Category Archives: Law

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Talk About Friday News Dump

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McCabe was fired by the FBI, and will lose his pension. It’s pretty clear now that his “retirement” was an attempt to outrun his perfidy.

Fox News had been predicting this. In my opinion, he (and others in this now greatest political scandal in American history, if the Democrat operatives in the media would actually report it properly) should be worried bout a lot more than losing pensions…

[Saturday-morning update]

The reckoning of the FBI has begun.

It’s long overdue. The rot goes back to the first Clinton administration, if not all the way back to Hoover himself.

Business, Economics, Health, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The New Challenge To ObamaCare

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Will John Roberts get a do-over?

…it is significant that both Ilya and Josh agree that the insurance “requirement” is now clearly unconstitutional under Chief Justice Roberts’ “saving construction” approach. If a court so holds, the entire statute would then be in the same posture as it would have been if he had sided with the dissenting justices in the first place. In that eventuality, four justices thought the whole law was inseverable, and the Obama administration conceded the mandate would be inseverable from at least two key provisions of the Act. So the key issue in the new litigation is likely to be whether the fact that Congress zeroed out the penalty somehow changed this analysis such that the mandate is now severable from the rest of the ACA when it was not before. I look forward to reading much more on this question.

This would be great, if this legislative atrocity can finally be struck down via this method, considering all of the legislative legerdemain and chicanery the Democrats had to use to pass it in the first place.

Business, History, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

New California

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Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on California’s seceding from the coastal fascists. I don’t understand why the silly-looking gerrymander to keep Sacramento with the coastal “elites.” Set up a new state capital in San Jose or LA, and let the real California keep the delta.

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This seems sort of related: How the big tech companies went from “Don’t be evil” to doing evil.

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Steven Kruiser: “Dear California, call me when the commies leave.” I love this state, have for half a century, but I hate its voters.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Media Leaks From The FBI

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If this is true, he shouldn’t be “criticized,” McCabe should be indicted or prosecuted. They do this because they assume they can get away with it. A few vacations in Club Fed might put an end to that.

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Oh, he’ll be not just “criticized,” but censured. That’ll learn him.

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The FBI may have violated criminal statutes in it application to the FISA court. Well, I’m sure they’ll be “censured.”

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This seems related: Career civil servants illegitimately rule America. We really need an overhaul of civil service, including outlawing public-employee unions. It’s particularly horrible in California.