U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

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

ugh

Also a 5-4 anti-immigrant decision by Alito where he's ok with a defective notice to the immigrant

massive continuing fuck you to every piece of shit that told me some variation of, "lol calm down, Trump can't do that much damage"

Though it's important to note that the two biggest right wing assholes on the court came to us courtesy of the establishment Bush family

It took SCOTUS just 25 days to keep Trump on the ballot after the Trump v. Anderson oral argument.

Today marks 50 days since the immunity hearing. Will we finally learn in Trump v. US at 10am whether/how the election-subversion case can go forward?

It took SCOTUS just 25 days to keep Trump on the ballot after the Trump v. Anderson oral argument.

Today marks 50 days since the immunity hearing. Will we finally learn in Trump v. US at 10am whether/how the election-subversion case can go forward?

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) June 14, 2024

Taking their time on this one.

too busy laughing maniacally while praising the universal overlord villain in the evil underground zoom room

waaaaaaaaaaaay off topic, but i'm curious what a completely new judicial system would look like, if you could start from scratch and use everything that we have learned. the rot in the current one goes from the very top to the very bottom

While going to the bathroom with the mic on: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/toilet-flush-supreme-court-livestream.html

Bring back trial by combat