Mighty white of them to acquiesce by accepting the results of an American election, I say.

Note the legalistic cunning of the masterful paragraph below.   Reminds me of the elegant arguments the Defenders of the Faith constructed during the Spanish Inquisition, to explain, irrefutably, why Jesus Christ, His Father and the Holy Spirit are all deliriously happy to hear the screams of heretics and infidels tortured and burned alive. 

I do not myself believe that there was fraud in the counting of ballots or voting machine malfunctions. I do believe, however, that the unprecedented use of mail in voting over a period of many weeks, with the loss of the secret ballot, and drop boxes, produced a fundamentally illegitimate Biden victory in 2020 in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. I simply do not believe that in an honestly held traditionally run presidential election that Joe Biden would get 181,866 more votes for President in 2020 in Pennsylvania than Barack Obama got in 2008.

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This belief-based argument citing the unproven massive fraud of mail-in voting (a wingnut conspiracy theory denied even by corrupt partisan Bill Barr, who tirelessly promoted it prior to the 2020 election) was penned by the esteemed co-founder of the far right judicial fraternity and judicial appointment pipeline The Federalist Society. Thanks to a 2016 deal with candidate Trump, brokered by housewife Ginni Thomas, KellyAnne Conway, Sloppy Steve Bannon and other members of the secretive, by invitation only nonprofit Council for National Policy, that as president Trump would only appoint Supreme Court and other federal judges from the “Fed Soc” list, the Federalist Society controls a neat, doctrinaire 6-3 lock on the current Supreme Court.

The radical right’s goal of absolute, permanent power is so close they can taste it. They are throwing caution to the wind with one radical 6-3 decision after another, angry, self-righteous, arbitrary, vindictive, punitive, as their type is. They are currently in a mad dash to ultimate, permanent holy victory over a nation of irredeemable sinners and nonbelievers, as Jesus Christ Himself has ordained for the USA. Sadly for them, no dignified figurehead is available, they have to march behind an unhinged Hitler wanna-be, but so be it. An American Hitler is a small price to pay to fulfill the will of the One True God.

Notice the elegant construction of Professor Calabresi’s “argument”. In the opening he nonchalantly acknowledges there’s no proof for any of the fraud claims repeatedly made in courts by Trump and the RNC, claims made without producing evidence of any kind. He doesn’t mention that these false claims, that led to the riot at the Capitol, are still insisted on, are a litmus test for remaining in the Republican party. Then he does a nice sleight of hand, continuing to frame his argument, supporting the completely toothless fraud claim — now directed at another unproven form of claimed fraud — not weighed down by the legal burden of proof, or using anything as base as ordinary evidence, but with unsupported insinuations and beliefs about mail fraud and the hated drop boxes — both of which he claims also violate the constitution’s requirement of a secret ballot.

The argument, thus teed up, is no longer one of rigid legal proof tied to a reasonableness standard, but, is transmogrified into a more mystical matter of absolute belief.  He does this operatic move in the manner of Alito and the rest of the disciples of Scalia (Antonin Scalia was the original beloved faculty advisor of this brotherhood of originalists co-founded by the supremely ambitious Calabresi, an apparent Alito wannabe).  Persuasion is then based on an absolute moral claim, an appeal to deeply held personal belief, faith, if you will, which, in the proper case, trumps fallible, soulless, human-made law every time.  This is always true if you have a one vote majority that always votes as a block. 

A non-negotiable higher moral purpose is the infernal thing these politically radical Christian devils always righteously claim when stealing from the poor, forcing the powerless to remain so, gutting regulations that protect Americans, decreeing that girls raped will bear their rapist’s child, as God wills it. In a pinch, this judicial fraternity points to their admirably unyielding fealty to a particular ancient holy book they are all inspired and united by. Then, righteous and freed from the tawdry burdens of producing evidence and making an actual legal argument, in any sense, the distinguished law professor, like the rest of his accursed tribe, boldly makes his case.

This Kavanaugh-like bitch is auditioning as hard as fellow Yale Law alum and frat brother for life Boof Kavanaugh himself did for that coveted and hard-earned spot (and Boof sweated blood producing writings and radical rulings like a devil as he was left off one Fed Soc list of 25 Supreme Court candidates after another, until finally jumping the whole line to become an aggrieved martyr whose very life Soros, Streisand and the Clintons were intent on destroying).  The 66 year-old Calabresi, with age and time against him, is putting his prayers on the realization of his network’s Project 2025, and seating himself on the bench where Alito or Thomas previously set their sweaty butts, keeping the seat warm and aromatic for their boy, Mr. Calabresi.  Calabresi apparently personally adored Antonin Scalia, the patron saint of the brazenly corrupt assholes who were his protégés, the transactionally uxorious Alito and the morally limber Black Klansman, among many others.

When I say this Calabresi fuck is going full Nazi, I don’t mean that as a gratuitous insult, it’s descriptive of the type of rabid partisan that this well-educated, well-indoctrinated, impeccably credentialed true believing asshole is. Think I’m exaggerating? Here you go:

Biden said as a candidate in 2020 that he was a moderate liberal, but he proceeded to govern like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren except for the refusal of two brave Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, to go along with that nonsense. Manchin and Sinema will both be booted out of the Senate come January 3, 2025, as a result. Biden said as a candidate that he would depoliticize the criminal justice process. Instead, his Department of Justice has used an unconstitutionally appointed Special Prosecutor to indict former President Donald Trump—the first time in history that a former President has been indicted. Hillary Clinton was given a pass on the misuse of classified documents, but not so Donald Trump. Biden’s Democrats even got Trump unconstitutionally convicted for altering business records to conceal the Trump Organization’s involvement in First Amendment protected speech in a New York State trial that was truly a charade.

We are now about to choose again between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a presidential election year—2024—which is totally free of the fears of infection in public places caused by Covid. Here are three things we should insist on: 1) a return to truly secret ballots cast in polling booths with the curtain shut behind the voter; 2) no use of drop boxes, and 3) that everyone votes on the same day, with the same headlines in mind, and not over the period of a month.

The loss of the secret ballot, the use of drop boxes, and of same day voting is a huge change in our democracy, which ought to be abandoned now that Covid is gone. You cannot fill out a ballot at home in most cases without your family members knowing how you voted and that means the sudden loss of the secret ballot. Partisan canvassers may also observe how people vote, intimidating them and undermining their independence.

The secret ballot is of central importance in elections, especially when candidates generate the passionate feelings of hatred that are generated by Donald Trump and Joe Biden. This is a hatred that pits family members and even long-time friends against one another sometimes ruining long-cherished relationships. If ever, there was to be a presidential election for which the secret ballot was essential, it is this year’s rematch between President Trump and Joe Biden.

(from Calabresi’s learned blog post/audition for Alito’s seat)

What’s the point of having unappealable power if you don’t use it on behalf of your generous benefactors to do things that can’t be otherwise done legally in a democracy?

A 98-0 vote in the Senate, a margin of more than 350 votes in the House, the proud signature of the sitting Republican president to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act is no true expression of the voice of the People. It is the five (now six) unelected, ideologically pure justices who always defeat the four (now three) less partisan justices by one (now two) vote(s), and a willingness to be a shamelessly political actor, that decides what the voice of the fucking people is. If that’s not your idea of democracy, say these God-fearing white Christian radicals, then we’ll detain you without charges for as long as we like, how about that, wiseass?