Events on Section 3 in Texas, before and after Trump v. Anderson

Last week I spoke at UT about the case before it was decided. Today I spoke at A&M after the case was decided.

Generally, Federalist Society events are scheduled months in advance. When these debates focus on pending cases, there is no way to know whether the event will happen before or after the case is decided. And so it goes.

Last week, I spoke about the then-pending Section 3 case at the University of Texas, Austin Law School.

Today, I spoke about the now-decided Section 3 case at Texas A&M Law School.

You can see these as a before and after series. Before--what could have been. After--what we got.

Comments

[Edmund Burke's Hastings spy]

ONly a lawyer would mistake the obvious like this. To say that the estimated 80 million Trump supporters would vote for a man they believed criminal and in defiance of the Constitution --- only a lawyer would think that credible. So 9-0 the Supreme Court agreed with my friends, neighbors, co-workers

[grb]

Edmund Burke’s Hastings spy : “….To say that the estimated 80 million Trump supporters would vote for a man they believed criminal….”

Two Points :

1. Really? A brand new poll conducted by Siena College found a fifth of people planning to vote for Trump believe he has committed “serious crimes”. That’s sixteen million from your eighty and it’s only the ones willing to honestly face the obvious. It’s also the ones brazen enough to admit to a pollster they just don’t care. Probably the real number is closer to the 57% of independents who see Trump as a criminal.

I suspect a very, very large percent of them do care, which is why Trump is frantic to postpone his legal reckoning until after the election. Anything but the evidence before then, eh?

2. But returning back to Trump supporters, please remember 64% of them claim to believe he is a “person of faith”, easily beating out all other politicians in sanctity. Mike Pence, a staunch evangelical Christian, came in second per Republicans, with 56 percent.

You have to wonder about overlap: MAGA-types who hold Trump a sanctified criminal – although his criminality has been the continual dedication of a lifetime and his “piety” a much more recent invention. You also have to wonder about crude raw delusion. I imagine that’s pretty much a prerequisite these days in the Cult.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/trump-crimes-polling-republicans/

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4389102-trump-biden-pence-person-of-faith-2024/

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

These people are fucking idiots.

It is wrong to try to sugarcoat this. Most are some combination of
delusional, religious zealot, hypocrite, disaffected, un-American, antisocial, gullible, poorly educated, highly stressed, etc.

They believe silly things. They make silly contentions. They don't like modern America. They don't have much future. They flail a lot.

[NOVA Lawyer]

These people are fucking idiots.

The crux of it. And I include in it the spineless likes of Mitch McConnell. Some of his quotes:

“I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself.” – in the immediate aftermath of January 6.

Trump “was pretty thoroughly discredited by this.” – same

He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t have happened at a better time.” – said just after midnight, the morning of January 7, 2021.

There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the event of that day….He didn’t get away with anything yet. – during a speech on the Senate floor to explain why, notwithstanding Trump’s practical and moral responsibility for J6, he wouldn’t vote to convict.

And, yet, here’s McConnell today literally letting Trump get away with it. Again.

It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States. It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support.

What a cravenly political person. Hard to say what portion is stupidity and which is pure, calculated self-interest, but there is a heaping of stupidity in his willingness to forget so that he can endorse.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

These guys tend not to depict how many people attend these Federalist Society events at law schools.

Just how many fledgling bigots, aspiring culture war casualties, and disaffected, obsolete misfits are there among law students these days?

[Dan Schiavetta]

"Fifth Avenue Immunity".

[Dr. Ed 2]

YOU NEED A HAIRCUT!!!

[Edmund Burke's Hastings spy]

So, how abouit 'You won't live to regret this" 🙂