Three GOP Reps Walk On To the Floor With A Gun. SCOTUS Wasn’t Interested

Believe it or not there IS news other than Trump finally sitting at the defense table as a criminal defendant up in Manhattan. President Biden is leading a group of other increasingly reluctant allies of Israel to pressure them not to set the entire middle east on fire. The House might finally take up long overdue and critical foreign aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and yes even Israel. The joke of the Mayoraks impeachment and finally formally presenting the ridiculous charges to the Senate. And then there’s SCOTUS, who have been busy little beavers.

One can credibly argue that any case that makes its way to SCOTUS is a BFD whether they grant cert or not. But some notable things both “small” and large in recent days. For example SCOTUS has granted the state of Idaho a stay of a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of an Idaho law blocking gender affirming care for minors. It might not affect that many people given Idaho doesn’t have many people to begin with but it’s huge for those who are.  On a lighter note they denied cert to good ole Mikey Lindell’s plea to have him take up his “first amendment” case over his phone having been seized some years back. Lindell is always good for a laugh.

On something far more serious the Court heard oral arguments on a case with wide ranging implications for Jan. 6 prosecutions. Insurrectionist rioter Joseph Fischer was lucky and got the one DC judge who has been sympathetic to Trump and his mob.  Fischer’s lawyers argued that the law about obstructing was too broadly used by prosecutors. The DC Court of Appeals overruled the judge and said prosecutors were justified in including that as part of the charges. So SCOTUS decided to weigh in and alarmingly the Federalist Society F**wads seem, based at least on oral arguments inclined to side with the insurrectionist traitor according to Reuters.  Well, that sucks to be sure because if Roberts and others cobble together five votes it will let hundreds of traitors off the hook.

So let’s turn to something they’ve just done that will bring a smile to your face. Now, “Three Gun Goober GOPers walk into a bar sneak their GUNS onto the floor of the House” might sound like the start of a bad joke.  However, when in the wake of then Speaker Pelosi passing a rule that anyone going on to the House floor had to be unarmed AND would have to pass through metal detectors (and even “wanded”) oh how the gun goobers howled! Naturally, some of them tried anyway. And yes, some tried to sneak in “packing” by using their wiles to get around the metal detectors and Capitol Police. And got caught.

Those that got caught got fined five thousand bucks. Deducted directly from their Congressional pay which dammit is paid via direct deposit. No “I’ll write you a check” and then “forgetting” to mail it or hand it in. The money was just GONE from their next direct deposit of their Congressional pay. Most only complained but three of them decided to sue. As reported by USA Today:

In the current case, Reps. Andrew Clyde, R-Georgia, Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., and former Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas had asked the high court to intervene over the “massive fines” they incurred for ignoring magnetometers set up outside the House chamber after rioters assaulted the Capitol in a violent attempt at thwarting certification of President Joe Biden’s election.

I don’t know that I’d call $5k massive but even when your salary is $175k it’s enough you’ll notice that much missing from your regular “paycheck.” I’m not going to go through all the particulars. You can read the link if you want details and commentary from aggrieved GOPers who I guess feel “nekkid” without their GUNS. What I find amusing is that these three asshats have surely spent more than $5k each tilting at this particular windmill. District Court. Lose. Appeals Court. Lose. Paying lawyers yet again to have a request for Cert to SCOTUS itself. That kind of lawyering doesn’t come cheap. But like rich assholes that sometimes spend more on tax attorneys and accountants than if they just paid their damned taxes some people will cut off their nose to spite their face.

These three idiots sure did. For all their time and money all they had to take to SCOTUS was something that if one were writing a bad joke would begin with what I said earlier. By denying Cert SCOTUS effectively said they didn’t even want to hear the opening line, much less any punchline. Nope. Like you or I if some unwelcome telemarketer were to manage to get us to pick up the phone SCOTUS said Not Interested and hung up the phone.

I for one find that funny as hell. Especially when I think about all the money these idiots flushed down their “genuine fake gold” Trump style toilets.

Of course, as we get to the remaining days of SCOTUS reviewing cases and hearing oral arguments for this term (the 26th is the last day – as long as they could push off hearing Trump’s appeal) opinions are being released too. Yes, we are going to spend a lot of time focusing on what’s going on in Trump’s first criminal trial. I saw earlier that six jurors have already been sworn in. Anything can happen but it could be that what was projected to be at least a couple of weeks of jury selection might be done in two or three days and we’ll start hearing witnesses/evidence next week! THAT, and how Trump behaves (or more likely not – the judge laid down a formal marker today in fact, creating a record so it will hold up if he banishes Trump from the actual courtroom) will have as SCOTUS hears its appeal.

Just keep in mind that there IS other news this is and will be taking place while Trumpty Dumpty sits in court in the weeks ahead.