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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Northam Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Hurricane Florence
, the two Carolinas did the same yesterday and Friday.
The countdown to landfall is now running.
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Kennedy would never risk his seat falling into the hands of a Democrat, which is why he refused to retire while Obama was in the White House. He stuck it out at least 6 years past when he should have retired to ensure the GOP could rubberstamp his seat, after he did some final damage to voting rights and union busting. It is no coincidence he is retiring with a GOP president and GOP Senate majority, after the Senate special elections were done yet before the Midterms.
Absolutely nothing wrong with thinking that. Same reason why I don't want Ginsberg and Bayer to retire until the WH and Senate are back in Democratic hands...at which point they should do so immediately. Too much is at risk to worry about individuals right now.
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The entire liberal wing should have retired together in 2009. It's astounding that they didn't, RBG especially. It was the perfect opportunity and they squandered it.
Obama was still trying to compromise with the Republicans in 2009, there was a logic in holding out, hopefully the next Democrat president will learn from Obama’s mistakes and not try and work anything out with the Republicans.
@The coat hanger thing, seems wasteful, if Collins has her way people are going to need the coat hangers.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAgreed, thankfully the chances of anyone making that mistake again are not at-all likely. We've all seen the kind of frothing irrationality that moves the Republicans currently and thus I highly doubt any future Democratic President would make the mistake of trying to compromise with them beyond the barest minimum.
This. The idea of the justices all retiring so younger replacements could be chosen would've been viable from strictly practical terms.
Though I suspect it involves some hindsight bias in that back then the Democrats were at-least under the impression that norms meant something, so while such a move seems reasonable now I imagine it would've been seen as the height of partisan hackery if they actually did it.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Sep 9th 2018 at 2:31:21 PM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangAgreed, the biggest problem of the Obama Presidency at the start was his failing to realize just what a group of Obstructive Bureaucrat manchildren they are.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.The Trump administration is also expected to announce that it is shutting down a Palestinian diplomatic office in Washington because Palestinians have sought to use the international court to prosecute U.S. ally Israel, those people said.
White House national security adviser John Bolton is expected to outline threats of sanctions and a ban on travel to the United States for people involved in the attempted prosecution of Americans before the international court in an address Monday.
Bolton is a longtime opponent of the court on grounds that it violates national sovereignty.
Is there a better way of saying "we're guilty and fuck you" than that?
Edit: In fact, wouldn't that make Bolton and co. guilty of obstruction of justice in the eyes of the ICC?
Edited by Medinoc on Sep 10th 2018 at 1:23:57 PM
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."The US has never accepted the ICC interfering in its own affairs. He just vocalised it like the dick he is.
The ICC doesn't explicitly hold authority over anyone, people just agree to put the war criminals there. If they feel like it. I think we had a guy tried in Finland over genocide in Africa, so it's also not just the ICC that enforces those laws.
Edited by TerminusEst on Sep 10th 2018 at 4:27:48 AM
Si Vis Pacem, Para PerkeleWhich is why we an Empowered United Nations run by competent, globally-minded and morally upstanding people who can and will lay the smackdown on such self-absorbed governments/nations in the name of the greater good of humankind. National exceptionalism ought to be internationally criminalized.
Edited by MarqFJA on Sep 10th 2018 at 3:49:57 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Empowering the ICC to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity is a good idea, but criminalizing national exceptionalism is a massive overreaction. After all, every nation is guilty of that in some way. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with exceptionalism.
Though, I’ll add that the UN and ICC need some structural overhauls before I’d be comfortable granting them additional authority.
Edited by archonspeaks on Sep 10th 2018 at 5:55:46 AM
They should have sent a poet.

Hoping Anthony Kennedy does the right thing is no way to go through life, man.
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