You write: “Warren lives down to the worst stereotype of a lawyer: say anything to win.”

In court, lawyers are bound by the rules of evidence. Ordinarily, they can’t just say “anything” to win. They can try to get expert witnesses to say just about anything, though, for a price.

I would amend your statement to read: “Warren lives down to the worst stereotype of a politician/propagandist: say anything to win.” Many politicians are lawyers, of course, but many are not. Being a lawyer does give people training and experience in argument. So does being a debater. But the kind of reasoning Warren shows wouldn’t stand up in most courts of law (unless the case is political in nature and the judges and jury are biased towards it). It’s pure politician/propagandist.

Also, when I wrote “she knows better,” I wasn’t speaking of behaviorally. I mean intellectually – she knows she’s lying and she knows what the law is.

If Only: Here Are The Headlines That Would Be In The News Right Now If Trump Were Still President
https://babylonbee.com/news/if-only-here-are-the-headlines-that-would-be-in-the-news-right-now-if-trump-were-still-president

• Nancy Pelosi announces 38th impeachment proceeding against President Trump.
• Joe Biden retires quietly to home in Delaware to live out the rest of his days in peace.
• Unemployment reaches 0% for first time in history, stock market gets so high they have to add another digit to the counter.
• Trump holds ecumenical church council to unify all the denominations under the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
• Disney talks about releasing a movie about the fictional movie about Buzz Lightyear in the fictional Toy Story universe but decides this is a terrible idea.
• CNN+ goes under [our reporter says this is true in all realities].
• Ukraine invades Russia.
• Half-Life 3 released.
• United States purchases Greenland in tremendous deal.
• Americans save $1600 on July 4 BBQs.
• American troops pulled from Afghanistan in careful, strategic, slow withdraw; 0 Americans stranded; utopia breaks out.
• New York Times publishes article explaining why $1/gallon gas is bad and racist.
• Trump defeats Kim Jong-Un in high-stakes game of Tekken 7, forcing him to free his people.
• POGs make a comeback [it’s unclear if this was related to Trump].
• President gives coherent speech.
• Everyone who ever took their kids to a drag show arrested.
• Disney, Netflix, dozens of other entertainment companies shut down under new anti-grooming law.
• Vice President DeSantis sent to handle border crisis, actually goes to border.
• Kamala Harris returns to former job as parking enforcement cop in San Francisco.
• Trump achieves world peace, signs 7-year treaty with Israel.

I think my favorite was:

Pride Flag Switches To Infrared Spectrum After Running Out Of Visible Colors
https://babylonbee.com/news/pride-flag-switches-to-infrared-spectrum-after-running-out-of-visible-colors/

They also had this one on Friday:
Weird: Democrats Suddenly Saying ‘Woman’ Today As If Everyone Knows What It Means
https://babylonbee.com/news/weird-democrats-everywhere-using-word-woman-today-almost-as-if-they-know-what-it-means

The question is what can be done about it? Can anything?

Answer: Home schooling. My middle daughter, who was a Bernie Bro in 2016, has since married and had a child. She told us it has changed her life. She was 40 when Lily was born. We don’t talk much about politics but she has told me she plans to home school. She and her husband are art types, he is a successful sculptor, and she is a stay at home mom. Amazing what motherhood has done for her.

I pity the “anti-child types that wrote that “The Nation” article.

Warren lives down to the worst stereotype of a lawyer: say anything to win.

We need to be aware of this trait and learn to recognize it in others. And when we see someone has that trait we must comprehend he or she is our enemy. If they cannot be converted from the error and danger of their hubris shake the dust from your sandals and take leave of them. For goodness sake, don’t elect them or appoint them to any positions of power!

The Supreme Court has not outlawed abortion. It can’t and shouldn’t do that, any more than it can tell states they mustn’t seek to limit or outlaw abortion. Given the language of our Constitution, starting with the 9th and 10th Amendments, it’s not the role of the U.S. Supreme Court, or indeed of any branch of the federal government, to impose a single solution on such a matter on the entire nation.

If Congress wants to pass a constitutional amendment making it the business of the federal government, that would be another story. We’ll see how that goes over time.

Meanwhile, the Dobbs ruling should make it easier for Congress and the state legislatures to reverse situations in which taxpayers are paying for abortions and abortion advocacy. Abortion is one of a number of decision-of-conscience things taxpayers should not be required to pay for, as if it’s settled sentiment in the community that abortion is a morally-neutral tool for public welfare. The enduring and persistently robust objection of most of the American people to unrestricted abortion (about 70% since 1973) has demonstrated there is no such sentiment.

For five decades the Roe ruling has perverted the relationship of the government to the consciences of the people. The deeply corrupting weight of that, at least as regard abortion, has been lifted. The shrieking, obscenities, and death threats from pro-abortion extremists today (and in the last few weeks) are evidence of the corruption over time.

The states are at bat now to see where this goes next. I saw a tweet earlier with a photo of Washington, D.C. businesses putting up plywood over their windows in anticipation of post-ruling violence from pro-abortion riots. I’m hopeful that the energy will drain quickly from the rioting. It doesn’t do any good to threaten D.C. now. The pre-ruling “leak” from the court on Dobbs failed in its objective, and the moving finger, having writ, moves on to the states.

Worth noting: it was Trump’s SCOTUS appointments that made this ruling possible. I can think of very few, if any, Republicans who in Trump’s place would have stuck by Brett Kavanaugh under the most heinous political onslaught any of us in the living generations has ever seen. Without prevailing in the Kavanaugh appointment, just about anyone else (other than Trump) would have pulled punches with the next one, instead of going with Amy Coney Barrett. Quite a few potential presidents might have nominated any of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett, but almost none would have withstood the maelstrom to actually get all three through the Senate.

Trump’s appointees were never guaranteed to rule as they have on Dobbs. The more important point is that they weren’t afraid to.