How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread

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Supreme Court Sides With Border Agent Accused of Using Excessive Force
In a 6-to-3 decision, the justices made it harder to sue federal officials for money in cases accusing them of violating the Constitution.

WASHINGTON — The owner of an inn on the Canadian border who said he had been assaulted by a Border Patrol agent may not sue the agent for violating the Constitution by using excessive force, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.

The decision, by a 6-to-3 vote along ideological lines, stopped just short of overruling a 1971 precedent, Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, that allowed federal courts, rather than Congress, to authorize at least some kinds of lawsuits seeking money from federal officials accused of violating constitutional rights.

But the basic message of Wednesday’s decision, Egbert v. Boule, No. 21-147, was that only Congress can authorize such suits.

The case was brought by Robert Boule, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast in Blaine, Wash., called the Smuggler’s Inn. Mr. Boule said he had served as a confidential informant for the federal government, helping agents find and apprehend people crossing the border illegally.

In March 2014, he told Erik Egbert, a Border Patrol agent, that a Turkish citizen was scheduled to arrive at the inn.

When the guest’s car reached the inn, Mr. Egbert entered Mr. Boule’s property without a warrant. Mr. Boule said he told the agent to leave, only to be thrown against the vehicle and then to the ground.

Mr. Egbert inspected the guest’s paperwork and found it to be in order. That night, the guest unlawfully entered Canada.

Mr. Boule sued the agent, saying he had violated the Fourth Amendment by using excessive force and the First Amendment by contacting the Internal Revenue Service and prompting an audit of Mr. Boule’s tax returns.

A federal trial judge dismissed the case, saying the Bivens decision did not allow the sorts of claims Mr. Boule pressed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed that dismissal, allowing Mr. Boule to pursue both theories.

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for five justices, said the court has only twice extended Bivens, which concerned the unconstitutional search of a home in Brooklyn, most recently in 1980. In Mr. Boule’s case, Justice Thomas wrote, “the court of appeals plainly erred when it created causes of action for Boule’s Fourth Amendment excessive-force claim and First Amendment retaliation claim.”

Justice Thomas wrote that courts should focus on a “single question” in such cases: Is there “any reason to think Congress might be better equipped” than a court to weigh the costs and benefits of allowing suits against federal officials for money?

In particular, Justice Thomas wrote, the national security interest in border security distinguished the case before the court from ordinary Fourth Amendment violations. He cited a 2020 decision rejecting a suit filed by the parents of a teenager killed by an American agent shooting across the Mexican border.

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch voted with the majority but said he would have gone further. The court, he wrote, should “forthrightly return the power to create new causes of action to the people’s representatives in Congress.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan, agreed that Mr. Boule could not pursue his claim under the First Amendment. But she wrote that a Fourth Amendment claim based on the agent’s use of excessive force was permitted by Bivens.

She wrote that Mr. Boule’s case “is a far cry from others in which the court declined to extend Bivens for reasons of national security or foreign relations.”

The majority’s efforts to invoke those interests, she added, were disingenuous.

“This case does not remotely implicate national security,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. “The court may wish it were otherwise, but on the facts of this case, its effort to raise the specter of national security is mere sleight of hand.”

Justice Sotomayor added that “Agent Egbert, a line officer, was engaged in a run-of-the-mill inquiry into the status of a foreign national on U.S. soil who had no actual or suggested ties to terrorism, and who recently had been through U.S. customs to boot.”

Justice Sotomayor said she held out hope that some suits under the Bivens decision might still survive.

“Although today’s opinion will make it harder for plaintiffs to bring a successful Bivens claim, even in the Fourth Amendment context,” she wrote, “the lower courts should not read it to render Bivens a dead letter.”

On the next page of her dissent, though, Justice Sotomayor seemed to concede that few if any such suits will likely succeed.

“The court’s decision today,” she wrote, “ignores our repeated recognition of the importance of Bivens actions, particularly in the Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure context, and closes the door to Bivens suits by many who will suffer serious constitutional violations at the hands of federal agents.”
 

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Few months ago I would have said Biden will be the nom no matter what. At this point nah, I think it's over. The party likely loses no matter what in 2024. Maybe Trump fukks it all up and loses a winnable election but outside of that I just don't see it. He's incredibly unpopular and incapable of effectively making his case. Any other president would likely be doing all types of press and media, trying to fight. It's probably better that Biden virtually only gives brief speeches with no questions because he rarely does himself favors by sparring with the media or republicans.

