The NYT is as unhappy about this as one might expect. It turns out polling & predicting got it wrong, so now the narrative they're going for is 'months of chaos.'
Maybe that will be, but, see above for how bad they are at predicting.
Correction (I own that I made a copy error above). That's the only way to request a correction on the opinion side.
News has their own process.
FTR I do not for one second buy that the Times, esp. Times Opinion, has any commitment to ethics at all.
Here's the thing about this passage. Roberts didn't fail to pull the sides together. I think he's been full of merde this whole time.
He's played the game of saying he's not partisan and that the Court isn't either. But it's not credible, hasn't been since Bush v Gore, at least.
This Court -- these six -- just make things up. It's not originalism. It's not textualism. It's not even emanations and penumbras.
It's right wing Calvinball, and it's a pure, political power play.
We (citizens, not spec. law profs) have to stop responding to political power with legal issues.
Heather Cox Richardson's full post overnight about this extreme, radical Supreme Court is a must read. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc.... "Today the United States Supreme Court overthrew the central premise of American democracy"
Biden or Harris. That's the binary choice. I'm good with either, but even after this bad NYT poll, I think the chaos of changing the ticket is too great.
Not quite as swank, but you can dine in nearly the same aesthetic tomorrow, if you drive to Thorpe, WI and have a meal at The Thorpedo. (2hrs from here, east of Eau Claire)
GOP donors can fly Justice Thomas private in a Gulfstream to Bali, but in Milwaukee, they want price cuts on menus during the RNC.
Just the worst people in the world.
(screenshot of part of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article)
Thank you, yes. I am not one of the panic people who thinks Biden should exit the ticket. But *if he does* he needs to resign his office as well. I laid that out yesterday
I know Democrats have to also fight harder (they are fighting, I do see that), but the press failures in these dark days are so fucking glaring that I just about go spare.
(I wish that last phrase was in more common use here. Also I'd say angry AND worried, not or)
As a side note, it's a bit remarkable to see how the NYT was not nearly as afraid of their own shadow back then.
Fast forward to now, I think that article would be so namby-pamby it'd be, like:
Commenting on Rally Illustrating National Divide on Replacement Theory, Trump Might Have Misspoken
Gregory León, 2X James Beard nominated chef/owner of Amilinda, is increasingly concerned the RNC is a poorly planned mess, isn't meeting the hype for economic activity, and may actually HARM local restaurants since most locals will flee downtown MKE. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/special-re...
So the $1,000,000,000 that the oil industry gives to Trump will just be a gratuity for past services, ehh?
Asking in advance is just "free speech" (but very expensive).
