Discussion for article #228215
How fucking obvious can a court be?
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I thought Kennedy was supposed to be the “swing vote.” Is the swing stuck?
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As obvious as they want to be until we stop them. Every election at every level is always important in order to get a fair-minded, competent judiciary at every level. At a minimum, Democrats must retain control of the Senate after November.
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The conservatives on the Court have given up all pretense of being fair or disinterested.
And they wonder why Americans see them as highly partisan.
What a bunch of jackasses.
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From SCOTUSblog:
Monday’s order had the support of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas.
Of course. But there’s more to the story here. In fact, Sahil has butchered this one quite badly. Also from SCOTUSblog:
By a vote of five to four, the Justices put on hold a federal judge’s order providing new opportunities for voting before election day, beyond what state leaders wanted.
The order will remain in effect until the Court acts on an appeal by state officials. If that is denied, then the order lapses. It is unclear when that scenario will unfold. The state’s petition has not yet been filed formally.
In other words the court did not “reverse the injunction.” They’ve put it on hold temporarily. Granted, it has the practical effect of reversing the decision, since early voting was scheduled to start tomorrow.
Edit:
Here’s the SCOTUSblog link since TPM messed it up in the article.
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Being that the outcome was completely obvious, is there a reason Kagan couldn’t have just sat on this one through November?
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Scalia doesn’t even think we have a Constitutionally guaranteed right to vote, so he is as obvious as you can get.
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The ISIL Court…
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Shut your mouth! These are white and christian!
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It is my understanding that she could have acted alone, but brought the decision to the full court.
I was about to just post “Are you FUCKING kidding me?” and was glad to see that plenty of other people were equally pissed off. Unbelievable.
I have to believe that all of these regressive policies the ultra-right-wing SC is pushing are going to come back to haunt them. Specifically, people don’t like to have their rights infringed upon, and it just motivates them to turn out in even greater numbers. Assholes in VA and FL in 2012 did everything they could to give the election to Romney, and the outrage made dems turn out in much greater numbers. Something tells me the same thing is going to happen this year. Fucking asshole SC right wingers. Jesus.
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Chip, chip, chip. That’s the sound of democracy being dismantled.
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Is it realistic to hope that screwing with their access to the polls motivates people to vote? Or will people in Democratic precincts be back to having to wait all day to vote?
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I’m sorry, but to combat the K-RATS that just can’t be how it’s done.
She needs to look at the reality of the situation, not the ivory tower version.
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How’s Scalia’s heart doing these days? I hope he keeps eating some fatty Italian sausages.
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in the backward positions
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I often dream that the conservatives will all fly on a plane that crashes into a mountainside. That way we can have 5 seats open for a Democrat to nominate.
Personally, I want to put Rev Wright on the Supreme Court – just to piss of Republicans.
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Like I said: Kennedy will go down as one of the worst ever.
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After some things I’ve read in the past few months, is it possible that at least 4 of the 5 conservative members of the SCOTUS are secret Birchers? This is one thing that they had wanted for years back in their heyday, to keep the ‘wrong types’ of people from voting, through any means necessary.
Makes me wonder sometimes. If so, we’re in for one of the worst rides this country has had since the Lochner SCOTUS as far as citizens rights go.