The Supreme Court thread

[allegate]

[allegate]

If [Roberts] pulls another Justice to his side, he could write the plurality opinion that controls in a 6-3 decision. If he can’t, then Justice Thomas would assign the opinion and the vote could be 5-4. Our guess is that Justice Alito would then get the assignment.

This turned out to be a good guess!

huh, very interesting.

[ickyvicky]

Armed man arrested after saying he wanted to take out Brett Kavanaugh near his home
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/polit...ome/index.html

[allegate]

It's probably nothing, right?

heavy sarcasm fwiw.

[allegate]

so I guess the whole "we're originalists!" is a bunch of bull huh.

[allegro]

so I guess the whole "we're originalists!" is a bunch of bull huh.

Let’s open a Wiccan school!

As a Wiccan, it’s my religious right to have an abortion.

Two birds, one stone. Especially when it’s a full moon.

[ekrekel]

stream along in horror with us: https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/a...riday-june-24/

[GulDukat]

I hope everyone who refused to vote for Clinton in 2016 out of spite is fucking happy.

[allegro]

I used to have respect for SCOTUS.

But over the last 20 years or more, it’s garbage.

The first sign was overturning the VRA.

I only hope this motivates voters. The midterms …

The difference between pre-1973 and now is that you can get abortion drugs by mail. Unmarked. Or travel to other states. And it’s unconstitutional to prevent travel to other states.

Fuck SCOTUS.

[GulDukat]

5 of these assholes were nominated by presidents that lost the popular vote.

[ickyvicky]

What in the fucking fuck!

[ryanmcfly]

One step forward, fifty backwards with this country. They’re probably coming for same sex marriage next unfortunately if you read into what Thomas said

[allegate]

I'm not even going to bother going to twitter today as I'm already in a bad enough mood. fuck them.

[otnavuskire]

They’re probably coming for same sex marriage next unfortunately if you read into what Thomas said

And also the availability of condoms and IVF. Fuck this country.

[Zimbo]

Fuck my country, for real. Beer Drinking justice is a fucking prick.

[Jinsai]

And also the availability of condoms and IVF. Fuck this country.

Eh, these are people who telegraph how Christian they are. Jesus was the OG IVF.

I know it's not proper to really joke at all about this sort of thing... I think I'm just stunned at this point with how quickly we're going backwards.
Every time I run into a "friend" who bragged about how he just couldn't vote for the email lady or "another incrementalist."

Cool. Enjoy the next fifty years of neo-con SCOTUS rulings. Let's watch the fast-forwarding of the undoing of any civil rights footing made in the past fifty years.
Let's watch the future get morphed into a Mitch McConnell-approved nightmare that he'll only live to see the first intro act of.

Yay, political idealism ftw. Fuck everything.

[ickyvicky]

Biden going to speak at 12:30pm EST

[ekrekel]

So I'm a bit of a dummy. Wouldn't 2/3rds of both houses creating a law for post mortem codification of Roe work? Also, the "egregiously wrong" verbiage used by Alito here to justify the full overturn of Roe seems to open the door for any partisan disagreement with previous court rulings.

Did y'all see Thomas specifically called out cases about contraception, gay rights/marriage, and same sex conduct and interracial marriage(?!?!) as additional rulings that need to be reviewed in his individual response.

Here's a great Clarence Thomas biopic if you've got a few minutes. Spoiler: if language hurts your feelers sorry in advance




Edit: It seems I got ahead of myself. SCOTUS blog listed it before I saw the case names.

[otnavuskire]

Wouldn't 2/3rds of both houses creating a law for post mortem codification of Roe work?

This would never happen. The votes aren't there.

[ekrekel]

This would never happen. The votes aren't there.

Certainly not today and extremely unlikely going forward, just confirming what would be required.

[Jinsai]

Nope. We're fucked. The bigots won.

[ekrekel]

Nope. We're fucked. The bigots won.

I thought the legislative/executive check on judicial was the ability to create laws that overrule court decisions.

[allegate]

So I'm a bit of a dummy. Wouldn't 2/3rds of both houses creating a law for post mortem codification of Roe work? Also, the "egregiously wrong" verbiage used by Alito here to justify the full overturn of Roe seems to open the door for any partisan disagreement with previous court rulings.

Did y'all see Thomas specifically called out cases about gay rights/marriage and interracial marriage(?!?!) as additional rulings that need to be reviewed in his individual response.

Don't you love the hypocrisy of the right? For me but not for thee.

[Jinsai]

I thought the legislative/executive check on judicial was the ability to create laws that overrule court decisions.

There's a lot of things to consider going forward, but I guess we will see soon.

[richardp]

Fucking christ I truly hate America and living in this shit pile with every fiber of my being.

[cdm]

Shithole country.

[tfang]

Guns are a-ok with fewer restrictions the better, but medical autonomy for women is just a bridge to far... hmm yeah, that seems fine.

These week has been a plagued with god-awful decisions from SCOTUS and it is exhausting. Knowing that there is a group of crusty conservatives somewhere toasting each other for a job well done is infuriating.

[GastonKappa]

I’m incredibly scared for the future of this nation and world. Save this bs for dystopian movies and books but not for real life.

[Kodiak33]

So I'm a bit of a dummy. Wouldn't 2/3rds of both houses creating a law for post mortem codification of Roe work? Also, the "egregiously wrong" verbiage used by Alito here to justify the full overturn of Roe seems to open the door for any partisan disagreement with previous court rulings.

Did y'all see Thomas specifically called out cases about gay rights/marriage and interracial marriage(?!?!) as additional rulings that need to be reviewed in his individual response.

Here's a great Clarence Thomas biopic if you've got a few minutes. Spoiler: if language hurts your feelers sorry in advance

Pretty sure he left out Loving specifically...

[ekrekel]

Following up on my note, Thomas specifically called out these cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut - Relating to contraception by married couples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas - Same sex "conduct".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges - Same sex marriage/rights.

I guarantee Texas will go after 1868's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall_v._Nevada - Free travel between states on January 10th 2023, but I wouldn't put it past Abbot to call a special session on the topic.

Pretty sure he left out Loving specifically...

Yes, I got ahead of myself reading a summary from SCOTUS blog that I thought was accurate.

However...... Lawrence v Texas did involve interracial intercourse so given the extent they expanded the scope of Dobbs v Jackson who knows how far they'd go.