Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, slapped down New York’s 100-year-old concealed carry licensing scheme Thursday on the grounds that it has no historical analogue.
Wise words which prove that the conservative majority have no clothes. Breyer just pantsed the whole lot of 'em.
The problem is that they do not care.
So Alito just wrote an opinion for the purpose of dunking on Breyer.
It just gets better and better.
It’s no longer a court. Such a shame. What was started in Bush v. Gore in 2000 has come to complete fruition.
I think a couple of them do but Thomas and Alito and maybe Gorsuch do not.
Thomas and Alitio are shyster-assholes. SCOTUS is thoroughly corrupt.
SCRAP Act, people. Bribe the shitheels into retirement.
I want the Fascist 6 to simply admit they have seances with the Founding Fathers. Then we’ll have a better idea of just how crazy they are.
“Don’t threaten me with the Supreme Court” should be tattooed on the body of every protest abstainer and Stein and Bernie dead ender from 2016.
Again, I need to note that “abortion” meant something different in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Abortificants were broadly used as the first couple of months were not considered abortions. If they want to quote history, they need to know history.
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I’m sorry but no one who came of age with Bush v Gore (eg anyone under like 50) has ever seen the Supreme Court as “apolitical”
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) May 3, 2022
I’d like to see Clarance Thomas dress up in full on Huey P. Newton garb, right down to the beret and shotgun, walk around in public and see what happens to him.
If we could make it work that’d be great. But what’s to keep the Federalist Society and its allies from offering them even more money to remain? Could a bidding war ensue? Could Saudi Arabia join in the bidding?
I confess that I’m not familiar with all of the provisions of the SCRAP Act, The idea does have merit though.
Beauty of the SCRAP Act is that bribery by Congress is perfectly legal since Congress holds the power of the purse.
When the highest court in a society is not based in law, is it not a lawless society?
It was this very issue, GUNS, that caused Sandra Day O’Conner to “cop to the crime” (theft of an election) that was Bush v Gore. That is it was Bush breaking his promise to appoint a “moderate” Republican who would above all else not make a ruling like “Heller” or this one we are now discussing because O’Conner feared exactly what would happen, numerous mass shootings, as a result.
O’Conner has admitted that her vote in “Bush v Gore” violated every passed ruling she had ever given on “Equal Protection”, she voted to stop the legal accounting of ballots in Florida because she knew it would result in Al Gore being president and she wanted to retire from the court but had promised Ronald Reagan she would only retire when there was a Republican president to name her replacement. Therefore contrary to her oath to uphold the constitution and her past rulings, O’Conner became the 5th vote in the Supreme Court stealing an election for Bush and Republicans.
Aside from in her words Bush being the worst president of her lifetime for reasons from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the economy, O’Conner was especially upset with Bush for lying to her that he would appoint (depending on how you look at it he either appointed Alito or Roberts to replace her) a justice to the court who would uphold the balance and not a right wing hack who would rule to allow guns to be everywhere.
They don’t care. The Founding Fathers are just another flimsy veneer of legitimacy trying to protect the current status quo or drive us back a few decades.
The GOP Court needs 6 more Justices, countering the 6-3 advantage for GOP’s with a 9-6 advantage for Dems’ appointees.
GOP Presidents’ responsibility for GOP corruption of the Supreme Court goes back to Daddy Bush’s appointment of Thomas.
