I'll add a "little" to your comment (I'm not a Trump fan but I can NOT stand the hypocrisy coming from Biden, etc):
Biden’s farewell address
term limits for Supreme Court justices..... concluding that it has been a privilege to serve the nation for over 50 years. HAHAHAHA - Biden is angry about the Supreme Court's finding, so he wants term limits AFTER HE'S BEEN IN OFFICE FOR OVER 50 YEARS!!! Our forefathers never intended for political office to be a career.
Oligarchy
the USA has been a closeted oligarchy for years. All of those 0.1% CEOs have been in Biden, Obama's and HRC's pockets. When we complain about Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big ___, we're talking about their lobbyist liaisons. I'm pretty sure the blue's tactic of prosecuting/persecuting Trump till he's bankrupted and or in prison so he can't run/win for a second POTUS term drained his bank account on lawyer fees and bail, thus created an opening for the billionaire CEOs to curry favor like never before when he was self-funded the first run. If Trump ushers in an oligarchy, then it's more in the open with the CEOs doing their own dirty work instead of sending lobbyists to Trump, and such is hypocritical to his mission to drain the swamp. The swamp are the corrupt politicians who pretend to be for the people when running for office, then once in office don't represent the will of the people because the lobbyists are deep in their pockets. Such errodes the faith in politics because politicians can be bought and the people don't feel represented by who they elected to represent them.
While Trump enjoyed more public backing from the ultra-wealthy this time than in previous contests, an October 2024 analysis from Forbes found that Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president and the loser against Trump, received significantly more support from prominent billionaires.
Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the following honorees earlier this month.
"George Soros, [net worth of] $7 billion[.]
David Rubenstein, [net worth of] $4 billion[.]"
Soros' support of Democrats and liberals is well-known, while the Biden family spent every Thanksgiving of Joe's presidency at Rubenstein's Nantucket compound.
President Biden was ripped on social media Wednesday for lecturing Americans that the wealthy should “pay their fair share” of taxes — after pardoning his son for a conviction on tax evasion charges last month.
President Biden warned against granting the presidency “unchecked” power, saying “extreme" wealth, power and influence “literally threatens our entire democracy.”
That will surely raise some eyebrows among Republicans who remember the battle over student loan forgiveness.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Biden’s legacy should be: listed as those failures as “Engineering the WORST border crisis in U.S. history, bringing terrorists and violent illegals into our communities,” “WEAPONIZING DOJ to target political opponents,” “FUELING skyrocketing inflation through ‘Bidenomics,’” “HIDING from the American people his mental decline,” “Orchestrating the DISASTROUS withdrawal from Afghanistan,” “EMBOLDENING enemies through a policy of appeasement,” and “PARDONING his son despite saying he never would, and giving murderers and rapists clemency.”
ohhhh, I read the article about short sleepers! Finally, I can feel OK about how I sleep. I wake up early, 3:00, no later than 4:00 am. Have done so for a long time. Sometimes I'd like to take a nap but rarely do - naps often make it difficult for me to get to sleep that night. I almost always dream.
I've read that "night owls" are more prone to Alzheimers. I don't have any links for that but in real life, many I know fit. I used to live next door to a smart woman who would be going to bed at about the same time I'd wake up in the morning. She's been diagnosed w/ Alzheimers. My previous MIL stayed up all night - she was diagnosed w/ it... I could go on...
Pardon everyone involved in investigations of Jan 6 insurrection; everyone on trump’s enemies list; all prosecution witnesses and plaintiffs in trump trials.
Blanket pardon everyone involved (witnesses, prosecutors, lawyers, etc) in the January 6th investigation. It was a clear attack on our nation's capital to overturn a free and fair election. We all watched it happen live and listened to the hearings. Protect those brave Americans.
Misdemeanour drug users should be forgiven. They have fallen victim to addiction perhaps because of mental illness or trauma. They haven't hurt anyone but themselves. On the other hand, criminals who have intentionally stolen from someone's life savings IE: CRYPTO CURRNCY SCAMS should be jailed indefinitely...
