeah, yeah. Make your little joke and move along.

Posted by: Oddbob

We already have a Ho there.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (0U5gm)

247 235 Self Awareness is NOT an attribute of Leftists.
___

Maybe, but we are acutely aware of all of YOUR faults that we have made up in our heads.

Posted by: Leftists at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

248 Over five-ish years I can recall about that many times when the entire body actually spent any significant time in the well of the Senate.

Not a bad way to earn a nearly $200k salary, if you can get it.
Posted by: ballistic
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Senate floor has not been a thing since the 1930's. Even earlier for any real debate prior to 1920's.

Senators (or House members, I worked on that side during Reagan years) do not 'work' for the salary--they work for grifting family wealth by parlaying their connections (as do many of the staff) into the blob that is the DC establishment of NGOs, boards, corporate positions, lobbying, etc.

The ones wanting to work end up often just going back home to be governor, AG, etc. Even there, staffs run the place day to day.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (E4rtv)

249 I hope the Danes don't put an export ban on their cookies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (0U5gm)

250 Now that you have said this, I would like some Danish butter cookies.
Posted by: m at
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Chinesium is xtra sweet.

Posted by: braenyard at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (FI1KT)

251 Self Awareness is NOT an attribute of Leftists.
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Because it's what is avoided by narcissists.

Any less-than-wanted feedback from the real world.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (krQz2)

252 Next, Affirmative Action Jackson will be designing supersonic aircraft.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (+aem1)

253 KBJ comes up with the "constitution made sense when we were slaves" plot. Bold move Cotton let's see if it works

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (PTsqM)

254 Or Danjsh Ham

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)

255 203 Someone here said it's worth having cameras in the SCOTUS hearings just to watch Alito's live reactions to all the crazy things DEI SCOTUS Barbie is saying.

I'll have to find a vid later and watch Alito's face. I'm listening to Trump's Davos speech in full right now.
Posted by: LizLem at January 21, 2026 03:33 PM (Eng1Z)

@redsteeze

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Jan 20
I have reversed my stance on cameras at SCOTUS just to see Alito's face every time this woman speaks.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (SSiCQ)

256 Or Cherry cheese Danish

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (Ia/+0)

257 OK, so some of the Supremes are just idiots, as we already knew.

Now, why is the decision on Tariffs being delayed time and time again?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

258 Canned ham anyone?

Posted by: DAK Premium Ham, Canned Meat, 454g, Product of Denmark at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS)

259
"Black girl magic! Slaw kween!!"
-everyone she talks to
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

She makes a lot of cabbage though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (y9nCu)

260 Or Cherry cheese Danish
Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (Ia/+0)
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You had me at "cheese Danish".

I have to rethink the whole Greenland thing, now.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (krQz2)

261 First Trump takes over Venezuela securing the oil reserves. Then he pulls off taking over Greenland. When does Alberta and it's sexy oil fall to his charms? He is amazing. Gavin Nuisance has to be punching holes in the wall about right now.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (HTCU3)

262 Now, why is the decision on Tariffs being delayed time and time again?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Because the vote is 4 - 4 and Roberts can’t figure out how to split the baby.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (y4wXR)

263 All the mainstream outlets are framing this as a "healthy debate", they are not impugning Justice Sheila Jackson Lee.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (wEF4H)

264 250 Now that you have said this, I would like some Danish butter cookies.
Posted by: m at
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Chinesium is xtra sweet.
Posted by: braenyard at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (FI1KT)

Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (QGaXH)

265 As much as I disagree with a lot of the liberal justices I’ve never heard them use sophism and non sequiturs as their go-to argument pillars.

