U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

"Look at me. I’m German, from Germany. my heritage is German. If you come after me, I’m going to give it back to you. And there will be a way - it doesn’t have to be now, but there will be a way they will know. Don’t worry about it"

That Rolling Stone article is behind a paywall for me. One thing I'm wondering about is when that audio was recorded

She has more

EXCLUSIVE UNDERCOVER AUDIO:
Sam Alito x John Roberts x The Undercurrent 🧵

1/ Justice Alito admits lack of impartiality with the Left, says: “One side or the other is going to win.” pic.twitter.com/b5nmxToZ9z

— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) June 10, 2024

It was recorded last week, at a Supreme Court Historical Society dinner. xp

I wish this could amount to something, anything, you know?

Asked how the country can become less polarized, Alito responded: “I wish I knew. I don’t know. It’s easy to blame the media, but I do blame them because they do nothing but criticize us. And so they have really eroded trust in the court. … “

Yes, it’s the media’s fault that Clarence Thomas is gorging at the trough of free stuff while the court delays a Trump trial by slow walking a decision on presidential immunity. I blame Rolling Stone.

It’s not surprising at all but always a bit depressing to be reminded just how dumb our ruling castes are. Just fucking idiots.

not sure what you mean by our ruling classes, but I think the members of the supreme court and their spouses and enablers are much more evil than they are dumb

I suppose. It’s more their stupidity I find depressing. Dipshits all the way down. Just vapid incurious people.

Tho tbh Roberts doesn’t come off so badly in the secret recordings.

Yahoo! has published the Rolling Stone article on Alito's bigoted wife so now you can read it without a paywall.

Be a shame if they faced unrelenting harassment

They think they already do

Victimized by seeing a pride flag from a couple miles away

young thug judge just lapping these SCOTUS losers tbf

I can not imagine loving someone so much or needing someone around so much and MYSELF BEING SUCH A SHITHOG that i would willingly stay with that woman

Because they're both shithogs?

I know it’s just like - is there a competition within the household to see who can be more of a shithog?

John Denver's plane crashed why couldn't it have been theirs?

Interesting to read the National Review’s handwaving of the whole flag skirmish. I assume some version of this is what Fox is running with as well.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-transparently-flimsy-and-misleading-alito-flag-story/

ah, so we've been misled

Good for a new dn though.

(The Bar Song) Flimsy

I can see the 'BIDEN GUILTY' headlines now

(meant for US politics thread)

looks like a paywall is blocking me from the National Review Baseball Crank guy take. I used to look at his nonsense on twitter.

Alas, Schumer won't pressure Durbin to hold a hearing or to subpoena anyone, and Durbin is waiting for a magical 60 seat Dem majority in the Senate and Dems regaining the House before having a vote on a tougher ethics bill.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4716602-senate-democrats-supreme-court-ethics/

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters that Democrats will attempt to move the ethics bill, which he authored with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), via unanimous consent. A Durbin spokesperson said the UC request would happen on Wednesday.

how’s it hanging Pierre

and Durbin is waiting for a magical 60 seat Dem majority in the Senate and Dems regaining the House before having a vote on a tougher ethics bill.

Not to be That Guy but they wouldn't get to that now. I understand the symbolic gesture.

Another Alito tape from same event. He’s complaining about “well funded groups “ out to get the justices and mentions Pro Publica .

Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will block Democrats' effort to unanimously pass Supreme Court ethics bill
The South Carolina Republican’s objection means the bill won't be able to move forward under a unanimous consent request, which any senator can block.

From NBC News

On Tuesday, Dem reps Raskin and AOC held a round table with guest speakers including a law professor and the Rhode Island Dem Senator re Supreme Court corruption

https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/06/11/pair-of-u-s-house-dems-add-to-chorus-calling-for-alito-thomas-recusals/

Sheldon Whitehouse has been all over these fucks as well as the federalist society. Conservative Catholics really hate him

It truly stuns most of the world that these fucks don’t have 18-36 month long terms. But, hey, at least Biden and his really strong words will clip their wings a bit

You're right. He should arrest them.

I don’t know why people aren’t camped out on their fucking lawns 24/7.

where's your chair

I’ll pay for seat fillers.

my man

Are you busy blowing up Walmarts beamish

He’s doing secret stuff. Don’t blow up his spot.

Don’t have many Wal-Marts in the Lower Mainland, fortunately. I grew up in Los Angeles, which was VERY successful in preventing them from sprouting up for years

Speaking of Alito’s house I was genuinely surprised he lives in a normal suburban neighborhood and not on an estate or something with a gate

They're normal people.

All they want is to be left alone in their average home.

SCOTUS maintains access to mifepristone, rules that the parties bringing the suit didn't have standing.

“Try again”

As many have pointed out already the plaintiffs had no standing under, there never was any question about that. Kasczmaryk needs to be removed from office.

-under-

His legal malfeasance isn’t even hidden