By the President of the Senate.
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As our national civics lesson continues to unfold on its march toward our 59th Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2021 & 45’s 2nd term, I write today not of his unmasking exercise but of distraction, evolution & Trump’s battle for a return to the Constitution.
As a 3L in the FSU College of Law, I almost single-handedly produced an “African Americans and the Law in Florida” conference.
It was a futile attempt to give our Black Law Students Association a substantive event annually revolving around our chosen profession.
The following year, our BLSA chapter could not have been less interested in sustaining it and reverted to the same ole, same ole.
Fluff.
My subsequent failure on the Florida Bar examination is worthy of a novel. Not from a bitch and moan perspective, although incredible institutional mistakes were made that crippled my legal career.
No, at every step of the way *I* made THE critical mistakes.
Freely.
And because prudence rules my world, I reasoned out why my decisions were the prudent decisions.
Precedents, you might say, personally stacked one upon another since my early teens were weighted and given outsized importance that – unbeknownst to me – worked against my stated professional goals.
Can you see how this relates to my earlier critique of the United States Supreme Court and their reliance upon precedents of their own creation?
Perhaps not. Perhaps its merely personal to me.
Whatever the case, *I* see it.
For me, and because I see it this way, "evolution" -- especially if one isn't careful -- can easily morph merely into a form of distraction.
A loss of focus.
This all came back to me as I watched a video Thomas Wictor highlighted.
The relevant part of this video for this thread runs from the 2:25 mark to 5:00.
https://t.co/gjQovqhrRW
Wictor appears to presume in the video the emotion we see from Miller links back to his appointment as Acting Secretary of Defense on November 9, 2020.
But would that after-election appointment generate such emotion from a combat veteran?
I think not.
No, I think that tremendous emotion goes back to the beginning of the Trump Administration.
Why?
I’ll try to explain that tomorrow.
No, I see it as part of his effort to return power to “we the people” b/c Trump is – like Thomas and Alito – an Originalist.
He knows the logic of our Constitution is inescapable. There is a very clear hierarchy that has, through distractions & evolution, been hidden.
The President, as Chief Executive, is President of *all* the people.
That much we all know.
The President of the Senate, however, a position constitutionally-mandated to be whomever is Vice President of the nation, is Senator to *all* the sovereign states.
Every citizen has two sovereigns, remember?
So, he’s not Senator of all the people . . . no, his duty is to the sovereign states.
Senate Rule 1 could not begin more clearly when it starts out “In the absence of the Vice President . . . .”
Clearly, the VP does not occupy a ceremonial position.
He occupies an incredibly important CONSTITUTIONAL & quite powerful position.
https://t.co/BlKJFojtBb
He, and he alone when presiding as President of the Senate, is CONSTITUTIONALLY authorized as presiding officer to maintain order and decorum, recognize members to speak, and interpret the Senate's rules, practices, and precedents.
Prior to the distracted evolution we increasingly endured as the 20th Century progressed chronologically, the Vice President *regularly* presided over the Senate.
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You’d think that if Pence could overturn the election like Trump claimed then Biden surely would’ve taken up that chance
Also this is such a small thing but one thing I noticed in that Trump campaign ad the defense just ran, there were no citations, unlike every clip that the impeachment managers showed
Michael Van Der Veen is giving us the full Fox News Primetime Defense.
PROCESS ARGUMENT.
DRINK.
Lol my guy this is the chance to rebut the evidence that they’ve presented against Trump.
Unless Trump's new lawyer is going to argue Hilary Clinton went to court and lost 60 times and then launched an attack on the Capitol, these clips of Democrats objecting to vote counting and being overruled by VP Biden are a waste of time.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) February 12, 2021
Also this is such a small thing but one thing I noticed in that Trump campaign ad the defense just ran, there were no citations, unlike every clip that the impeachment managers showed
Michael Van Der Veen is giving us the full Fox News Primetime Defense.
PROCESS ARGUMENT.
DRINK.
Lol my guy this is the chance to rebut the evidence that they’ve presented against Trump.
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Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W
Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
#KrishnaLeela
The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.
One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.
Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"
Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W
Prabhu says i reside in the heart of my bhakt.
— Right Singh (@rightwingchora) December 21, 2020
Guess the event. pic.twitter.com/yFUmbfe5KL
Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
#KrishnaLeela
The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.
One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.
Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"