I mean, what exactly is the underlying legal theory which uses despicable laws that were eventually ruled unconstitutional as a baseline, to argue that existing laws along similar unconstitutional lines are…constitutional? That is, to the point we have antebellum constitutional amendments addressing their flaws and heinous attributes. God in Heaven.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (khrVb)

266 Imagine the decompress of the attorneys that argue before her, like a whole bottle of liquor, to recover from being forced to take her questions seriously.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (HXT0k)

267 Sorry, new stylebook entry, and no one will stop me.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (wEF4H)

268 206 The thing I find insane with this whole "I am a SCOTUS justice because I am black" and her stupidity is the fact that she did not come up with this on her own. Her hand picked clerks fed this line of garbage to her to use during questioning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 21, 2026 03:34 PM (0N4FZ)

I believe KBJ has more than law clerks 'helping' her. The finest legal minds of the critical race theory Constitutional Law professor set are sending KBJ tons of pages of pure race/equity/World Communism crap. Tailored to each and every case SCOTUS hears. Biden didn't saddle the nation with only KBJ. She brought-along an army of America-h8ter lawyers who she listens to.

Posted by: Gref at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (5rh/l)

269 Someone should ask her if she knows what black ice is.

Posted by: Paid protestor at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (VsyBi)

270 The pedant with the pendant has a penchant for a peanut
The pundit with the parrot has the snack that's not whack

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (OUMaO)

271 262 Now, why is the decision on Tariffs being delayed time and time again?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Because the vote is 4 - 4 and Roberts can’t figure out how to split the baby.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (y4wXR)

My bet is trying to come up with some rationale why the Courts should have oversight?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (mP0Kj)

272 horny Scarlett Johansson showing up at my door tonight with a bottle of Strawberry Hill and a box of chocolates.
Posted by: sifty boones

Knock, Knock!!

Posted by: Horny Lena Dunham at January 21, 2026 03:49 PM (w9Wax)

273 Not only does Justice BJ not know the difference between a man and a woman, she doesn't leverage the difference between constitutional and unconstitutional laws.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:49 PM (krQz2)

274 "Impeach her. She's incompetent, unqualified, anti-American and tyrannical."

Wait a minute, I want a second opinion!

OK, she's insane, as well.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 21, 2026 03:49 PM (vbXSk)

275 That last one could be fixed directly and quickly, but it won't happen.
Posted by: rhomboid
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I think any Democrat president in the future is simply going to expand on what Biden did on student loans. I don't think Scotus judges, aside from maybe Alito or Thomas, actually know what time it is for the American Republic.

We will have a massive constitutional crisis coming soon, and the Gordian knot is likely to be cut, perhaps in a way we like, perhaps not.

But the old uniparty status quo is simply failing in the US and across the West where the elites believe that they have the right to rule over the masses regardless of what institutions interfere with that. We shall see what the masses do in response. Tears and blood might very well be involved.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:49 PM (E4rtv)

276 Umm, little known fact - the Klan hit its zenith in membership following WWI and the new numbers were all in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast. The largest Klan rally was in NJ and the biggest Klan parade was NYC.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 21, 2026 03:50 PM (pLaQB)

277 My bet is trying to come up with some rationale why the Courts should have oversight?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:48 PM (mP0Kj)
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Rationale =/= "Good reason".

The courts want to be included in all decisions these days. Takes a solid originalist to resist kibbitzing.

We have no kings but judges.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:51 PM (krQz2)

278 Running on, running on empty. Running on, running blind.

Posted by: Delurker at January 21, 2026 03:51 PM (gtcuf)

279 @272 the box of chocolates wouldn't survive Lena Dunham

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:51 PM (PTsqM)

280 The largest Klan rally was in NJ and the biggest Klan parade was NYC.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 21, 2026 03:50 PM (pLaQB)

That must have been when the parties switched.

