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

I liked the first half of this post.

But in the last half, to me, you’re letting Roberts off the hook. He either lacks the courage to act, or he lacks the imagination to decide how to act.

There is no law preventing him, for example, from writing a dissent in which he plainly states his colleagues are partisans rather than ideologues. There is no law preventing him from giving a speech saying the Court is working right now.

He’s the friggin’ Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. He’s not some workaday election clerk in Pima County being asked to do the right thing. He’s not a back bench state legislator in Florida being asked to speak out. He has agency, and he has the status in the US where his agency would truly matter. He has failed and continues to fail.

And this is even assuming the man who wrote Shelby wants to fix the court!

 

Good piece on where we were (progress) and where we are under a Roberts court (regressing bigly). Dismaying to say the least but what Federalist humps have been pushing for decades. Make Wypipo & Big Business Happy Again

The current public dismay about the court reflects that something more fundamental is underway. Over the past century, the Supreme Court, led by several chief justices, used its power to extend civil rights and civil liberties and to provide government with flexible authority to protect public health and welfare.

But the Roberts court, by using the power to overrule precedent and create new constitutional rules, has rolled back protections for individual liberty and weakened the government’s role in protecting public welfare. The Roberts court is using its power to retrench.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-la...s-back-rights-where-warren-court-leaped-ahead

 

(((Bloomberg)))? Is that an AMERICAN name?

 

You seem to remove any agency from John Roberts here though. The dude is Chief Justice to start with and as such has some authority on the Court. This is the same John Roberts who singlehandedly dismantled the Voting Rights Act and installed the corporate takeover of our democracy with citizens United.
. He also played a massive role into providing almost total immunity to the felon. Those two decisions are among the worst in the history of the court. We could keep going down the line to analyze the impact f Roberts decision. He is truly an awful CJ and a corrupt political hack. As I wrote Roger Taney must be relieved that he will not be the worse one ever.

 

Flowerhill? But then how are we supposed to know who controls the weather?

 

If John Roberts doesn't like it, the he can resign/retire from SCOTUS.

 

The Supremes are back at ruining everything.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/09/nx-s1-5147398/supreme-court-glossip

Oklahoma has messed up a case so bad that the current AG, Governor, and Legislature all agree he shouldn't be put to death but the SC might just allow it to happen anyway for...reasons.

Opening Arguments has a full episode discussing just how bizarre this is and how bad this case was screwed up. A man convicted basically only on the word of a snitch who plead out to avoid the needle and Brady material "lost". And that's just the beginning.

 

Poor Justice Roberts having to play the hand he dealt himself (from the bottom of the deck).

 

What in the actual phuk? Our justice system is a joke.

 

There’s a lawsuit in front of Judge Katz down in Texas. Three states are arguing for forced birth, and part of their argument is that states are hurt by abortions because it means less federal funding, and a possible loss of a seat in the House.

If that ain’t the Handmaid’s Tale, you at least can see it if you squint a little.

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/mifepristone-lawsuit-republican-ags-more-pregnant-teens/

 

[MAGA legal doctrine…

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This is funny on a lot of levels but we all know judges would only grant this power to GOP governments.

 

LOL the whole goddamn point of the First Amendment is that the king, or governor, doesn’t get to decide what’s true or not.

And by LOL I mean, oh shit, we’re ********ed.

 

I recommend getting a safety harness and strapping yourself to the trunk of the tree.

 

Damn SCOTUS:

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Harris really needs to pack the court as soon as possible.

 

Yup. Harris had better have a clear victory or else it's going to be Bush v. Gore all over again.