Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Supreme Court: "It is a corrupt court"

[blackhawk]

Sadly everything is corrupt or rigged when one side or the other does not get it’s way has become the new normal in politics.

 

[struth]

The law says you are wrong.

Federal no-bid contracts are not inherently illegal, but they are generally discouraged and heavily regulated by law. While competition is mandated, exceptions allow "sole-source" or no-bid contracts under specific, justified circumstances, such as when only one supplier can meet the requirement or in urgent, national security scenarios. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

How does that say I’m wrong, it literally says they aren’t illegal

I said I have no issue so long as it’s done in accordance with the law

Do you have any evidence showing it’s not?

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

God, you're an idiot! Illinois was Gerrymandered LONG before Texas was!

Good God are you Fuking dumb.

Those were JUDICIAL, NOT congressional........DUMB ASS.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Because TEXAS was the starting point of redistricting.
NOT Illinois.

Oh and by the way...there is a practical reason behind the redistricting of a State like Texas. It's population is exploding. They're going to be adding House seats. Same thing with Florida and Tennessee. Districts are going to get redrawn because districts are going to get added. That won't be the case for States like Illinois, New York and California. They're losing people and they're going to lose House seats come next census. Your party is desperate because they can see that they're losing power.

 

[postman]

The difference between a newly elected Republican Senate considering a Democrat nominee and a Republican Senate considering a Republican nominee is the point.

A partisan point, and not a legal one. Which is why McConnel turned the other face and did a 180 between Garland and Barrett.

As such McConnell left the US with a ONE YEAR gap in the supreme court, where, close decisions (4-4) went undecided.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Good God are you Fuking dumb.

Those were JUDICIAL, NOT congressional........DUMB ASS.

Congress has nothing to do with Gerrymandering, moron...redistricting is done wholly by the States! The only way that the Federal Government can interfere is if the redistricting is deemed to be racially discriminatory.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

A partisan point, and not a legal one. Which is why McConnel turned the other face and did a 180 between Garland and Barrett.

As such McConnell left the US with a ONE YEAR gap in the supreme court, where, close decisions (4-4) went undecided.

A partisan point, and not a legal one.

The Republicans finally started fighting back. It was glorious!

 

[postman]

How does that say I’m wrong, it literally says they aren’t illegal

I said I have no issue so long as it’s done in accordance with the law

Do you have any evidence showing it’s not?

MSN

Trump awards $6.9m no-bid contract to 'pool guy'

Trump awarded a $6.9m no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings,

The exemption used is intended for urgent government needs,

 

[struth]

MSN

Trump awards $6.9m no-bid contract to 'pool guy'

Trump awarded a $6.9m no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings,

The exemption used is intended for urgent government needs,

The reflecting pool was in horrible shape....nobody did anything over the four years of the Xiden admin....it has to be ready to go by this summer on the 250 bday of the United States....that is urgent.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Oh and by the way...there is a practical reason behind the redistricting of a State like Texas. It's population is exploding.

So?
Why can't they wait until the census?
Like every other state in America has done for decades.

Because you, your dear leader and your cult, thrive on cheating.

They're going to be adding House seats. Same thing with Florida and Tennessee. Districts are going to get redrawn because districts are going to get added. That won't be the case for States like Illinois, New York and California. They're losing people and they're going to lose House seats come next census. Your party is desperate because they can see that they're losing power.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Congress has nothing to do with Gerrymandering, moron...redistricting is done wholly by the States!

WTF?
Trump REALLY loves you.
Trump doesn't give refunds on his reading "Comprehension" correspondence courses.

I said congressional redistricting, idiot.
The US congress has nothing to do with it.

The only way that the Federal Government can interfere is if the redistricting is deemed to be racially discriminatory.

NOT with Trump and his cult.

 

[Rawley]

Just as was the case when the Roberts Court gutted Sec. 5 of the VRA, the gutting of Sec. 2 has elicited the same response from Repub legislatures. Using the Court's ruling to immediately do what Roberts claimed is a thing of the past. Namely, gerrymander districts with the sole purpose of diluting the demographic advantage black residents had, allowing for the election of a black representative.

The New Jim Crow
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision effectively endorsing gerrymanders that disenfranchise Black voters, an outbreak of racism has spread through Southern state legislatures. Tennessee Republicans are pretending Black voters in Memphis don’t exist. Florida Republicans seem to have forgotten that Floridians voted to adopt a constitutional amendment banning both political and racial gerrymanders. And then, there’s Alabama.

Alabama has been at the center of the gerrymandering wars for years. In a surprise victory for Black voters, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor in a case known as Milligan. That case reached the Court after a three-judge panel in Birmingham unanimously concluded that it was not a “close” call whether the maps drawn by the legislature violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and barred the maps from being used.

The initial decision striking down the maps was authored by District Judge Anna Manasco, a Trump appointee. She was joined by another Trump appointee from Alabama, District Judge Terry Moorer, as well as Judge Stanley Marcus, a Reagan appointee to the Eleventh Circuit. You get the point: the maps were bad. They went beyond politics. They were about race.

