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Wednesday, September 09, 2020

THE SUPREME COURT STRIKES BACK & THE SURVIVOR POOL SURVIVES!

UPDATE: THE SURVIVOR POOL IS UP AND RUNNING If you want in send an email to FBpool12@gmail.com subject "Mfga". 

First chance at a one week pass- Total points of the Thursday night game AND and The Dolphins/Cheaters game. To be clear- Add the points you think KC and Texans will score AND add the total points you think the Fins and Cheaters will score and send it to us. Closest to the actual total (above or below) wins a free week pass. For example if you think the Texans beat KC 20-10 (30 total) and the Fins beat the Cheaters 20-2 (total 22) your pick would be 52. 

Second update: A tie survives. Repeat- a tie survives. If the Bills and the Jets tie 21-21 this weekend, anyone picking either team survives. 


Everyone wants to know our take on the Florida Supreme Court- Governor No Mask/ Judge Francis contretemps that is breaking this week. 

But first....something important: 

THE SURVIVOR POOL!

Survivor-  the term takes on a new meaning in 2020. Can you pick the right team every week while wearing a mask, staying out of crowds, and not getting sick and put on a ventilator? In a sense, if you're playing, you're surviving. 

How to play: Send an email to FBpool12@Gmail.com with the subject MFGA  (which as we all know means make football great again). Then it is simple- send us your pick before the game starts (Thursday or Sunday or Monday), one team only, every week, to win. No point spreads, just win. Browns beat the Chiefs? Sure you pick it and you are in it. If your team loses, you are out. If your team wins, you survive to play another week. Once you use a team, you cannot use them any more for the year. 

NFL Starts Thursday.  Are you ready for some football??

THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT granted a motion on the Judge/Justice Renatha Francis contretemps.  The Court allowed the current petition to be amended to seek the relief the court indicated it may have granted if only the petitioner had asked for it. 

The Court gave Governor DeSantis until Wednesday to put on a mask- to respond as to why the court should not order him to pick another person-perhaps a law student?- for the open spot on the court. As we all know, Judge Francis, supremely qualified and experienced, had one eeny weeny tinney problem- she had not been a member of the Bar for ten years, which the Florida Constitution, in its infinite wisdom, requires.  DEFUND THE BAR might well be the rallying cry for Governor No-Mask-No Virus-No Problem- (but just don't bury all the dead Floridians in my backyard). But until then, it looks like Judge Francis's spot on the court might be in jeopardy this go around. 

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least Francis is a 10-year lawyer and, by all accounts,
otherwise qualified.

Drumpf just put a 7-year lawyer on the federal bench
in the Middle District.

Anonymous said...

Does the 3 years make that much of a difference? And Francis was selected to the highest court in the state and the other is a trial court position.

Anonymous said...

By what other counts is she possibly qualified? Clerking for 6 years? Handling PIP cases for a year? She wasn't qualified for the first two appointments, the second of which was engineered to put her in the 4th DCA footprint. Her appointment is a disgrace to the Florida Supreme Court and a slap in the face to the many qualified women and persons of color who could have been appointed.

Anonymous said...

Let’s see. What do the following supreme big shots have in common: Felix Frankfurter, Earl Warren, Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas, William Brennan, and many more. No trial experience. Roberts and Ginsburg are the only ones who actually got their hands dirty battling it out in the pits. I don’t think Scalia ever stood in front of an appellate court panel or jury. Makes for interesting happy hour BS but it really does not matter.

Genuine Fake Mike Grieco said...

The Dade SAO cant touch me.

The Broward SAO cant touch me.

The FDLE cant touch me.

The Florida Bar? Puhleeeze. They cant touch me.

I'm Mike Grieco, bitches.

CAPTAIN JUSTICE said...


THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:

TRUMP NAMES SHORT LIST FOR U.S. SUPREME COURT:

and it includes Judge Barbara Lagoa, now on the 11th, and Justice Carlos Muniz recently appointed to the Florida Supreme Court. Judge Robert Luck was not on the list of 20 names released today by Trump.