President Biden declared on Friday that he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification and therefore is now part of the Constitution. But he said he would not press a legal fight by ordering the government to finalize the process by officially publishing it. The amendment, which took a circuitous and decades-long route to ratification by 38 states, essentially is a single sentence: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
yep, he keeps trying to get away w/ stuff he can't get away w/. The following is cut/paste from Jonah Goldberg/Dispatch News. Jonah is an expert writer, journalist, about history & the Constitution:
Joe Biden “believes” that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land.
Say what you will about Biden, the man can keep a secret. In his statement, Biden says that it became the 28th Amendment almost exactly five years ago when the Commonwealth of Virginia ratified it on January 27, 2020.
From that time until now, Biden has said pretty much nothing about this belief. That’s kind of a weird conviction to keep under your hat all this time.
That is, unless, like almost everybody else, he didn’t think Virginia’s ratification of the ERA was anything other than symbolic until recently. Heck, the New York Times story on Virginia’s symbolic ratification of the ERA uses the word symbolic in the subhead and the first sentence. If the Times thought there was a shot at the ratification being something other than symbolic at the time, it would have flooded the zone with “let’s make this happen” coverage. Again, if they thought this was possible, the newspaper might even have asked Joe Biden what he thought about it, given that he was running for president at the time.
Among the reasons nobody but a handful of activists even bothered claiming that Virginia’s ratification of the amendment was anything other than symbolic is that the deadline for the amendment’s ratification expired nearly two decades earlier. Again, don’t take my word for it. Here’s the NPR headline at the time, “Virginia Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment, Decades After The Deadline.”
Now, it’s true there are lawyers, including at the American Bar Association, who argue that there was no deadline for the amendment approved by Congress in 1972 because the seven-year time-limit for ratification was only in the amendment’s preamble not the actual text. But it was put there expressly to keep the text clean if ratified. The Justice Department, including under Joe Biden, has long held that the deadline is binding.
You know who else thought that the window closed on the Equal Rights Amendment? Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Of course she wasn’t a Supreme Court Justice then, she was just one of the country’s most famous feminist lawyers and law professors. But then in 2020, as a Supreme Court justice, she explained—again—that the deadline had passed for the ERA. Sorry, she said that the allegedly extended deadline had passed, in 1982. Among the reasons she thought it was a dead letter: Several states had withdrawn their ratification. As she put it at an event co-sponsored by the American Bar Association:
I would like to start over. There is too much controversy about latecomers [like] Virginia long after the deadline passed. Plus, a number of states have withdrawn their ratification. So if you count a latecomer on the plus side, how can you disregard states that said, ‘We have changed our minds’?
Pretty good point there, I think.
In response to Ginsburg’s comments, even Ian Millhiser, one of the most partisan legal analysts in the English language, lamented that the comments from “the most important feminist lawyer in American history” were “likely to be the death knell” for the ERA.
And now, I have to offer you an apology. Because I am taking Joe Biden’s opinion more seriously than he is. Indeed, I’m taking the presidency itself more seriously than he is, but let’s stay with the ERA stuff.
If you haven’t been paying attention, you need a little backstory. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been pushing a dippy theory that all Biden needs to do is order the archivist of the United States to declare the ERA ratified. Here’s how Gillibrand began her December 15 New York Times op-ed:
With Republicans set to take unified control of government, Americans are facing the further degradation of reproductive freedom.
Fortunately, Mr. Biden has the power to enshrine reproductive rights in the Constitution right now. He can direct the national archivist to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment. This would mean that the amendment has been officially ratified and that the archivist has declared it part of the Constitution.
Now, I don’t think this is correct. But, again, who cares about my legal opinion? Fortunately someone else agrees with me: The archivist of the United States. Two days after Gillibrand’s op-ed, Colleen Shogan and Deputy Archivist William J. Bosanko released a joint statement declaring:
As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.
