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SCOTUS, Now with KBJ

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That being a millionaire doesn't cut it anymore in this country. If you're not a billionaire, you're f-cked.

SCOTUS licking their lips at overturning the Chevron principle in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo in the upcoming term. I'm sure putting all of the expertise eggs in the basket of the unelected judiciary will go swimmingly.
 
Slap Shot said:
Harlan Crow's response:



Why is a kid being raised by a SC justice and millionaire wife considered at-risk? What are you trying to say about the Thomases, Haran?
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He seriously fucking said that? Are you fucking kidding me right now? I see it now.
 
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Senate Dems are eying cutting Supreme Court funding until they adopt some ethics since you know, Congress "has the power of the purse". Maybe Roberts can just have Thomas' sugardaddy Crow cover the difference.
 
bronconick said:
Senate Dems are eying cutting Supreme Court funding until they adopt some ethics since you know, Congress "has the power of the purse". Maybe Roberts can just have Thomas' sugardaddy Crow cover the difference.
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Since the Constitution says that the compensation paid to SCOTUS judges can't be cut during their tenure in office, any funding cuts will hit staff, so that plan sounds productive.
 
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Since the Constitution says that the compensation paid to SCOTUS judges can't be cut during their tenure in office, any funding cuts will hit staff, so that plan sounds productive.
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Having worked in a Democratic-led office in an otherwise Republican-led state in the past, I can assure you that's never stopped the GOP from doing the same farking thing out of spite. In fact, they perfected it.
 
Conservative justices' salaries are not their primary compensation. Cutting their funding won't touch their bribes and kickbacks.

Add justices and save the Court.
 
I dont think this is going to go away...every time they think the heat is dying down another accusation pops up. Sooner or later it is too much.
 
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You think he cares?
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I don't.

Roberts appears not to care and without 67 votes in the Senate absolutely nothing is going to happen to Clarence. It's pretty amazing that we need a 2/3 majority of one party in a two party system to get any government at all. Cause right now, we have no government.

And what's most interesting is before GW I'd say, maybe a little after this would have been the end for him.
 
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You think he cares?
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No. But so what? None of them care about any of things we go after them for but we still do it.

Even on the cynical end, sooner or later the corporate masters will think it isn't worth the effort to protect him. Ask Tucker Carlson.
 
Handyman said:
No. But so what? None of them care about any of things we go after them for but we still do it.

Even on the cynical end, sooner or later the corporate masters will think it isn't worth the effort to protect him. Ask Tucker Carlson.
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I dunno. We still seem to be protecting Donald Trump. Supreme Court is massively more insulated than he.
 
Trump Is a different animal...and they tried extricating from him and shifting to DeSantis and it failed.
 
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Even on the cynical end, sooner or later the corporate masters will think it isn't worth the effort to protect him. Ask Tucker Carlson.
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The irony is that after 4+ decades, some conservatives are finally becoming "woke" to the fact that massive corporations (e.g., Disney) have too much legal and political power. Kinda funny when the shoe's on the other foot. It's just sad that it's taken a fascist moron POTUS and disagreement over fundamental human rights for women and LGBTQ+ to get here.
 
Lots of opinions issued today.

Puerto Rico's sovereign immunity was upheld 8-1. Immigration case was decided 9-0. 2 public official fraud convictions out of NY were overturned 9-0.

Then there was the pork case pitting Iowa hog farmers against California voters who enacted a ban on sales of pork where the pigs are "confined in a cruel manner." California's law was ultimately upheld as not violating the dormant commerce clause, finding states have the right to set standards for goods sold in their borders so long as they don't discriminate between in state and out of state producers or otherwise impose a substantial burden.

But the vote was 5-4 (or 4-1-4 or 3-2-4, to an extent, depending on which part is considered controlling), with Gorsuch joined by Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Barrett. Apparently access to pork chops is what divides Thomas and Alito.
 
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unofan said:
Lots of opinions issued today.

Puerto Rico's sovereign immunity was upheld 8-1. Immigration case was decided 9-0. 2 public official fraud convictions out of NY were overturned 9-0.

Then there was the pork case pitting Iowa hog farmers against California voters who enacted a ban on sales of pork where the pigs are "confined in a cruel manner." California's law was ultimately upheld as not violating the dormant commerce clause, finding states have the right to set standards for goods sold in their borders so long as they don't discriminate between in state and out of state producers.

But the vote was 5-4 (or 3-2-4, to an extent), with Gorsuch joined by Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Barrett. Apparently access to pork chops is what divides Thomas and Alito.
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Thomas-Sotomayor vs Alito-KBJ was not on my bingo card.
 
With about a month left in the term, here are the major decisions still pending:
Affirmative action in college admissions
Clean Water Act challenge
Racial gerrymandering
1st Amendment vs. anti-discrimination suits
Independent State Legislature theory
Student loan challenges
Religious Accommodation
 
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