{"id":40598,"date":"2024-07-21T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40598"},"modified":"2024-07-21T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T17:09:41","slug":"the-competition-for-first-overturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/21\/the-competition-for-first-overturn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Competition For First Overturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first overturn of the current SCOTUS<\/strong> composition’s decisions may turn out to be a hot competition between Dobbs<\/em> and several others. Lisa Rubin on MaddowBlog<\/strong><\/em> makes a case<\/a> for the horrifying Presidential immunity ruling:<\/p>\n

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When\u00a0the Supreme Court immunity decision<\/a>\u00a0came down on July 1, I quickly determined the worst part was not its top-line holding but something stealthily buried in its dozens of pages:\u00a0its prohibition<\/a>\u00a0on using conduct immune from prosecution as evidence \u2014\u00a0even where the charged conduct is wholly unofficial.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The lack of common sense in the conservative wing of SCOTUS<\/strong> is making one thing clear: they’re just as much fourth-raters as the common run of GOP<\/strong><\/em> officials, and, if unsurprising, that’s saying a lot. In some ways, Biden’s fundamental decency makes it a pity that he won’t take advantage of this version of the Roberts’ Court massive error.<\/p>\n

When it comes to corruption, details matter. Thus, Al Capone ended up in jail on tax code violation convictions, not the murders of which he was generally believed guilty. As a non-lawyer, that’s how I see this detail of the ruling – an attempt to keep the corrupt safe from prosecution.<\/p>\n

But an overturn would fix that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first overturn of the current SCOTUS composition’s decisions may turn out to be a hot competition between Dobbs and several others. Lisa Rubin on MaddowBlog makes a case for the horrifying Presidential immunity ruling: When\u00a0the Supreme Court immunity decision\u00a0came down on July 1, I quickly determined the worst part \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40603,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions\/40603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}