Another thing is that I like that it isn't all the Texas trump appointees. Notably absent is Cam Barker, who probably happens to be the smartest of all these guys.
What annoys me about this is that I hold back a little hate for folks like Kacsmaryk that are targeted for forum shopping. Maybe he just has a really conservative judicial philosophy and the AG just takes advantage of the forum rules and puts cases up there. Maybe he doesn't deserve hate for that. He's sort of an unwilling participant in the big sham. But then signing onto stuff like this makes it clear that he wants to be involved in the politicization of the judicial branch. It makes it clear it's not unwilling at all.
A fifth circuit buffet of trump appointees just signed a letter saying they won't hire columbia grads as clerks because of the antisemitism re gaza protests on their campus and the administration's failure to control same.
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/federal-judges-hiring-columbia/
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/judges-boycotting-columbia-letter-lie/
familiar names include James Ho, Alan Albright, Kasmaryk up in Amarillo
twitter pushed a national review article to me yesterday with the headline "we need to inject more politics into school board elections." the exact sort of contrarian bullshit the world has devolved into. you know how much of a nightmare the adult world is? let's make the child's world like that too.
NYT reports foiled assassination plot on Zalensky
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/world/europe/ukraine-russia-zelensky-plot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE0.0SLN.NbIue60iEaHs&smid=url-share
it's also infuriating. the nation will simply always be within a percent or two of evenly split because the folks behind the scenes know how to target our brains better than coca cola and nike. and the MOE is always bigger than the lead margin. so even if they are right on polling, its still useless.
Vance seems like the best choice for Trump appeal-wise. I don't think anyone else brings anyone to the fold. Maybe Scott gets some black voters who just want to see some representation up there. Vance feels like a play on the young male appeal who are not already totally lost to him. Money and all that other stuff that motivates VP choices, I have no insight on.