Bet he’s going to expand the court and nominate 5 new judges.
Wait… pro-Trump SCOTUS voted aggainst POTUS? Weird… weird…
This SCOUTS has 3 priorities:
- Stop workers rights and individual freedom
- Protect the wealth of the rich
- Placate Trump with anti woke bullshit
Sadly, all of us are focused on point 3, while they rape the 98%
Let’s see how quickly they fold.
That’ll be lunch on monday
Bet you a buffalo nickel that before the end of his tenure, he’s going to expand the court with ultra-loyalists, all but completely open about how they will ignore the law or always interpret it in the way that gives Trump what he wants.
Can someone ELI5 ? I thought Trump had the supreme court in his pocket, having appointed a majority of its members?
The supreme court is particularly difficult to actually control. Each has their own beliefs and they’re appointed for life. Thomas for example is fully on board with maga and will take bribes. But kavenaugh is pretty far right but generally seems to believe in the constitution in some form and wants the courts to keep power. Barrett is extremely right wing but is catholic before maga and it seems they’re learning that the hard way recently.
This should have been 9-0. We’re seeing a lot of 7-2 against Trump right now because he’s blatantly violating the constitution. And the court to a certain degree trusts that when they say no, they have enough understanding with the military that when everything is said and done the military will want to have done what the court says as it’s the legitimate governing body acting in accordance with the rules.
Barrett is an interesting one. She was there to provide a woman’s voice against abortion. That job is done now. She was expected to line up with everything else in MAGA, but she’s slowly realizing what a hell hole that is. Like Serena Waterford discovering that this isn’t the world she wanted after all.
I didn’t know they were appointed for life. That’s terrible. Thanks for bringing more nuance to my otherwise basic understanding
The idea is thst they’re supposed to be non partisan voices of the law. And we’re seeing both sides of all of that. For a long time they’ve been partisan, but lifetime appointments mean that they can tell Trump to fuck off in a way congress can’t. It’s significant to note thst the two justices that keep voting with Trump weren’t appointed by him. He appointed kavenaugh, gorsuch, and Barrett. And none of them seem to like him. Meanwhile Thomas has been on the court for decades but his wife is a major figure in maga.
Yeah, thats something that I think needs to change. To many times people sit on that bench until they are almost dead, and I dont like people like that making the laws. Just like I think there should be term limits on Congress
Trump appointed three out of nine justices. Three more were appointed by Republicans (Bush 1 and Bush 2), so a 2/3 majority of justices are considered conservative.
Judicial conservatism, however does not always align with political conservatism. Judicial conservatism tends to mean staying close to the original meaning of the text of the law. Some of Trump’s actions require creative interpretations of the law; in the case at hand, Trump wants to use a law meant to expel citizens of an enemy country during a war to deport immigrants he accuses of being members of gangs without allowing them to challenge that action in court.
Thomas and Alito dissented, arguing that a creative interpretation of the law should be allowed here; neither is a Trump appointee.
Oddly, it doesn’t seem to be the Trump appointees who are the biggest problems. Thomas and Alito are completely shameless.
I read Alito’s dissent.
His main objection is that the plaintiffs demanded a preliminary injunction with an extremely short deadline upon which they would consider a lack of ruling to be a “constructive denial” which they would appeal, which is highly irregular. He does not meaningfully address the reason for that irregular action, namely the government’s attempts to outrun the judicial process and deport people to El Salvador, from which it claims it cannot return them. Alito claims the courts should rely on the government’s statement that it would not deport the plaintiffs before their hearing.
Under normal circumstances, Alito would be correct. The government normally doesn’t try to do illegal things before the courts can stop them and it would be inappropriate for a plaintiff to apply the extreme time pressure seen here. These are not normal times and the rest of the court appears to recognize that.
Thanks a lot for all the nuance, that’s great !
Its for the press, they’re trying to show a sense of control but they’ll fold shortly
He always conflates the US and himself. He’s saying he is in danger if he doesn’t get what he wants.
Purposely so
Or possibly the US is in danger if he doesn’t get what he wants. Because he will make sure of it. Continue… to make sure of it…
Well as long as everyone keeps giving him whatever he wants, eventually he’ll decide he’s got enough and it will all be fine and everything will go back to normal.
/s, just in case
Do not tempt Schumer.
hes really saying “putin will get mad at me if i dont this or that”
Poo Tin’s playbook. The russkies trained him well.
I wonder if the chief justice will keep hanging his flag upside down and blaming his wife…
I think that was Alito, not Roberts.
It was
VERGONA!
As expected. The attacks against the courts will only increase.
This article claims that one man was deported to El Salvador. Technically true the way they word it. But it wasnt just one man
True, but that passage is specifically referring specifically to a man who had a court order blocking his deportation. The others didn’t specifically have such orders.
It would be much better if they were clearer about that.
just the Constitution
Hey so if they do send a bunch of white supremacists to the houses of SCOTUS we’re good to show up and start _____ing the bigots right?
Duck yes
As always, Thomas and Alito have to demonstrate what pieces of crap they are.
And their dissent is utter nonsense. It entirely hinges on the fact the petitioners didn’t wait long enough for an injunction from the District Court before their appeal the Circuit Court, claiming there is no evidence that they were in imminent danger of removal. People have been getting kidnapped and shipped off in a matter of days and these absolute chucklefucks are trying to pretend this is business as usual. Fucking Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence that they needed immediate relief!
Thomas and Alito start with the ruling they want, then backfill some justification for it.
I wonder how many more unfavorable rullings the court has to make before trump starts demanding they be arrested.
He just threatened to send his brown shirts after them
he doesn’t even have to go that far. he could just tweet their home address and say they’re the “enemy of the people”
When will someone free me of these meddlesome SCOTUS Justices?
That’s the crazy thing. So many Republicans in congress have said they are afraid for their safety if they go against Trump. He’s got the government in a vice grip. They clearly don’t agree with how far he’s gone, they’ve said as much privately, but refuse to vote against him in bills bcz Trump followers at this point are crazy.
So many Republicans in congress have said they are afraid for their safety if they go against Trump
i have less than zero sympathy. fuck them
They clearly don’t agree with how far he’s gone, they’ve said as much privately, but ref7se to vote against him in bills bcz Trunl followers at this point are crazy.
they should have thought of that before they signed on to supporting a rabid full-blown cult and their con man leader just to oWn TeH LiBs. again, fuck them. i’m not saying i hope they die, but i’m not not saying that either
That’s ok I’ll say it. I hope they all die
86 ‘em
But they’re fine with staying in their role. Keeping themselves in power.
They’re cowards and traitors.
That’s because our government is full of self-serving pussies.
they just want to see how much they can grift before it becomes unprofitable to themselves.
“Official acts.”
"I appointed them, I can un-appoint them.
Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
- Henry II
Go watch Season one of the Handmaids Tale. Suspending the constitution, etc.
It’s happening, isn’t it?
Yes, I was there a month into this 2nd term of Trump. Canadian Margaret Atwood must be in horrors her writing is coming to life.
She posted on twitter a number times that “handmaids tale was not meant to be an instruction manual”
She gave up eventually. She does actively speak out against fascism theocracies and Trump, but at her age I can understand being worn out fighting it
It’s all a circus to make them both look like they are doing what they are supposed to. So they can steal from you without you paying attention.
Yup!
The presidents a criminal. Can’t we just send him away without due process? Oh wait, he’s got money. Its easy to be a criminal when you have access to cash. I forgot
Send away. Yeah. Send away. Just fucking send it.
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