In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable. The OLC concluded that extending or removing the deadline requires new action by Congress or the courts.….As the leaders of the National Archives, we will abide by these legal precedents and support the constitutional framework in which we operate.
This was Shogan’s position during her confirmation hearings, by the way. Every voting Democrat chose to confirm her.
But I’m doing it again. Because, you see, while the president has declared his “belief” that the ERA is the law of the land, he has not actually ordered the archivist to act accordingly. He’s just got this feeling like it’s the law of the land and agrees with the American Bar Association’s position, just not enough to do more than pay it lip service.
A “senior Biden administration official” told CNN that the president “is not taking executive action, but is ‘stating an opinion that it is ratified.’”
If that’s not unclear enough, the official added, “He is using his power of the presidency to make it clear that he believes – and he agrees with leading constitutional scholars and the American Bar Association – not that it should be, but it is the 28th Amendment of the Constitution.”
Now presidents do issue legal opinions, sort of. The Justice Department works for the president and derives all of its constitutional authority from the executive. And it issues opinions all the time—like the one that says the ERA’s deadline lapsed the same year Joanie Loves Chachi debuted.
But Biden is ignoring that opinion and siding with the American Bar Association, which says that the archivist doesn’t need to certify and publish the amendment and all that is required is for Virginia to ratify it—decades past the deadline. The ABA is entitled to its opinion—even if it took four years after Virginia’s symbolic ratification to express it. In other words, the president is ignoring his own Justice Department on the way out the door, to sorta declare—Michael-Scott-declaring-bankruptcy style—that he just believes it, but not strongly enough to do more than that.
Again, I don’t think the ERA becomes an amendment even if Biden tells the archivist to certify it. But the fact that he won’t instruct her to do that means … something. Perhaps he knows she’ll resign if ordered to. Maybe he’s afraid to do something that makes him seem too responsible for the consequences. Maybe he doesn’t even know exactly what he’s doing because Matlock is on. It’s virtue-signaling and base-pandering on an epic scale. It’s also utterly contemptuous of constitutional norms, particularly as the Biden administration declares it won’t enforce the TikTok ban, which was just upheld by the Supreme Court—and which Biden signed into law.
Vaporous constitutional gasbaggery, yes. Faithfully executing the law? That’s malarkey, man. We gotta pay for a presidential library.
I don’t know what happens next. Well, that’s not quite right. I know what happens next as much as Biden does: needless legal, political, and constitutional drama. Activists will take what is in effect a presidential fatwah as gospel and start filing lawsuits based upon the 28th Amendment being a thing. Opponents will say it’s not a thing. The Jen Rubin crowd will accuse the Trump administration of violating the Constitution for not recognizing the 28th Amendment. MSNBC will devote countless hours—until it’s sold—to this historic victory and its consequences. Fox will devote countless hours to Biden’s lawless gambit and the hypocrisy of liberals who claim to be in favor of constitutional norms. And they’ll have a point.
And the Supreme Court, which Biden and this crowd have worked assiduously to discredit, will be left with a huge burning bag ...
Darrell, you are such a joke, after you did your c/p of Gloria Horton-Young,
As I already said, Jonah Goldberg is an extremely respected writer, journalist, MUCH smarter than you can even imagine yourself being.
Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
and I'll add, as I've done many times in the past, your narcissistic ways when confronted with evidence that they are wrong, narcissists often use tactics like blaming others, gaslighting, or simply dismissing the issue
Not at all Darrell. This started by your attempt to say Biden was correct about ERA meeting requirements for ratification. I replied by cut/paste using a historian/political expert on The Constitution because if I had replied saying "Darrell, you & Biden are wrong", that conversation would have been thrown in my face. Well, the expert's information is now being thrown out because you, the narcissist cannot accept being wrong.
Forget oligarchy. Look up kakistockracy-it’s “government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. It derives from Greek “kakistos”, worst + cracy
A pardon for ALL weed users & non violent 'blue collar' crimes. All junkies, except hard core (who hadn't been), sent to rehab.
