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GOP Senator Fred Thompson back when Republicans actually worked for the country.

 

To be fair, Hannity admits he isn’t a journalist

 

He claims it when it's convenient and rejects it when it isn't.

 

Cipollone subpoenaed

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Pat Cipollone, former WH counsel

 

Absolutely. If they take a pardon they have to testify about it if asked, and cannot take the Fifth.

 

Whatever this is about... boo hoo Neil, boo friggin hoo.

Justice Neil Gorsuch fumes that the Supreme Court 'failed' to 'honor this Nation's promises' as it rolled back tribal authority in Oklahoma

Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday blasted the Supreme Court for handing states more power over Native American land, saying the ruling failed to "honor this Nation's promises."
The 5-4 majority opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, received the votes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett. Gorsuch and the court's three liberal justices — Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor — dissented.

"One can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation's promises even as we have failed today to do our own," Gorsuch wrote in his dissent.

It overturned a SCOTUS ruling from two years ago where Gorsuch and the liberal justices were in the majority.

 

Gorsuch is a most conventional right winger except on one issue -- native American rights. There he's like the most liberal member of the court. It's a weird thing. FWIW, I think Kemp polling better than Walker is because his refusal to hand the state's vote to Trump gives him cred with Republican leaning independents as not being totally insane.

 

To be fair, the USA has a long established precedent of ignoring treaties signed with indigenous tribes. So this SCOTUS ruling tracks.

 

There are some states where Native Americans wield more political power than others and this ruling should benefit them. I can think of one example north of the Red.

 

This ain’t Van Halen coming to play the civic center. Fuck your demands and your brown M&M’s.