I was part of a luncheon for him yesterday.

5 things struck out at me:

1) He did not mention Trump by name.

2) He directly rebuked Trump’s international policy including NATO and Ukraine referring to Trump as the prior Administration.

3) He has endorsed a book with a sub thesis about how he lost the party.

4)He made no commitment to run as he had in years gone by. There was no money push. His PAC has not given out any money to state Republicans.

5) Our GOP President of the KY Senate was not present. He is out areas state senator. He is always present when Sen. McConnell comes to our region.

The whole thing struck me as a goodbye.

I know he is resigning from leadership, but he stated he was going to remain in the Senate.

Now, watch him run again and make a fool of me. Very few voters like him, but there is really no one to challenge him in or out of the Party.

We owe him, Senator Grassley, and President Trump a debt of gratitude for saving the SCOTUS.

Senator McConnell

Possibly the most corrupt SCOTUS in history? ledvm you amaze me.

Like most politicians, McConnell long overstayed his welcome.

Kensco,
Please point out the corruption participated in by Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett.

No answer? Telling!

Grandma never uses facts

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Originally posted by ledvm:
We owe him, Senator Grassley, and President Trump a debt of gratitude for saving the SCOTUS.

Senator McConnell

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Please point out the corruption participated in by Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett.

https://newrepublic.com/articl...upt-its-conservative

Michael Tomasky
June 5, 2023

The Supreme Court Is Corrupt Because It’s Conservative
It isn’t a coincidence. The court is corrupt, both judicially and ethically, because of the extreme ideology six of its justices serve.

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In summary, conservativism today, through the vessel of the GOP, which Trump owns, and SCOTUS majority, a long standing dream of conservativism, are all corrupt by association intent and effect.

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On second thought, this article is so good, I'll just post the whole thing:

Let’s call the Supreme Court what it is: an openly corrupt institution whose right-wing members are destroying its reputation because they simply do not care how the broader public sees them. They are in fact so blind to their own corruption that they don’t even recognize it when they’ve reached the point of parody. I refer here specifically to Amy Coney Barrett giving that speech pleading that the justices “aren’t a bunch of partisan hacks”—while sharing a stage with Mitch McConnell, the greatest legislative corrupter of the Supreme Court in modern history. That she couldn’t recognize the irony of that—or wait: She probably did recognize it but just didn’t give a crap.

The court’s descent—its approval rating now hovers around 40 percent, from 60 percent at the beginning of the century—has been remarked upon many times. What hasn’t been said as much is this: Its corruption is tied directly to its conservatism. I don’t mean that it’s not possible for liberals to be corrupt. But liberals would never be corrupt in the way that these right-wing justices are. They don’t believe in the law or any particular judicial philosophy, no matter what they tell us or themselves. What they do believe in is a set of policy outcomes that a huge network of right-wing activists desire.

They believe, in other words, only in ideology. So their only real loyalty is to that ideology, not to the Constitution or the law or any particular set of jurisprudential principles. And when their only real loyalty is to an ideology, and not the law or principles or tradition, then anything goes—both judicially and ethically. Rules are for other people—which Chief Justice John Roberts essentially said in his appalling recent letter to Senator Dick Durbin.

So they throw away principles, both judicial and ethical, with the same studied insouciance. Believe in states’ rights? Well, yes, until the moment that the state of Florida might have recounted votes in such a way that would have elected Al Gore over George Bush. Toss! They believe in precedent? Well, sure, until respecting precedent means protecting the right to abortion. Toss! Believe in disclosing gifts from megarich friends and upholding the standards of integrity that citizens have the right to expect from members of the country’s highest court? Sure, until they become potentially embarrassing, and they realize they don’t really have to disclose them anyway. Toss!

Clarence Thomas, as we now know thanks to Pro Publica, is one of the most unprincipled people in American public life. He embodies the moral rot of today’s American right more fully than the others, but that’s not to say he’s without competition. Brett Kavanaugh lied at his 2006 confirmation hearing to join the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals about at least two matters. Did he also lie at his hearing to join the high court, over allegations about his old boss Alex Kozinski? It sure looks that way. Did he lie about Christine Blasey Ford? I guess we’ll never know on that one, but his track record is hardly encouraging.

And who paid his credit card debts anyway? Are we ever going to find that out? Democrats, is anyone even looking? And no, it’s not too late. If they were paid in some corrupt manner, the American people have a right to know. Supreme Court justices can be impeached.

And they all lied about Roe v. Wade. In case you want to read the quotes, I collected them in this December 2021 column. All six of them lied through their teeth. Everyone in the world (well, almost everyone) knew they were lying. Yet they got away with it because they were able to hide behind the fiction that their adherence was to the law, precedent, and philosophy.

The lies, whether they’re about the law or ethics and past behavior, all come from the same place. These justices and their supporters believe they are on a mission to rescue America from people like us. There is so much more to do, and the clock is ticking. So the lies are justified. All that matters is the ideology—the outcomes. The twentieth century has to be annulled. It’s God’s work these justices are doing. And of course, anyone doing God’s work deserves to fly free on private jets and stay in $3,000-a-night bungalows.

In this term, Moore v. Harper, a gerrymandering case out of North Carolina, looms large because in the most extreme outcome, the justices could produce a ruling that would prevent state judges from overruling their legislatures on electoral outcomes. There were signs at the oral arguments that even some of the conservatives were skeptical of those arguments. We’ll know soon enough.

There’s also a pair of cases on affirmative action in college admissions. This will be interesting because the circuit court upheld the Harvard criteria being challenged in one of the cases—based on multiple previous Supreme Court rulings! But everybody thinks they’re going to kiss that goodbye. Again—toss! (And don’t think “moderate” John Roberts is going to save the day here—he’s horrible on racial questions.)

Follow-up:

https://www.americanprogress.o...s-remain-unanswered/

Supreme Court’s Decision in Moore v. Harper Is a Win for Democracy, But Some Questions Remain Unanswered
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a maximalist interpretation of the independent state legislature theory while leaving the door open for future litigation.

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Note: Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissent

Wow!!!

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
Grandma never uses facts

No....she uses a lot of estrogen and depends.....