SCOTUS Shenanigans Watch

I think we know what this Supreme Court will do.

Happy Fucking New Year!

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that clipping is angled and placed to look like it implies one justice in particular. amazing which person that is. surely must be a wild coincidence :cry:

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Wtf is there a supreme court charity at all?! That just screams inappropriate.
I guess they need to wash their reputation now like oligarchs and business sociopaths

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And you just know that one of the charities that receives the most funding is the “CT Needs A Yacht” Fund.

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Maybe the same justices who don’t like the bribery statutes like bribes.

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Huh, who knew there even was such a thing? Not me!
They have some cool resources for educators:

I think the historical society itself would be fine if it was totally separate, but this indicates otherwise:

The justices attend the society’s annual black-tie dinner soirees, where they mingle with donors and thank them for their generosity,

Seems highly inappropriate. Kind of a “pay to play” set up.

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Glacier Northwest, the employer beyond this case, seeks to upend a more than 60-year-old rule protecting unions from lawsuits when workers exercise their federally protected right to strike.

It’s an audacious ask, and the case could potentially be decided more narrowly. But the two-thirds of the Court that was appointed by Republicans has shown extraordinary hostility toward unions in the past. So we can’t dismiss the risk that the Court hands down a maximalist decision that upends the balance of power between employers and labor unions.

The case hinges on a rule protecting workers’ right to strike, and laying out how companies can claim that this rule does not apply to a particular strike.

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Funny because what I thought when I read it was “if they’re desperate for money maybe they should raise taxes on their wealthy”, Knowing, of course, that that would never be the solution…

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Last year the Idaho House passed a bill that would make it a felony punishable by life in prison to help a transgender person under the age of 18 to travel out of state for treatment.

Holy shit, how did I not hear about this? I assume it did not pass into law?

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It was stopped in the Senate.

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Bets on where they come down?

Deaf and Hispanic. They can hurt two lesser-thans at once!

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I guess that the Supreme Court will just have to live with the newly established norm of mutual distrust. Eating ones own dogfood.

Roberts could always resign, and let a Biden appointee deal with the cleanup.

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Translation:

You know we did it. We know we did it. But we’re going to drag out this performative charade so that we can keep harassing and driving out any progressives or liberals left in the SC staff, just in case they have the mistaken idea they can hold out, much less win. This isn’t an investigation, this is psyops on our own organisation. But you knew that. Sucks that you can’t do anything about it, huh.

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Pretty longish article that attacks at least some of the details

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Great, but…

ending xbox one GIF

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