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Stephen Maturin 01-22-2021 05:00 PM
The Biden Administration
 
Now that we're back on the path of sanity with respect to the Paris Agreement and the Diet Coke button is gone, let's talk federal judges.

Thanks to a friendly Senate, Diaper Don appointed and had confirmed an astonishing 231 Article III judges in a single fucking term, including 1/3 of the Supreme Court and 54 court of appeals judges. Now it's Unca Joe's turn.

There are only two U.S. Court of Appeals and 44 federal district court vacancies at the moment. However, there are 38 court of appeals judges appointed by Democrats who are eligible for senior status. It's a pretty sweet deal. Once an Article III judge reaches the required age and years of service, s/he can continue to receive full salary while getting to kick back, do less work, and pick and choose cases. A buddy of mine clerked for a senior federal district court judge right out of law school. The judge had been on the bench forever, and really came to loathe criminal cases. When he hit the magic numbers for age and years of service, he took senior status and continued to maintain a full docket, but never had do deal with another criminal case.

Senior status is also a sweet deal for POTUS, as it creates a vacancy to fill. Here's hoping all 38 of the above-mentioned court of appeals judges were just waiting for Biden's inauguration. May they all follow the example of this district court judge, who sent this letter to Biden about 1.5 hours after he took the oath:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsMgxUbX...g&name=900x900

Ari 01-22-2021 05:53 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Question: what’s the likelihood of an expansion of Supreme court judges under Biden?
Not just to reduce Trump’s judge’s effectiveness, but because nine people just aren’t enough in a modern world.

Stephen Maturin 01-22-2021 06:08 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
I suspect Biden would sign a bill to increase the number of SCOTUS justices if such a thing ever made it to his desk, but the chance of that getting through both houses of Congress is ever so slightly north of 0.000%.

Limoncello 01-22-2021 06:26 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
  • First 3 days of work

  • Re-engage with World Health Organization End withdrawal process Jan. 20
  • Create position of COVID-19 response coordinator Executive order Jan. 20
  • Rejoin Paris climate agreement Sign an "instrument" Jan. 20
  • Revoke permit for Keystone XL pipeline, pause energy leasing in ANWR Executive order Jan. 20
  • Ask agencies to extend eviction/foreclosure moratoriums Request Jan. 20
  • Ask Education Dept. to extend student-loan pause Request Jan. 20
  • Launch an initiative to advance racial equity, end "1776 Commission" Executive order Jan. 20
  • Revoke order that aims to exclude undocumented immigrants from census Executive order Jan. 20
  • Preserve/fortify DACA, which helps "Dreamers" Memorandum Jan. 20
  • Require masks/distancing on all federal property and by federal workers Executive order Jan. 20
  • Reverse travel ban targeting primarily Muslim countries Executive order Jan. 20
  • Stop construction of border wall Proclamation Jan. 20
  • Combat discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity Executive order Jan. 20
  • Require ethics pledge for executive-branch personnel Executive order Jan. 20
  • Modernize and improve regulatory review Memorandum Jan. 20
  • End "harsh and extreme immigration enforcement" Executive order Jan. 20
  • Extend protection from deportation for Liberians in U.S. Memorandum Jan. 20
  • Revoke certain executive orders concerning federal regulation Executive order Jan. 20
  • Freeze any new or pending regulations Memorandum Jan. 20
  • Fill supply shortfalls in fight vs. COVID-19 with Defense Production Act, other measures Executive order Jan. 21
  • Increase FEMA reimbursement to states for National Guard, PPE Memorandum Jan. 21
  • Establish “COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board,” expand testing Executive order Jan. 21
  • Bolster access to COVID-19 treatments and clinical care Executive order Jan. 21
  • Improve collection/analysis of COVID-related data Executive order Jan. 21
  • Mount vaccination campaign amid goals such as 100 million shots in 100 days Directives Jan. 21
  • Provide guidance on safely reopening schools Executive order Jan. 21
  • OSHA guidance for keeping workers safe from COVID-19 Executive order Jan. 21
  • Require face masks at airports, other modes of transportation Executive order Jan. 21
  • Establish a “COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force” Executive order Jan. 21
  • Support international response to COVID-19, “restore U.S. global leadership” Directive Jan. 21
  • Ask agencies to boost food aid, improve delivery of stimulus checks Executive order Expected Jan. 22

JoeP 01-22-2021 06:47 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Executive overreach!

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-23-2021 12:44 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Thrad about what else can be done on the local level:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also may I suggest writing letters to the editor ABOUT your worst electeds to your local newspaper, calling them out by NAME? “I am concerned about Congressperson’s X disregard for ______.” <br><br>They have staffers &amp; pay for services just to clip and track that stuff.</p>&mdash; Captain Awkward (@CAwkward) <a href="https://twitter.com/CAwkward/status/1352286026673348615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You know, maybe prevent another House 2010 and losing that razor thin Senate margin.

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-23-2021 12:44 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Thrad about what else can be done on the local level:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also may I suggest writing letters to the editor ABOUT your worst electeds to your local newspaper, calling them out by NAME? “I am concerned about Congressperson’s X disregard for ______.” <br><br>They have staffers &amp; pay for services just to clip and track that stuff.</p>&mdash; Captain Awkward (@CAwkward) <a href="https://twitter.com/CAwkward/status/1352286026673348615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You know, maybe prevent another House 2010 and losing that razor thin Senate margin.

