Pardon me: a pretty good theory about the Texas AG’s lawsuit
Last Friday the Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wanted them to hear and the Supreme Court had a pretty good reason: Texas didn’t have the legal right to sue because it couldn’t demonstrate an interest in how another state conducts elections.
The rejection resembled what would happen if I tried a lay up with LeBron James defending the basket. Pretty much what everybody with any legal knowledge – including semi-regular viewers of Matlock – had predicted.
So if the case always had a snowball’s chance in hell, why pursue it?
The Austin American-Statesman provided a clue in an editorial headlined: Paxton’s stunt betrayed Texans, hurt democracy – which ripped Paxton for wasting taxpayer money in an effort to buddy up to Donald Trump.
Turns out Paxton got indicted in 2015 and is facing three felony counts related to private business deals and the case is still crawling through the court system because of extended legal appeals which is the kind of stuff you can pull if you can afford to pay lawyers to keep your case from coming to trial until the Twelfth of Never.
But wait, there’s more.
Paxton is also currently under investigation by the FBI for allegedly abusing his office to help a campaign donor, so if you’re wondering why a guy would try a legal stunt that seemed to have absolutely no chance of succeeding – as the American-Statesman points out – Ken could use a friend with pardoning powers.
Sources have said there will be a “flurry” of pardons before Trump leaves office, so if you see Ken Paxton’s name on the list, you know his lame Supreme Court case actually accomplished what he set out to do.
After Trump went on one of his Twitter rants about getting cheated out of the presidency and said maybe the Justice Department was in on it, the guy in charge of the Justice Department – William Barr, who up until now has pretty much been a Trump stooge – came out and said they’d looked into it and could find no evidence of wide-spread fraud.
It would appear Barr was willing to suck up to Trump until Barr himself got accused of something and now Trump is said to be considering firing Barr as a big FY (figure it out) and Barr has reportedly compared Trump to a “deposed king ranting.”
This is starting to look like a bunch of cannibals turning on each other right before lunchtime and it really couldn’t happen to a bunch of nicer guys mainly because nicer guys don’t behave like this.
I wasn’t sure people would get the Barr Exam reference, but every once in a while you draw one for yourself and hope you didn’t lose too many passengers on the curve.
I did this one after reading about a poll that said 50 percent of Americans don’t plan on getting the COVID-19 vaccine which would mean our current coronavirus shitstorm (and I intend to copyright that phrase) will last even longer than it has to.
Neat.
Like with any vaccine there are risks to taking it, but there are also risks to not taking it and doctors have said taking the vaccine is the better risk by far, so you can trust the medical community or the people who think the government is going to implant us with tracking devices even though we’re all carrying cell phones already.
As you might have noticed, logic doesn’t have much to do with what people believe these days and now Trump wants credit for a vaccine which will protect us against a virus that Trump also says isn’t a problem.
OK, that’s it for today because it’s time for me to take my walk and I need to start bundling up because here in Kansas City it’s 21 degrees, but feels like 16, and I know that because it’s right there on my tracking device.
Have a nice day.
I’m having a much better day-better than nice, since I took the time to read your post! The cartoons also made me laugh. Thank you!
I always try to share on Facebook, but I know I am preaching to the converted:)
Shouldn’t he have to at least get the case heard, if not actually won, to earn his pardon? Nah, not in the “Just go through the motions” administration.