Originally published at: Supreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a stay on an old Alabama map that had been found to intentionally dilute Black voters, likely setting the state up to eliminate at least one Democratic district. In the ruling, handed down on the shadow docket, the unnamed majority did not bother to explain its reasoning. This is…
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Color me shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
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Court reform needs to include the forced retirement of the Chief Justice, the Chief Racist, and the Chief Uncle (Tom).
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Like pornography, no need to explain, they know what benefits Republicans when they see it.
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SCOTUS Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying
SHAME ON ALITO
Everyone in government lies
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My only consolation in all of this is that Alito’s dog is a progressive dog who would crap right on the Alito’s front doorstep except that he has the decency and integrity not to do so unlike his so called master
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Alito lying? Nnnooooo! Can’t be!!
Unless it serves the federalist cause.
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One Docket to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of MAGA where the Shadows lie.
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Almost as shocked as I’ll be when they find that VA’s court was right to strike down their map.
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At least Alito’s racism is out there unlike Robert’s
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At least everyone on the Supreme Court.
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“…showing that Alito is a Liar.”
In other news: Water is wet. The moon will be full this month. Fish are swimming. Dogs will bark.
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Okay folks.
Our mission is now clear: the goal must be to throw the bums out at every level of power. We have to hold the House, Senate, and the Presidency in 2029. The first order of business in January 2029 has to be new a revision of the Judiciary Act: the last major revision was in 1968, nearly 60 years ago. It’s time. What goes in it?
- An ethics law binding on the Supreme Court with teeth.
- Mandatory moves to senior status for all appellate judges on reaching age 70 or at 20 years service, whichever comes first.
- Expansion of the Supreme Court to 13 members. Circuit splits must be heard by the full Court, other matters by 7 randomly drawn justices from among the 13. The Chief Justice has no right to participate. Appellants may request recusal of one justice without specifying a reason, and up to 3 individual justices accompanied by justification for the request. Challenged justices will be withdrawn from the selection pool.
- Supreme Court Justices must ride the Circuits. Telecommunication systems are good enough that Justices don’t need to live in D.C. Put them out as Chief Judges, one per Circuit. As a courtesy, the Chief Justice should be based in D.C. and act as Chief Judge of the DC Circuit Court.
- Restrict the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction, and particularly its ability to pick and choose what they are going to hear.
- Abolish the shadow docket. All Court orders must be accompanied by the vote and an opinion with dissents.
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Roberts’ most certainly is. He clerked for inveterate racist Wm Rehnquist (who taught him tricks) and worked in Reagan’s DOJ trying to dismantle civil rights’ legislation. His slo-mo actions on the SC merely allow him to be silent and deadly….except when lying under oath (confirmation hearing), claiming that all he’ll do is call balls n’ strikes.
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They are not even trying to hide the corruption.
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Calvinball
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When there is no consequence …why hide??
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That the carefully cultivated SCOTUS 6 is changing the law not because of merit, but because they can, is bad enough - but even then, I’m seeing wobbly knees from some regarding the tooth-and-nail nature of this fight that we have on our hands. As Josh often writes, we can either have the current SCOTUS, or we can have a functioning, representative democracy. We can’t have both.
One would think that a SCOTUS member lying as justification for its latest revanchist ruling would stiffen spines. I hope Dems can rise to this moment, because MAGA is not going to go quietly.
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It’s only ever “too close to the election” if you’re a Democrat. If you’re a republican, you can change everything one week before voting day. And again we will see Roberts being surprised and befuddled at why everyone sees the court as a bunch of partisan hacks.
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John Judis’s various takes on the Callais decision, including in particular his soft-pedaling of its longer term impact resulting from the Court’s gratuitous gutting of the Voting Rights Act, Judis’s implicit denial of the Court’s blatant racism underpinning the decision’s rationale, and his counter factual assertion that “both-sides” are somehow equally guilty of something—- the point with which he ends his piece—- seem, well, let’s just say beyond naive. Because I hesitate, out of politeness and for no other reason, to say instead “bordering on clueless.” No offense.
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