Posted by: ... at January 21, 2026 03:51 PM (wEF4H)

281 262 Now, why is the decision on Tariffs being delayed time and time again?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Because the vote is 4 - 4 and Roberts can’t figure out how to split the baby.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (y4wXR)

My bet is trying to come up with some rationale why the Courts should have oversight?
Posted by: Romeo13
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Remedy is likely to be a sticking point along with the other implications of presidential emergency proclamations based on power delegated by Congress. See the tariff cases like JW Hampton Meatpacking (intelligible principle of delegation), Nixon's wage price freeze in the 1970's, and so on.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:51 PM (E4rtv)

282 279 @272 the box of chocolates wouldn't survive Lena Dunham
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:51 PM (PTsqM)

Smell the Lena Dunham.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:52 PM (SSiCQ)

283
Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:52 PM (0U5gm)

284 Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

I question the voracity of this- I could not find a tin made in India, to include the bargain brand in Rouses.

Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:52 PM (OoFl2)

285
Because the vote is 4 - 4 and Roberts can’t figure out how to split the baby.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (y4wXR)

Tune in next week for another episode of...

Samurai Supreme Court Justice

Posted by: Zombie Don Pardo at January 21, 2026 03:52 PM (y9nCu)

286 262 Now, why is the decision on Tariffs being delayed time and time again?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Because the vote is 4 - 4 and Roberts can’t figure out how to split the baby.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 03:47 PM (y4wXR)

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1. Who says it's delayed?

2. It's probably a highly technical opinion about tariff authority under different sections that got narrower and narrower as they debated it.

3. It'll probably end up as "Trump has the authority to do it in general, but the lower courts didn't take the individual tariffs on merits, choosing to use a blanket ban instead. Lower courts, redo your ruling based on actual analysis of each proclamation and tariff."

And then Trump will just reimpose every tariff under a different authority, and it won't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

287 Donroe Doctrine Don Does Dominion Delightfully.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 21, 2026 03:53 PM (HTCU3)

288 Umm, little known fact - the Klan hit its zenith in membership following WWI and the new numbers were all in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast. The largest Klan rally was in NJ and the biggest Klan parade was NYC.
Posted by: pudinhead

Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

289 Next, Affirmative Action Jackson will be designing supersonic aircraft.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta

On her resume:

Designed Space Shuttle O-rings
Designed pedestrian bridge in Florida
Designed 737 Max
Designed Titan submersible
Designed Orion capsule heat shield

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (w9Wax)

290 Donroe Doctrine Don Does Dominion Delightfully.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 21, 2026 03:53 PM (HTCU3)

Double sized.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (dK+Kv)

291 Technically they were never part of US law since those states were outside the union at the time.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (dzZCL)

292 Someone should ask her if she knows what black ice is.
Posted by: Paid protestor

Everybody knows ICE is white supremacy.

Posted by: Ketanji Action Jackson at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (UjdFS)

293 I question the voracity of this- I could not find a tin made in India, to include the bargain brand in Rouses.
Posted by: Piper

I do not question the voracity with which you consume kale.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

294 I question the voracity of this- I could not find a tin made in India, to include the bargain brand in Rouses.
Posted by: Piper at January 21, 2026 03:52 PM (OoFl2)

The brand of butter cookies Ollie's sells is made in India.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (0bjKf)

295 Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.
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Have you spent any time in Detroit?

Posted by: pudinhead at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (pLaQB)

296 288 Umm, little known fact - the Klan hit its zenith in membership following WWI and the new numbers were all in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast. The largest Klan rally was in NJ and the biggest Klan parade was NYC.
Posted by: pudinhead

Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

Photos I've seen are very scary. Talk about Never Forget.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (SSiCQ)

297 >> Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?

Go look at the average frozen bag of shrimp in your grocery store. A lot come from India. A place where most of the population doesn’t even have indoor plumbing. Then realize they “farm” these shrimp under unsanitary conditions. There are some pictures online if you dare. It looks like a giant shit puddle. Enjoy that shrimp you just ate. You’re welcome.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (khrVb)

298 We have no kings but judges.

Posted by: Axeman

Worked so well for the ancient Hebrews...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (OUMaO)

299 Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

I question the voracity of this- I could not find a tin made in India, to include the bargain brand in Rouses.

