SCOTUS under Trump

Canuck · 2021-01-20T15:53:45.644Z

Can we change the thread title now? Or maybe start a new one.

scottagibson · 2021-01-20T15:54:26.708Z

Maybe ‘Trump’s SCOTUS’? That’s kinda the reality I guess.

Canuck · 2021-01-20T15:56:56.143Z

Yeah. If we’re lucky maybe we’ll be able to change that in 15 years.

BennyProfane · 2021-01-20T15:59:06.615Z

ShivaX:

PardonMeHat (Popehat)

“When we received this angry incoherent call, there was a delay reporting it to the police while clerks attempted to determine whether it was a threat or a cert petition by a @FedSoc officer.”

Ouch, that is vicious. I love it!

ShivaX · 2021-01-20T16:06:38.137Z

Canuck:

Can we change the thread title now? Or maybe start a new one.

Still technically correct for 44 more minutes.

scottagibson · 2021-02-09T18:45:11.511Z

I have to say that Senator Patrick Leahy is and sounds very old and it is not at all too soon for Justice Breyer to retire, conditional on the seating of his replacement. I wonder what he’s waiting on? 50 +1 is damned slim when a number of the 50 are octogenarians.

magnet · 2021-02-09T19:46:23.132Z

scottagibson:

I wonder what he’s waiting on?

Apparently he’s waiting until he’s damn good and ready.

Just six weeks ago:

I mean, eventually I’ll retire, sure I will. And it’s hard to know exactly when.

Anyway, Justices typically retire effective at the end of a session. So probably the earliest would be this summer.

MrGrumpy · 2021-02-19T07:08:50.240Z

SCOTUS still carrying trump’s water.

CNN

Supreme Court is still sitting on Trump's tax returns, and justices aren't...

Lawsuits involving Donald Trump tore apart the Supreme Court while he was president, and the justices apparently remain riven by him.

Strollen · 2021-02-23T20:34:20.957Z

CNN

Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns to NY prosecutor

The Supreme Court cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump's tax returns, dealing a massive loss to Trump who has fiercely fought to shield his financial papers from prosecutors.

Monday’s ruling was issued without comment or noted dissent.

MrGrumpy · 2021-03-01T08:56:35.019Z

That’s a surprise: Kavanaugh flips.

TheHill – 28 Feb 21

Kavanaugh dismays conservatives by dodging pro-Trump election lawsuits

Justice Brett Kavanaugh dismayed conservatives this week when he cast what appears to be the deciding vote preventing the Supreme Court from taking up pro-Trump election lawsuits.

Thomas in a dissent said he was “befuddled” by the court’s reluctance to take up the disputes, given that four justices — including Kavanaugh — had signaled in late October their view that the pro-Trump challengers were likely to win on appeal.

magnet · 2021-06-17T18:41:17.962Z

SCOTUS decided that the city of Philadelphia cannot require adoption agencies to consider gay applicants as a condition of receiving public money.

Surprisingly, it was a 9-0 decision.

nytimes.com – 17 Jun 21

Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care

The unanimous ruling was further evidence that claims of religious liberty almost always prevail in the current court.

ShivaX · 2021-06-17T21:17:24.307Z

nytimes.com – 17 Jun 21

Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge

The court sidestepped the larger issue in the case, whether the 2010 health care law can stand without a provision that required most Americans to obtain insurance or pay a penalty.

7-2 Alito and Gorsuch dissenting.

twitter.com

Scott Greenfield

@ScottGreenfield

Many believe they have the magical ability to see into the future. Many are wrong. twitter.com/maziehirono/st…

Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono

Judge Amy Coney Barrett would strike down the ACA if seated on the Supreme Court. Thank you to Senate Republicans for not hiding it from the American people as they worry about their healthcare amidst a pandemic during this illegitimate hearing. https://t.co/z62nUQYQpw

9:10 PM - 17 Jun 2021 11 1

scottagibson · 2021-06-17T21:28:09.747Z

Well, lots of people made predictions about different things Barrett would do, and some of those predictions will be wrong, and some of them will be right, and I wonder if Scott Greenfield will make a victory lap around the right ones?

ShivaX · 2021-06-17T21:36:05.782Z

Slate Magazine – 17 Jun 21

Progressives Earned a Qualified Supreme Court Win From Clarence Thomas

By fighting all the way to the Supreme Court, they gave other victims of human rights abuses a renewed and unexpected hope for justice.

This is a far more positive view of the decision than I would go with, but they do it by basically ignoring the actual case and focusing on the precedent for the future.

Skipper · 2021-06-18T00:30:11.719Z

This is a stranger take:

POLITICO

‘Alito was just pissed’: Trump’s Supreme Court breaks down along surprising...

Thursday’s decisions laid bare an emerging rift within the court’s conservative majority.

ShivaX · 2021-06-18T00:37:00.341Z

Alito is the worst.

vinraith · 2021-06-18T00:52:05.696Z

We need either a new thread or to retitle this one. Blessedly none of us is “under Trump” at the moment.

ShivaX · 2021-06-18T05:14:20.545Z

I made another one, but this one got bumped so I just went with it.

Also I wasn’t paying attention.