During in-person oral arguments Tuesday, shoulder-to-shoulder with her conservative colleagues, Justice Elena Kagan lamented the demise of the Voting Rights Act that they helped effectuate.
I don’t have a good feeling about this.
"you’re asking us, essentially, to cut back substantially on our 40 years of precedent and to make this too extremely difficult to prevail on,” she finished. “So what’s left?”
What’s left, indeed. A corrupted scotus is using their ill-gotten majority to enshrine and ensure the dominance of their sponsors, a fascist minority, in this country.
Well, I agree this corrupt majority thinks it’ll “ensure the dominance of their sponsors”.
But that’s not a guarantee.
Not by any stretch.
True, and all of us here are in the fight for the long haul. And I think this site has some real influence on our national discourse.
Good for you, Justice Kagan. Keep speaking truth to your sleazy,Trump appointed, so-called justices. Maybe, just maybe at some point they will begin to realize the damage they are doing to the court and this country.
And also maybe, Chief Justice Roberts might start to understand that his court, the one that will be remembered as the Roberts court, will go down in history as the worst Supreme Court in our history.
We have three brilliant liberal-minded women on the SCOTUS. I don’t expect any of their wisdom to filter through to the 5 con-men, but I wonder sometimes if Amy Coney Barrett is susceptible.
The SCOTUS forum allows for each member’s intellectual discourse and the subsequent public exposure. The tact displayed in the last couple of days with Kagan/Sotomayor/Jackson is brilliant in the sense of humiliating the previously publicly exposed pseudo intelligence of the right wing justices in public. Not that I expect this to change the outcome of the court’s decisions but it sure does make the bastards squirm in their own shit. This was evidenced by their off-season comments over this last summer.
Adding to what Ira’s Dad said, it looks as if the small-d democrats and liberals on the court, with the added voice of KBJ, are going to put up a real fight against the conservatives’ usurpation of power for “their masters.” The conservatives are going to have a much harder time putting forward their specious and self-serving legal theories with a greater and more aware legal community watching them. And I’ll also thank TPM for bringing more awareness to these controversies.
They really believe in oppression.
Even against other people in their socioeconomic groups
Front row seats at the Decline and Fall of the American Republic.
What a time to be alive.
The three liberals on the court are sharpening their rhetorical/debate skills this term so they hit the conservative majority hard at oral argument. KBJ is an Obama-level orator, but Sotomayor and Kagan are competitive. Not sure the Alitos and Thomases have to acknowledge and deal with their arguments in the opinion, or whether they’re free to ignore them and relegate the discussion to the dissent. Still seems like an improvement over last term, when the minority were not altogether effective at taking on the waffly, incoherent, openly results-oriented majority.
“ Shelby County looks at Section 5 and says no, Section 5, we don’t need that anymore, and one of the things it says is that we have Section 2,” Kagan said, one seat down from Roberts.
Why is that when this court doesn’t like an interpretation, they negate it and say, “If Congress wants this they can explicitly state it,” but when they don’t like something that Congress specifically states they say “we don’t need it”?
In fact, how can the Court just negate part of the law as “unnecessary” if it isn’t actually “unconstitutional”?!? Oh, yeah, cuz Congress is run by the fascists with the filibuster. *&^%$#@!
Totally agree. Sotomayor’s last term “stench” comment really sticks out as a highlight.
She way too brainwashed and past the age of deprogramming.
But, I’d love to be wrong.
Unlikely, but Kavanaugh is a possibility on some issues in some cases.
I would not hold my breath if I was you.
ABC is susceptible if it is acceptable to the men.
Amy Coney Island is to women what Thomas is to African-Americans.
We can but hope. I have a little hope for Roberts, too. I don’t think he wants to go down in history as the second Roger Taney.