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To: CFW
Not good at all. I expressed my doubts about Barrett in an earlier thread.

From what I've been able to tell, I think Barrett is likely to be a real problem going forward, perhaps even worse than the weirdo egotist, Gorsuch. Not that Barrett is some sort of plant or something. Just that, from what I've seen of, and read by, her, she comes across as something of an estrogen-drenched ditz. Biden has already gotten more out of Jackson, who's got some real Leftist brass to her.

All three of Trump's appointments are shaping up to be real duds. Kavanaugh was a known commodity: a midwit hack. A reliable vote for the favored few. But, at the same time, those types always end up being "statists" in the end, when individual liberty is at stake. Always.

It's all very disappointing. Maybe there isn't any jurist out there who's worth a shi*t nowadays? But 0-3, if that's how it should turn out, suggests something more than "coincidence." "Enemy action" is more like it.

68 posted on 06/26/2024 7:37:38 AM PDT by DSH
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To: DSH
Excerpts of Alito's dissent;

For months in 2021 and 2022, a coterie of officials at the highest levels of the Federal Government continuously harried and implicitly threatened Facebook with potentially crippling consequences if it did not comply with their wishes about the suppression of certain COVID–19-related speech. Not surprisingly, Facebook repeatedly yielded.

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The Court...permits the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what the people say, hear, and think.

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For months, high-ranking Government officials placed unrelenting pressure on Facebook to suppress Americans’ free speech. Because the Court unjustifiably refuses to address this serious threat to the First Amendment, I respectfully dissent.

69 posted on 06/26/2024 7:42:28 AM PDT by CFW
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To: DSH

Great. another reason to lose hope


73 posted on 06/26/2024 7:52:28 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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To: DSH
All three of Trump's appointments are shaping up to be real duds. Kavanaugh was a known commodity: a midwit hack. A reliable vote for the favored few. But, at the same time, those types always end up being "statists" in the end, when individual liberty is at stake. Always.

...And what does that say about the Heritage Foundation, who supposedly pre-picked these three?!?

106 posted on 06/26/2024 9:52:56 AM PDT by Yossarian
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