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-23-2021 01:43 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Update: The President is ordering the federal government to find the families that were separated from their children and reunify those families.</p>&mdash; Tío Sam ���� (@TioSamSays) <a href="https://twitter.com/TioSamSays/status/1352002268128751628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-23-2021 05:58 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
She’s having none of this nonsense.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">White House press sec. Jen Psaki comments on proposal for &quot;reconsidering the color scheme of Air Force One.&quot;<br><br>&quot;I can confirm for you here: the president has not spent a moment thinking about the color scheme of Air Force One.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FIF1vyQRXS">https://t.co/FIF1vyQRXS</a> <a href="https://t.co/r6ZIAXQSP6">pic.twitter.com/r6ZIAXQSP6</a></p>&mdash; ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1352689772309917696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

BrotherMan 01-23-2021 04:07 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
The nation has been repeatedly kicked straight in the balls for the last *gestures broadly* and that is the question you want more details on?

JoeP 01-23-2021 07:24 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Can we make :ff: a safe haven from the deluge of Bernie Sanders memes flooding the internet?

JoeP 01-23-2021 07:25 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeP (Post 1353041)
Can we make :ff: a safe haven from the deluge of Bernie Sanders memes flooding the internet?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Jewish yoga this pose is: waiting for my wife at Loehmann's <a href="https://t.co/Qik7wsZ0ad">pic.twitter.com/Qik7wsZ0ad</a></p>&mdash; Chandra Steele (@ChanSteele) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChanSteele/status/1351927821007003656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

No.

https://i.imgur.com/0dSLP7Y.jpg

No we can't.

https://i.imgur.com/mhU9PXu.jpg

Why would you even suggest such a thing.

https://i.imgur.com/snOY8eQ.jpeg

BrotherMan 01-23-2021 09:59 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Bernie all the things.

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-23-2021 11:17 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BrotherMan (Post 1353055)
Bernie all the things.
goddam yanks need to shove their way into anywhere

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It was one thing when my son crashed my press conference a month or so ago, but this... Now is not the time to travel. Stay home - and by that, I mean your own home. <a href="https://t.co/OOUb1tqBZe">pic.twitter.com/OOUb1tqBZe</a></p>&mdash; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1353075491771584514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-24-2021 06:16 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
At will employment comes at you fast.

JoeP 01-24-2021 09:34 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
If only they'd unionised.

Stephen Maturin 01-24-2021 07:13 PM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Peter Robb is a gargantuan piece of shit, and the fact that he held the position of General Counsel at the NLRB was among the more heinous, if relatively little known, abominations of the Trump administration. Thanks to Unca Joe, Scabby the Rat's nemesis can move on to greener and more lucrative wingnut welfare pastures.

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-25-2021 12:55 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's almost as if Biden actually is uniting the country, and all the Republicans whining about unity are completely bad-faith actors. <a href="https://t.co/7pPYAz1GbK">https://t.co/7pPYAz1GbK</a></p>&mdash; Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) <a href="https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1353390369547853825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-27-2021 12:50 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeP (Post 1352991)
Executive overreach!
https://i.gyazo.com/a516a607191c600e...3ce132dac0.jpg

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-27-2021 12:53 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Putting Kamala Harris as VP into perspective.See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved.See the blue box? Until then, she couldn’t vote. Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school.<br>The green one? Until then she couldn’t have her own bank account <a href="https://t.co/ubBJoU0PsF">pic.twitter.com/ubBJoU0PsF</a></p>&mdash; Melissa Shusterman (@MelissaForPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaForPA/status/1353349448403976192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-28-2021 04:27 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">PETER DOOCY: Mr President, what did you talk to Vladimir Putin about?<br><br>PRESIDENT BIDEN: You. He sends his best. <a href="https://t.co/Fq0zglc9aK">pic.twitter.com/Fq0zglc9aK</a></p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354149156001034240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 01-31-2021 06:38 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
With Biden in office, Canadian satirists scramble to familiarize selves with Canadian politics - The Beaverton

Kamilah Hauptmann 02-06-2021 05:31 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
Part of a thrad, but here’s a punchline:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Biden: &quot;So the way I see it is the biggest risk is not going too big, it's if we go too small ... all of the sudden, many [Republicans] have rediscovered fiscal restraint.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zZPZ0xZ3em">pic.twitter.com/zZPZ0xZ3em</a></p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1357745428444422145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 02-06-2021 05:33 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I meant unity with your voters, not you assholes. Really a perfect answer to all the bad faith demands from the likes of Ted Cruz and Jim Jordan. <a href="https://t.co/yxoJX1VpCe">https://t.co/yxoJX1VpCe</a></p>&mdash; Schooley (@Rschooley) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1357865954391126016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kamilah Hauptmann 02-19-2021 04:58 AM
Re: The Biden Administration
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ca" dir="ltr">Benevolent gerontocrats are preferable to malevolent autocrats, I am told. <a href="https://t.co/GXkLK2OyWO">https://t.co/GXkLK2OyWO</a></p>&mdash; Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) <a href="https://twitter.com/WernerTwertzog/status/1361345781400231938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


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