12/12/20: Take a final look at this building; because by the time you wake on Sunday the U.S. Supreme Court will be reduced to rubble. Not in the terrorist-bombing sort of way.
In the God-has-spoken, “walls of Jericho”
way.
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U.S. Supreme Court. |
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“No Wisdom, No Courage!”
President Trump
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Trump supporters rallied today, which meant lots of angry shouting, and chants of, “Lock them up,” now in reference to members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Bibles were also thumped, since many Trump supporters believe him to be God’s Chosen One, sent to save the nation from Obamacare, commies and minorities. Having already suggested helpfully that the president declare martial law and call for a new election, Gen. Michael T. Flynn spoke from the steps of the Court.
Flags were waved and “patriotism” stressed. Finally, Trump supporters marched around various federal building, blowing horns, as of old, expecting the “walls of Jericho” to fall down, as is said to have occurred in biblical times. Because nothing says “patriotism” like having buildings collapse and crush any of your fellow Americans working inside on a weekend.
(If you don’t remember the story, it is
said in the Bible that the ancient Israelites marched round the city of
Jericho, where the Canaanites, their enemies were holed up. Six days, they circuited
the city, just once. On the seventh, they made seven trips around the city.
Then they gave a “great shout,” blew rams’ horns, and the enemy walls tumbled
down. See: Joshua 6: 1-27.
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The Israelites blow up Jericho. |
Other than the marching and the horn tootling, it was a tough day for the president and his loyal fans.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 vote to reject the State of Texas’s challenge to the vote in four other states, gloom settled over the land. According to Maggie Haberman, a reporter for The New York Times, Trump was so bummed that he skipped his own White House Christmas Party last night. That story was later confirmed by a reporter for the Washington Post.
If you love Trump, you believe the Times and the Post are “Fake News,” but when we checked the president’s Twitter feed, it quickly became clear he was having a devil of a time processing the high court’s decision. Just before midnight on Friday, Trump made his unhappiness clear, tweeting, “The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!”
He stewed for half an hour. At 12:24 a.m. on Saturday, he began hammering the buttons on his iPhone again:
So, you’re
the President of the United States, and you just went through an election where
you got more votes than any sitting President in history, by far - and
purportedly lost. You can’t get “standing” before the Supreme Court, so you
“intervene” with wonderful states.....
....that,
after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which
will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it
is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought.
A Rigged Election, fight on!
At 12: 46 a.m., Trump quoted a supporter who called the Supreme Court’s decision “a legal disgrace, an embarrassment to the USA!!!”
Trump fell into bed soon after, tossed and turned till after dawn, roused himself from bed, and went right back to Twitter. First, he offered a tip of the hat, in a retweet from one of his followers: “Thank you, Justice Alito. Thank you, Justice Thomas.”
Then he cited a second, similarly mistake interpretation from Sean Hannity:
“Justices Alito and Thomas say they would have allowed Texas to proceed with its election lawsuit.” @seanhannity This is a great and disgraceful miscarriage of justice. The people of the United States were cheated, and our Country disgraced. Never even given our day in Court!
Alito and Thomas “would not grant further relief.”
The blogger found these tweets interesting, because he had already read the response of the Supreme Court to the Texas legal challenge. It was only two paragraphs. But it was clear seven justices thought the case was road kill from the start; but what did Alito and Thomas think? Alito wrote, briefly, and Thomas signed on to what he said, that he felt that since the Court had original jurisdiction, they should have taken the matter in hand. He would have granted the motion to file but said he “would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”
Did that
mean, as Hannity seemed to believe, that the two judges were on the president’s
side? To this blogger, it appeared Alito was saying, we should have taken up
the challenge from Texas; but having done so, he and Justice Thomas would likewise
have shot it down.
According
to University of Texas School law
professor Steve Vladeck, I was correct in my surmise. And Hannity was full of skunk
dung.
Vladeck wrote: “For anyone wondering about Justices Alito and Thomas, they’ve
been consistent about this technical objection across cases – that
the Supreme Court has to at least
grant leave to file in state-state disputes. The much bigger story is their
emphasis that they’d grant ‘no other relief.’”
NPR also explained:
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote
that in their view the court does “not have discretion to deny the filing of a
bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction.”
But the two said that while they would have allowed the filing
of the complaint, they would not have granted Trump or Texas, any of the relief
they sought.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), spoke for most Americans, but not most Trump fans, when he issued the following statement:
Since Election Night, a lot of people
have been confusing voters by spinning Kenyan Birther-type, “Chavez rigged the
election from the grave” conspiracy theories, but every American who cares
about the rule of law [emphasis added] should take comfort that the Supreme
Court – including
all three of President Trump’s picks – closed the door on the nonsense.
Saturday, however, Trump and his cult followers vowed to fight on. At one point, Trump tweeted: “I WON THE ELECTION IN A LANDSLIDE, but remember, I only think in terms of legal votes, not all of the fake voters and fraud that miraculously floated in from everywhere! What a disgrace!”
He spent part of his day attacking the Republican governors of Georgia and Arizona, who had refused to bend to his authoritarian rule. He had insisted they overturn the election results in their states. They said no; and he said they were “RINO’s.” “Never forget, vote them out of office!”
At least, next time they run.
As you might have expected, the President of
the United States turned his fury on the U.S. Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court
had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on
the United States of America,” he tweeted. “All they were interested in is ‘standing’,
which makes it very difficult for the President to present a case on the
merits. 75,000,000 votes!”
As is so often true, the poor dope couldn’t even get his basic facts straight. He didn’t get 75,000,000 votes, unless he was rounding up in some strange new mathematical system. He had 74,223,755.
A solid showing.
Unfortunately, for him, Joe Biden piled up an even taller stack of votes from the American people: 81,283,495.
Or, rounding up, as in Trump Math, 202 million.
FUN FACT: Did you know that Mitt Romney earned a higher percentage of the popular vote in 2012, than Trump earned in either his first run for glory, or his second run, now ended in ignominy?
You can check it out:
Romney: 47.2%.
Trump: 46.9%.
Trump: 46.1%.
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