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

I noticed that myself. Trying to be French or something?

 

Dutch, French . . . Either way, Europe is not sending us their best people.

 

Canada’s SCOTUS is more fun:

We’re happy to share the official photo of the Supreme Court of Canada bench, taken on the occasion of Justice O’Bonsawin’s welcome ceremony. pic.twitter.com/t7pYw3s5bZ

— Supreme Court of Canada (@SCC_eng) December 12, 2022

 

This is a good piece written by Tom Hartman, well worth a read.

Nineteenth century historian Lord Acton famously noted that power corrupts, and “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

That certainly rings true with this shady bunch of grifters. “Bribery and Corruption” is the norm”

How to stop wealthy right-wing 'Christians' from bribing the Supreme Court

Thom Hartmann

(But) “Roberts and Republicans on the Court consider themselves the absolute black-robed lords of America, accountable to nobody.”

 

I wonder why "Christians" is in quotation marks like the rest of us get to decide whether they're in the club or not?

They're in the club. Sit down next to them and pray if you're in the club.

 

The house won’t be able to do much damage, but that’s what the SCOTUS is there for:

The Supreme Court just heard a case in which the court's conservative majority -- led by the extremely anti-union Samual Alito -- seems ready to make it far easier for employers to sue unions when their strikes cause financial damage to the employer.https://t.co/hu3TY1HT7A

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) January 11, 2023

 

The deal with the devil:

Btwn 1995 & 2018, Rob Schenck recruited and coached wealthy volunteers including a prominent evangelical couple to wine & dine w/ conservative Supreme Court justices while pushing conservative positions on abortion, homosexuality, gun restrictions and other issues.

— CHOOSY (@CH005Y) January 13, 2023

 

Yes, even our SC can be bought. Marvelous.

 

More and more they prove it themselves. They call it absolute power and we know where that leads.

This from an opinion:
It's time to admit this right-wing US Supreme Court is a corrupt, autocratic tribune

… calling a small group of partisan lawyers a "supreme" court doesn't make it one. There's nothing supreme about the six-pack of far-right-wing political activists who are presently soiling our people's ideals of justice by proclaiming their own antidemocratic biases to be the law of the land. On issues of economic fairness, women's rights, racial justice, corporate supremacy, environmental protection, theocratic rule and other fundamentals, these unelected, black-robed extremists are imposing an illegitimate elitist agenda on America that the people do not want and ultimately will not tolerate.

Plus more here.
https://www.rawstory.com/2659100806/

 

They don't even need to be bought, just "wine and dine" seems to be sufficient.

 

Some will settle for “Beer and Cheers”…

 

Now people like Brett got their debts paid off before they even get that lifetime appointment. Whatta country!

 

Good pay for the rest of their lives. Don’t mention retirement all they have to do is be wheeled in until they die rich from the perks and pay.

 

Antonio keeled at some rich guy's ranch while on a hunting trip, right? I can't imagine that lump of gabagool shooting a rifle.

How quaint. February 2016:

On Saturday evening, Obama said he fully intends to put forward a nominee in the coming weeks to succeed Scalia.

With more than a year to go left in his term, Obama said he is confident he has enough time to fulfill his "constitutional responsibility" to make an appointment. The Senate must also "fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely hearing," he said.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/13/us-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-found-dead/

 

Interesting discussion:

How to fix the Supreme Court: Expert says Congress has the power and simply isn't using it… https://t.co/oRDU4QLVXt

— McSpocky™ (@mcspocky) January 16, 2023

 

The repugnant part of Congress doesn’t think it’s broken. Why fix it.

 

Most of these "how to fix ___ (democracy, the SC, the USMNT)" never get past the imagination of the author.

 

If only there was some interviews or videos of people celebrating the demise of RvW...

(fwiw I don't particularly care who leaked the opinion, as I've said before. But I *do* care if John Roberts made a bunch of noise about getting to the bottom of it, then launched a sham investigation that didn't even consider the justices themselves.)

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) January 19, 2023

 

More dirt on Bratt:

New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed in Secret Sundance Doc https://t.co/hNLzyGvfSF

— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) January 21, 2023

 

Dang - I thought this stuff was more up laxbros alley:

In it, Stier relays that he lived in the same Yale dorm as Kavanaugh and, one evening, wound up in a room where he saw a severely inebriated Kavanaugh with his pants down, at which point a group of rowdy soccer players forced a drunk female freshman to hold Kavanaugh’s penis

 

That is as through an investigation as any DA does when investigating police brutality

 

Report said SC employees were talking shop with their spouses. IOW Clrence was spilling to Ginnie.