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- It’s Jon Ossoff’s Moment
If you’re a Democrat, attending a Jon Ossoff rally feels very good. Therapeutic, even. Many Democrats feel as if every day of the second Trump administration has brought some fresh horror: a discouraging development in the never-ending Iran war; a new vow of retribution from the 80-year-old leader of the free world; or the revelation of yet another money-making venture cooked up by the Trumps.But now, from the South, a young senator has emerged, with a deep voice promising change and a speaking cadence not unlike Barack Obama’s. His dark hair sits just so; his skin is perfectly even—is that makeup he’s wearing? Never mind. We’re looking at his sleeves now, which are carefully rolled up and emphasize biceps that are, well, quite noticeably larger than they were when Georgia voters sent him to Congress in 2021.More important, this senator sounds different from other Democrats. Ossoff is doing something on the campaign trail that basically no one else in his party seems able to pull off: elegantly and comprehensively skewering the Trump administration, while earning some Republican support.He’s doing this in speeches at his campaign events, such as the one I attended on Sunday in Athens, Georgia. But those speeches seem carefully calibrated to be heard by an audience much farther away: Every week, millions of Americans are encountering Ossoff on their phones, through perfectly produced clips of the senator unveiling a new insult or innovative critique of the Trump administration. “He’s trying to put his face on the money. Did you see that? He’s building a monument to himself,” he said in May. “He’s doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone.” Last month, the senator’s reference to the zealous Trump aide Natalie Harp spiked Google searches for Harp by 5,000 percent.[Read: Ossoff’s ‘Natalie’ moment]The revelation of Ossoff’s particular talent explains why the senator is suddenly all over the news and Instagram, and why so many people in his party are breathlessly positioning him as the new favorite to win the Democratic nomination in 2028. Premature? Maybe. Ossoff might not be well suited for such a task. But Democrats are desperate for leaders and feel that the senator has pierced the party’s gloom like a beam of warm light. (Ossoff, through a spokesperson, declined an interview for this story.)Outside the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Judith McWillie struggled to explain how she felt about her… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - The Supreme Court Still Works as the Founders Intended
The John Roberts Court, in my opinion, is the worst Supreme Court since the Roger Taney Court, which gave us the Dred Scott decision. Rulings that ended abortion rights, unleashed corporate spending in political campaigns, handcuffed federal agencies, throttled carbon emissions regulations, weakened labor protections, blessed discrimination against transgender people, and largely immunized presidents who commit crimes have not only produced bad outcomes, but were poorly reasoned and betrayed a conservative activist philosophy. And yet a 7-2 majority of the Court, including all three of President Donald Trump’s appointees, refused to greenlight his scheme to disrupt mail voting for the midterm elections. The decision prompted Trump to trash the Court in a social media screed, not just for the mail ballot case but also for opinions that limited his tariff powers and upheld birthright citizenship: This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years. These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court; they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal. Of course, people on the left were not the ones trying to bully John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett; in fact, the left had largely written them off as hopeless. The Bully-in-Chief is Donald Trump, and what’s important is that his bullying failed. That fact does not make the conservative quartet heroes. It does not erase all the other poorly reasoned opinions they have issued. But it does prove that America’s judicial system, as designed by the Founders, still works. The Constitution established a judiciary independent of the executive and legislative branches. Even though the President nominates jurists and the Senate confirms them to the bench, lifetime appointments eliminate the other branches’ ability to influence judicial rulings through political pressure. This was not an accident of history, but a deliberate choice. Federalist No. 51, written by James Madison, argues for a system of checks and balances in part to prevent a tyranny of the majority: “In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Putin could be planning to bomb Britain and other countries supporting Ukraine, ...
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