I wrote a while ago about Chuck Grassley's Twitter feed, which is enjoyable when he performs his great-grampa-in-Iowa act:
If u lost ur pet pidgin /it’s dead in front yard my Iowa farm JUST DISCOVERED here r identifiers Right leg Blue 2020/3089/AU2020/SHE ///LEFT LEG GREEN BAND NO PRINTED INFO. Sorry for bad news
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 19, 2020
But he's also one of a hundred US senators, and when he tweets in that capacity . . . not sure his mental acumen exceeds the average for his demographic cohort:
For many today’s decision is about far more than correcting Roe it means that the rights of the unborn are no longer in jeopardy This ruling empowers the ppl thru their elected reps to make commonsense policy decisions It takes policymaking out of the hands of unelected judges
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) June 24, 2022
Maybe he's unaware that back in the mists of time, like yesterday, some unelected judges held that the people of New York, acting through their elected representatives, could not enact "commonsense policy decisions," related to carrying guns in public, that they deemed necessary to promote safety and the general welfare. The law was adopted more than a hundred years ago.
Stare decisis must be Latin for "previously owned by an old lady who only drove back and forth from home to church and the grocery store." Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, bought the jalopy: "This decision [reversing Roe] is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon." Sucka! (She also voted to acquit Trump at his first impeachment trial, since, she said, "he's learned his lesson.")
Polling shows that only a quarter of respondents say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the Supreme Court—a record low. I'd like a gallon freezer bag full of whatever the 25 percent is smoking. It evidently will transport you to a faraway land where the swamps smell of wisteria.
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