Joe Biden should STFU and stop worrying about his legacy. His legacy has been written over the past 4 years. It is not a good one.
Perhaps you should take the advice you are giving Biden.
I'll add a "little" to your comment (I'm not a Trump fan but I can NOT stand the hypocrisy coming from Biden, etc):
Biden’s farewell address
term limits for Supreme Court justices..... concluding that it has been a privilege to serve the nation for over 50 years. HAHAHAHA - Biden is angry about the Supreme Court's finding, so he wants term limits AFTER HE'S BEEN IN OFFICE FOR OVER 50 YEARS!!! Our forefathers never intended for political office to be a career.
Oligarchy
the USA has been a closeted oligarchy for years. All of those 0.1% CEOs have been in Biden, Obama's and HRC's pockets. When we complain about Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big ___, we're talking about their lobbyist liaisons. I'm pretty sure the blue's tactic of prosecuting/persecuting Trump till he's bankrupted and or in prison so he can't run/win for a second POTUS term drained his bank account on lawyer fees and bail, thus created an opening for the billionaire CEOs to curry favor like never before when he was self-funded the first run. If Trump ushers in an oligarchy, then it's more in the open with the CEOs doing their own dirty work instead of sending lobbyists to Trump, and such is hypocritical to his mission to drain the swamp. The swamp are the corrupt politicians who pretend to be for the people when running for office, then once in office don't represent the will of the people because the lobbyists are deep in their pockets. Such errodes the faith in politics because politicians can be bought and the people don't feel represented by who they elected to represent them.
While Trump enjoyed more public backing from the ultra-wealthy this time than in previous contests, an October 2024 analysis from Forbes found that Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president and the loser against Trump, received significantly more support from prominent billionaires.
Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the following honorees earlier this month.
"George Soros, [net worth of] $7 billion[.]
David Rubenstein, [net worth of] $4 billion[.]"
Soros' support of Democrats and liberals is well-known, while the Biden family spent every Thanksgiving of Joe's presidency at Rubenstein's Nantucket compound.
President Biden was ripped on social media Wednesday for lecturing Americans that the wealthy should “pay their fair share” of taxes — after pardoning his son for a conviction on tax evasion charges last month.
President Biden warned against granting the presidency “unchecked” power, saying “extreme" wealth, power and influence “literally threatens our entire democracy.”
That will surely raise some eyebrows among Republicans who remember the battle over student loan forgiveness.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Biden’s legacy should be: listed as those failures as “Engineering the WORST border crisis in U.S. history, bringing terrorists and violent illegals into our communities,” “WEAPONIZING DOJ to target political opponents,” “FUELING skyrocketing inflation through ‘Bidenomics,’” “HIDING from the American people his mental decline,” “Orchestrating the DISASTROUS withdrawal from Afghanistan,” “EMBOLDENING enemies through a policy of appeasement,” and “PARDONING his son despite saying he never would, and giving murderers and rapists clemency.”
I can find all this somewhere else, I’m sure. It’s just the same old right wing rant.
point out any "rants" that aren't true
Yes, probably a trump script from a rally.
ohhhh, I read the article about short sleepers! Finally, I can feel OK about how I sleep. I wake up early, 3:00, no later than 4:00 am. Have done so for a long time. Sometimes I'd like to take a nap but rarely do - naps often make it difficult for me to get to sleep that night. I almost always dream.
I've read that "night owls" are more prone to Alzheimers. I don't have any links for that but in real life, many I know fit. I used to live next door to a smart woman who would be going to bed at about the same time I'd wake up in the morning. She's been diagnosed w/ Alzheimers. My previous MIL stayed up all night - she was diagnosed w/ it... I could go on...
I agree with your drug pardon suggestion $
She Who Stirs The Storm
In my mother's time, good girls wore
gloves to church & didn't ask questions
when men spoke. I learned early: some kinds
of survival meant playing dead.
