Posted on 07/01/2020 4:02:42 PM PDT by weston
Thank you lysie for the wonderful breakfast, I settled for a bowl of Cheerios.
Hubby went to Sam’ to get a battery exchanged yesterday, a good friend drove him over and she went in Sam’s with him and she couldn’t believe the low stock they had.
Read where people are stocking up for the second wave of hoarding.
Las Vegas had tons of people over the weekend from CA.
Will have to see if they brought the bug or we gave it to them.
Have a great day!
Yes, Judy, sister texted me from northern Ontario, she has a trailer up there and she said it is so hot, it hurts.
94 degrees she said.
We are going to about 105 today, which is normal here. After 105 I do not care what the temperature is.
Heard so stats on Bill Cunningham show and said teh heat is not out of wack for back there.
Actually back in 1934 it got to 117 degrees in Chicago.
Have a good one Judy, stay cool.
Morning Gran, no monsoon here yet either.
August hottest month here.
Morning ma, glad you had company yesterday.
Neighbors are something else, well some of them here are, anyway.
You are right, always something.
Take best care and look out for the virtual hugs I am sending to you.
God Bless.
LOL Vlad, that sure looks disgusting.
Too funny.
I’m so sorry you have to deal with that on top of everything else. How is P today?
Thanks.
Interesting discussion on this at Legal Insurrection.
This decision can be seen as throwing cold water on the proposed interstate popular vote compact, requiring participating states to throw their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Both Kagan’s majority opinion (see footnote 4) and Thomas’ dissent (near the end) acknowledge that a state’s ability to control how their electors vote is constrained by other constitutional demands. So, as Kagan points out, the Art. II language nominally giving states the right to select electors in any manner they choose is still subject to the Equal Protection Clause. If so, then it’s hard to see how the compact could survive, where it deprives the voters (or legislators, etc.) of a given state of virtually ANY say in how that state’s electoral votes are cast.
I wish. It states MAY require Electors to vote for the candidates who won the popular vote in that state.
If the state doesn’t so require, the ruling has no bearing on Electors in that state.
The ruling can in fact be interpreted as allowing states to impose an alternate requirement, such as NPV.
The NPV people are claiming states have unfettered power under Art. II to decide how their states cast their electoral votes. Today’s decision point’s out that the cited power is NOT unfettered: i.e., states can’t exercise their power to dictate how electors are chosen in a way that is otherwise unconstitutional, such as a violation of equal protection. (For example, they couldn’t say that the electors could only vote for a woman.) The fact that states do not actually have carte blanche under Art. II over the selection of electors is really bad for the NPV, because it would be hard to argue that depriving the voters (directly, or through the legislature) of ANY meaningful say in the decision of which candidate receives that state’s EVs is not a deprivation of constitutional rights. The NPV literally disenfranchises entire state populations in terms of presidential elections; is that not a fairly obvious violation of the constitution? And even the dissent, which takes a 10th amendment approach to the faithless elector issue, seems to agree on this particular point.
On the contrary, this terrible decision makes that compact more likely to happen, precisely because it gives the state legislatures the right to direct its electors how to vote. There is no right of the people of a state to any say whatsoever over the election of a president. They have only such right as the state legislature chooses to give them. Since the state legislature can decide to give you no say at all, and to simply appoint the state’s electors, a fortiori it can decide to limit your say to one in 100 million. But before this decision it couldn’t enforce that decision; now it can.
....some comments, what do you think?
Not me, I don’t use Facebook.
Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie Daniels dies at 83
Dave Paulson Matthew Leimkuehler Nashville Tennessean
FTA
Charlie Daniels, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame best known for “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died Monday morning after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. He was 83.
Daniels’ death was confirmed by his publicist, Don Murry Grubbs. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, and son Charlie Daniels, Jr.
This is a developing story.
Monday, July 06, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll sponsored by American Countdown Podcast for Monday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds a Briefing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KexLvrYJFjg&feature=emb_title
K-Mac!
So sad to learn of Charlie Daniel’s passing.
Prayers for his family.
The Devil may be in Georgia,
but Charlie is in Heaven.
RIP.
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