Or understand and like it that way. Itâs the whole âreverse racismâ thing. What would mediocre white dudes do, if qualified minority candidates are given priority?
Impeach the efffing traitor.
I suspect heâs been in the GOPâs pocket since Anita Hill.
Lots of opinions coming in:
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Richard Signorelli (Former Asst. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY): âThey had a damn insider on SCOTUS who they thought would help them overthrow our democracy,â⌠âHeâs married to a deranged MAGA cult member. He wonât even recuse himself.â
Laurence Tribe (Former Harvard Constitutional Law professor): âWe now learn that Ken Chesebro saw Justice Thomas as Trumpâs âonly chanceâ to stop the 2020 election from being duly certified. Such abhorrent abuse of an attorneyâs license to practice law should be strictly disciplined and perhaps criminally prosecuted,â.
Rachel Solar (Attorney and writer): âWhen is it enough??? His wife is an insurrectionist. He refuses to recuse. Heâs the Trump election-denial go-to? Come on.â
Helen Kennedy (Journalist): âHey look! It wasnât just critics of the Supreme Court who thought Clarence Thomas was corrupted â Trumpâs lawyers said so too in secret emails just revealed.â
"A lawyer for former President Donald Trump described Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as âkeyâ to Trumpâs 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 âdistrictâ ( or whatever you call those. )
unfortunately no direct evidence that they talked to him or his wife directly about it
there was this âfunnyâ bit though:
According to the newly available emails, Trumpâs 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 Trumpâs signing until after the new year, the emails show. âPresidential trip to a UPS store?â another lawyer, Christopher Gardner wrote.
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.
Iâve got a bad feeling about thisâŚ
the Indiana health system is arguing that patients like Taleveski and his family shouldnât 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.
There are so many rights that fall into this category, including thigs like equal access to healthcare for LGBT+, women, PoCâs 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.
According to the lawsuit, nursing home staff administered psychotropic drugs to Taleveski in order to keep him âchemically restrainedâ in violation of federal law, which bans nursing homes from using psychotropic drugs for anything other than to treat âmedical symptoms.â
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 Foundersâ vision for relations with Native tribes that has been conclusively debunked.
Weâre gonna end up going back to termination of the 50s and 60sâŚ
But no huge surprise that these âoriginalistsâ have no respect for actual history.
Itâs 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 âmean substantially the same thing.â They then propose a definition of the word âcommerceâ 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
And letâs not forget that âcommerceâ is being used as the legal framework for child adoption: buying and transporting children, otherwise known as trafficking.
The same, tired GOP playbook - delay so they can get their way. I wish Ginni Thomas and conservative influencers of her ilk would
Unfit to Sit on Bench
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 âJustice delayed is justice deniedâ and âGet on with trying him!â?
