Chief Justice John Roberts sounds delusional.
Not insane or hallucinating. But so out of touch, so high on his own supply, so deep in a bubble that he—according to this NYT report—thought that his terribly reasoned, wildly un-American immunity ruling would be well received by the public and history.
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If he really thought that, it’s well past time for him to retire. He helped fuck over the entire country and thinking otherwise is delusional
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Yeah. It shows remarkable naïveté regarding how government works to think the president is some kind of superhero who can’t be held back by the laws of the land as they flit about the world, single-handedly saving us from catastrophe.
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Wonderful, blunt straight-talk.
Oh that the corporate press would give that some top billing and big headlines. But no, we get crickets instead.
Our press as a “fourth estate” is effectively dead. And thus, our democracy may well be too.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case of an Ohio woman who says she faced workplace discrimination over her heterosexual identity. The case may be the first of its kind. It examines the lengths members of “majority groups” must go to prove that they were discriminated against by “minority” groups.
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This sounds a lot like the other manufactured cases the religious fundies have created to put in front of the court… Shall we start a bingo card for which aspects of the case are pure fiction?
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If she was discriminated against it doesn’t matter if she’s a minority or majority. The protected class is sexual orientation, not heterosexuality, being gay, bisexuality, pansexuality or asexuality.
Yeah - it’s a setup.
And queer people aren’t their endgame.
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The [prior case] decision ruled that workplace discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity are forms of sex-based discrimination.
However, in [this] summary judgment, the district court said Ames had failed to prove that she was a member of a “protected class” of people who have historically been discriminated against for their personal characteristics.
if she’d sued over gender discrimination, she’d have had more traction i think.
( and by “she”, i mean the far right groups case shopping for lawsuits. )
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i think they didn’t sue over gender discrimination because it’s such settled law, so what they want is a new wedge to destroy all such considerations
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So the fun begins again tomorrow (7 Oct 2024, Monday)…
… “We are set, once again, for the fifth circuit to be a very frequent source of ideologically charged cases that the justices feel impelled to take up,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University law center.
Some of the most critical business of the new term may not yet have been registered on the docket. That includes anything relating to Trump and the upcoming presidential election.
In 2020 the supreme court studiously avoided getting sucked into legal fights over Trump’s election subversion efforts, but will they this time? “The 8,000lb gorilla hanging over this term is the election,” Vladeck said.
He added: “It’s not at all hard to imagine major election-related cases reaching the court, and that the chief justice, John Roberts, will be the central figure in how those cases are resolved.”
Roberts would also probably be at the heart of any cases touching on the federal prosecutions of Trump. Last month, it was revealed through a staggering leak to the New York Times that Roberts had personally orchestrated the court’s contentious approach to presidential immunity, writing a memo to his eight fellow justices in which he laid out the case for granting Trump protections against prosecution.
Roberts’s surprise behind-the-scenes intervention raises the prospect that he might steer the court towards being similarly more engaged in the flurry of court cases that could follow election day on 5 November should Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, win by close margins. “The question will be, which Roberts will show up: the one who was cautious around the 2020 election or the one who turned sharply to the right last term?” Vladeck said.
[my emphasis added]
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They didn’t sue over gender discrimination because that might have been successful, working to reinforce precedent the Xtian Nationalists are trying to erode.
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what the what now?!
just in time for october’s “spooky season” they first take up “ghost guns”?
is this how the docket gets decided, by the season a case will be heard?
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Possibly. December’s docket will probably be dedicated to snowflakes
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