The New Jim Crow

What happened in Alabama today

joycevance.substack.com

There is a lesson to be learned from what the R's have done. That is, use power ruthlessly when you have it. This time to openly rig elections on a scale and by methods never seen before.

The lesson for D's is, when the wheel turns and you are back in power do the same to R's as they are doing. The days of comity are over. The R's are trying to solidify minority control of the country and that effort should be met with all the force D's can muster when the chance arises.

Your cult's "logic" is a hoot. 'You're a racist if you oppose us discriminating on the basis of race.' LOL

 

[postman]

The reflecting pool was in horrible shape....nobody did anything over the four years of the Xiden admin....it has to be ready to go by this summer on the 250 bday of the United States....that is urgent.

Built in 1922 on soft soil, the pool has suffered from cracking and sinking.

Why the sudden urgency?

Over time, the heavy structure began to slowly sink and leak. In the 1980s, concrete was poured into the bottom of the pool to try to fix some of the damage, but by 1986, the pool’s structural system was failing,

Between November 2010 and August 2012, crews drained the reflecting pool and worked to restore the water feature, elevating it back out of the marshland and decreasing the depth by about 6 inches. Nearly all of the original structure was torn out, with just some of the old tile and asphalt bottom left behind. Over 2,100 timber pilings were pounded into the ground every 2 feet, 9 inches apart to provide support and keep the new pool from sinking.

Beyond fixing the major issue of sinking, the $34-million renovation provided an opportunity to enhance the pool in other ways. It originally lacked a circulation system, causing the pool to be drained and refilled twice a year in order to clean it. So, a circulation and filtration system was added. Elsewhere, a new tinted bottom was meant to improve the reflectivity of the water.

 

[BackAgain]

What you fail to grasp is that Roberts and Alito have from early in their legal careers wanted to get rid of the voting rights act / roe v wade / etc.

. Lack of even a single link is telling.

 

[postman]

. Lack of even a single link is telling.

I thought it was common knowledge. But if you pretend ignorance, here's a link.

Chief Justice Roberts’s Vendetta Against the Voting Rights Act

He’s been railing against it since the early 1980s.

www.brennancenter.org

Chief Justice Roberts’s Vendetta Against the Voting Rights Act

He’s been railing against it since the early 1980s.

Roberts’s animus toward the act, and toward the broader struggle to address centuries of racial discrimination in America, has been in plain sight since he served as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, drafting memos attacking the law and devising legal arguments to undermine it.

 

[22lcidw]

Kind of.
If democrats had their way the supreme court justices would be voted in by the people, every 6 years, like senators.

And unlike the Senators, they would have term limits of time in office. The 17th Amendment needs to go, and the state legislatures need to appoint Federal Senators so outside forces will have limited say in it.

 

[struth]

Built in 1922 on soft soil, the pool has suffered from cracking and sinking.

Why the sudden urgency?

Over time, the heavy structure began to slowly sink and leak. In the 1980s, concrete was poured into the bottom of the pool to try to fix some of the damage, but by 1986, the pool’s structural system was failing,

Between November 2010 and August 2012, crews drained the reflecting pool and worked to restore the water feature, elevating it back out of the marshland and decreasing the depth by about 6 inches. Nearly all of the original structure was torn out, with just some of the old tile and asphalt bottom left behind. Over 2,100 timber pilings were pounded into the ground every 2 feet, 9 inches apart to provide support and keep the new pool from sinking.

Beyond fixing the major issue of sinking, the $34-million renovation provided an opportunity to enhance the pool in other ways. It originally lacked a circulation system, causing the pool to be drained and refilled twice a year in order to clean it. So, a circulation and filtration system was added. Elsewhere, a new tinted bottom was meant to improve the reflectivity of the water.

Why the sudden? Because this summer is the 250 bday of the United States and there is a huge celebration on the Mall.

 

[postman]

Why the sudden? Because this summer is the 250 bday of the United States and there is a huge celebration on the Mall.

And Trump didn't know the 250th birthday was coming up back in 2025?
If he wanted the place spruced up, he would have put his wish list into the budget at the beginning of 2025, and not wait a year and a half, and suddenly declare it's urgent because it's two months away. After doing nothing for fifteen months.

 

[struth]

And Trump didn't know the 250th birthday was coming up back in 2025?
If he wanted the place spruced up, he would have put his wish list into the budget at the beginning of 2025, and not wait a year and a half, and suddenly declare it's urgent because it's two months away. After doing nothing for fifteen months.

I think every President, knew when the 250 bday was....well maybe no Xiden.

Either way, the contract is just for the painting, might not of known how much needed or if it needed until the repair project started.

Sometimes that happens when you get in on a project

 

[postman]

I think every President, knew when the 250 bday was....well maybe no Xiden.

Either way, the contract is just for the painting, might not of known how much needed or if it needed until the repair project started.

Sometimes that happens when you get in on a project

The previous repairs:

The major previous reconstruction of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool took approximately two years, running from November 2010 to August 2012.

2015–2016: Small repairs to the eastern end of the pool, caused by construction at the nearby World War II Memorial, took about a year, running from late 2015 to the summer of 2016