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13 May 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
"Translation: Only Billionaires and Supreme Court Justices get to do "harmful things because they have the capacity," not anyone else in our Nation's Capital.Editorial Comment: How many times is this lackey to billionaires going to mention "regular people" in one speech? [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 4:14 am by Emma Snell
The Federation Council passed the constitutional laws on the annexation of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Luhansk People’s Republic, and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Governor Greg Abbott’s recent directive ordering the child welfare agency to investigate all gender-affirming care for trans children as child abuse is a particularly cruel example of this.A trial court in Texas has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents Abbott and his lackeys from acting on the order (Doe v. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 10:06 am by Sandy Levinson
The only real defense of the special treatment accorded the President appears to be an almost literally insane reliance on "the voice of the people as the voice of God," so that elections become the exclusive mechanism for holding presidents of the United States accountable. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 6:47 am by John Elwood
It’s an interesting issue, forever to be called a Lackey claim because of an early petitioner to raise the argument. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 4:41 am by SHG
It has filed a statement of interest in the Gwinnett College case of  Uzuegbunam v. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 3:52 pm by Kent Scheidegger
One of the ploys that opponents of the death penalty use to try to block it -- given that the American people are solidly against their real position -- is to drag out the appeals process for decades and then claim that it is cruel to keep people on death row for decades.This is called the Lackey claim for Justice Stevens's solo opinion in Lackey v. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:00 pm by John Elwood
The question in this case is whether this rule applies only to first assistants under the default rule, or whether it also applies to the alternative people the president can designate. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 9:32 am by John Elwood
  There was a brief period on Monday when people thought the Court had granted on the oft-denied question whether excessive delay of an execution constitutes cruel and unusual punishment – known as a Lackey claim because of Justice Stevens’s dissent in a case that was the 1995 winner of the Schmuck v. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 8:13 am by John Elwood
Summer is finally here with all its annual traditions: LeBron James in the NBA Finals; people struggling to keep bugs from ruining their picnic; everyone scrambling to lose weight in time for beach season (yes, we use that picture every year; no, we won’t stop). [read post]