Five Of The Biggest Landmines On The Supreme Court’s Docket

As summer gives way to fall, the Supreme Court’s new term is upon us. The batch of arguments scheduled so far start October 3 and stretch through early November. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1431741
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OT

Testing…….Testing……almost noon and no comments. Odd….

@castor_troy was in town and didn’t even
buzz me.

🥲

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Thank you for this update, Kate!

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1… 2… 3…

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There is but one certainty: the right wing supermajority will inevitably do the wrong thing on all issues, and forcibly impose the GOP’s dogma on our country. The only mystery is how and to what extent? Will the Court’s extremists wield a hatchet or a scalpel?

After last term it’s likely to be a guillotine, since their radicalism knows no bounds.

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Sorry, dude, if my assistant doesn’t schedule it, it doesn’t happen.

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Looks like the Neanderthal wing of the SCOTUS has teed up an opportunity to turn the calendar back to 1850 when white landed gentry owned and controlled everything.

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I live literally down the street. One short streetcar ride. There’s always next year at TIFF.

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Just call her and flag it for the itinerary

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Good morning, all my bad gateway Peeps!

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Lightning-C03

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The scalpel was ostensibly Roberts’s preferred approach, which is in line with traditional conservatism, but Roberts is no longer a required vote for the Court to dismantle everything from the New Deal forward. He acknowledged his surrender when he wrote a separate opinion in Dobbs, concurring in the result but lamenting the sledge hammer approach. Whether the decisions are 6-3, with or without a concurring opinion from Roberts, or 5-4 in the most egregious cases, is irrelevant to anything other than how the history books treat the emasculated CJ.

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I see Discobot has launched yet another terrorist cyberterrorist attack. When, at long last, shall we have accountability?

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To sum up: We’re doomed.

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Indeed, Raid Bedminster Shabby!!

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If Robert’s really wanted to get control back at the court, he’d have to release the findings of the Dobbs Leak investigation during the J6 hearings as Ginny’s anti-democracy antics are on display, because we all know that Thomas shared with Ginny the opinion so she could leak it.

This might embarrass Thomas the Federalist Society enough to force his resignation.

Robert’s would still be Cheif of a 5-4 court, but back in the driver’s seat.

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I hate to introduce a ray of sunshine in my usual off-topic fashion but JFC the Ukrainians are cutting the Russkies to ribbons. We haven’t seen anything like it in our lifetimes.

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Marcy says it’s possible they were moved for other reasons but I think she’s wrong. :grin:

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If our corrupted scotus uses its decisions this term to aggressively promote the agenda of their federalist society sponsor it will hopefully spur the administration and senate to expand the court. We simply cannot leave the nation’s future in the hands of an ideological court drenched in trumpstank.

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Anything’s possible; the question is usually what’s probable. And Strzok isn’t one of us wild-eyed rumormongers. He takes note of facts like that for a living.

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