Posted by: Piper

Royal Dansk came out with a statement that their cookies are all made in Denmark, the knock off brands may be a different story.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (0U5gm)

300 And then Trump will just reimpose every tariff under a different authority, and it won't matter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He's already been dropping that he'll just convert them over to licensing agreements. I have no idea how that will work but he does so I guess we're good. He is a force of nature.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (HTCU3)

301 293 I question the voracity of this- I could not find a tin made in India, to include the bargain brand in Rouses.
Posted by: Piper

I do not question the voracity with which you consume kale.
Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

Bulg with the word quip.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (SSiCQ)

302 >>>Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.

party switch

Posted by: Reddit at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (jGJov)

303 Someone should ask her if she knows what black ice is.
Posted by: Paid protestor

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That's the subject of one of Key and Peele's funniest sketches.

"I was at the ATM and black ice came up from behind me and robbed me of my balance." -- white lady.

Watching the in studio and on-the-street weathermen played by Key and Peele get more and more outraged about singling out "black ice".

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (krQz2)

304
Umm, little known fact - the Klan hit its zenith in membership following WWI and the new numbers were all in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast. The largest Klan rally was in NJ and the biggest Klan parade was NYC.
Posted by: pudinhead

*whistles absently*

Posted by: Zombie FDR nominated Associate Justice Hugo Black at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (y9nCu)

305 Can't wait until the Supreme Court either gives in too the Cultural Marxists and can't figure out what a female or male is or pulls the plug to the Leftists.
Should be taking bets for June

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (Ia/+0)

306 Senators (or House members, I worked on that side during Reagan years) do not 'work' for the salary--they work for grifting family wealth by parlaying their connections (as do many of the staff) into the blob that is the DC establishment of NGOs, boards, corporate positions, lobbying, etc.

The ones wanting to work end up often just going back home to be governor, AG, etc. Even there, staffs run the place day to day.
Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:45 PM (E4rtv)
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No argument there. The self-sucking dick that is the path between legislative staff and various lobbying firms and trade associations is disgustingly slimy.

Posted by: ballistic at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (5aZAZ)

307 I only buy shrimp from the Gulf of America.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (0KSrI)

308 @286 TJM, that's what I figure as well. He has the authority as Congress retained the right to override the tariffs. But it will be sent back to lower courts to match the tariff with the emergency security issue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (PTsqM)

309 297 >> Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?

Go look at the average frozen bag of shrimp in your grocery store. A lot come from India. A place where most of the population doesn’t even have indoor plumbing. Then realize they “farm” these shrimp under unsanitary conditions. There are some pictures online if you dare. It looks like a giant shit puddle. Enjoy that shrimp you just ate. You’re welcome.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (khrVb)

Boiling might work.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (SSiCQ)

310 300 And then Trump will just reimpose every tariff under a different authority, and it won't matter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He's already been dropping that he'll just convert them over to licensing agreements. I have no idea how that will work but he does so I guess we're good. He is a force of nature.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (HTCU3)

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Congress gave away its tariff powers along time ago and multiple ways.

Trump has every authority to impose tariffs for pretty much any reason he wants. There are enough ways to do it that he can do it at any level he wants.

If Congress hates then, then repeal the authorities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

311 party switch

Posted by: Reddit at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (jGJov)
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Which is why only Republicans praise Woodrow Wilson....

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (krQz2)

312 Voracity, thy name is Pritzker.

Posted by: tubal at January 21, 2026 03:59 PM (pDt9x)

313 Have you spent any time in Detroit?
Posted by: pudinhead

As little as possible. I did have an aunt who lived in Highland Park, so we'd go there to see her occasionally. She and her husband lived in this huge house that was basically a fortress. You had to phone them ahead and tell them when you'd be arriving so that they could disable all the alarms.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

314 >>Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.

