I can’t honestly understand how the male members of the Supreme Court don’t all have beards. Because I don’t know how they look themselves in the face in the mirror to shave in the morning. And as for Barrett, she must put her makeup on in the morning braille style, ala Helen Keller.
They should be like groundhogs, popping their sorry heads out of their holes once a year to see if the sun is shining. They are so brazenly ideological that they forgot one simple principle you learn when you’re like five years old. The truth doesn’t need buttresses or scaffolds. It’s capable of standing on its own two tenny feet. And that shows in recent GOP majority rulings.
Case in point, Crooked Clarence Thomas. That sh*theel was so hell bent on this country having a Route 66 Music Festival Massacre every month that he tied himself into pretzel twists trying to define what a machine gun was. The best he could come up with? You pull the trigger once, and the gun empties itself. For Thomas, it didn’t matter what kind of a toy you put on the back of an AR-15, it didn’t make it a machine gun. Just an AR-15 that fires really f*cking fast. Hey. Whatever gets ya through the night.
But in their ruling about the DOJ’s application of the Obstruction of an Official Act law, they got so deep into the mud trying to justify their ruling that they never actually  looked at the cases, and completely missed the point that their own precious ruling was already invalidated the ruling itself.
Even Chief Justice Roberts was smart enough to know that he couldn’t invalidate a law that’s been on the books since before he populated the planet, bumming everybody out. So what Roberts tried to do was to narrow the interpretation of the language in the law to give Trump and the seditionists a hole to wriggle through.
In brief, since I don’t have the stomach to go into great detail on something this stupid, here’s a capsulized version of the ruling. Just breaking into a secured federal building, beating the sh*t out of a bunch of cops, while braying for the blood of elected legislators does not by itself constitute trying to obstruct an official act. Oh no, to do that you have to either attempt to, or actually remove, maliciously alter, or destroy official government documents. Really? No sh*t, pendejos? This is the best you could come up with?
As far as the J6 traitors are concerned, here’s where the wheels fall off of their getaway car before they even start the engine. because apparently their law clerks are too lazy and highly paid to bother actually looking at transcripts of the test cases. If they had, then they would have known to not even bother wasting the time and paper to write the ruling.
Here’s how the ruling works. For every seditionist that was convicted on an obstruction of an Official Act charge, the case will go back to the lower court to reevaluate the original ruling in light of the new interpretation of the language. Which basically means that all of the *ssholes stay convicted and in prison.
Because it turns out that most federal prosecutors are galaxies smarter than the average conservative Supreme Court justice. Because the prosecutors already thought of that and kept stoppers. They were selective in their use of that statute and the end result should be the GOP justices hanging their heads in shame.
In their prosecutions, the prosecutors showed the juries two incredible pieces of devastating, interlocking evidence. First, they showed panic stricken House staffers and security officers grabbing up the official state electoral count packets, and whisking them off to safety. And then they showed them footage of the individual traitors, ravenously tearing through the desks of every congressman, carefully examining each piece of paper that they could find. What else would an angry, violent, uncontrolled mob be looking for in the House chambers, or Nancy Pelosi’s office if not the official state electoral packets, so they could make off with them. I expect that every existing conviction will easily survive judicial review under the new interpretation.
Now let’s move on to Traitor Tot. And here, once again Jack Smith had already proven that the average Special Counsel is smarter than a conservative SCOTUS justice, they’re not even worthy of washing his bike shorts and socks.
Jack Smith charged Trump with Obstruction of an Official Act. But it had nothing to do with the slobbering horde of Trombies rampaging through the House chamber, looking for the official state electoral counts. Too hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump had subliminally ordered the mob to find and purloin the official counts.
Instead Smith went with what he had, and could lock in. Smith indicted Trump in federal court on the J6 case, he presented before the grand jury oodles of evidence of Trump’s personal involvement in the seven state conspiracy to create alternate slates of fake electors. And if that isn’t prima facie evidence of attempting to deface or alter an official document, then I don’t know what the hell is.
I will close this with one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes from Macbeth, It is a tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing! And that’s exactly what this SCOTUS ruling is. Six imbeciles, licking their nuts and pompously handing down a ruling full of sound and fury, but which in practical application will change nothing. What a way to run a f*cking railroad.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
Now Murf – I thought everyone knew that you never mention the name of the Scottish Play 😉
Um, that ONLY applies to the stage.
Or did you never have a literature class where you had to discuss the play?
Considering the name is used within the play itself, the full superstition *conveniently* excludes this usage from the superstition so it leads to the question, “If you really wanted to say the title of the play inside a theater, could you beat the curse by quoting a line from the play that includes the name?” (And, considering the legend is that the curse was placed on the play by a group of witches for Shakespeare’s using a “real” incantation, it would seem most apt to use the line, “There to meet with Macbeth” since that’s uttered in the play by the Third Witch.)
Geez Murf…you must be chuckling to yourself reviewing these facts, even more so than when you came up with a new joke! I know I’m smiling. :>)
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin
Would but the regressives read Murf BEFORE they waste their time.
Hey, a new band in town: The Regressives.
Soprano: Clarence the Clown
Bass: Amy the Wingnut Momma
Rhythm: Sammy Two Faced Alito (method, not guitar)
Drums: Neil I Want to Beat Up my Momma Gorsuck
The Leader of The Band: Whacky Johnny Roberts (apologies to Dan Fogelberg)
The Other Guy: I try to forget, help anyone, they’re all so bad…and three of them are illegal justices, too.
The other guy… the loud drunk ahole that tried to outdo the whole crowd… K-boi.
😂😅🤣😆🤣😂😅
What happened with K. Brown and dissenting Barrett?
As I noted in a comment over on YouTube on one of the channels discussing this case, I wonder how these Justices would feel if someone were to break into the Supreme Court building while it’s in session and started to just run amok (or “amuck” for traditionalists) with the deliberate intent on “obstructing” the Court’s “official” business?
Who wants to bet these knuckleheads would be the first to demand prosecution to the fullest possible extent (law, be damned)?
And, it is really ironic these knuckleheads would make this ruling, given how they whined and bitched and moaned about having their dinners interrupted and having to deal with protestors near their homes following the Dobbs decision. Oh, for that, they just demanded that they be issued protection from the “mobs” and tried their best to get the protestors arrested. But, apparently, breaking into the Capitol building and terrorizing hundreds of lawmakers and their staffs, destroying government property, and assaulting police officers doesn’t quite meet up to their standard of “obstruction.”
It is also extremely odd that there’s been virtually NO coverage of the alleged attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh. The suspect allegedly had a plan, but turned himself in before doing anything. It occurred over two years ago, and the suspect was indicted well over a year ago. Why is the media ignoring the story?
They only use the term “obstruction” behind closed doors when its meaning is “obstruction to all citizens’ ways of life in a democratic society.” That’s what they seem bent on doing.
Fortunately, most of those who were found guilty of obstruction were also guilty of enough other crimes that they won’t get out of jail.or collect two hundred dollars any time soon.