U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

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

took them a year and a half for this wasted attempt

xpost Boring otm

I agree with Alito the plaintiffs didn’t have standing. But in general it reads—see Kavanaugh—like they know their legitimacy hangs by a thread.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) June 13, 2024

how could they not know this? they are constantly churning out decisions that ignore precedent and clear constitutional language, they know what they are doing

I think it's pretty clear Alito and Thomas could give a shit about legitimacy

It would be nice if this decision had any restraining effect at all on the Federalist Society kooks in the 5th Circuit. But that is probably hoping for too much.

Alito and Thomas are, like, "Look, don't embarrass us. Come back with a more legit case."

There's plausible deniability, and then there's what Kaczsmaryk, Alito, and Thomas do. In a functional country all three would be in impeachment proceedings.

“Try again when it’s not an election year”

If, and obvs this won't happen and i shouldn't even dare hope, Dems win pres election + senate + congress could they so something about this rampant supreme court?

they could if decorum didn't stop them

They could politely ask them to do better

put bear traps at Alito/Thomas houses

I doubt they're gay

Oh c’mon they’re TradCaths put a cape on and speak Latin and they’ll be eating out of your hand.

Have they been on Red Scare yet?

And in a country where only 29% of the population describes itself as Catholic (and still free would consider themselves TradCaths) it is very weird (it’s deliberate) that the majority of our Supreme Court are “daily Latin Mass”Catholic integralists.

20 percent by the latest Pew Research poll, I see.

There should be at least one Scientologist

Chief Justice Tom Cruise

Associate Justice Doug E. Fresh

Tom Cruise wants everyone to be polite and a pro i think TC would be good

With Justices like Tom Cruise in them you can’t lose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-travel/

https://wapo.st/4ckvoln

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took three previously unreported trips paid for by conservative Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, according to new documents released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee...Crow released the information after the committee issued subpoenas in November for him and conservative activist Leonard Leo to provide information to the body. The subpoenas have never been enforced.

Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the documents provided necessary transparency and the trips should have been reported on financial disclosures.

And what will you do about it, Senator?

what "catholic" means as a concept to the right at present is a subject for long inpenetrable panel discussions but in brief there's a sense in which a spectre of Catholicism, which isn't the Church (this isn't no true Scotsman territory -- this is legitimately a sort of alt-universe Catholicism, a personally-but-also-communally constructed Catholicism, a subjective Catholicism), informs the Alitos in the corridors of power

Crow’s office said in a statement that he gave the senators information covering the past seven years and that the committee “agreed to end its probe with respect to Mr. Crow.”

“Despite his serious and continued concerns about the legality and necessity of the inquiry, Mr. Crow engaged in good faith with the Committee,” the statement said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

Oy veh, Durbin does as little as possible

what "catholic" means as a concept to the right at present is a subject for long inpenetrable panel discussions but in brief there's a sense in which a spectre of Catholicism, which isn't the Church (this isn't no true Scotsman territory -- this is legitimately a sort of alt-universe Catholicism, a personally-but-also-communally constructed Catholicism, a subjective Catholicism), informs the Alitos in the corridors of power

I didn't leave the church, the church left me

@shannonrwatts
BREAKING: In the 6-3 vote, SCOTUS strikes down the ATF's ban on bump stocks, claiming that the ATF exceeded its authority. The regulation was created by the Trump administration after the Las Vegas mass shooting; the Court is now to the right of the Trump administration