I have an honest question. I know we have had bad Justices before and the court has made many a shameful decision. Is my loathing for the current court deserved or am I just doing my tribal thing? Sometimes I honestly don’t know. Does anyone out there think this is just more or less par for the course?
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Sometimes, in situations like this one, the most that you can accomplish is to get this kind of thing out on the open and into the public forum. The GOP is too corrupt to allow the issue to have any immediate outcome. However, in the long term, the Democrats can’t allow this issue to just fade away, as though nothing happened — which is exactly what the opposition intends.
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My thinking: this court is the first product of a think tank. We’ve had horse buck from time to time, but now we see a team.
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Ginni is so proud of herself in that picture. I’m sure she thinks she’s a Freedom Fighter on a righteous path when in fact she’s just a sicko.
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The thing is, the Supreme Court is a branch of government unto itself. Congress can’t pass laws that affect the Supreme Court, unless something explicit in the Constitution gives it the power to do so. And there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the power to Congress to pass ethics rules for the Supreme Court. Lower courts, on the other hand, are different.
Why bother with a bunch of ethics?
Weeds it is.
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If we could just get the Democratic base from looking up from their phones…
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Yeah you are definitely onto something. The previous shitheads were all random accidents, these shitheads were all created in a laboratory and programmed by think tanks.
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I think the court is very conservative but that you can’t really count on that because there are surprises - like the one I mentioned yesterday: McGirt vs Oklahoma - a landmark progressive decision for Native Americans, authored by Gorsuch, who was joined by all the liberal justices. He’s apparently an advocate for Native Americans - it’s a thing with him. I had no idea but that decision is just awesome.
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Certainly one of the principles of jurisprudence is “if you cut the pie, you don’t get to choose first which piece you’ll take.”
That’s one of the natural laws which precede codified law, no? Lots of other principles of jurisprudence, as well as in English common law which are expected, but not required. Just because something isn’t yet illegal doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.
Well, we’ve moved from “concerning”, “chilling”, and now “alarm bells”. It’s a one day story with no teeth and probably no real consequences for anybody.
It is possible that maybe Gorsuch really is an originalist, unlike the others who just pretend to be as it suits the partisan outcomes they are looking for. It would explain his solidarity with the original inhabitants of the land.
If you had to go home and explain to Ginni why you’re not doing your level best to protect her by hearing case X that she may or may not have been involved in rather than recusing from same, could you do so? Man probably fears for his life…
Ah, who am I kidding? He’s as much a deranged wingnut as she is. Birds of a feather and all that.
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I call on John Roberts to resign, fall on his sword, and allow President Biden to nominate the new Chief Justice.
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Thomas recently has mumbled shit about landmark decisions not being correct. This plus Ginni + DeSantis meetings = ticking bomb. Anything that can be done to put some constraints on this piece of judicial cancer is needed yesterday.
Re Mitch, his definition of inappropriate is any action that attempts to apply the law or justice to a member of the treason party.
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Installing and elevating Justice Jackson to the role, much as Roberts himself jumped a pay grade to replace Rehnquist would be semi-poetic justice.
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ever there was a time to get the Democratic base to wake up and recognize the importance of the Court, the time is now, yesterday, and in 2010.
Reminds me of the old saw about the best time to plant a tree.
The best time to realize the importance of the court was 30 years ago. The second best time is now
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I don’t know why exactly, but it is one of the major opinions from this SCOTUS and will go down in history as one of the court’s most important decisions.
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Being an atheist? Being smart and intellectually consistent? Being unwhite? (snark. Or not)