octogenarian who cannot find his way off the stage. that is a very con ventricle yens yent way of approaching things. is it not? now, they are obviously freaking out and they are resorting to strained legal arguments even fringe theories turn constitution into silly putty to stretch into any way you want. scholars are trying to argue that trump should be barred, constitutionally barred from running for office. now, this is patently absurd, especially coming from judges who once called themselves originalist like our own friend mike luttig. i want you to remember that they strenuously argued that trump s team was guilty of wildly distorting the constitution regarding challenges to the state counts and the establishing of alternate slate of electors, watch. the people that that wrote
If the Supreme Court had a code of conduct and suddenly decided to scrap it as big questions swirled about potential conflicts, it would be a scandal of massive proportions. So why isn’t the bipartisan bill to replace nothing with something and require the court write its own enforceable ethics rules, like those that apply to all other federal judges, a must-pass piece of legislation?
Mike Pence is arguing that the Vice President is a legislative, not an executive, officer. Mike Luttig has a piece in the NYT calling that crazy. (Link is to Josh Blackman’s blog post on same..