The Washington Post reports that Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court, effective July 31. Kennedy is the "swing vote" whose swing lately has been all about letting Trump ban Muslims (national security), killing unions (First Amendment), saving Christianity from gay cakes (First Amendment again), saving crisis pregnancy centers from having to say they don't have medical personnel on staff (what a busy First Amendment!), and murdering voting rights (no reason). And that's all just in the past week.
Good fucking riddance, Anthony Kennedy.
Now Donald Trump will have the opportunity to appoint a second justice, in addition to the guy who said a company can fire you for refusing to stay in an unheated truck in a snowstorm and freeze to death. We expect Supreme Court nominee Larry Klayman to make his bow any day, or else someone worse if we can think of any.
Chuck Schumer, a word. IF YOU DON'T FILIBUSTER ANY AND ALL NOMINEES SHORT OF BARACK OBAMA OR THE GHOST OF EUGENE DEBS, YOU NEED TO FOLLOW ANTHONY KENNEDY THE FUCK OUT THE DOOR. I don't care if Mitch McConnell threatens to end the filibuster if you don't deal. LET HIM. THIS IS WHAT THE FUCK IT'S FOR. THE FASCISTS ARE IN THE GODDAMN HOUSE, AND THEY'RE TAKING IT APART BRICK BY BRICK AND GRAFFITIING "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?" OVER THE BABY'S CRIB, WHICH IS A CAGE NOW.
UPDATE! Lol, my bad, Mitch McConnell already killed the filibuster for the Supreme Court.
Do your fucking job, Schumer. Grow a fucking backbone BUT VITE. DO NOT LET THEM CONFIRM A REPLACEMENT BEFORE MERRICK GARLAND GETS TO VOTE. What was it Mitch McConnell said, the people need a chance to weigh in? GEE I WONDER IF HE WILL CHANGE HIS WHISTLING DIXIE.
And Anthony Kennedy, it's a 9-0 vote of go fuck yourself.
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GO FUCK YOURSELF, ANTHONY KENNEDY
Yeah, they'd never get *that* one past the sharp-eyed plate examiners at California's DMV
I'm sure that tRump will make it a crime to criticize more than a president's *hand* size.Though as Marco Rubio, in the only statement he ever made that's worth remembering (except for, of course, "I'm very, very thirsty"), "You know what they say about guys with small hands."