lmfao another privileged lefty gets into politics and immediately begins acting like a national-socialist anti-semitic demon

Followup to story about the attacks on jews in NYC:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7941475/Woman-accused-attacking-three-Jewish-people-Brooklyn-charged-federal-hate-crimes.html


Tiffany Harris, who kept attacking jews and walking free due to the bail laws, and over and over and over again, on top of something like 30 other crimes in a row, is now being charged with federal hate crimes after personal intervention by AG Barr. Barr declared that anti-semitic hate crimes will now be prosecuted at the federal level, and had charges under seal for weeks.

B A S E D

The fact that this was a 5-4 decision bothers me. How do so many of the brightest legal minds disagree on this subject when examining the same legal matter? It reeks of political partisanship. This is why SCOTUS seats are so contested.

Becuase Libshits pack the courts with idealogues.

IANAL but I think these are all preliminary injunctions / restraining orders / that boil down to the judiciary steadily eroding and violating the spirit of the four-pronged test of whether an preliminary order should be issued before a trial, coupled with the extremely prevalent forum-shopping in districts that then issue nationwide injunctions. Its something that some supreme court justices have been eyeing with a disapproving glare. If liberal jurists are able to say that pretty much anything counts as 'irreparable harm', it strikes a whole prong off the test. Its nonsensical when they can issue injunctions for policies you can remedy by simply overturning later, when they argue that any suffering or lost freedoms in the interim are irreparable. It basically renders that test moot. Like the travel ban injunction, the justices ruled 5-4. Well, how do the 4 liberal justices argue that a travel ban causes irreparable harm if you can repair it by letting people into the country if it gets overruled? They even specifically cited harm to the tourism industry when the definition of irreparable harm specifically precludes financial damages, because they are fungible and can be repaid.

Couple that with stuff like purely subjective interpretation of "public interest" and "balance of harms" that positions judges to be unelected arbiters of public policy. Add a 'substantial likelihood of success' that is basically just their singular opinion instead of an acknowledgement of how higher courts will rule and the easily predictable breakdown of the supreme court, letting those lower courts enact injunctions they know won't stick despite an explicit requirement being that they believe it will stick.

I don't see an issue with Trump repeatedly withholding funds from foreign countries to investigate political opponents or use that leverage for his domestic political gain in whatever fashion he desires. He has a Congress who will not hold him accountable for doing so and has set a precedent that this is not an issue for sitting Presidents.

May every President who holds office during this administration and thereafter use their newfound executive power without impunity.

Yes, I'm sure that we will see a lot of future presidential candidates which had previously engaged in shady dealings abroad, which is the prerequisite for the president to even be able to withhold funds from foreign countries for leverage and domestic political gains.

the power that senate republicans bestowed upon any future president yesterday is not limited to withholding congressionally sanctioned military aid to an ally at war - literally everything a president CAN do to rig elections in his favour is fair game now: he could just threaten to nuke a country, he could threaten (or implement) tariffs if they don't smear his political opponents. nothing is an abuse of power anymore, nothing is an impeachable offense by the new standards that mitch and friends established now - and trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he will abuse his power to cheat in elections, getting away with murder will only increase his efforts.