This morning, Hinderaker cluck clucks about how perfect Thomas’s reasoning was — and how faithful his adherence was to the rule of law, in the bump-stock cases… whatever.
He derides people who lament that it all sounds quite a lot like “three-fifths of a person” reasoning. [But it does.]
Yet… for weeks now, this shining champion of accepting the law, as it exists… has made excuse after excuse, for a 34-time convicted felon — and ex-preznit.
That was a jury of his peers — who’ve lived in New York — with him, for four and five decades.
There are very many good people — people who recognize a thing, when shown it — over and over.
That is how the Founders viewed the wisdom of local juries.
Why oh why can’t Hinderaker see… that his candidate (dissing the party’s Convention, already, in Milwaukee!)… is a pure reprobate?
Because he still seeks the power he hopes that open and notorious criminal enterprise will wield, at least in part, in Hinderaker’s own personal favor.
That’s why.
Y A W N.
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Rigby Maguire here. WordPress continues to eat my comment when I’m logged in, so I’m forced to post this anonymously. (Seriously, get it together, WordPress!)
Hinderaker is incapable of presenting an argument without slipping in a demonstrable falsehood. In this post, he writes:
Except, no.
What really happened is that as various tools were developed to allow semiautomatic rifles fire at a higher rate, ATF evaluated them on a case by case basis, declaring some illegal and others not. After the Las Vegas shooting, the ATF felt it had enough evidence (and how!) to declare that when bump stocks could be used in such a way as the Las Vegas gunman used them, then they were illegal under the statute. To give credit where credit is due, President Trump agreed with this analysis and supported the ban.
There was nothing abrupt about the ATF’s decision, nor did the the ATF “reverse course.” Rather, they did exactly what a government agency is supposed to to — evalutate the facts on the ground and make rulings accordingly.
The current conservative Supreme Court thinks this is goverment overeach (as we’ll see in the upcoming ruling eviscerating Chevron deference). They think that an unelected administrative body, despite being made up of experts in the field, should not be able to make those kinds of decisions. Apparently, they think an unelected judicial body (being made of of political operatives with no experties in the field) should instead. Thomas’s ruling arrogantly substituted his judgment and (lack of) expertise for the ATF’s, and he’s coming for all goverment agencies next.
So, good luck relying on your water pipes being free of contamination, your produce being free of disease, and your public sphere being free of horrific weapons of mass murder.
SCOTUS knows best.
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Yes… indeed!
I’ve added your deets — cleaned up after WordPress (again).
Geez — what a putz Hinderaker is — and has always been.
Thanks man!
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