Was it near Howell?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 21, 2026 03:59 PM (Y1sOo)

315 308 @286 TJM, that's what I figure as well. He has the authority as Congress retained the right to override the tariffs. But it will be sent back to lower courts to match the tariff with the emergency security issue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (PTsqM)

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So, we'll get a headline about how SCOTUS rules against Trump. It won't actually be a ruling against Trump, but people will freak out anyway.

And the tariffs will remain under the authority he's already cited or another authority.

And narratives will be spun, but the policy will be won by Trump no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

316 Lots of Klan up around Binghamton NY. Not exactly the South

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:59 PM (PTsqM)

317 Congress gave away its tariff powers along time ago and multiple ways.

Trump has every authority to impose tariffs for pretty much any reason he wants. There are enough ways to do it that he can do it at any level he wants.

If Congress hates then, then repeal the authorities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
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They can always claw it back with a single law--after the override any veto, that is.

Congress doesn't want to do its actual job. Too much time and effort spent away from grifting.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 04:00 PM (krQz2)

318 Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM

My moonshiner ancestors were the law in a small east Texas county. They controlled it but didn't partake because they were Primitive Baptist. But they kept the crime in check. The biggest threat to the public was when the Klan invaded there in 1920. These were democrat party shock troops. The Anti Ice riot stuff is just a new KKK. They bought themselves some black people too.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at January 21, 2026 04:00 PM (dzZCL)

319 Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

There were in fact 2 very different KKK's, although the mythology around them doesn't allow the topic to be discussed. The first was made up of disgruntled and unrepentant Confederates, but it was mostly stamped out by the end of Grant's term in office, and it went dormant for 3 decades. The 2nd iteration was the activist version of the Democrat Party, just like Antifa is now, and it really took WW2 and the mobilization to start it being seen as un-American.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 04:00 PM (giMmT)

320 317 They can always claw it back with a single law--after the override any veto, that is.

Congress doesn't want to do its actual job. Too much time and effort spent away from grifting.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 04:00 PM (krQz2)

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Rand Paul led an effort to try and undo some of Trump's tariffs last year.

It failed. And, as you note, if it had passed, Trump would have vetoed it anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

321 >> Boiling might work.
Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (SSiCQ)

A shrimp that’s been grown its entire life in a shit puddle is beyond boiling.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 21, 2026 04:01 PM (khrVb)

322 >> Lots of Klan up around Binghamton NY. Not exactly the South

Anywhere you find Union Dems you will find a history of Klan activity.

Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2026 04:01 PM (ZcsJV)

323 Her name is not Justice D-EI, it's Justice Affirmative Jackson.

Posted by: Strange Brew at January 21, 2026 04:01 PM (vzrBC)

324 >> I only buy shrimp from the Gulf of America.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 21, 2026 03:58 PM (0KSrI)

Darn right ma’am. But it needs to be caught well away from Houston.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 21, 2026 04:02 PM (khrVb)

325 Was it near Howell?
Posted by: one hour sober

Near Coopersville, in Ottawa County.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

326 Technically they were never part of US law since those states were outside the union at the time.
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM (dzZCL)

The Confederacy was never recognized as a separate country by the US or any other country, thus not 'outside the Union'. Northern leaders such as Lincoln and Grant considered them simply states in rebellion. Maybe not in the hearts and minds of the people living there, but the states in rebellion were technically still US states.

Posted by: troyriser at January 21, 2026 04:02 PM (DPeYO)

327 That Robert Gouveia podcast is pretty great.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (SSiCQ)

328 New thread up

Posted by: Ann at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (w9jrX)

329 A shrimp that’s been grown its entire life in a shit puddle is beyond boiling.
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This seems hateful and rayciss.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (pLaQB)

330 193 The good news on Ketanji Brown - only 30 more years of having to listen to her.
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I don't know. She has "dies in a bizarre and totally avoidable home accident" written all over her.

