I find myself gravitating towards your daily posts as a newborn does to his mother's milk!! And, along with that comes the motherly instinct to protect her loved ones!! I gasp at the amount of research that you clearly do for each paragraph!! The enormity of your daily accomplishments is stunning. I guess I just want to say 'take care of yourself!' And, I thank God you have such an amazing woman at your side! Long may you wave, Robert. You are truly making a difference!!
Laurence Tribe's Deconstructing Dobbs is a brilliant analysis of the Dobb's decision. Highly recommend reading it from top to bottom. For instance, this sentence from the article "The Dobbs “compromise” making it a matter for each state to determine is no more consistent and stable than the 1857 Dred Scott compromise making the status of slaves and their descendants a matter for states to decide." And on the Kansas unanticipated result: "The contrast between that unanticipated result—which Justice Alito would doubtless insist was wholly consistent with his expressed desire to return the issue to “the people and their elected representatives”—and the barely concealed belief of the majority in Dobbs that they were doing the Lord’s work by protecting unborn human life was impossible to miss." Basically the Supreme Court's decision is just one of many toward the goal of a Christian theocracy. I'm going to go study the Liberty Clause... "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Wow! My respect for Mr. Tribe which was already high now touches the stars.
Aug 31, 2022·edited Aug 31, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Amen!! In 18 months, President Biden has accomplished what many, including some staunch Democrats thought impossible---the New Deal on steroids. Is it all he campaigned on or we hoped, voted, and even prayed for--no. But these new laws and executive orders cast a wide net and encompass all Americans directly or indirectly for the better. For all their lament, Republicans are grabbing up the goodies faster than anyone. We should point that out to them often. There is still much to do--like passing the Voting Rights bills to thwart those dastardly state laws the GOP has rammed through, a ban on assault weapons, high capacity magazines and universal background checks, two years of free community or trade school, universal pre K, and a policing law that supports good cops while weeding out and punishing the bad ones and the unions that cloak for them. The fact that we have elected officials calling for violence against the FBI and God knows who else if their precious Trump is charged is no idle threat. We need to pay close attention and believe them. I think as Biden does that fascism is again rearing its monstrous head. Think it can't happen in the USA. Think again.
Biden is leading the charge. We need to take a lesson from the GOP and unite behind Biden-Harris as never before. Apathy, disappointment, and frustration are not viable excuses for not speaking up with not just our voices, but our ballots this November. We need to rally our side, overcome the Democrats penchant for in-fighting, and register as many new voters to our party as we can, then encourage those who feel disenfranchised to vote for more of the changes they want to see. Like Mr. Hubbell, I think the momentum is now on our side. The Biden administration has accomplished much to be grateful for, so let's not squander our opportunity. With God's help, Democrats can gain seats in the Senate and the House and continue to make meaningful change to benefit Americans and our country. Amen!!
With my first cup of coffee in the morning I read Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter From an American and then I read yours, Robert. Sometimes I go back and read you both again. Thank you for the encouragement, and explanations and links. A good way to prepare myself for the day.
I saw a clip of President Biden in Pennsylvania yesterday and he was in an environment where he thrives and he is very effective. He came across as being very Presidential , concerned about the future and the health of our Democracy and was talking to the average voter as if he were talking to a friend. I hope President Biden engages in more of these town hall type meetings which are in stark contrast to Trump and many Republican candidates because he is very effective.
Lindsey Graham remains a huge disappointment as one of the GOP's senior senators. He's lost his way. I think South Carolinians should consider a recall. Or maybe our friends at the Lincoln Project can start running snippets of Graham in 2015 and 2016 discussing DJT and then Graham in 2019 and 2020. He sets a new high bar to the conventional idea of a sell-out.
Last week, one of the guests on either CNN or MSNBC commented that as a member of one of the elite government agencies, she was subjected to a thorough and strict security clearance process. She reminded us that POTUS is not required to go through ANY security clearance. Why is that? POTUS has visibility and access to the most confidential and Top Secret documents in the country. Shouldn't that be the minimal requirement to run for any high level government office?
One thing that we have learned about having #45 as President, is that while previous holders of this office have treated the office with respect and honored the unwritten rules associated with the position, given the opportunity, cheaters and the power hungry will take advantage of any "loopholes" that exist.
Thank you Joe Biden for reminding all of us that doing the right thing is always the path to take, even when it is seemingly unpopular. Despite everything that has happened over the past 6 years, I am encouraged by the all of those who continue to fight for our rights, even when there are setbacks. Thank you @Robert for continuing to keep those stories front and center.
"...several readers criticized me for being “emotional” or “strident” in my criticism of the [Dobbs] decision.." An emotional reaction to freedom to control one's own body for half of the American population is, in my opinion, more than reasonable. A strident reaction -- that is, a loud and grating and angry reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to equally reasonable, though it is true that many people are more likely to attend to a statement that seems measured. So, in the most measured tones, let's expand the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate and increase the size of the Supreme Court. Something worth getting emotional about.
