“He’s playing to the future,” Murray told TPM. “The only question is, is the future in a few weeks, or a few years.”
I don’t know, but, looking at these nine people, for him and RGB, maybe Breyer, the future may be over for them tomorrow.
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I lost all faith in SCOTUS when they crowned Bush President. I will let the lawyers who comment on this thread make the deeper points, but that decision plus Citizens United and Hobby Lobby have convinced me that there is no actual will among the conservative justices on the court to separate religion from government or government from dark money. These decisions are made based on political power and the justifications are thought up afterwards.
We have already been truly screwed by SCOTUS and McConnell, and the future is just more of the same.
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Biden completely mishandled Thomas’ confirmation hearing. While bowing to lick Jack Danforth’s boots, he allowed the public humiliation of Anita Hill, Thomas and the rule of law. He felt so bad about the hatchet job that Thomas, Danforth, et al did on Dr. Hill, he felt the need to apologize after 28 years.
To think, this cretin and mental midget got Thurgood Marshall’s seat is even more infuriating to this old white guy. And no, I still haven’t gotten over it and don’t expect I ever will.
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I wish I could agree with you. I don’t think he’s going to do a damn thing about the census question, upcoming gerrymandering, etc.
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He was chair of the Judiciary Committee and could have scuttled the nomination.
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Yep, and Ted Kennedy sat there, not saying a word because his nephew was on trial for rape. Ah, the Democrats and their sex issues. Always way more important and damning then the constant financial, moral, and ethical corruption of Republicans. Too hard for the base to understand.
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Not after Bork with a black candidate
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This how we pay piper for not being in the streets with torches and pitchforks over Merrick Garland.
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“I am aware of no legitimate reason why a court may privilege a demonstrably erroneous interpretation of the Constitution over the Constitution itself.”
“Erroneous interpretations” are a spit in the face of every Supreme Court Justice in the history of the Court! “Fuck you! We want a do-over!”
Fuck you, Clarence Thomas!
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Yes, and I’ve always wondered how they square this originalism with Citizens United -the decision that gave corporations the rights of individuals. This language is not in the Constitution. That court created a right out of whole cloth.
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“Because the Constitution is supreme over other sources of law,
And we all know the Constitution is based on the Christian Bible, so it is now incumbent on the Supreme Court to divine the original intent of the apostles and disciples so it can restore our legal structure “through adherence to the correct, original meaning of the [Biblical] laws we are charged with applying.” Not sure how well that will go over with the Evangelical wing of the GOP if the Court starts to issue opinions that do not "privilege a demonstrably erroneous interpretation of the Constitution Bible over the Constitution itself words of the founder himself.”
That was more than a creation out of whole cloth. It required the Court to ignore black letter law that a corporation is a legal entity separate and distinct from its shareholders that exists solely at the grace of the state.
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Bingo!
Dear America:
Remember how, since Reagan’s First Administration We, the Republican Party, have been furrowing our brow and lamenting all those (Liberal ) activist judges? Remember how we have been appointing Conservative Activist Judges like the Dishonorable T.S. Ellis III, Daniel Mannion, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh? We really meant we want activist judges. You have to learn to understand what we do when we move our lips. And to quote what was said to Otter in Animal House, America, You fucked up. You trusted us.
Yours truly,
Los Dixiecrats
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It will be ironic that the fundamental cause of the whole sale changes in the law forecast here would be traceable directly to Vladamir Putin. Who woudda thunk? Not even Vlad.
Thanks Republicans.
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Yup. This is a court where the majority is determined to maintain the power of the white, wealthy, Christian and privileged.
https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/1002266261529690112?lang=en
And there it is. The constitution interpreted essentially as a handbook for governance by the owner/rentier class.
The idea that America’s constitutional system might be fundamentally flawed cuts deeply against the grain of our political culture. But the reality is that despite its durability, it has rarely functioned well by the standards of a modern democracy. The party system of the Gilded Age operated through systematic corruption. The less polarized era that followed was built on the systematic disenfranchisement of African-Americans. The newer system of more ideological politics has solved those problems and seems in many ways more attractive. But over the past 25 years, it’s set America on a course of paralysis and crisis — government shutdowns, impeachment, debt ceiling crises, and constitutional hardball. Voters, understandably, are increasingly dissatisfied with the results and confidence in American institutions has been generally low and falling. But rather than leading to change, the dissatisfaction has tended to yield wild electoral swings that exacerbate the sense of permanent crisis.
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It’s a good thing there are no activist judges on the SCOTUS. All those right-wing “originalists” at the Federalist Society, not to mention Opus Dei, would take a very dim view of such renegade politicking at the bench.
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Now is the time to buy your riot gear and arm yourselves. I’m not fucking kidding.
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Haven’t read all the comments, but the phrase “but her emails!” comes to mind.
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So when is Thomas planning retirement? Two week notice after he guts it all?
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I bet he wants to start with reinterpreting rulings on sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Disingenuous.
Give this a look and then tell me that Biden is blameless because he voted the “right” way in the end:
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