The US Supreme Court Thread - Post Roe v. Wade reversal edition

Bit those peckerwoods in the ass tho, didn't it?

 

Still working on the Dobbs leaker I guess. Now we have a classic contraception case, Hobby Lobby, which may have been leaked to an evangelical activist.

A former evangelical activist claimed in a letter to the Chief Justice of the United States that he knew about the outcome of a 2014 Supreme Court decision involving contraception and the Affordable Care Act by the court prior to the formal announcement, according to The New York Times.

Rev. Rob Schenck wrote in the letter this summer to Chief Justice John Roberts, which was originally obtained by the Times, that he was informed by a wealthy political donor, Gayle Wright, about the verdict of the ruling prior to it coming out.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/poli...sion-leak-hobby-lobby-samuel-alito/index.html

 

Poorly

 

They’re not going to let this drop. The GQP SCOTUS is working to destroy a Democratic way of life.


Investigation into Justice Alito's involvement with right-wing groups demanded after Hobby Lobby leak accusation

Sarah K. Burris
November 20, 2022

And this!!!

Bombshell report on right-wing influence on Supreme Court prompts calls for investigation

Julia Conley, Common Dreams
November 20, 2022

 

Thomas Jefferson wrote, "When in the curse of human events take 2 and hit to right!"

 

Civil disobedience

 

Especially when they’re the ones being disobedient.

 

It's only scandalous if Democrats do it (given they are expected to be the adults in the room).

 

I don’t think they can continue to operate in almost total secrecy and without a code of ethics as if that is somehow essential to their independence. https://t.co/4UBBw7wzgZ

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) November 21, 2022

John Roberts is going to wish he had never gutted the VRA.

 

The American way, by led poisoning.

 

I didn't think DJT could continue to operate as a free man almost 2 years post Jan. 6th. But here we are.

 

Biden’s student debt release on the chopping block:

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear arguments on President Biden's student debt forgiveness program in February, blocking its rollout until then. https://t.co/Lshj6Gm72k

— NPR (@NPR) December 1, 2022

 

And fighting out of the red corner. From Trumplandia with a record of Not Giving A Fvck About Burdening Young People, we have the states' attorney general!

In court papers lawyers for the states, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina told the justices the program should remain on pause, especially because the Biden administration has announced an extension of the payment pause until 2023.

Nebraska Attorney General Douglas J. Peterson told the justices that Biden's debt relief program is an "unlawful attempt to erase over $400 billion of the 1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt and eliminate all remaining loan balances for roughly 20 million of 43 million borrowers."

 

How exactly do these states have standing?

 

No idea. . . but my guess is that they're states that young people with capability general leave.

 

It’s a problem when the final arbiter of the law becomes lawless partisans.

The student loan case is now the *18th* case since February 2019 in which #SCOTUS has granted certiorari “before judgment” — expediting a merits dispute by bypassing the intermediate federal appeals courts.

From 8/2004–2/2019, it didn’t grant certiorari before judgment *once.* pic.twitter.com/3dnLeHNGob

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 1, 2022

 

Judging by the number that show up in Brooklyn every year, you're probably right.

 

Oh I'm pretty sure of how they'll rule in as case:

SUPREME COURT
Supreme Court leans toward web designer over refusal to work on same-sex weddings
The justices are considering whether web designer Lorie Smith, a conservative evangelical Christian, has a free-speech right that trumps Colorado's antidiscrimination law.


By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared sympathetic toward an evangelical Christian web designer’s bid to avoid working on same-sex weddings as they weighed the latest clash between religious conservatives and LGBTQ rights.

But after two-and-a-half hours of arguments that included a broad array of tough hypothetical questions directed at both sides, involving far-fetched scenarios like a "Black Santa" at a shopping mall refusing to serve children dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits, it is unclear how exactly the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, will rule.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...designers-refusal-work-sex-weddings-rcna59852

 

Impeachment, theoretically.

 

Seems like a web of lies:

2/ @FoxNews never reported that no gay couple has ever asked Ms. Smith to design a website for their wedding because Ms. Smith’s wedding website design business DOES NOT EXIST https://t.co/maZK4ZVtxd pic.twitter.com/aiqOOSTOUn

— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) December 6, 2022

 

I saw that too. Not even a going concern. So I guess this plant is ticking off the "won't design for queers" box off the business plan.