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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Standing Down?

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The submersible that is the Biden presidency looks to be under as much increasing pressure as the Trump reboot tour, and maybe both will implode? And when is the Supreme Court going to end the suspense and deliver the rulings on the big cases we've all been waiting for?

The Court did deliver a disappointment of sorts in U.S. v. Texas, which rejected the state challenge to the Biden Administration's complete implosion of border enforcement, ruling that while states along the border have indeed suffered injury, they lack standing to sue, and/or the Court lacks a remedy it can supply, so the Biden Administration wins this round. But we break down the convoluted reasoning of the majority opinion (can it really be right that if the executive branch arrested just one person crossing the border instead of zero, states would lose standing to sue, or the Court any remedy whatsoever?), and wonder whether the case is nearly as good for liberals as they think, and whether the next item on the agenda for conservative jurisprudence is to develop a new doctrine of standing, as it did with the "major questions doctrine" promulgated last year.

We also look at the latest attacks on Supreme Court justices from the left. Justice Barrett sold her house to—gasp!—a conservative! Can you believe it? And finally we explore the state of abortion one year after Dobbs.

Hosts:
John Yoo'Lucretia'Steve Hayward

Discussion (7)

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford
    1. How's this for irony: Media finally admits that Biden is utterly corrupt, and therefore (as impossible as it may seem) he is about to become even weaker, so they turn on him, start actually reporting, and force him to drop out, leaving the nomination to the horrible Gavin Newsom, who would have a vastly better chance against Trump than Biden would.
    2. I literally laughed out loud at John's imagery of Steve snagging lobsters in the ocean!
  • Bishop Wash@BishopWash

    Steve, Adam Carolla covered the pro abortion stance of no compromise ten years ago, when I was listening to him. He compared smokers and the NRA. Non smokers asked for separate sections and smokers said, sounds reasonable. Then smokers were pushed to the bar, then outside, and then 100 feet from the building. People ask for something small with guns and the NRA always says no. Pro abortion people are similarly worried about giving an inch.

  • Dr.Guido@DrGuido

    Is it rude or dense ---or neither?--on my part to wonder/ask what entity other than the States would have standing when issues that affect their borders are presented?

    Who agrees/disagrees that if and as things worsen for Biden that things will also worsen for Trump under the same headline as 'Yeah...but...' that was used all month to criticize the decisions that have gone against The Donald?

  • LibertyDefender@LibertyDefender

    The John Yoo clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas bit was great! Steve and Lucretia should work on a few more routines, and then add "Say good night, Lucretia" to the send-offs.

    I didn't watch the Power Line U episode quickly enough to comment on that Power Line post, but one comment by Ken Green caught my attention:

    I'm not a denier of air pollution, I first collapsed when I was only 14 years old, running the 600 out in the San Fernando Valley on a smoggy summer day.

    In my day (which was only a year after steeplechaser Steve Hayward's day), the 600 yard run was an indoor track event. I'm told by The Unimpeachable Source™ that the 600 yard run was included in the President's Physical Fitness Test, that I don't remember my public school physical education program participating in after 1967 or 1968 or so. By 1980, all track events had converted to metric, and the 600 yard run was replaced by the 500 meter run. A few meets in the northeast included the 600 meter run, but I think that dreadful distance was declared a crime against humanity by the World Davos Geneva den Hague Convention.

    Who was running the 600 yard run in the summer?

  • Steven Hayward@StevenHayward
    ReplyingtoLibertyDefender

    LibertyDefender (View Comment):

    The John Yoo clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas bit was great! Steve and Lucretia should work on a few more routines, and then add “Say good night, Lucretia” to the send-offs.

    I didn’t watch the Power Line U episode quickly enough to comment on that Power Line post, but one comment by Ken Green caught my attention:

    I’m not a denier of air pollution, I first collapsed when I was only 14 years old, running the 600 out in the San Fernando Valley on a smoggy summer day.

    In my day (which was only a year after steeplechaser Steve Hayward’s day), the 600 yard run was an indoor track event. I’m told by The Unimpeachable Source™ that the 600 yard run was included in the President’s Physical Fitness Test, that I don’t remember my public school physical education program participating in after 1967 or 1968 or so. By 1980, all track events had converted to metric, and the 600 yard run was replaced by the 500 meter run. A few meets in the northeast included the 600 meter run, but I think that dreadful distance was declared a crime against humanity by the World Davos Geneva den Hague Convention.

    Who was running the 600 yard run in the summer?

    Yes, that is indeed a strange distance. The 1,000 yard run also happened from time to time. Some of it was happenstance. My middle school had an exact 600-yard perimeter in the playground side, so we'd run that for time. My local park, where I worked out in high school, had a 700-yard oval, and a 1,000 year perimeter trail. Nice alternative to doing interval work on the track, which is boring.

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