Chief Justice John Roberts plays legal games to strike down another pro-life law.

Corporations pullback from social media to avoid political blowback and COVID continues to spike.

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in states like California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, the systems already would have been swarmed.

That, in fact, is not what is happening. What is happening instead is that a huge number of people

are asymptomatic. It is also possible a lot of people who are coming in for hospitalizations,

for other reasons, are being identified with COVID, meaning that they're not coming in necessarily for COVID, but you're being identified as somebody with COVID because you came in for another reason. And so you're hospitalized with COVID, even if you're not ICU. The real question is not really hospitalizations so much as it is ICU's. We are not at the state where we believe that the ICUs are going to be overwhelmed in any of the states thus far. So we'll get to that in just a little bit. First, we begin with Chief Justice John Robert. So, you know, I hate saying I told you so, except that I love saying I told you so. I only hate saying I told you so when the thing that I told you so turns out to be bad for the country. That thing I told you so about Chief Justice John Robert.

So all the way back, all the way back long ago in the hazy memory of yesterday, back in 2005,

when John Roberts was selected for the Supreme Court, I and perhaps only I said Chief Justice

John Roberts would not be a good justice.

There was no evidence he was going to be a good justice.

He had no record of textualist or originalist jurisprudence. He was basically just a guy. He was a guy recommended by some people over at Federalist Society. And my view on judges is very simple. If they do not have a long, clear record of originalism, then they should not be put on the Supreme Court. Now, the left has a very easy test of its own, which is they just ask straight out how their judges are going to vote on things.

They will just ask straight out if their judge is going to vote to uphold Roe versus Wade or is going to overturn Heller versus D.C. They'll just ask these people straight up. Because the left is honest about its own justices and what they want from them. They don't want any sort of interpretation. They just want the leftist policy point. People on the right, however, play this game where we can't ask those questions. It's just not civil. It's just not good. And if we ask those questions, then maybe Democrats will get mad. Well, I mean, that does show the bad faith of Democrats, because the simple fact of the matter is that people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg fly through the Senate, even though it is perfectly obvious she's going to be a wild leftist judge. Same thing with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, same thing with Elena Kagan. It's perfectly obvious that these people are going to be wildly to the left. And Republicans will say, okay, yeah, but they're qualified, so we'll vote for them anyway. Whereas if a Republican, if a justice who's appointed by a Republican, were to say, yes, I think Roe versus

Wade is a badly decided case, immediately done, right? Immediately toast. So what you end up with

is a bunch of quote-unquote stealth candidates from Republicans. How many Republican justices

have turned out to be failures on behalf of conservatism or originalism or textualism?

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