Posted by: Diversity Electrocution Inclusion at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (qUkBO)

331 It failed. And, as you note, if it had passed, Trump would have vetoed it anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 21, 2026 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
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Which would have been an illegitimate use of power, because it's Trump vetoing. He doesn't have to answer to the American voters...blah blah blah.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (krQz2)

332 293 I question the voracity of this- I could not find a tin made in India, to include the bargain brand in Rouses.
Posted by: Piper

I do not question the voracity with which you consume kale.
Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

A quick search shows that it was 'danish-style' cookies made in India for the Indian market, not the name brand stuff made in Denmark and shipped in the blue tins.

veracity - truthfulness
voracity - extreme eagerness (simple def)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (QGaXH)

333 There were in fact 2 very different KKK's, although the mythology around them doesn't allow the topic to be discussed. The first was made up of disgruntled and unrepentant Confederates, but it was mostly stamped out by the end of Grant's term in office, and it went dormant for 3 decades. The 2nd iteration was the activist version of the Democrat Party, just like Antifa is now, and it really took WW2 and the mobilization to start it being seen as un-American.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I've read that the second Klan was greatly influenced by Birth of a Nation.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

334
Lots of Klan up around Binghamton NY. Not exactly the South
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 03:59 PM (PTsqM)

Oildale, CA had a sign on the bridge to Bakersfield that read "N****r, Don’t Let the Sun Set on You in Oildale."

Lasted until the mid-1970s when it was finally taken down.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (y9nCu)

335 >>Near Coopersville, in Ottawa County.

'kay. Howell has a history with the KKK. That's why I asked.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (Y1sOo)

336 If Congress passed a tariff reform that took discretion away from the executive and Trump vetoed it, that would be the worst use of a veto in history and proof Trump doesn't listen to the counsel of other people.

Because, it's Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (krQz2)

337 He's already been dropping that he'll just convert them over to licensing agreements. I have no idea how that will work but he does so I guess we're good. He is a force of nature.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 21, 2026 03:56 PM (HTCU3)

======

Congress gave away its tariff powers along time ago and multiple ways.

Trump has every authority to impose tariffs for pretty much any reason he wants. There are enough ways to do it that he can do it at any level he wants.

If Congress hates then, then repeal the authorities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There is also the standing issue. In many of the cases of levied tariffs, the other nation and the US came to agreement which makes it difficult for individuals or companies suing to assert standing as international agreements are a separation of powers issue especially when Congress authorizes it vaguely.

This is a very complicated case involving tariffs, presidential powers, delegation, standing, and remedies. Might not get a decision until June at this rate. The longer it goes, the more likely Trump gets a decision he can live with.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

338 "I think any Democrat president in the future is simply going to expand on what Biden did on student loans. I don't think Scotus judges, aside from maybe Alito or Thomas, actually know what time it is for the American Republic.

We will have a massive constitutional crisis coming soon, and the Gordian knot is likely to be cut, perhaps in a way we like, perhaps not.

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 03:49 PM (E4rtv)

Student loans were turbofucked by Obama as part of his first wave of "fuck shit up illegally in ways nobody can ever fix" in 2009. It'a not really a Biden move, specifically.

The biggest issue is counting foreign invaders in the census and giving their kids citizenship, as well as enabling their invasion and refusing to deport them when they get all rapey/murdery. That's not just a constitutional crisis, that's a straight shot to ethnic cleansing and genocide. I have close family friends murdered recently by these invader fucksticks, and friends dead in fed witch hunts, and this shit is getting old.

If it pops off - remember if everyone sweeps their own porch, the whole world will be clean.

Posted by: heya at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (nH+RN)

339 >>> Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Jan 20
I have reversed my stance on cameras at SCOTUS just to see Alito's face every time this woman speaks.
Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 03:46 PM (SSiCQ)

Thanks m! That's who it was. It's nice when politicians are as clever as the Horde, and I get them mixed up with comments here.

I love that, to the left, Stephen Miller is the worst antisemitic Jew they know. Like how Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy.

