Open Thread December 29 2023 “Demand will Decide”
“At the end of the day, remember, it is the demand that will decide and dictate what sort of energy source will help meet the growing global energy requirements.”
To end fossil fuels, “remember, it is the demand that will decide,” Carbon Upfront.
Open Thread December 23 2023 Nippon Steel Purchasing U.S. Steel, Angry Bear
How the Supreme Court May Rule on Trump’s Presidential Run
NY Times – Dec 29 – about 8 hours ago
The legal issues are novel and tangled, experts said, and the justices may be wary of knocking a leading presidential candidate off the ballot.
I don’t see any mechanism for the Court to give Trump an electoral boost here, apart from leaving him on primary ballots and eventually the November one if he is nominated. Why the NYT seems to think they should be wary of that is a mystery. It almost feels like an appeal to one or more justice to make it 8-1 or 7-2 so that Colorado, and now Maine, doesn’t look lose 9-0 (which is how Slate recently assessed this case). Honestly, if they want to not touch this, just send the case to district court with an injunction keeping Trump on the ballots until final appeals are over. Hard to argue that keeping him off ballots is not an immediate and irrecoverable loss to people who want to vote for him, which is what these injunctions try to head off. So maybe the 10th districts says the Colorado SC decision was an error and then nobody appeals it. Now there are some cases that only the Supreme Court handles like states suing other states. Is this maybe one of those?
How to Stand Up to Trump
NY Times – Debbie Dingell – Dec 30
Representative Debbie Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, has been a repeated target of former President Donald J. Trump’s attacks on social media.
Trump Assails Congresswoman in His Latest Escalation on Social Media
NY Times – Dec 27
The former president, who has stepped up his incendiary language on Truth Social, attacked Representative Debbie Dingell, the widow of John D. Dingell Jr.
Trump’s Most Ambitious Argument in His Bid for ‘Absolute Immunity’
NY Times – January 1
The former president says his acquittal by the Senate in his second impeachment trial, for inciting insurrection, bars any prosecution on similar grounds.