{"id":35663,"date":"2018-05-16T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35663"},"modified":"2018-09-08T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:52:10","slug":"qotd-the-presidency-and-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/qotd-the-presidency-and-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The presidency and the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; I also like Jerry Jeff Walker, the Scofflaw King of New Orleans and a lot of other people I don&#8217;t necessarily believe should be president of the United States. The immense concentration of power in that office is just too goddamn heavy for anybody with good sense to turn his back on. Or <em>her<\/em> back. Or <em>its<\/em> back&#8230;.  At least not as long as whatever lives in the White House has the power to fill vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court; because anybody with that kind of power can use it \u2013 like Nixon did \u2013 to pack-crowd the Court of Final Appeal in this country with the same kind of lame, vindictive yo-yos who recently voted to sustain the commonwealth of Virginia&#8217;s antisodomy statutes\u2026&#8230;. And anybody who thinks that 6-3 vote against &#8220;sodomy&#8221; is some kind of abstract legal gibberish that doesn&#8217;t really affect <em>them<\/em> had better hope they never get busted for anything the Bible or any local vice-squad cop calls an &#8220;unnatural sex act.&#8221; Because &#8220;unnatural&#8221; is defined by the laws of almost every state in the Union as anything but a quick and dutiful hump in the classic missionary position, for purposes of procreation only. Anything else is a <em>felony crime<\/em>, and people who commit felony crimes <em>go to prison<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter S. Thompson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/fear-and-loathing-on-the-campaign-trail-1976-19760603\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail &#8217;76: Third-rate romance, low-rent rendezvous \u2014 hanging with Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and a bottle of Wild Turkey&#8221;, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, 1976-06-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I also like Jerry Jeff Walker, the Scofflaw King of New Orleans and a lot of other people I don&#8217;t necessarily believe should be president of the United States. The immense concentration of power in that office is just too goddamn heavy for anybody with good sense to turn his back on. Or her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,41,13],"tags":[263,1230,196,515,752,417,393],"class_list":["post-35663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-huntersthompson","tag-lgbt","tag-richardnixon","tag-supremecourt","tag-victimlesscrime","tag-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9hd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35664,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35663\/revisions\/35664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}