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

I borrowed this from another poster. I thought it belongs in here.


“A lawyer for former President Donald Trump described Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “key” to Trump’s plan to delay Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s victory through litigation after the 2020 election, according to emails recently turned over to the House select committee investigating January 6.

“We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue” a temporary order putting Georgia’s results in doubt, Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote in a December 31, 2020, email, adding that a favorable order from Thomas was their “only chance” to hold up Congress from counting electoral votes for Biden from Georgia.

John Eastman, another attorney for Trump, responded to that email saying he agreed with the plan. In the email exchanges with several other lawyers working on Trump’s legal team, they were discussing filing a lawsuit that they hoped would result in an order that “TENTATIVELY” held that Biden electoral votes from Georgia were not valid because of election fraud.

Having a case pending in front of the Supreme Court, Chesebro wrote, would be enough to prevent the Senate from counting Biden’s electors. Thomas would end up being “the key here,” Chesebro wrote, noting that Thomas is the justice assigned to dealing with emergency matters coming from the southeastern part of the county.onald Trump described Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “key” to Trump’s plan to delay Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s victory through litigation after the 2020 election, according to emails recently turned over to the House select committee investigating January 6.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/clarence-thomas-trump-eastman-emails/index.html

 

Clarence didnt even have to be in in it. He knows his role.

 

A Black guy I went to elementary school with has a son playing football there. Dad's extremely bright, wouldn't be surprised if the kid could get in without ball.

 

I thought the ivy leagues don't do scholarship.

I hope this brings more black athletes to HBCUs. Create some rivals for Jackson State. Frankly, I think the disrespected black NFL coaches should go turn these schools into Juggernauts.

 

Honestly, I'd like to see Clarence get singled out for extra horrible treatment at the end of this. It would be poetic justice for liberals to give a Black the treatment we all know conservatives dish out on a daily basis to everyone who looks like Clarence but doesn't have the power to help their agenda.

 

Incidentally, Ithaca is also the birthplace of Alex Haley.




I actually like Ithaca. We go there for a few days each summer.

 

I didn't think about that. Well, maybe Dad's paying.

Deion needs to take his self-promoting ass to a PWI and stop acting like he's the leader of some kind of movement. He's a football coach, and he's not the coach of my Alma, so ******** him.

We don't need Prime carrying a torch for schools he wasn't willing to attend when he was in HS. I want my school's program to win championships. ******** watching HBCU ball on ESPN if we're not collecting rings.

Second, juggernauts require talent. The lights of White schools are shining brighter than ever, and our children are getting blinded more than ever. How many White kids told Tyrone Willingham they weren't willing to play for a Black coach? Ask him. These days, in an environment where scores of Black kids don't have a clue about racism, there'll also be a bunch of them who've had their heads filled with nonsense about who is better at coaching. Buck n***ers love them a White Shadow (old TV show lightly based on Cooley High).

 

I'm surprised somebody hasn't show up at one of his shows with demands that he change his name to something else.

 

Um, if it’s the autobiography of Malcolm X, didn’t he write it?

yeah, I know the story, I’m a goal hanger, I can’t help it

 

I saw that legacies at Hah-vahd are like 33% of the yoots admitted. Or like Kushner, Daddy can write a big check.

 

It is a decent workout walking around that campus. I was never there in winter but imagine snow and ice must make it interesting on the slope.

 

They probably should have paid for a bigger sign to include a line like ". . . and was the 'as-told-to-guy' for The Autobiography of Malcolm X."

My wife and I walk by this house on the way to the Ithaca Farmer's Market, which unlike any other FM I've been to, has a couple of Black vendors. Bought honey from one of them.

 

We walk up one of the gorges to campus, have a light breakfast at a coffeeshop, then walk back to our hotel on one of the streets. That street is so steep that if you're not used to hills, you'll feel the effects of walking down on your thighs a bit later.

 

Correct. But Ivy League financial aid for lower- or middle-income kids is extremely generous, as the attached table indicates -

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/cornell-university-2711/paying

In practice, kids from less wealthy families may well find it cheaper to attend an Ivy than to go to a state school on a "full ride," because outside of football/basketball (meaning, for example, for men's soccer, where true full rides as as common as U.S. World Cup victories) those full rides are mostly just the exaggeration of proud parents, and are instead partial scholarships that leave a lot of gaps to be filled.

 

There's another aspect in that there's some controversy about how much Haley may or may not have altered what Malcolm X said in order to mainstream him. IIRC from 40 (damn I'm old!) years ago, right in the middle of that whole process, Malcolm turned away from NOI and toward mainstream Islam; that was the motive for his murder.

My point is, maybe Haley WAS the author of Malcolm X's autobiography. It was published posthumously, remember.

 

Went to this one as a yoot in Paterson. I reckon there are a number of POC with stalls nowadays.

 

So this seems like a big deal. A co-founder of the Federalist Society wrote an amicus brief disagreeing with the Policy that state legislatures have supremacy over elections, and now the board of the Federalist Society has voted to refuse him the right to be addressed as co-founder.

Today, a squabble within the Federalist Society became public thanks to veteran SCOTUS watcher, @NinaTotenberg. It would be tempting to dismiss this fight as inconsequential. Don't. 1/ https://t.co/meqEl8AwOv

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) November 11, 2022

 

No sure I'd wanna be labeled as the co-founder of the Federalist Society. But everyone has their freaky side.

 

This Turd of Shame for SCOTUS. Has to go but will he???

Fresh call to impeach Clarence Thomas after latest ruling on Jan. 6 insurrection

A long-standing call for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to face impeachment proceedings was renewed Monday after the right-wing judge indicatedin an unsigned dissent that he would have blocked enforcement of the House January 6 panel's subpoena for the communications records of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward.

 

He will not go.

 

More extremist judges doing unethical things:

A letter to Chief Justice Roberts that the NYT has had for months accuses Justice Alito of leaking the outcome of the Hobby Lobby decision to anti-abortion donors who dined at his house. Contemporaneous emails corroborate the story; Alito denies it. https://t.co/KoA7q6XN5l pic.twitter.com/PgBzoTcWpW

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 19, 2022