Posted by: LizLem at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)

340 Umm, little known fact - the Klan hit its zenith in membership following WWI and the new numbers were all in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast. The largest Klan rally was in NJ and the biggest Klan parade was NYC.
Posted by: pudinhead

Yeah, my Dad remembered that, when he was a kid, the Klan burned a cross on a farm next to theirs. In Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at January 21, 2026 03:54 PM

I accidentally stumbled into a klan rally in the swamps in mississippi in 79 when we were heading out to gig frogs one saturday night. We went way back into a part of the swamp where we would get a ton of frogs and crawdads. When we drove up the last part of the road we came upon dozens of cars and trucks and a fiery burning cross in the middle of the road. I pulled a starsky and hutch turn and got the heck out of dodge. We never went back there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (0N4FZ)

341 I am afraid you are only partially correct concerning the history of Black Codes. Northern states, such as Indian And Illinois (among others), had "Black Codes" prior to the Civil War. In fact, The black codes of Illinois were some of the harshest in the country and weren't repealed until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Posted by: Joel at January 21, 2026 04:06 PM (zBfOm)

342 Near Coopersville, in Ottawa County.

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Hmmm. I don't live too far from Coopersville.

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 04:06 PM (krQz2)

343 336 If Congress passed a tariff reform that took discretion away from the executive and Trump vetoed it, that would be the worst use of a veto in history and proof Trump doesn't listen to the counsel of other people.

Because, it's Trump.
Posted by: Axeman

Doubt it will happen. The issue is now that Congress can smell those billions and drool collected from tariffs. The old saying on Capitol Hill is "don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind that tree" (Courtesy Sen. Russell Long from Louisiana).

Posted by: whig at January 21, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

344 @339 different Stephen Miller. The guy quoted writes at Town Hall I believe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 21, 2026 04:08 PM (PTsqM)

345 328 New thread up
Posted by: Ann at January 21, 2026 04:03 PM (w9jrX)

Posted by: m at January 21, 2026 04:08 PM (SSiCQ)

346 I accidentally stumbled into a klan rally in the swamps in mississippi in 79 when we were heading out to gig frogs one saturday night. We went way back into a part of the swamp where we would get a ton of frogs and crawdads. When we drove up the last part of the road we came upon dozens of cars and trucks and a fiery burning cross in the middle of the road. I pulled a starsky and hutch turn and got the heck out of dodge. We never went back there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (0N4FZ)
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Them boys is NOT WHITE!
They's miscegentated!!

They interrupted a sacred ceremony of a certain gentlemen's social group!

Posted by: Axeman at January 21, 2026 04:08 PM (krQz2)

347 346 I accidentally stumbled into a klan rally in the swamps in mississippi in 79 when we were heading out to gig frogs one saturday night. We went way back into a part of the swamp where we would get a ton of frogs and crawdads. When we drove up the last part of the road we came upon dozens of cars and trucks and a fiery burning cross in the middle of the road. I pulled a starsky and hutch turn and got the heck out of dodge. We never went back there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 21, 2026 04:05 PM (0N4FZ)

Ok that's amazing because the same thing happened to me and a friend in Central Texas, way out in the country about 30 miles away from Waco, in 1980. Well we just found this parking lot down a long dirt road full of new cars with nobody there, and it was about midnight, and first we were going Huh? but then we saw these Q-beam lights flashing through the trees and sound of a number of people headed through woods in our direction.
We didn't wait around to ask who they were, we got the hell outta there!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2026 04:18 PM (giMmT)

348 The black men I have met and worked with down rural south really like their guns. Something handed down for generations.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 21, 2026 04:21 PM (/lPRQ)

349 Weren't they in the news recently about being made in India under less than ideal sanitary conditions?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

I saw that video. The cookies were not in any way the right shape for Danish Butter cookies.

I suspect they were actually local manufacture for a local festival.

That said, the knock-off alleged butter cookies that use artificial butter flavoring (think movie theater popcorn) are an abomination unto Nuggan, and probably any other deity that abominates things.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 21, 2026 04:47 PM (a+4eV)

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