SCOTUS and whatnot

[CMRivdogs]

I have a feeling they’re going to send it back to the lower court and kick the can past the election

[pfife]

I agree with CMRiv.

[smr-nj]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Neal Katyal seems to think 5-4 for no absolute immunity.

That is NOT good enough. Ugh.

[smr-nj]

Complicit. 
The Supreme Court Justices who side with this absurd notion that presidential immunity is absolute are complicit in destroying this democracy.

Un-freaking-believable.

[smr-nj]

Partisan hacks. 

[smr-nj]

Bottom line. 
Delay

Delay

Delay

[chasfh]

Can you imagine what this court is going to be like when Democrats control the White House and both sides of Congress? It will be practically open war.

[pfife]

Trumps lawyers were still arguing the notion that the president needs to be impeached before he is criminally charged..... I wonder what happens when a president just resigns before he gets impeached.  If he does that, is he unable to be criminally charged?  

[pfife]

So if they have to determine each act is personal or presidential, each of those is going to have a whole string of hearings and arguments and decisions and appeals.   This is going nowhere anytime soon. 

Edited April 26, 2024 by pfife

[chasfh]

They are waiting for Trump to become president before they can finally rule 6-3 that presidents have no immunity.

[romad1]

 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

Both Alito and Thomas need to recuse themselves in the Trump cases...and resign

 

[chasfh]

Christ Almighty, how is that not an impeachable act?

[romad1]

NYT trying to change the subject from star reporter being a (paid?) shill for Trump.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, romad1 said:

NYT trying to change the subject from star reporter being a (paid?) shill for Trump.

I meant impeaching Alito, not Sulzberger! 🤣

[CMRivdogs]

I can't buy this excuse. They certainly should be aware of the positions they (or their spouse) holds. The Trump Brain Worm has taken hold of so called conservatives.

 

 

[chasfh]

Usually I just assume that people who promote horrible reactionaries are merely cynical partisan hacks, but every once in a while I have to wonder whether they are just aggressively ignorant or even stupid. Otherwise, how can they not see what’s so blindingly obvious?

 

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Usually I just assume that people who promote horrible reactionaries are merely cynical partisan hacks, but every once in a while I have to wonder whether they are just aggressively ignorant or even stupid. Otherwise, how can they not see what’s so blindingly obvious?

 

I can cut people a little slack around Thomas because he had honed the act of the aggrieved black man to an art and was able to take in a lot of people with it - but it shouldn't have taken too much of his record on the court to prove to anyone that he is a hack and a schill for his various sugar daddy business 'contributors'. There's the ignorance part I guess. 

With Alito, there is less excuse, he has been a small minded off the wall medievalist, royalist nut job from day one.

[CMRivdogs]

WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

 

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

 

You don't need to see a flag on his house to know that Alito's mind is driven by a sense of Christian entitlement. Unless maybe his next claim will be that his wife is the one writing his decisions as well....

[romad1]

 

[pfife]

who bought the beach house

[pfife]

remember when they foudn that 14th Amendment section 3 didnt apply to trump b/c congress never made a law implementing it?   That was awesome
I remember learning about how congress can nullify an amendment in never school 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, pfife said:

who bought the beach house

and Roberts remains a total putz - he will go down as the chief of the most debased court in US history, either because he is too much of a closet right wing radical himself, or just too gutless to do his job. The idea that the chief has no real power is nonsense. How long would a justice stay on the court once a chief suspends his decision writing privileges?