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

Seriously? Yeah, there are A LOT of those in the Catholic People of Praise community.

 

More evidence of people treating flippant Twitter commentary as real life. The average American doesn't even know who Amy Coney Barrett is.

 

Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder?

 

[Jeff the gay robot voice] "In Trump's PANTS!!!"

 

Reports I heard says that the Scotus exempted the Federal Reserve.

It's okay if Trump disrupts society in the attempt to redistribute wealth upward. We can't have him introducing economic uncertainty into that mix.

 

Assuming we ever reach a point again where we have actual justices on scotus…what is the process for reviewing and reversing all these absolute shit show decisions. Can the justices simply say…yeah..:that was bullshit…and that was bullshit…and this one…total bullshit.

or do they have to wait for new cases to make their way up through the appellate courts?

 

From the article:

The majority also rejected Harris’s suggestion that a ruling for the government could threaten the structure of the Federal Reserve. The Fed, it wrote, “is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States.” ​

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Now, whether or not they will actually stick to that forever...

 

That is what poker players call a “tell.”

The Supremes really do think they’re a superlegislature.

 

As shown by the overturn of Plessy v Ferguson and Roe v Wade, rulings by previous SCOTUS's can be overturned by later SCOTUS's. However, they can't do that on their own accord, it would require a new lawsuit to be filed for a similar issue. So, if SCOTUS officially rules that the President can fire any agency head except the Fed, the next time a Democrat is in office, they can fire all the Republican heads of those agencies and stack the agency with Democratically aligned people. At which points the Republicans sue the Democratic administration and SCOTUS pretends this ruling never existed.

 

Or the next Democratic president could just have 6 of those mother********ers executed and then claim immunity. More likely, he could just go Andrew Jackson on their asses…make them as relevant as the House of Lords. That’s what I’d recommend…treat them like a quaint debating society with no real power.

I respect the effort, yoss, I really do, but the Supremes aren’t following rules or the Constitution or precedent, so it’s kind of foolish trying to predict how the future will go.

 

My point is, why follow the rules? Why can’t President Kamala Buttmer just declare a handful of decisions null and void? I mean, the president is in charge of executing the laws.

 

You forget. If a Democratic President had done what Trump is doing, the Conservative Justices would have ruled against them.

 

No, I’m not forgetting that.

I’m pointing out that the Supremes have no method for enforcing their decisions. So just ignore the ones you don’t like. Pass another campaign finance bill and a gun control bill and all the rest and arrest people for violating those laws. When the Supremes declare them unconstitutional, laugh and tell them to ******** themselves. Send the FBI to arrest them if they get too bitchy about it.

 

Religion is under attack!

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-minute plea from Native Americans seeking to challenge a massive copper mining project in Arizona that would destroy a sacred site used for tribal ceremonies, a weighty dispute that pitted religious rights against business interests.

The court turned away an appeal brought by the nonprofit group Apache Stronghold asserting that its members' religious rights will be violated if the Resolution Copper mine goes forward because it would obliterate Oak Flat, the site in question.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...ican-lawsuit-copper-mine-sacred-la-rcna183774

 

I’ve commented quite a few times that I thought referring to “Trump judges” when commenting in the multitudes of inexplicable, indefensible decisions made by many of his appointees as absolving McConnell and the GoP of their role in the degradation of the federal judiciary. I pointed out that Trump was incapable of actually betting candidates and was only appointing judges that McConnell et al were recommending to him.



Just posting this as it confirms my suspicions. There is no such thing as. “Trump judge”. Their regular old run of the mill “conservatives”. And by conservative….i mean run of the mill fascists who are perfectly fine destroying our republic as long as they and their kind can end up on top.

BTW….for a while I’ve thought that Musk ending up in the leopards thread would be the pinnacle of all I hoped for. Leonard Leo getting his face eaten might even top that.