I am so happy to see you outline a plan for dealing with the Supreme Court, which I now feel has a majority dedicated to legislating from the bench and destroying our Constitution.
I have no idea why Substack thinks I have a Newsletter (no doubt an error on my part but I no not why). I am a supporter of several writers that cover several areas of interest and different styles of presentation of whatever the subject matter. I do comment also. This particular writer named the Newsletter appropriately - Hopium Chronicals. Hope is a need we all have and data with supporting facts certainly has given me hope.
There is nothing much more important than maintaining Democrats in control of the White House and the House while adding control of the Senate. We then need to abolish the filibuster, expand the Supreme Court and add DC as a state. Once those are accomplished, we can address voting Rights, gerrymandering, abortion, rights, and the climate crisis. Without expanding the Supreme Court, those legislative efforts could all be overturned by the corrupt court we now have.
Simon; Can we donate anonymously through Hopium? I have supported Biden and others since 2020. Unfortunately my email became a “bitch dog in heat” and I was besieged with money donation requests often from the same source several times per day. A month or so back I cut them all off in a fit of desperation. At one point I had over 5,000 email backlog. My email became almost useless for normal purposes and missed more than a few important one as they got lost in the clutter. I would love to give my admittedly small donations through Hopium so I would not be exposed to the avalanche of donation requests. Any thoughts?
President Biden has thus far seemed to indicate a reluctance to expand the Supreme Court. Given their blatant partisanship and corruption, do you see POTUS shifting on this at all? Any effort to clean up Washington will have to be done with bold action, it seems to me. Hopefully we expand our majority in the senate and retake the house, and have fearless leadership in each unafraid to take meaningful action against corrupt judges who consider themselves untouchable.
Brilliant idea to add a focus on a reform agenda. It's timely and proactive. Your ideas to address corruption and life expectancy encompass so many things we're all concerned about - the right to vote, justice for all, guns, climate change, women's health... Thank you SImon for synthesizing all this and for being the Hopium for so many of us!
Couldn't agree more on this conclusion: "MAGA Justices allowed a serious conversation about undoing what was perhaps the central goal of the Founders - preventing a President from becoming a King."
Americans know, no matter how much Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas may want to pretend otherwise: someone who criminally-conspired to overthrow our government, has no business in that government—let alone leading it.
The billionaire-bought MAGA Justices want to shield Tr*mp from facing criminal trial for the 2020 election insurrection and attack on our freedoms. A shameless Thomas, whose wife plotted in and supported that attack, won't even recuse!
At minimum, SCOTUS must be forced to rule by May 20th to allow enough time for the trial before November 5—because every American deserves to know the January 6 trial verdict from a jury of our peers, before we each cast our own verdict, when we vote in 2024's election.
Another encouraging signal: Allan Lichtman, who has accurately predicted nine of the last ten presidential elections*, states that “A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose." That’s a strong statement – and yet another reason for optimism!
* Actually 10 out of 10, if we accept Lichtman’s assertion that SCOTUS stole the 2020 election from Al Gore. (Interestingly, William Rehnquist was Chief Justice at the time – and his successor was one of his law clerks, John Roberts.
Agreed. Just please don’t position it as draining the swamp. Rather frame it as setting new standards to bring our institutions fully into the 21st century in order to better serve us in the future.
Definitely need a reform agenda. Our government home has been hollowed out by years of haters’ destructive behaviors. If Heritage has a Project 2025, we need to have a democracy renovation, starting with court reform. Let’s have white papers on how to rebuild our democracy for the multi-racial country we will become - not just patching holes but instituting laws to enforce our norms. MAGA Republicans need not apply.
Thomas Jefferson’s words don’t support originalism among the Supreme Court’s justices. Indeed, the co-author of our Constitution says originalism is BS, it seems to me.
Thanks Simon. Let's all channel our worry and anxiety about SCOTUS into action so we win in November. Don't obey in advance. SCOTUS may try to anoint Trump king but that doesn't make him one.
Simon: Your Big, Bold Clean Up Washington idea is hugely optimistic and so very needed. It’s easy to be against something; thrilling to be for something. Let me know how I can help.
It was Clarence Thomas from what I heard who talked the supreme court in taking the immunity case for trump. After all His wife was an insurrectionist. The only thing it does is delay federal trials. It doesn't delay state trials. Fani Willis will be reelected in the May 21 primary in George by a wide margin and will win DA again. Right now her only competitor is only getting 9% of the vote. Minorities there are angry with Trump, the Judge in the Georgia case and Georgia Republicans. that case could still be on track. And now you have the Arizona Case and the Michigan case. The attorney generals in these states decided to move forward with their cases because of the slowness of the federal cases.
I'm worried about violence at the Chicago DNC.. 1968 again?
I am so happy to see you outline a plan for dealing with the Supreme Court, which I now feel has a majority dedicated to legislating from the bench and destroying our Constitution.