I do wish someone would develop a national data base of police officers who should never again be allowed to hold a job as an officer of the law. If that were done, it would be a great deal easier to feel "on the side of the police". I prefer "on the side of the law" due to the problem of officer aggression and brutality. I certainly feel absolutely no support for the Jan 6 insurrectionists.
With respect to his tweet, either Trump is ignorant or demented... or he thinks many or most of his followers are. Or any combination or all of the above.
I have wondered why, as a woman and an attorney, I have found it difficult to read the Dobbs decision or delve into the commentary I have heard about Alito's outrageous reasoning. I so appreciated your comments acknowledging this paralysis and just a moment before reading your words, "But if you are at a place where you are ready to understand the intellectual bankruptcy of Alito’s opinion in Dobbs, there is no better place to start than Professor Tribe’s article" I had just decided that now was the time. Thank you for providing the encouragement to read Tribe's article-- and for validating the difficulty in doing so.
Per Trump's mental state: Remember that Dr. Bandi X Lee and many other mental health professionals pointed out in 2020 that he was mentally incompetent. Funny how the media seems to have forgotten that.... https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250212863
Thanks for yet again starting my day over here. I would like to put forward, if and when you have the time, to hear what you have to say about Micael Gorbachov, who died yesterday - specifically in light of today's Russia.
Agree that Tribe's essay deserves to be read in full lest you miss not only brilliant analysis but terrific writing gems--don't miss the last sentence in this excerpt: "Although many observers criticized Alito’s leaked draft opinion for failing even to mention the Ninth Amendment, the opinion as finally released was almost defiant in its dismissive treatment of that amendment’s rule of construction. The only thing the Court says about it in Dobbs is that “the abortion right” is not itself “founded…in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people.” But that is a wholly irrelevant observation and confuses the category of “rights” with the category of rules about how to read a text dealing with rights. Nobody has ever seriously claimed that the “abortion right,” or indeed any substantive right, could possibly be “founded” in a rule about how to read the Constitution. The Ninth Amendment is not the “foundation” of any group of rights but a directive about how constitutional decisions about rights are to be made. Searching for rights in it is akin to searching for actual pieces of lumber in a manual on how to build a house."
The paragraph about Professor Tribe's article was fascinating and completely news to me. I can't wait to read the entire article. Thank you.
I told my husband this morning the next two months here will be like when I was working full time. I want to leave everything on the table by Election Day. If there are readers in North Texas who want to be involved in voter registration (not online and required 30 days prior to election), please see my cheatsheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiYRE6kBi_5BpxsdkIMQ8MrbNzR5cv8Y/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101527070974081088657&rtpof=true&sd=true
Heather and Hubbell, the political Green Stamps. Collect them all and you can keep your sanity.
(Only some of us will get the reference.)
Thanks Bob.
I find myself gravitating towards your daily posts as a newborn does to his mother's milk!! And, along with that comes the motherly instinct to protect her loved ones!! I gasp at the amount of research that you clearly do for each paragraph!! The enormity of your daily accomplishments is stunning. I guess I just want to say 'take care of yourself!' And, I thank God you have such an amazing woman at your side! Long may you wave, Robert. You are truly making a difference!!
Laurence Tribe's Deconstructing Dobbs is a brilliant analysis of the Dobb's decision. Highly recommend reading it from top to bottom. For instance, this sentence from the article "The Dobbs “compromise” making it a matter for each state to determine is no more consistent and stable than the 1857 Dred Scott compromise making the status of slaves and their descendants a matter for states to decide." And on the Kansas unanticipated result: "The contrast between that unanticipated result—which Justice Alito would doubtless insist was wholly consistent with his expressed desire to return the issue to “the people and their elected representatives”—and the barely concealed belief of the majority in Dobbs that they were doing the Lord’s work by protecting unborn human life was impossible to miss." Basically the Supreme Court's decision is just one of many toward the goal of a Christian theocracy. I'm going to go study the Liberty Clause... "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Wow! My respect for Mr. Tribe which was already high now touches the stars.
Amen!! In 18 months, President Biden has accomplished what many, including some staunch Democrats thought impossible---the New Deal on steroids. Is it all he campaigned on or we hoped, voted, and even prayed for--no. But these new laws and executive orders cast a wide net and encompass all Americans directly or indirectly for the better. For all their lament, Republicans are grabbing up the goodies faster than anyone. We should point that out to them often. There is still much to do--like passing the Voting Rights bills to thwart those dastardly state laws the GOP has rammed through, a ban on assault weapons, high capacity magazines and universal background checks, two years of free community or trade school, universal pre K, and a policing law that supports good cops while weeding out and punishing the bad ones and the unions that cloak for them. The fact that we have elected officials calling for violence against the FBI and God knows who else if their precious Trump is charged is no idle threat. We need to pay close attention and believe them. I think as Biden does that fascism is again rearing its monstrous head. Think it can't happen in the USA. Think again.
