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

LOL. That would have been a good thing to have 4 years ago when everyone was saying this SCOTUS was broken and that Biden not only needed to add justices, but also enforceable ethics rules.

 

Better late than never.

 

Because the whole democratic party needs to be on board for this and it is not. In order to accomplish this, you need a legislature who will march in lockstep. The infuriating issue is that there were legal actions which Biden admin could have taken to try to counter Trump more effectively, but it hesitated and, thus, failed.

 

It seems this is the future of vague anti-LGBT+ laws that can be enforced at the whim of the authorities. In short, based on my understanding, a drag troupe doesn't have standing to challenge a law designed to criminalize public drag performances. I'm not a legal scholar, so I could be way off.

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And yet the kids are disinterested in the stakes of the election.

On thing that confuses me is a place where minors might view it. So no libraries but surely a privately owned bar is legal or is that part of the discretion of the officer and AG of that city or town.

 

One of the roles of the leader of a party is…to lead the party.

And I am not convinced at all that the whole of the party couldn’t be led. When the holdouts are find themselves out on an island by themselves…and they individually get to own every single atrocious decision that has come and will come from the SCOTUS…the pressure on those folks to save themselves will be tremendous.

 

In a gay bar would be ok, but Pride parades would theoretically be in trouble. The goal of the judges (in my mind) is to make sure no one can predict in advance, thereby making it extremely risky to do anything.

 

I don't disagree and that is why I said in the Joe Biden thread that I would be ok with Biden dropping out. Basically, my point was that "Biden is just not the right person to stand up to a fascist movement that has already taken roots. Biden has been an effective conventional president, but we are in a major political crisis: we cannot navigate this crisis with a guy whose first instinct in 2021 was to wait for a return to normalcy."

 

You are not wrong but it is too close to the election for him to drop out. Mid terms were the time to do it.

 

Yes, I said back in '22 that he should have announced after the mid-terms that he wasn't go to run for re-election and that he looked forward to a younger candidate running in '24. Instead we are where we are.

 

In the midst of Trump's return to prominence? It would have solved the Kamala problem, but it wouldn't have kept Trump from a second term.

He's there because the defeated incumbent didn't go away.

 

Actually, in 2022 it looked like Trump was going to fizzle out.

Remember the Trumpty-Dumpty headlines?

When the assumed red wave in the mid-terms failed to materialize, Biden was probably feeling pretty good about himself, which is why I believe he decided to run again.

 

I formed my view in '22 that he shouldn't run again based on the fact that he would be 86 by the time his second term ended, not on his mental acuity at that point. The risk of rapid mental decline is just so much higher when a person is in their 80's.

As for his demeanor now, we know what his public appearances look like because they are, well... public. We don't know what his private performances are like, but there are dribs and drabs of info coming out (admittedly second or third hand). I certainly wouldn't claim he's been a "confused old figurehead for the past 3.5 years". In fact, I think he's been a pretty succesful president in many ways.

 

You guys know that if he doesn't campaign then he can't be president. Then the GOP could push for impeachment of his staff cause they didn't enact the 25th amendment. How long has the president been past it and when did the staff know. The GOP may even try and challenge him stepping down. This is what the plug and play people aren't thinking about but are rather in the press running their mouth. We won't be able to get the threat of Trump conveyed until late December before the inauguration and by that time it will be too late.

 

I've gone on the assumption that if Biden withdraws that will become the focus of the press. That said, I'm not sure it would be a bad thing in one way. Hypothetically, if the 25th amendment (which I don't think is needed) is employed, then Kamala will be president (I was hoping this would have happened last year). That breaks part of that glass ceiling and gives people on the fence a little bit of time to be more comfortable with a black female as president.

That said, I do prefer we keep all the Biden stuff in the Biden thread instead of spreading it around.

 

Yeah, I will take it over there.

I will say, if the Dems are gonna throw a hail Mary to get the press attention. Increasing the court to 13 is the way to go. You got nothing left to lose. If it motivates MAGA so be it, they are already motivated. 13 circuits, 13 Justices, it makes sense.

 

You can be sure Trump will do it. Aileen Cannon will get her payback and be elevated to SCOTUS.

 

For those who say it couldn’t happen just look at Thomas, Kavanaugh and Alito.