It's gonna take quite the economic turnaround - inflation ending, gas prices reducing, etc without a jobs slowdown, etc - to fix this. But even if everything gets back to pre-covid normal on Jan 1st of next year, I just don't see how this guy lasts until 2024. And Kamala is terrible too. Basically there is no plan B....

yeah regardless if any of the macro economic issues is the pres fault or not, people are not trying to hear that. Dems have lost a ton of support the past few years. most libs are fairly apathetic now and that doesn't bode well as the right is always going to vote right and operate with sociopathy pretty much
 

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yeah regardless if any of the macro economic issues is the pres fault or not, people are not trying to hear that. Dems have lost a ton of support the past few years. most libs are fairly apathetic now and that doesn't bode well as the right is always going to vote right and operate with sociopathy pretty much

It's been surreal watching the WH argue the economy is doing great by historical standards (job growth) and that this puts us in position to fix inflation...as if it's just some bubbling issue. It's THE issue. No one cares about job growth right now. Some people can't even afford to drive to work right now.

Add in a president who seems oblivious or focused on other things and it looks even worse. No gas prices aren't Biden's fault, given that they're high globally right now. No inflation isn't his fault overall. But like you said, nobody cares. The person in the WH gets blamed. If Trump was president right now and getting hit with all this, people would be saying "see we warned you in 2020 and you didn't listen." Let's be real lol.

I'm gonna vote for him again if he's on the ballot but...I think I'm done defending this dude or pointing out facts. It's basically over at this point. And he clearly doesn't know it.
 

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Opinion: The surprising reason for Joe Biden's low approval rating​

David Masciotra is the author of "I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters"and "Mellencamp: American Troubadour." He has written for many publications on politics, music and literature, including Salon, No Depression, the Progressive, CounterPunch and the Los Angeles Review of Books. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
(CNN) — One of the most obvious realities of American politics is that the Republican Party, members of which have pushed increasingly hateful rhetoric, is blocking President Joe Biden's reform efforts to improve people's lives. What is much less recognized is that a significant faction of the left also damages any hope for improvement in a country wrestling with unprecedented assaults on democracy, escalating hate crimes and gun violence, global warming and extreme income inequality.
Commentators offer different theories to explain Biden's low approval ratings, but many miss the importance of partisan loyalty. Gallup polls show that Biden's support among Democrats declined from 95% at the start of his presidency to 85% by early 2022. Trump, on the other hand, had lost only 1% of Republicansover a similar time period during his presidency, going from 87% to 86% in approval. What could likely account for Biden's comparatively worse losses among members of his own party is the insidious influence of what I call the "fan fiction left."
Increasingly dominant on the internet — particularly social media and the podcast sphere — the fan fiction left imagines an alternative universe where the Republican Party, with its embrace of Trump and his authoritarian tendencies, is not the main problem of American politics. Instead, in this view, the only hindrance to the enactment of just and beneficial public policy is lack of will within the Democratic Party.
Far worse than teenagers writing an extension of their favorite anime series or video game, the fan fiction left encourages its audience, which depending on the writer or podcast often rivals those of mainstream publications and programs, to act in accordance with its weird delusions. Hallucination is central to their magical world of make-believe. Enter that world, and you will learn the following:
  • "Russiagate" was a "hoax," just as Trump himself falsely claims. The investigationsand even the leak of Kremlin documentsdemonstrating exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced the 2016 election through a sophisticated disinformation campaign are meaningless.
  • The US should not provide aid to the Ukrainian struggle for freedom and self-determination, and is only doing so to enrich the military-industrial complex. Support for Ukraine is unjust, because US-NATO aggression provoked Putin into invasion.
  • Republican extremism and obstructionism are irrelevant, as are the structural and procedural laws of the federal government. The only reason that President Biden and the Democratic Congress have failed to pass major reforms, like the Green New Deal or tuition-free community college, is that the Democrats have sold out to corporate interests, and refuse to make a genuine effort.
It's likely these ideas play a role in the divergence in party loyalty that lowers Biden's approval rating to Trump levels, but more importantly, it illustrates the venomous effect that the left has on potential Democratic voters.
Considering that its fabulists so consistently and aggressively ridicule Democrats, they are operationally right wing. The impact of the fan fiction left, irrespective of intention, is to dampen voter enthusiasm for the Democratic Party. As a consequence, it helps Republicans capture and hold power. Judging by popularsocial media accounts, millions of young progressives believe that, if he only wanted, Biden could cast a spell, and by wizard's fiat, transform the United States into Finland.
An emblematic example arose recently when several leading left pundits declared they were "done with Democrats" in reaction to the news that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade.
 

