Why Is SCOTUS Playing Along With DOJ’s Aggressive Tactics In The Census Case?
Could it be because we have a bunch of Trumptards and Cultural warriors in the Supreme Court.
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Maybe I feel this way because I’m basically an optimist, but it is possible that the Court is doing this because the conclusion is so obvious and the time crunch is so short that they want to nip this in the bud.
Obviously some on the Court (I’m looking at you Gorsuch, Roberts, Alito, and Thomas) would like to save a GOP administration some embarrassment and so they stopped Wilbur from having to be deposed or testify.
The problem I have with this approach is that it doesn’t specify that states must draw districts based on population counts rather than the airy-fairy concept of “eligible voter count” or “citizen count”.
Ummmm. No. Roberts is extreme, but I don’t think he’s as extreme as, say, Taney.
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Waiting for John Roberts to save us seems like it will be just about as effective as waiting for Susan Collins to save us. John Roberts is a fucking toady.
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With 5 solid votes at SCOTUS, the tRumpist DOJ doesn’t care to waste time getting it’s ass whipped in the lower courts.
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Grasshopper, seeds of answer found in question.
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The only response I can come up to that is that Taney’s rulings were a product of the ingrained racist and sexist views of his times.
Roberts has no such claim. His is naked enabling of the insidious racist and sexist views of the Rs that should have been eradicated by 100+ years of experience.
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A other example of the inherent fascism in the Roberts Court.
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Roberts isn’t even the most extreme judge currently on the court.
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We have five Justices who like to think they are the only rule.
Congress has passed its authority to the President, forcing the public to use courts. This same Congress has loaded the Court with like minded idealogs. It will now take a 2/3 majority to develop common sense law.
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Further, with no well reasoned lower court decisions to review, the right-wing majority can create “precedent” that can’t be reviewed further and they don’t even really have to have good reasoning.
And any challenges that may come around to any of their radical legislating from the bench would require years and years of working back up through the system AND a different SCOTUS to have any chance to succeed.
So, the Administration, working with SCOTUS can bypass everything to get rulings they want, while “the people” are forced through a gauntlet where they are likely to have little, if any, success. And this will continue until the Roberts court can be remade—decades from now.
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Why Is SCOTUS Playing Along With DOJ’s Aggressive Tactics In The Census Case?
Imagine the worst possible answer.
Now imagine the worst possible result.
OK, now you can move on to the next horrible thing.
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Any idea who’s engineering this strategy at the Justice Department? Sessions and Whittaker seem too stupid to be running this.
Agreed.
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Noel Francisco. He is politically and procedurally savvy and an outright liar in oral argument/filings, in other words: the perfect Republican.
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I agree. I will say as a lawyer, you cannot blame a lawyer for playing to his best hand which for the Justice Department right is avoiding appellate courts and going right to the Supreme Court. If the SC takes the case, that just means the attorney did his job. And this SC will be taking lots of these cases.
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In other words, the DoJ has started acting like the Trumps.
A spokeswoman for New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, one of the challengers in the census lawsuit, tweeted that Justice Department showed a “lack of respect” for the judicial process.
In other words, the DoJ has started acting like the … do y’all see a theme developing here?
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Justice Roberts with his words and actions going in opposite directions is the figure to watch. His statements declaring the court is not political while his actions speaking loudly otherwise.
Gas-lighter-in-chief.
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It’s already even more lopsided - as the states that give more to the federal gov’t than they take in, were the same states that had their taxes increased by ending the federal deductions for State and Local Taxes.
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They will cease being fans of executive power when the WH flips in 2020…just a wild guess.
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