The Supreme Court term this year ended with an explosion, as the right-wing bench handed down landmark cases rolling back affirmative action, slashing the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness program and giving a big thumbs up to a potential wedding website designer’s desire not to serve hypothetical same-sex couples.
I believe the point is coming and soon when Americans are going to tell SCROTUS to pound sand.
Another opportunity for the court to indicate to the religious that the country does, in fact, belong to them.
Guns?
Like, they’ll rule the public can bring them (in all forms) to their hearings?
Everything else strikes me as a kind of double standard that protects them from the impact of their own decisions.
They should come down and sweat with the children, their educators and the hoi polloi in general.
Beat me to it. If they rule for Rahimi, does that mean anyone, or myself can walk into the Supreme Court building, or any other government building. packing a Glock? Or carrying “America’s Rifle”?
Where is the “historical record” to prevent that?
The 6 cons will fuck us over 6 ways from Sunday! Next!
Sure, why not? It’s not like anyone would want to harm one of the wingnut justices. Dems are all committed pacifists, and there shouldn’t be anyone negatively affected by one of their decisions who might want revenge. If your wife died because of an ectopic pregnancy, well that’s just all part of natural birth. Just ask any wingnut doula.
This may sound a little optimistic, but sometimes I think this Republican Court takes a case so it can dispute that narrative. Rahimi may be just that, crazy justices trying to say we are not that crazy.
But to the other cases that deal mostly with money and regulation of business, there is no doubt in my mind that this Republican Court is going to do what Mitch McConnell would do if the decision was his.
It’s so great having a whopping total of six people decide what kind of society we get to have. And not just any six people, but six greedy, petty, narrow-minded ideologues to boot. Woohoo!
And those zany ideologues are so darn predictable; we know exactly how they’ll rule!
You forgot “corrupt”
I don’t understand the big deal about allowing domestic abusers to carry guns. How else are they going to kill innocent women and children with impunity?
Until now, I would have just considered it crazy to take seriously the idea that the Supreme Court might grant cert and issue an advisory opinion concerning a law that doesn’t exist but might hypothetically be passed by Congress. Today, that seems absolutely possible and, in fact, likely. Action must be taken to reign in this out-of-control Court.
But the danger wouldn’t end there. Many other government entities and programs — the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Postal Service, Social Security, Medicare — are not funded by annual congressional appropriations either. –emphasis added
And there it is, right there, the entire point: Eliminate SS and Medicare and do it without making the GOP Senators and Reps vote to do it on record. “Not our fault, the SCOTUS has spoken!”
Americans can say what they want and complain loudly but if you think the majority of six conservatives will listen, you are mistaken.
I just hope to still be alive when their crap decisions get reversed.
PS: that path would start with making sure McConnell et al never get a Senate majority again.
Obama’s nomination of Garland was held up for months by McConnell waiting for a new president who turned out to be fat boy who immediately nominated Gorsuch, mediocrity at its finest and a plot to destroy progressive Justices and their thinking was set in place
Rep. Scalise’s ass would like to contend that point (though his brain pleads the Fifth).
The path: re-elect Joe Biden; take majority in the House; maintain or extend Senate majority; get rid of the filibuster; pass bill in House and Senate to expand the Supreme Court by adding at least four more justices.
Nothing at all about killing women and children lends itself to attempts to be witty. Empathy for the survivors of the dead women’s families might work however since nearly three women are killed every day by a domestic partner.
@RAP “expand the Supreme Court by adding at least four more justices.”
Joe’s not yet on board with this idea which I think is short sighted.