As Trump-appointed judges vie to see who can produce the most nakedly partisan rulings completely divorced from precedent and case law, a new contender has thrown his hat in the ring.
Let’s play a game:
How long before this appeal wends its way through the Appellate courts to the SCOTUS where they find 6 - 3 in favor of this decision?
What? Legislating from the bench is okay now?
Funny, when it’s the right-wing politicians that are accused of overreach, they defend the practice and advise that if we’re not fond of the fascism, just vote out the heavily gerrymandered politicians advocating it in the next election.
The scales of justice have a fat thumb on one of them, and the holder of the scales has ripped off the blindfold.
Anyone remember when the right lost its collective fucking mind at the idea of “activist judges”? Turns out that was just more Orwellian Goebbels-speak for “You can’t do the thing we need to do because our policies are such complete fascist bullshit.”
You gotta stop being surprised by this. It’s like being surprised at age 50 that the sun rose in the East. Again.
The judgment bans the named officials from meeting with the companies, flagging worrying content, emailing or calling the companies about content, following up with the companies or even collaborating with groups like the Election Integrity Partnership to identify troublesome posts.
Okay, correct me if I’m wrong but, doesn’t this ruling violate the First Amendment rights of federal government officials? I mean, just because you work for the government shouldn’t mean that you can’t be allowed to voice concerns, does it?
Likely reversed I suppose but still disruptive.
It’ll be the equivalent of me believing in ‘the great pumpkin’, but I have it going 5-4 or 6-3 against those goofballs.
Roberts will be the deciding vote and if 6-3, Gorsuch.
The judgment bans the named officials from meeting with the companies, flagging worrying content, emailing or calling the companies about content, following up with the companies or even collaborating with groups like the Election Integrity Partnership to identify troublesome posts.
And yet, it would appear that the ruling will allow the continuation of:
The Republican-majority House Judiciary Committee, among the censorship-obsessed and which has already subpoenaed the likes of Mark Zuckerberg…
Isn’t that an unequal application of the Constitution???
Could we just call this what it really is?? The rightwing is not being discriminated against. There is a difference between someone’s “views” that are offbeat or contrary to common sense, and the outright lies that the rightwing perpetually puts out on social media. Righties, being the black/white morons that they are are unable to see the difference. It is the job of the government to dispute false information that is detrimental to the people or to the institutions of government.
The paranoia and stupidity of these right-wingers is THEIR problem. It is past time that we disallow them to make it OUR problem.
The headline: SCOTUS Rules Promoting the General Welfare Unconstitutional
You’re surprised?
It’s been obvious for a long long time that when those on the right get their panties in knots about something it’s a smokescreen for them doing that thing themselves.
Sooner or later the shyte floats to the surface for all to see.
I just wish we could hear a little testimony from all of those fucking dead people that listened to and believed the crazy anti-vax pro ivermectin grifters who, by the way, seem to have found a candidate who hates vaccines but loves steroids.
And when Gym Jordan and the Republicans repeat and amplify the lies, well…the Democrats had better not use their positions on the Committee to call out and correct the lies - that would be government censorship.
The judgment bans the named officials from meeting with the companies, flagging worrying content, emailing or calling the companies about content, following up with the companies or even collaborating with groups like the Election Integrity Partnership to identify troublesome posts.
That won’t last long. Given the Judge’s premise is “freedom of speech” and he’s ruling against the Administration’s freedom of speech I don’t see how the Fifth Circuit can let this stand.
This is nuts.
All? Who, exactly is all? The people paying attention who can already clearly see this bullshit for what it is, sure. But “all” certainly does not include the dimwitted right wing partisan shitheads for whom no amount of masturbatory fantasizing about Democrats summarily executed on street corners in a Christo-fascist theocracy is ever enough.
I wish these righties (jurists, legislators and otherwise) would just go back to being the cranks and/or subscribers to the Birch society newsletter who’re overlooked when holiday invitations go out.