Cap Out .......

Anonymous said...

Don't forget Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton making Trump's short list

Anonymous said...

There are winks and nods going on in the back channels of the GOP. Time for Francis to fall on her sword and withdraw her name from consideration. Her qualifications are an embarrassment. As a Republican, I worry.

Anonymous said...

Heya Rump whose the new ASA wisecracking kid from Chicago who's bragging to everyone that he dated Bar Rafael and is the only lawyer in town who can get a prime seat at Prime and the Surf Club?

Anonymous said...

DeSantis hasn't even bothered filing a response to the order to show cause. He's putting on the circus and denouncing anyone who opposes the nomination as racist.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/09/09/gov-ron-desantis-black-leaders-argue-favor-renatha-francis/5764256002/

Anonymous said...

It was fun watching all the Republican "textualists" including the Governor and his jnc appointees, ignore the plain language in the Florida Constitution to seat Francis, who is ineligible for the position.

Anonymous said...

Heya Rump whose the new ASA wisecracking kid from Chicago who's bragging to everyone that he dated Bar Rafael and is the only lawyer in town who can get a prime seat at Prime and the Surf Club?

Anonymous said...

Scalia’s intellect and background is unquestionable. Can we really say the same about Francis?

Scalia-Harvard Law School
Francis-Florida Coastal Law School, at the time a for-profit law school where a pulse and a checkbook got you in.

Scalia began his legal career at the international law firm Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis (now Jones Day) in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked from 1961 to 1967.He was highly regarded at the law firm and would most likely have been made a partner but later said he had long intended to teach. He became a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

President Richard Nixon appointed him general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications Policy, where one of his principal assignments was to formulate federal policy for the growth of cable television. He was chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a small independent agency that sought to improve the functioning of the federal bureaucracy. In mid-1974, Nixon nominated him as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.

In the aftermath of Watergate, the Ford administration was engaged in a number of conflicts with Congress. Scalia repeatedly testified before congressional committees, defending Ford administration assertions of executive privilege regarding its refusal to turn over documents.[28] Within the administration, Scalia advocated a presidential veto for a bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act, which would greatly increase the act's scope. Scalia's view prevailed, and Ford vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode it.[29] In early 1976, Scalia argued his only case before the Supreme Court, Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba. Scalia, on behalf of the US government, argued in support of Dunhill, and that position was successful. Following Ford's defeat by President Jimmy Carter, Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute.

He then returned to academia, taking up residence at the University of Chicago Law School from 1977 to 1982,[32] though he spent one year as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School.[33] During Scalia's time at Chicago, Peter H. Russell hired him on behalf of the Canadian government to write a report on how the United States was able to limit the activities of its secret services for the McDonald Commission, which was investigating abuses by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The report—finished in 1979—encouraged the commission to recommend that a balance be struck between civil liberties and the essentially unchecked activities of the RCMP. In 1981, he became the first faculty adviser for the University of Chicago's chapter of the newly founded Federalist Society.

When Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980, Scalia was offered a seat on the Chicago-based United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in early 1982 but declined it, hoping to be appointed to the highly influential United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit). Later that year, Reagan offered Scalia a seat on the D.C. Circuit, which Scalia accepted.[36] He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 1982, and was sworn in on August 17, 1982.

On the D.C. Circuit, Scalia built a conservative record while winning applause in legal circles for powerful, witty legal writing, which was often critical of the Supreme Court precedents he felt bound as a lower-court judge to follow. Scalia's opinions drew the attention of Reagan administration officials, who, according to The New York Times, "liked virtually everything they saw and ... listed him as a leading Supreme Court prospect".

Francis-Federalist membership. Clerkship with a court of appeals as a staff attorney.

What am I missing here? Oh yeah. Ultra conservative bonafides. Please tell me what I am missing here 2:56. She simply isn’t qualified. She wasn’t even a trial court judge in Miami; she was assigned solely to bond hearing duty.