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

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  1. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
    Just another day for the Roberts’ corrupt court:

     
  2. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    Yeah…so this is…well….********ed up.

    Neil Gorsuch’s cousin buys a 1 acre plot of land in Aspen for $10 million…turns around and sells it to a a Russian real estate developer for….$76 ********ing million…..TEN MONTHS LATER.

    1620116380271144962 is not a valid tweet id


    if I recall correctly….and I think I’m correct…Neil Gorsuch was nominated by that president….I can’t recall his name…that was accused of some shady Russian involvement.
     
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  3. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Why do you question the power of the free RE market, Moonbat?
     
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  4. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    Balls and strikes!!!

     
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  5. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Ethics are just a suggestion to this SC.
     
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  6. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Beat me to it. :)
    Well nothing to see here, move along.
    The court will meet in session and proclaim it legal and ethical. :)



    The New York Times reports that “a former colleague of Mrs. Roberts has raised concerns that her recruiting work poses potential ethics issues for the chief justice. Seeking an inquiry, the ex-colleague has provided records to the Justice Department and Congress indicating Mrs. Roberts has been paid millions of dollars in commissions for placing lawyers at firms — some of which have business before the Supreme Court, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times.”

    Documents in that case “list six-figure fees credited to Mrs. Roberts for placing partners at law firms — including $690,000 in 2012 for one such match. The documents do not name clients, but Mr. Price recalled her recruitment of one prominent candidate, Ken Salazar, then interior secretary under President Barack Obama, to WilmerHale, a global firm that boasts of arguing more than 125 times before the Supreme Court.”
     
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  7. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Abe Fortas was filibustered from getting the chief justice position when LBJ sought to elevate him in the summer before the '68 election. But reading his Wiki this seems like a conflict:

    On July 28, 1965, President Johnson nominated Fortas as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, to succeed Arthur Goldberg, who had resigned to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations following the death of Adlai Stevenson. Johnson persuaded Goldberg to leave the Court for the U.N. in part because he wanted Fortas on the Court. Johnson thought that some of his "Great Society" reforms could be ruled unconstitutional by the Court and felt that Fortas would let him know if that was to happen. The nomination was given a favorable recommendation by the Senate Judiciary Committee two weeks later, following a one-day public hearing. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 11, 1965, and took the judicial oath of office on October 4, 1965. His appointment ensured the continuation of the Warren Court's liberal majority.

    The seat Fortas occupied on the Court had come to be informally known as the "Jewish seat," as his three immediate predecessors—Goldberg, plus Felix Frankfurter and Benjamin Cardozo before him—were also Jewish.

    Fortas continued to serve as an adviser to Johnson after becoming an associate justice. He attended White House staff meetings, advising the president on judicial nominations and discussed private Supreme Court deliberations with him. In 1966, he substantially edited an initial version of Johnson's State of the Union Address

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas
     
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  8. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
    Biden should nominate Kitara to the Jew-ish seat..
     
  9. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
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  10. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    That's Republicans superpower now. There is no shame. So they must be convicted in court.
     
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  11. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
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    Knowing that they will almost certainly not be convicted.
     
  12. Pønch

    Pønch Saprissista

    Aug 23, 2006
    Donde siempre
    Guaranteed impunity is a superpower
     
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  13. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Who judges the judges?
     
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  14. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
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    Chicago Fire
    ... nobody
     
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  15. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Got that right.

    We have Robert’s wife peddling inside info.
    Thomas’s organizing insurrections.
    Kavanaugh, well Kavanaugh is in his beer mug getting back at Dems who tried to block his nomination just because of drunken rape attempts and taking money to pay his mortgage.
    Well it goes on and on down the Repugnant agenda.
     
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  16. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    Right-Wing Justices Conjure Up Lawn Care Strawman To Juxtapose With Supposedly Elite Student Debtors (talkingpointsmemo.com)

    The Supremes are taking up a case about student debt relief. Many of the questions from the Republican judges questioned whether the policy was fair to someone who, instead of going to law school, started his own lawn care business.

    My question is, can we apply that kind of standard to all laws? Is the carried interest loophole fair?

    This is complete, anti-democratic bullshit. I hope if the Supremes act as a superlegislature that Biden will reject their decision. This has to stop. It has to stop because it's ludicrous for a 9 person, unaccountable panel run the country. At least if a King or Queen is shitty, they might get guillotined. They had more of a check on power than the USSC.

    But it also has to stop because if Voting Harder is proven not to work, what is the alternative?
     
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  17. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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  18. marek

    marek Member+

    Lechia Gdańsk
    Jun 27, 2000
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    OSP Lechia Gdansk
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    Poland
    There is no way Biden has ( or should have) the authority to forgive billions of $$ of loans

    the SC should tell him to pound sand
     
  19. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    who is owed the money?
     
  20. marek

    marek Member+

    Lechia Gdańsk
    Jun 27, 2000
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    the taxpayers?
     
  21. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Actually, on guaranteed student loans, the taxpayers pay the accumulating interest to the banks while the students are in college. The whole student loan racket represents a transfer of wealth to the financial sector, unlike the grants that provided the bulk of student aid prior to the Reagan administration.
     
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  22. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    To be honest, that’s better than the likely alternative…one of those grisly murder-suicides where the man kills the woman and then himself.
     
  23. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
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    Chelsea FC
    You’d probably justify the Katyn forest massacre if it meant owning the libs. :)
     
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  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I know who you’re responding to…are you sure you want to post this?

    I left out the bad part of the post in the hope that you’ll delete or edit that part out.
     
  25. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    Just to remind everyone, as Justice Brown said, the government forgave billions of dollars in emergency COVID loans, and interest.


    And something tells me that more than one SCJ benefited from it, even if it was indirectly.
     

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