Biden is leading the charge. We need to take a lesson from the GOP and unite behind Biden-Harris as never before. Apathy, disappointment, and frustration are not viable excuses for not speaking up with not just our voices, but our ballots this November. We need to rally our side, overcome the Democrats penchant for in-fighting, and register as many new voters to our party as we can, then encourage those who feel disenfranchised to vote for more of the changes they want to see. Like Mr. Hubbell, I think the momentum is now on our side. The Biden administration has accomplished much to be grateful for, so let's not squander our opportunity. With God's help, Democrats can gain seats in the Senate and the House and continue to make meaningful change to benefit Americans and our country. Amen!!
With my first cup of coffee in the morning I read Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter From an American and then I read yours, Robert. Sometimes I go back and read you both again. Thank you for the encouragement, and explanations and links. A good way to prepare myself for the day.
I saw a clip of President Biden in Pennsylvania yesterday and he was in an environment where he thrives and he is very effective. He came across as being very Presidential , concerned about the future and the health of our Democracy and was talking to the average voter as if he were talking to a friend. I hope President Biden engages in more of these town hall type meetings which are in stark contrast to Trump and many Republican candidates because he is very effective.
Lindsey Graham remains a huge disappointment as one of the GOP's senior senators. He's lost his way. I think South Carolinians should consider a recall. Or maybe our friends at the Lincoln Project can start running snippets of Graham in 2015 and 2016 discussing DJT and then Graham in 2019 and 2020. He sets a new high bar to the conventional idea of a sell-out.
Last week, one of the guests on either CNN or MSNBC commented that as a member of one of the elite government agencies, she was subjected to a thorough and strict security clearance process. She reminded us that POTUS is not required to go through ANY security clearance. Why is that? POTUS has visibility and access to the most confidential and Top Secret documents in the country. Shouldn't that be the minimal requirement to run for any high level government office?
One thing that we have learned about having #45 as President, is that while previous holders of this office have treated the office with respect and honored the unwritten rules associated with the position, given the opportunity, cheaters and the power hungry will take advantage of any "loopholes" that exist.
Thank you Joe Biden for reminding all of us that doing the right thing is always the path to take, even when it is seemingly unpopular. Despite everything that has happened over the past 6 years, I am encouraged by the all of those who continue to fight for our rights, even when there are setbacks. Thank you @Robert for continuing to keep those stories front and center.
Does anyone else think that TFGs incoherent babbling is a set up for an insanity defense?
"...several readers criticized me for being “emotional” or “strident” in my criticism of the [Dobbs] decision.." An emotional reaction to freedom to control one's own body for half of the American population is, in my opinion, more than reasonable. A strident reaction -- that is, a loud and grating and angry reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to equally reasonable, though it is true that many people are more likely to attend to a statement that seems measured. So, in the most measured tones, let's expand the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate and increase the size of the Supreme Court. Something worth getting emotional about.
I do wish someone would develop a national data base of police officers who should never again be allowed to hold a job as an officer of the law. If that were done, it would be a great deal easier to feel "on the side of the police". I prefer "on the side of the law" due to the problem of officer aggression and brutality. I certainly feel absolutely no support for the Jan 6 insurrectionists.
With respect to his tweet, either Trump is ignorant or demented... or he thinks many or most of his followers are. Or any combination or all of the above.
I have wondered why, as a woman and an attorney, I have found it difficult to read the Dobbs decision or delve into the commentary I have heard about Alito's outrageous reasoning. I so appreciated your comments acknowledging this paralysis and just a moment before reading your words, "But if you are at a place where you are ready to understand the intellectual bankruptcy of Alito’s opinion in Dobbs, there is no better place to start than Professor Tribe’s article" I had just decided that now was the time. Thank you for providing the encouragement to read Tribe's article-- and for validating the difficulty in doing so.
Thanks agin, Robert!
Per Trump's mental state: Remember that Dr. Bandi X Lee and many other mental health professionals pointed out in 2020 that he was mentally incompetent. Funny how the media seems to have forgotten that.... https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250212863
Thanks for yet again starting my day over here. I would like to put forward, if and when you have the time, to hear what you have to say about Micael Gorbachov, who died yesterday - specifically in light of today's Russia.
Agree that Tribe's essay deserves to be read in full lest you miss not only brilliant analysis but terrific writing gems--don't miss the last sentence in this excerpt: "Although many observers criticized Alito’s leaked draft opinion for failing even to mention the Ninth Amendment, the opinion as finally released was almost defiant in its dismissive treatment of that amendment’s rule of construction. The only thing the Court says about it in Dobbs is that “the abortion right” is not itself “founded…in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people.” But that is a wholly irrelevant observation and confuses the category of “rights” with the category of rules about how to read a text dealing with rights. Nobody has ever seriously claimed that the “abortion right,” or indeed any substantive right, could possibly be “founded” in a rule about how to read the Constitution. The Ninth Amendment is not the “foundation” of any group of rights but a directive about how constitutional decisions about rights are to be made. Searching for rights in it is akin to searching for actual pieces of lumber in a manual on how to build a house."