Let me be clear: I was raised
on Wonder Bread & nuclear drills,
taught to trust the government
would save us. Now, at seventy-three,
I recognize the taste of ashes
in democracy's mouth. How history
folds like a flag, neat triangles
of forgetting. In the kitchen,
my wife reads headlines
like obituaries. We who fought
for marriage now watch them debate
if we deserve to keep it. Funny
how rights feel solid as marble
until they crack. Until you remember:
marble breaks too. Everything
America taught me about permanence
was a story about power. Even now,
they're rewriting the books, scrubbing
clean the chapters where we bled,
where we won, where we named
ourselves sacred. The young TikTok addicts
don't remember how we danced
in the streets when the Supreme Court
said our love was legal. How we wept,
mascara running like ink
down the pages of history.
Now we're back to watching
them deliberate our humanity
in marbled halls. Back to that old
familiar taste: fear mixed with fury,
bitter as my grandmother's
bone-deep certainty that silence
keeps you safe. But safety
was always a white woman's myth,
like believing progress
moves in one direction.
This morning, my neighbor
takes down her rainbow flag.
Says she's too old for fighting.
I understand: some bones
get tired of breaking
against the same walls.
Some hands forget
how to make fists.
But my body remembers
every march, every protest,
every friend lost to silence
& stigma. Remember: I was raised
to be a good girl, to speak
only when spoken to. Now
I'm speaking to no one,
watching it all burn
from my comfortable chair,
in my comfortable house,
my white skin still a passport
to certain kinds of safety.
Let them have what they chose:
this bonfire of democracy,
this funeral of facts.
I'm too old to save them
from themselves. Too tired
to explain why history
isn't linear, why progress
is more fragile than flesh.
In the garden, my freckled hands
shake as I deadhead flowers—
everything beautiful requires
constant tending. Everything earned
can be lost. This too
is an American story:
how quickly we forget
the cost of forgetting.
Tonight, I'll watch the news
go dark, screen by screen.
Let them choke on the ashes
of what they burned.
I've got front row seats
to this empire's ending—
another good girl gone quiet,
watching it all come undone.
— Gloria Horton-Young
Wow Darrell! That’s almost me. Not quite but certainly feeling it.
My wife discovered that one. She also says the cultural expectation for women has always been to be modest, nice and thin.
Pardon everyone involved in investigations of Jan 6 insurrection; everyone on trump’s enemies list; all prosecution witnesses and plaintiffs in trump trials.
Blanket pardon everyone involved (witnesses, prosecutors, lawyers, etc) in the January 6th investigation. It was a clear attack on our nation's capital to overturn a free and fair election. We all watched it happen live and listened to the hearings. Protect those brave Americans.
Absolutely!
Misdemeanour drug users should be forgiven. They have fallen victim to addiction perhaps because of mental illness or trauma. They haven't hurt anyone but themselves. On the other hand, criminals who have intentionally stolen from someone's life savings IE: CRYPTO CURRNCY SCAMS should be jailed indefinitely...
You mean like this?
https://apnews.com/article/biden-commutes-2500-nonviolent-drug-offenders-83174cd0602a0bf5d491aa60184f3568
Yes, just like that…
Like this?
https://apnews.com/article/biden-commutes-2500-nonviolent-drug-offenders-83174cd0602a0bf5d491aa60184f3568
And that as well…
My advice would be to stop pretending to lead the country and step away now!
President Biden declared on Friday that he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification and therefore is now part of the Constitution. But he said he would not press a legal fight by ordering the government to finalize the process by officially publishing it. The amendment, which took a circuitous and decades-long route to ratification by 38 states, essentially is a single sentence: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
yep, he keeps trying to get away w/ stuff he can't get away w/. The following is cut/paste from Jonah Goldberg/Dispatch News. Jonah is an expert writer, journalist, about history & the Constitution:
Joe Biden “believes” that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land.
