“…and can to one of the best of my potential…”
Yeah, properly…
“…protect, shield, and defend…”
That point I made a public remark about him in 2018, making an attempt to defend the Courtroom as above politics—what did he tweet? “Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, however you do certainly have ‘Obama judges.’” Gained’t make that mistake once more.
“…the Structure of the US…”
However the powerful phrases I utilized in my 2024 year-end report about public officers “regrettably” making an attempt to intimidate judges—absolutely he bought the message, proper?
“So assist me God.”
All that point within the Harvard Legislation library. Then clerking for Rehnquist, working my approach up the Courtroom ranks. The hours listening to Alito whine about his spouse’s silly flags. Now I’m about to show 70—and it’s this man and the following 4 years which might be going to outline my legacy. Wonderful.
“Congratulations, Mr. President.”
Whew, he didn’t give me the demise grip handshake. Do I really want to cease by the after-party in Clarence’s RV?
Kathryn Joyce, investigative reporter who wrote, largely not too long ago, on the “Catholic proper’s celebrity-conversion industrial advanced”
A number of years in the past, once I first started reporting on Republican assaults on schooling, one advocate I spoke to in contrast what Governor Ron DeSantis was doing to Ok–12 public faculties in Florida to what had occurred in Chile beneath Pinochet, as the results of dismantling a public good continued lengthy after the dictatorship had ended. “It’s like Humpty Dumpty,” she informed me. “When you get the system to fall, you may’t put it again collectively once more.”
I’ve been fascinated with that line lots currently. Actually by way of how right-wing assaults on schooling in any respect ranges are going to proceed and escalate, with what DeSantis did to Florida’s New School serving as an oblique mannequin for different states and now the federal authorities. But in addition so many different programs, private and non-private, that we take without any consideration however are literally extremely fragile.
I’m additionally considering lots about how the Christian proper, in all its varieties, goes to proceed to be a dynamic supply of badness, but in addition about how non secular our bodies themselves are fragile establishments. And as nationalistic, and white nationalistic, variations of faith turn into an more and more formal a part of the Trump administration, and sympathetic state governments, there’ll proceed to be fights for the souls of these establishments which might be value our consideration.
James Robenalt, creator, lawyer, and presidential historian
On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson delivered his first inaugural deal with within the new capital metropolis of Washington, DC. He spoke at a time when political events have been being birthed, threatening to tear aside the nation, nonetheless in its infancy. John Adams, a Federalist and the nation’s second president, was defeated by Jefferson, his Democratic-Republican vice chairman.
The marketing campaign was past ugly. Jefferson’s Federalist opponents charged in newspapers that he was an atheist and warned that “there may be scarcely a chance that we will escape a civil warfare. Homicide, theft, rape, adultery, and incest will probably be overtly taught and practiced.” The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts by the Federalist-controlled legislature gave President Adams the facility to imprison and deport noncitizens and criminalized the making of false and malicious statements in regards to the federal authorities—leading to Democratic-Republican publishers being prosecuted and jailed. As worrisome, the election of 1800 resulted in a tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr, his supposed vice presidential choose. (The Structure needed to be amended to repair this anomaly.) The election was thrown to the Home of Representatives—managed by Federalists—to select the winner. Violence and “stolen election” expenses flew. Jefferson was chosen simply weeks earlier than his inauguration.