I have no idea why Substack thinks I have a Newsletter (no doubt an error on my part but I no not why). I am a supporter of several writers that cover several areas of interest and different styles of presentation of whatever the subject matter. I do comment also. This particular writer named the Newsletter appropriately - Hopium Chronicals. Hope is a need we all have and data with supporting facts certainly has given me hope.
There is nothing much more important than maintaining Democrats in control of the White House and the House while adding control of the Senate. We then need to abolish the filibuster, expand the Supreme Court and add DC as a state. Once those are accomplished, we can address voting Rights, gerrymandering, abortion, rights, and the climate crisis. Without expanding the Supreme Court, those legislative efforts could all be overturned by the corrupt court we now have.
Simon; Can we donate anonymously through Hopium? I have supported Biden and others since 2020. Unfortunately my email became a “bitch dog in heat” and I was besieged with money donation requests often from the same source several times per day. A month or so back I cut them all off in a fit of desperation. At one point I had over 5,000 email backlog. My email became almost useless for normal purposes and missed more than a few important one as they got lost in the clutter. I would love to give my admittedly small donations through Hopium so I would not be exposed to the avalanche of donation requests. Any thoughts?
President Biden has thus far seemed to indicate a reluctance to expand the Supreme Court. Given their blatant partisanship and corruption, do you see POTUS shifting on this at all? Any effort to clean up Washington will have to be done with bold action, it seems to me. Hopefully we expand our majority in the senate and retake the house, and have fearless leadership in each unafraid to take meaningful action against corrupt judges who consider themselves untouchable.
Brilliant idea to add a focus on a reform agenda. It's timely and proactive. Your ideas to address corruption and life expectancy encompass so many things we're all concerned about - the right to vote, justice for all, guns, climate change, women's health... Thank you SImon for synthesizing all this and for being the Hopium for so many of us!
Couldn't agree more on this conclusion: "MAGA Justices allowed a serious conversation about undoing what was perhaps the central goal of the Founders - preventing a President from becoming a King."
Americans know, no matter how much Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas may want to pretend otherwise: someone who criminally-conspired to overthrow our government, has no business in that government—let alone leading it.
The billionaire-bought MAGA Justices want to shield Tr*mp from facing criminal trial for the 2020 election insurrection and attack on our freedoms. A shameless Thomas, whose wife plotted in and supported that attack, won't even recuse!
At minimum, SCOTUS must be forced to rule by May 20th to allow enough time for the trial before November 5—because every American deserves to know the January 6 trial verdict from a jury of our peers, before we each cast our own verdict, when we vote in 2024's election.
#JusticeCantWait
Another encouraging signal: Allan Lichtman, who has accurately predicted nine of the last ten presidential elections*, states that “A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose." That’s a strong statement – and yet another reason for optimism!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/allan-lichtman-prediction-presidential-election
Rather than polls, Professor Lichtman bases his predictions on what he calls "The 13 Keys to the White House".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House
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* Actually 10 out of 10, if we accept Lichtman’s assertion that SCOTUS stole the 2020 election from Al Gore. (Interestingly, William Rehnquist was Chief Justice at the time – and his successor was one of his law clerks, John Roberts.
Agreed. Just please don’t position it as draining the swamp. Rather frame it as setting new standards to bring our institutions fully into the 21st century in order to better serve us in the future.
Definitely need a reform agenda. Our government home has been hollowed out by years of haters’ destructive behaviors. If Heritage has a Project 2025, we need to have a democracy renovation, starting with court reform. Let’s have white papers on how to rebuild our democracy for the multi-racial country we will become - not just patching holes but instituting laws to enforce our norms. MAGA Republicans need not apply.
Thomas Jefferson’s words don’t support originalism among the Supreme Court’s justices. Indeed, the co-author of our Constitution says originalism is BS, it seems to me.
I prefer the phrase worry about everything; panic about nothing.
Thanks Simon. Let's all channel our worry and anxiety about SCOTUS into action so we win in November. Don't obey in advance. SCOTUS may try to anoint Trump king but that doesn't make him one.
Simon: Your Big, Bold Clean Up Washington idea is hugely optimistic and so very needed. It’s easy to be against something; thrilling to be for something. Let me know how I can help.
It was Clarence Thomas from what I heard who talked the supreme court in taking the immunity case for trump. After all His wife was an insurrectionist. The only thing it does is delay federal trials. It doesn't delay state trials. Fani Willis will be reelected in the May 21 primary in George by a wide margin and will win DA again. Right now her only competitor is only getting 9% of the vote. Minorities there are angry with Trump, the Judge in the Georgia case and Georgia Republicans. that case could still be on track. And now you have the Arizona Case and the Michigan case. The attorney generals in these states decided to move forward with their cases because of the slowness of the federal cases.