Say what you will about Biden, the man can keep a secret. In his statement, Biden says that it became the 28th Amendment almost exactly five years ago when the Commonwealth of Virginia ratified it on January 27, 2020.
From that time until now, Biden has said pretty much nothing about this belief. That’s kind of a weird conviction to keep under your hat all this time.
That is, unless, like almost everybody else, he didn’t think Virginia’s ratification of the ERA was anything other than symbolic until recently. Heck, the New York Times story on Virginia’s symbolic ratification of the ERA uses the word symbolic in the subhead and the first sentence. If the Times thought there was a shot at the ratification being something other than symbolic at the time, it would have flooded the zone with “let’s make this happen” coverage. Again, if they thought this was possible, the newspaper might even have asked Joe Biden what he thought about it, given that he was running for president at the time.
Among the reasons nobody but a handful of activists even bothered claiming that Virginia’s ratification of the amendment was anything other than symbolic is that the deadline for the amendment’s ratification expired nearly two decades earlier. Again, don’t take my word for it. Here’s the NPR headline at the time, “Virginia Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment, Decades After The Deadline.”
Now, it’s true there are lawyers, including at the American Bar Association, who argue that there was no deadline for the amendment approved by Congress in 1972 because the seven-year time-limit for ratification was only in the amendment’s preamble not the actual text. But it was put there expressly to keep the text clean if ratified. The Justice Department, including under Joe Biden, has long held that the deadline is binding.
You know who else thought that the window closed on the Equal Rights Amendment? Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Of course she wasn’t a Supreme Court Justice then, she was just one of the country’s most famous feminist lawyers and law professors. But then in 2020, as a Supreme Court justice, she explained—again—that the deadline had passed for the ERA. Sorry, she said that the allegedly extended deadline had passed, in 1982. Among the reasons she thought it was a dead letter: Several states had withdrawn their ratification. As she put it at an event co-sponsored by the American Bar Association:
I would like to start over. There is too much controversy about latecomers [like] Virginia long after the deadline passed. Plus, a number of states have withdrawn their ratification. So if you count a latecomer on the plus side, how can you disregard states that said, ‘We have changed our minds’?
Pretty good point there, I think.
In response to Ginsburg’s comments, even Ian Millhiser, one of the most partisan legal analysts in the English language, lamented that the comments from “the most important feminist lawyer in American history” were “likely to be the death knell” for the ERA.
And now, I have to offer you an apology. Because I am taking Joe Biden’s opinion more seriously than he is. Indeed, I’m taking the presidency itself more seriously than he is, but let’s stay with the ERA stuff.
If you haven’t been paying attention, you need a little backstory. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been pushing a dippy theory that all Biden needs to do is order the archivist of the United States to declare the ERA ratified. Here’s how Gillibrand began her December 15 New York Times op-ed:
With Republicans set to take unified control of government, Americans are facing the further degradation of reproductive freedom.
Fortunately, Mr. Biden has the power to enshrine reproductive rights in the Constitution right now. He can direct the national archivist to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment. This would mean that the amendment has been officially ratified and that the archivist has declared it part of the Constitution.
Now, I don’t think this is correct. But, again, who cares about my legal opinion? Fortunately someone else agrees with me: The archivist of the United States. Two days after Gillibrand’s op-ed, Colleen Shogan and Deputy Archivist William J. Bosanko released a joint statement declaring:
As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.
In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable. The OLC concluded that extending or removing the deadline requires new action by Congress or the courts.….As the leaders of the National Archives, we will abide by these legal precedents and support the constitutional framework in which we operate.
This was Shogan’s position during her confirmation hearings, by the way. Every voting Democrat chose to confirm her.
But I’m doing it again. Because, you see, while the president has declared his “belief” that the ERA is the law of the land, he has not actually ordered the archivist to act accordingly. He’s just got this feeling like it’s the law of the land and agrees with the American Bar Association’s position, just not enough to do more than pay it lip service.
