U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

The scariest part of the article was learning they called Alito "Sam," about Justice Samuel Alito, confirmed in 2006.

Opus One is a fantastic wine, though

would not get smashed with Sam, Tony, and Clarence though

Food delivery to the court has apparently improved since 2013, when Justice Sotomayor complained about the difficulty of getting takeout.

“I go to New York, I order food, it’s at my door in 10 to 15 minutes. O.K.?” she said. But in Washington, she said, “there isn’t a place I call where it doesn’t take 45 minutes.”

Speed of government amirite

Drivers stuck in DC traffic circles tbrr

Just trying to get through fifteen layers of security with some pad thai more like

Court rules 5-3 that a state supreme court judge's failure to recuse himself in an appeal, after having been a DA in the original case at hand, was a violation of due process.

See if you can guess who the three were. No, guess.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/15-5040

Er, 6-2. Sorry.

You were right the first time

I'm never right the first time.

But you were here...it's : Roberts, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, J., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

Wondering how Roberts and Thomas dressed up their naked self-interest there.

I don't want to think of Roberts and Thomas naked

liar

"I see you're interested in myself."

liar

― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Thursday, June 9, 2016 3:49 PM

shall I post SCOTUS COITUS slash fiction

follow yr muse

I don't want to think of Roberts and Thomas naked

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

don't read "america: the book"

how has #scoitus not been a thing yet

I've written SCOTUS fic before, but I've never considered slash tbh.

Former girlfriend of Clarence Thomas claims she had threesomes with the controversial Supreme Court justice and some of his female colleagues

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3543232/Former-girlfriend-Clarence-Thomas-claims-threesomes-controversial-Supreme-Court-justice-female-colleagues.html

Better put some ointment on that GINSBURN

On May 14, Justice Clarence Thomas gave the commencement address at Hillsdale College.

SCOTUSBlog has a link to the video of this but I don't think I want to watch it

Oh whew I thought your post was referencing a different Clarence Thomas-related news item.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/13/supreme-court-rejects-case-challenging-key-white-house-air-pollution-regulation/?wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1

The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a key Obama administration environmental regulation, refusing to take up an appeal from 20 states to block rules that limit the emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants that are byproducts of burning coal.

The high court’s decision leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that the regulations, put in place several years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency, could remain in effect while the agency revised the way it had calculated the potential industry compliance costs. The EPA finalized its updated cost analysis in April.

Radiolab has a new podcast about the Supreme Court. Pretty cool stuff if you're interested in the history of the thing and key decisions and so on.

Supreme Court nominee tutors twice a month (as do his clerks) and does 5th grade commencement speech at elementary school in DC. He's been doing it for 18 years. I don't think this will impress Mitch McConnell enough to give him a hearing.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/15/482206242/merrick-garland-delivers-5th-grade-commencement-address

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/06/15/merrick-garland-tells-5th-grade-graduates-to-work-hard-dreams-dont-come-true-by-magic/

at this point I'm kinda hoping after Hillary wins Garland's nomination is withdrawn and someone even leftier gets Scalia's spot

odds seem low but one can dream

If RBG announces she's retiring the day after the election, I would accept Garland PLUS someone leftier. Or two lefties, whatev.

that scenario maybe more likely, yeah

Any nominee still needs Senate confirmation. HRC's coattails may not stretch far enough to take the Senate away from McConnell & Co, even with Donald the Menace heading the ticket.

Yeah, there's no reason to assume that this nonsense will end post-Obama

this executive jiggery pokery you mean?

as it stands now, there's no way the GOP is keeping the Senate

lol Alfred

at this point I'm kinda hoping after Hillary wins Garland's nomination is withdrawn and someone even leftier gets Scalia's spot

― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 16, 2016 2:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

odds seem low but one can dream

― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 16, 2016 2:36 PM (1 hour ago)

whatever happens garland's nomination was an incredible chess move from obama and will play a huge role in the election

not that i disagree but can you game it out? (assuming you're not being sarcastic.) i still have troubling seeing exactly what kind of impact it'll have / has had within the current american electorate

i was being sarcastic ;)

whatever happens garland's nomination was an incredible chess move from obama and will play a huge role in the election

I think it was a good chess move at the time, however as ammo against the GOP it's absolutely dwarfed by Trump shitting all over the chessboard on a daily basis.

thanks for the image

I think it will be inconsequential. I think it was probably the best of non-amazing chess move options at the time (the GOP is going to obstruct no matter what, so pick someone who gives them the least excuse to do so), but I wouldn't call it "incredible," and now, as pointed out, Trump is probably going to drown out any effect of that pick in congressional elections.

feel like the only dividends it could possibly pay off at this pt would be if some republicans start to freak out as we get closer to the election and try to push through garland and other republicans still committed to trump will push back and it'll just become another indication of how fractured + broken the party is.

what are the chances of Alito, Slobbo, Roberts, and Tony dropping dead the second Hillz crosses 270 electoral votes in November?

I'm not sure that is hypothetical enough for you to disavow involvement with the sniper oh I've said too much

The more I think about it, why wouldn't Republicans hold out for the next justice to drop or retire? Two of the three oldest are liberal and the other is Kennedy.

Good shot at a conservative majority 7-justice court. What do they have to lose?

i think that type of inaction would make them look extremely bad worse and might lead to some backlash, but maybe i overestimate the distaste that would engender.

I guess maybe finding rhetorical cover for it would be too challenging? But "Republicans will never be able to find rhetorical cover for this" sounds like famous last words.

If they retain the Senate, I'm not sure what difference "backlash" would make.