SCOTUS Shenanigans Watch

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Or understand and like it that way. It’s the whole “reverse racism” thing. What would mediocre white dudes do, if qualified minority candidates are given priority?

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Impeach the efffing traitor.

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I suspect he’s been in the GOP’s pocket since Anita Hill.

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Lots of opinions coming in:

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Richard Signorelli (Former Asst. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY): “They had a damn insider on SCOTUS who they thought would help them overthrow our democracy,”… “He’s married to a deranged MAGA cult member. He won’t even recuse himself.”

Laurence Tribe (Former Harvard Constitutional Law professor): “We now learn that Ken Chesebro saw Justice Thomas as Trump’s ‘only chance’ to stop the 2020 election from being duly certified. Such abhorrent abuse of an attorney’s license to practice law should be strictly disciplined and perhaps criminally prosecuted,”.

Rachel Solar (Attorney and writer): “When is it enough??? His wife is an insurrectionist. He refuses to recuse. He’s the Trump election-denial go-to? Come on.”

Helen Kennedy (Journalist): “Hey look! It wasn’t just critics of the Supreme Court who thought Clarence Thomas was corrupted – Trump’s lawyers said so too in secret emails just revealed.”

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"A lawyer for former President Donald Trump described Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “key” to Trump’s plan to delay Congress

the emails they cite were just pointing out that thomas would be the one to hear the emergency request because it was in his “district” ( or whatever you call those. )

unfortunately no direct evidence that they talked to him or his wife directly about it

there was this “funny” bit though:

According to the newly available emails, Trump’s lawyers were so concerned about him filing in court a signed statement asserting false election fraud claims that they worried he might be prosecuted for a crime.

[eastman] and other private attorneys then discussed changing the verification for Trump to sign [to fix it.] But there was no notary around the White House to witness Trump’s signing until after the new year, the emails show. “Presidential trip to a UPS store?” another lawyer, Christopher Gardner wrote.

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Michael Harriot covers that topic, and created my new favorite acronym for this court:

the Supporters of a Caucasian, Oligarchal, Theocratic, Ultraconservative State (SCOTUS) no longer believe in the idea of legal precedence.

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I’ve got a bad feeling about this…

the Indiana health system is arguing that patients like Taleveski and his family shouldn’t be able to sue at all if their rights are violated.

If the Indiana health system in this case wins, they would be overturning roughly five decades of precedent that has allowed Medicaid patients to bring these types of lawsuits.

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There are so many rights that fall into this category, including thigs like equal access to healthcare for LGBT+, women, PoC’s and so many more. This could literally create a 2-tier system (even moreso than currently exists) where recipients have the rights that someone (CEOs, providers, whoever) chose to allow them to have, and no more.

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According to the lawsuit, nursing home staff administered psychotropic drugs to Taleveski in order to keep him “chemically restrained” in violation of federal law, which bans nursing homes from using psychotropic drugs for anything other than to treat “medical symptoms.”

:cry:

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After greenlighting countless laws diminishing tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court could soon strike down a law attempting to enhance it. And the court may do so on the basis of history that is not just dubious but objectively false, rooted in a mistaken theory about the Founders’ vision for relations with Native tribes that has been conclusively debunked.

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We’re gonna end up going back to termination of the 50s and 60s…

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But no huge surprise that these “originalists” have no respect for actual history.

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It’s worse. The case could be used to gut the interstate commerce clause

At least one of the Brackeen plaintiffs, the state of Texas, argues that the interstate and Indian commerce clauses should instead be read to “mean substantially the same thing.” They then propose a definition of the word “commerce” so narrow that it would erase much of the last 100 years of US law.

The damage Paxton continues to wreak on our country is staggering

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And let’s not forget that ‘commerce’ is being used as the legal framework for child adoption: buying and transporting children, otherwise known as trafficking.

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The same, tired GOP playbook - delay so they can get their way. I wish Ginni Thomas and conservative influencers of her ilk would

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Unfit to Sit on Bench

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All this while Paxton has been under indictment for seven years on security fraud charges. Who if anyone has standing to file an amicus brief with the court to basically say “Justice delayed is justice denied” and “Get on with trying him!”?

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