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It is incoherent to blame the Democratic Party, given that it is Democratic governors, like Jay Pritzker of Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who have vowed to protect women's reproductive rights in their states, and it is Republican governors like Brian Kemp in Georgia and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma and the Supreme Courtappointments of Republican presidents who are poised to eliminate women's autonomy.
Observable reality is irrelevant to this faction of the left. The only thing that matters is that President Barack Obama and the Democrats did not codify Roe v. Wade as federal law when they controlled Congress from 2009 to 2011. But this argument ignores that Obama and Democrat lawmakers spent those two years pushing through a massive stimulus package in the middle of financial collapse and then passing the most consequential expansion of the welfare state since the 1960s, the Affordable Care Act, which enabled more than 20 million Americans to receive health care for the first time.
Obama also appointed Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, both of whom are committed to protecting a woman's right to choose. He also nominated Merrick Garland, now the Attorney General, to the Supreme Court and was met with a dishonest blockade from GOP senators. Based on Garland's opposition to an anti-abortion law in Texas, it is likely he would have voted in favor of Roe.

Last month, the US Senate attempted to codify Roe. All but one Democrat -- West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin -- voted in favor. Every Republican voted against.
Of course, the women's rights crisis wouldn't exist if Hillary Clinton won the presidential election of 2016 and appointed three Supreme Court justices instead of Trump. But many prominent left wing leaders gleefully called for people not to vote for Clinton.
The fan fiction left is not without precedent. George Orwell, a socialist, came to believe that the left of his era had no real desire in holding power and for them political thought was nothing more than a "masturbation fantasy in which the world of facts hardly matters." Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany from 1925 to 1933, believed that the center left presented a greater danger than Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Needless to say, that analysis didn't turn out so well.
The Democrats certainly have flaws. They are rhetorically passive, disorganized and seem to base their strategy on how not to lose rather than how to win, which usually guarantees failure. The party is also worthy of harsh criticism for taking a bashful approach to punishing Trump and his allies for insurrection. Despite sizable weaknesses, they do have the advantage of not being racists, sexists, homophobes or hostile to the foundation of democracy. Residents of the real world should vote accordingly.
 

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Not everything needed but a good first step. I like the increased mental health funding, the red flag stuff and the federal laws against trafficking and straw purchases.

It's solid progress they can sell to the voters. The only way to get more would be to pick up seats and then build from here
 

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Not everything needed...

That's how they've continued to shoot themselves in the foot, bringing forward bills with a laundry list of items instead of focusing on the highest priority items to build momentum.

It's representative of why the party is in a shambles, its big tent and wants to bring forward every group it represents grievances all at once, instead of getting those collective groups to find common goals to bring forward.
 

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That's how they've continued to shoot themselves in the foot, bringing forward bills with a laundry list of items instead of focusing on the highest priority items to build momentum.

It's representative of why the party is in a shambles, its big tent and wants to bring forward every group it represents grievances all at once, instead of getting those collective groups to find common goals to bring forward.
It's bipartisan, with 10 dems and 10 repubs. I'm not sure what else can be done to push forward legislation. Rumors are, the repubs aren't gonna let it pass. If that's the case.. make it VERY clear before mid terms.
 

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It's bipartisan, with 10 dems and 10 repubs. I'm not sure what else can be done to push forward legislation. Rumors are, the repubs aren't gonna let it pass. If that's the case.. make it VERY clear before mid terms.
My comment wasn't about the gun legislation in particular, it was about how the Dems handle introducing new legislation in general.
 

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That's how they've continued to shoot themselves in the foot, bringing forward bills with a laundry list of items instead of focusing on the highest priority items to build momentum.

It's representative of why the party is in a shambles, its big tent and wants to bring forward every group it represents grievances all at once, instead of getting those collective groups to find common goals to bring forward.

My comment wasn't about the gun legislation in particular, it was about how the Dems handle introducing new legislation in general.
WTF

Plenty of bills are brought up with no chance of passing

What a weird critique of this story
 
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