Nah. Too geek. They have a dart board. 😀

Well, obviously, you didn’t have that datum as of your post, but I have this suspicion that Biden may not even get the nom, given his performance in the “debate”. He might not be able to even finish the term, or shouldn’t be allowed to. Harris may become the truest lame duck of a PotUS ever. We do, indeed, clearly have a true shadow government at this point, and no one who isn’t a total partisan hack can claim otherwise.

Who WILL get the nom, and what their chances of winning are, will be an interesting question.

}}} A+C: Roberts needs to wake up and smell the napalm.

Not very likely. Roberts is the poster boy for Churchill’s “one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

}}} R2L: Which is why I keep suggesting those states with pro-life legislation should be specifying two or three doctors involved in the abortion related decision to reduce or avoid second guessing a single doctor’s bias.

Good point. FAR, far too sensible for anyone in a legislature to manage to come up with, though… Three would be about right, or perhaps a “standard review board” of five, for ANY “hot button” issue, such as euthanasia

We seem to be finding that our “Republican” SCotUS is about as brave as our Republican “Congress” when it comes to challenging the opposing side.

I propose they ALL be granted honorary French citizenship. They’ve all certainly displayed that kind of innate character sufficiently to have earned it.

Ditto. I have been following his Substack, and Taibbi’s on this case, and wish him well.

Some speculations I have seen is that the Roberts Junta are “keeping their powder dry” on Murthy in re standing so they can blow the Left out of the water on the merits of Berenson.
Maybe.

As Neo pointed out, the only two real conservatives are Alito and Thomas.
I have started wondering if the other four just roll D&D dice to decide their positions.

The “safe, legal, and rare” bill of goods was foisted on us fifty years ago by declaring (pinky swear!) that abortions would only be allowed for rape, incest, and the health of the mother, which the common sense interpretation of standard English (as well as relying on their propaganda) meant some dire medical condition such that continuing the pregnancy would endanger the mother’s life or have a severe debilitating affect on her health.

That was quickly reduced to “anything the mother felt would make her uncomfortable” IOW what most mothers experience during pregnancy and generally survive just fine (ask me how I know..), and then morphed immediately into “mental health,” meaning any kind of “stress” that interfered with the mother’s desired life-style or economic situation.

The Democrats’ celebration of Roe v. Wade and subsequent foray into becoming the party of all-abortion all-the-time, and utter rejection of any baby-saving changes in culture or law, such as supporting pre-marital abstinence or widening adoption opportunities, has been a matter of jaw-dropping incredulity to me over the years, which I cannot explain with any rational hypotheses, so have been reduced to calling it the work of Satan.

I second Brian E’s response to dfj on overturning Roe, as it was inapplicable as a federal level constitutional issue, that really belongs with the police powers of the states.

Standing just keeps preventing them from doing their job.

But as noted above, what have they done for the left lately (5 minutes ago) is the metric. Otherwise, they are illegitimate.

But it could be worse; Judge Metrick Garland