John Yoo. You old child testicle crushing rascal you!
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He’s appropriately named. So he has that going for him.
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I was gonna say! It’s really a bit too much on the nose.
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No, no, no! It’s only supposed to be used for what I want!
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It can be hard for people unfamiliar with the law to understand the judicious use of an option versus its being used as a default option to further political ends and to stave off a fair hearing of those issue’s versus applying it to protect interests before the issues are heard.
On second thought- it’s not hard at all. Alito is a lying dick.
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The fact that Alito and Thomas dissented just shows they are manifestly bad at the law. They are presumably intelligent, educated people who are either so corrupt or so biased that they can’t even get a true no brained like the mifepristone ban ruling right. The safety profile of the drug is far better than Tylenol and the fact that it has other important uses besides abortion just makes it plainly obvious that there are no grounds to broadly ban it regardless of their stance on abortion.
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We’re at the point where they don’t care about the public appearance of bias, not to mention ethics or accountability:
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“The court is a political entity currently engaged in overreach and abuse of power,” the congresswoman said in her Friday night rebuke. “In our system of checks and balances, SCOTUS’s reckless behavior warrants a check from the leg + executive branches. This is not unprecedented, it’s how our system is designed to avert tyranny.”
Dante Atkins, a progressive political strategist and former congressional staffer, said Ocasio-Cortez’s assessment was correct.
“The only people still pretending that the court is legitimate are a handful of Boomer Dems,” Atkins tweeted. “Both MAGA and most younger Dems recognize what it is: an unelected partisan super-legislature.”
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AOC is absolutely correct. Wonkette, because I like a little sass with my fury. How the fuck can someone like this be a supreme court justice?!
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Um, do MAGAts recognize that? I thought most would be thrilled with the far-right stance of the current SCOTUS. 
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I think he’s suggesting they delight in it. Which would be on brand.
Courts are always political. Police are always political. The law is always political.
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Ah. So they recognize that it’s “an unelected partisan super-legislature,” and since it’s on their side, they’re fine with that.
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For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the high court. Gorsuch owned the property with two other individuals.
On April 16 of 2017, Greenberg’s Brian Duffy put under contract the 3,000-square foot log home on the Colorado River and nestled in the mountains northwest of Denver, according to real estate records.
He and his wife closed on the house a month later, paying $1.825 million, according to a deed in the county’s record system. Gorsuch, who held a 20 percent stake, reported making between $250,001 and $500,000 from the sale on his federal disclosure forms.
Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank.
Since then, Greenberg Traurig has been involved in at least 22 cases before or presented to the court, according to a POLITICO review of the court’s docket.
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Next up on the ethics grift watch. Neil Gorsuch.
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Jinx!
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