What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[crazy canuck]

Nobody was arrested. At last the AP clearly indicates it skepticism.

I have never used a boxcutter on the coating of a bottom of a pool before but LOL on it actually working. But I guess if you can hijack airplanes using box cutters they must be super tools that can do anything.

But I heard with my own ears, the president of the United States saying that people had been arrested and we're going to be prosecuted.

[HisMajestyBOB]

[Syt]

 

[garbon]

The Hill has said Trump got to claim success when he endorsed both candidates in the GOP primar runoff, though he had first back only the one who lost.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5937213-mamdani-trump-new-york-south-carolina-primary-takeaways/

Over in South Carolina, President Trump got to claim success after hedging his bets in the Republican runoff for governor. He issued a last-minute dual endorsement in the race after his first-choice candidate — Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette — lost steam following the initial primary earlier this month.

[grumbler]

A pretty good explanation of how ignorance and feather bedding led to the reflecting pool disaster.

Bottom line: the blue paint that replaced to old light grey paint has made the pool much warmer, and all of the efforts to mitigate have either been destructive (the hydrogen peroxide is likely what caused the lining to separate from the bottom and maybe killed the ducks) or only work in much deeper water (nanobubbling).

It was all easily avoided had the planners included anyone that was knowledgeable about algae and still water.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

But they were only knowledgeable in grifting....

[Richard Hakluyt]

We don't need experts.

[Valmy]

This is actually how Stalin and Mao killed the most people by being able to implement stupid ideas that nobody dared tell them were bullshit.

[garbon]

We can continue to be weird, CC.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5943129-supreme-court-mail-ballots-election-day-rnc/

Supreme Court rules states can accept mail ballots after Election Day

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 that states can accept mail ballots after polls close in federal races, rejecting the Republican National Committee's (RNC) push to defeat the practice.

More than a dozen states deem mail ballots that arrive after Election Day valid, so long as they were postmarked by then.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett said it doesn't conflict with federal law, which sets "the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November" as the "day for the election." 

"The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose," Barrett wrote.

She and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three liberal justices in the majority. The court's four other conservative justices dissented.

The Supreme Court's decision injects a new layer in the fight for control of Congress at a time when Republicans hope to maintain their majorities in both chambers in November.

It also marks a loss for President Trump, who has assailed states for allowing post-Election Day ballots and long insisted that votes should be counted on election night to prevent fraud. His Justice Department backed the RNC's challenge at the Supreme Court.

But the issue has also spurred a Republican-on-Republican fight.

As some in the party sought to topple the practice, it left Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson (R) defending his state's law. Mississippi allows mail ballots to be counted if they arrive up to five business days after Election Day.

Mississippi is one of 14 states with similar election laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many are Democrat-controlled states — California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Virginia and Washington. But four are not — Alaska, Nevada, Texas and West Virginia.

Mississippi's defense garnered outside support from groups like the NAACP and League of Women Voters, as well as the Democratic National Committee.

The RNC, which challenged the state's law alongside the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, received outside support from the House Republicans' campaign arm, Citizens United and eight GOP-led states, among others.

The decision lands as Trump takes aim at mail voting more broadly. In March, he signed an executive order seeking to restrict who can vote by mail. It's currently the subject of litigation that remains in lower courts.

[Tonitrus]

...and we cannot add to the words Congress chose,"

Isn't that what they did to the Constitution with presidential immunity?

[grumbler]

...and we cannot add to the words Congress chose,"

Isn't that what they did to the Constitution with presidential immunity?

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
   - O. Wilde

[Tonitrus]

Part of why, with all the talk about whether or not a theoretical Democrat majority should impeach Trump (again)...perhaps they should impeach a few SC justices as well.

[Zanza]

The Supreme Court also ruled that Trump can fire board members of formerly independent agencies of the executive branch. An important step towards a totalitarian state.

[Tonitrus]

Serious question...what agencies does a typical parliamentary democracy have with heads that cannot be dismissed by the PM/head of government?