A “senior Biden administration official” told CNN that the president “is not taking executive action, but is ‘stating an opinion that it is ratified.’”
If that’s not unclear enough, the official added, “He is using his power of the presidency to make it clear that he believes – and he agrees with leading constitutional scholars and the American Bar Association – not that it should be, but it is the 28th Amendment of the Constitution.”
Now presidents do issue legal opinions, sort of. The Justice Department works for the president and derives all of its constitutional authority from the executive. And it issues opinions all the time—like the one that says the ERA’s deadline lapsed the same year Joanie Loves Chachi debuted.
But Biden is ignoring that opinion and siding with the American Bar Association, which says that the archivist doesn’t need to certify and publish the amendment and all that is required is for Virginia to ratify it—decades past the deadline. The ABA is entitled to its opinion—even if it took four years after Virginia’s symbolic ratification to express it. In other words, the president is ignoring his own Justice Department on the way out the door, to sorta declare—Michael-Scott-declaring-bankruptcy style—that he just believes it, but not strongly enough to do more than that.
Again, I don’t think the ERA becomes an amendment even if Biden tells the archivist to certify it. But the fact that he won’t instruct her to do that means … something. Perhaps he knows she’ll resign if ordered to. Maybe he’s afraid to do something that makes him seem too responsible for the consequences. Maybe he doesn’t even know exactly what he’s doing because Matlock is on. It’s virtue-signaling and base-pandering on an epic scale. It’s also utterly contemptuous of constitutional norms, particularly as the Biden administration declares it won’t enforce the TikTok ban, which was just upheld by the Supreme Court—and which Biden signed into law.
Vaporous constitutional gasbaggery, yes. Faithfully executing the law? That’s malarkey, man. We gotta pay for a presidential library.
I don’t know what happens next. Well, that’s not quite right. I know what happens next as much as Biden does: needless legal, political, and constitutional drama. Activists will take what is in effect a presidential fatwah as gospel and start filing lawsuits based upon the 28th Amendment being a thing. Opponents will say it’s not a thing. The Jen Rubin crowd will accuse the Trump administration of violating the Constitution for not recognizing the 28th Amendment. MSNBC will devote countless hours—until it’s sold—to this historic victory and its consequences. Fox will devote countless hours to Biden’s lawless gambit and the hypocrisy of liberals who claim to be in favor of constitutional norms. And they’ll have a point.
And the Supreme Court, which Biden and this crowd have worked assiduously to discredit, will be left with a huge burning bag ...
“… needless legal, political, and constitutional drama.”
How very trump-like. The very definition of trump. Ha ha ha ha. Haha.
I will add Jonah is not a Trump fan - far from it. Jonah absolutely knows the Constitution.
It is sad when you have to cut & paste an entire column from another pundit.
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/the-equal-rights-amendment-at-long?r=g5hbu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Darrell, you are such a joke, after you did your c/p of Gloria Horton-Young,
As I already said, Jonah Goldberg is an extremely respected writer, journalist, MUCH smarter than you can even imagine yourself being.
Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
I shared a poem that quite a few readers indicated they enjoyed. Big difference.
and I'll add, as I've done many times in the past, your narcissistic ways when confronted with evidence that they are wrong, narcissists often use tactics like blaming others, gaslighting, or simply dismissing the issue
Like you are doing to me. Pot calling the kettle black.
Not at all Darrell. This started by your attempt to say Biden was correct about ERA meeting requirements for ratification. I replied by cut/paste using a historian/political expert on The Constitution because if I had replied saying "Darrell, you & Biden are wrong", that conversation would have been thrown in my face. Well, the expert's information is now being thrown out because you, the narcissist cannot accept being wrong.
Preemptive pardon for entire Jan 6 committee.
Leave early.
Forget oligarchy. Look up kakistockracy-it’s “government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. It derives from Greek “kakistos”, worst + cracy
Yes, I agree. I already came across the word and looked it up earlier last year, 2024. I'm glad somebody thought to mention it.