Supreme Court justices often snipe at each other through footnotes and parentheticals, retorts to the “principal dissent” and respectful disagreement with their “colleagues.”
If a pivotal % again decides to fafo, it’ll be Kagan and Sotomayor on the ‘worry list’.
Injustice, discrimination, and inequality are personal for me too!
Seth Abramson lays it out in a thread I highly recommend.
ETA: Simply based on their public history, both Alito and Thomas appear to simultaneously be the least intellectually accomplished and the most ungracious personalities on the court.And it’s here that we learn the darkest truth about conservatism in modern America: the things conservatives say they feel the most deeply about are the things whose fundamentals they know the least about. And this extends all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 29, 2023
His comment on Alito is particularly perfect.
Sotomayor wields a mighty hammer. She’s the Chris Hemsworth of justices. Hope her comments get widely reported and then used in Dem candidates’ ads.
What did Justice Harlan have to say about the Reconstruction Amendments?
I would think that the Court should not issue any decision while so many disagreements remain.
But ever since McConnell stole Scalia’s seat from Obama, smash-and-grab has been the Republican mantra. It works: they still rule, and we still pay their salaries and let ourselves be bound by their oppressive fanfic of reality.
The throne is no less comfortable for having been won, in a nasty knife fight, by cheating.
They overturn decades long precedents because they can. They legislate from the bench and perceive it as their duty to do so. Sotomayor is right - none of the radical 6 are calling balls and strikes. Sotomayor is writing for history as is KBJ -and I for one am glad to see their firey, reasoned dissents that pull no punches.
So is birthright citizenship going to be to be the next to fall? Thomas may be greasing the skids for it and birth control.
The six degenerates deserve to be excoriated.
I’m good for a reap.
Those three amendments (no matter how many times they’ve been misinterpreted) exist for an important reason.
…, eff it, I’m good for a reap.
My reading of Harlan’s dissent doesn’t convince me that he would be on Uncle Clarence’s side of this dispute…but I could be wrong.
Taney had an excuse, but the ones after him (including Roberts) don’t.
I’m good for a reap.
Okay, I’m an idiot. I’m good for a reap? I can’t parse that…
