U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

The documentary did suck.

that movie was flat amazing, like 60% of it was just white ladies in pearls sitting in front of bay windows giggling about biggie

you mean 60 seconds

yeah sorry there were snl clips too.

nominee and spouse must "look All-American"

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/04/trump-supreme-court-pick-family-optics-694788

while the doc was running i overheard a customer ask one of the ushers what the movie was about; "it's about a woman on the supreme court," she replied. another customer, sweeping grandly by, stopped to rebuke her, presumably for betraying her sex w her ignorance: "it's about THE woman on the supreme court!" but there are three.

lmao

What are the reasons to hate RBG. Honestly asking.

Well, there was this gift to the anti-choicists:

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

basically she is nowhere near as progressive as given credit for and she should have retired under Obama. I don't hate her, I just think the cult around her is unwarranted.

She's progressive enough. No vote is 100 percent reliable, as the GOP has learned.

anyway never forget

https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_07/1417876/160214-ginsburg-scalia-230p_d8c1506bab17a5efb1e0e2577595d371.1200;630;7;70;5.jpg

nominee and spouse must "look All-American"

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/04/trump-supreme-court-pick-family-optics-694788

lol so Amul Thapar doesn't have a fuckin chance

Still gives hard-ons to Chuck Todd I-long-for-bipartisn-monkeyshines types

I just remembered her comments on kneeling but she retracted them. I should've said hate on, but I see you are hating on fanboys, which yeah. Any fandom has shitty people in it.

And seriously, the women have been carrying this court. No flies on them from my perspective.

basically she is nowhere near as progressive as given credit for and she should have retired under Obama. I don't hate her, I just think the cult around her is unwarranted.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, July 6, 2018 1:11 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)

I am not really familiar with the methodology behind these metrics but she was about as liberal as a post-marshall justice has been, at least in how she voted

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/justice-kennedy-wasnt-a-moderate/?ex_cid=story-twitter

So in 2019, the Supreme Court is probably going to force public sector unions to pay back fair share fees from the past to workers who opted out of membership. This would effectively bankrupt all public sector unions. https://t.co/6WvyJzwOCV

— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) July 6, 2018

BREAKING: President Trump is nominating federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh as next US Supreme Court justice - @PeteWilliamsNBC

the golden boy

oh fucking hell Ed Meese is in the audience

ME: It's Kavanaugh.
WIFE: Which one is that?
ME: The shitty one.
WIFE: Not helpful. Aren't they all shitty?
ME: Yeah. Life is meaningless.

— Charles, Star of Mic Dicta (@Ugarles) July 10, 2018

so marvelous that five dudes will strike down or weaken Roe v. Wade!

the NYT is here to tell us this is fine

Akil Ahmar wins this year's Neal Katyal Award for meritorious service on behalf of contrarianism https://t.co/VygfW9czIb

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 10, 2018

He’s the most qualified Supreme Court nominee ever!

John Marshall himself would've married him iirc

Given the quality of every other Trump nominee to date, I expect that in the next 24 hours we’ll either learn that Brett Kavanaugh has an IQ of 75 or that he owns a coat made of human skin.

I hope he catches Ebola

It’s so fun to wish grievous harm on people I didn’t know existed minutes ago

Two things that could happen but who knows:

Brett Kavanaugh spent 5 years in the Bush White House. He undoubtedly sent tens of thousands of emails. All of those are public record and Democrats and the media should demand that they be posted online like Elena Kagan's emails were.

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) July 10, 2018

One final thought: I think Trump has handed Senate Democrats an absolute gift in nominating the principal author of the Starr report, that the confirmation fight will be excruciating for the President, and that he will ultimately regret this decision.

— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) July 10, 2018

But the Democrats!

i agree with people upthread that most people (even fox news watchers) don't give a shit about the supreme court.

but i've seen arguments that trump wants (or has been advised to look for) a tv-friendly nomination fight to motivate the more febrile elements of his base for the midterms.

i agree with people upthread that most people (even fox news watchers) don't give a shit about the supreme court.

Lots of people in the US go to church. Most people who go to church are anti-abortion and know the road to overturning Roe goes through the SCOTUS. Please believe me that churchy types follow these things closely, and if not, their pastors do.

what evidence have we that FOX viewers stay home during elections?

I get that there are people whose vote turns on issues like Roe. I mean that trump imagines (perhaps wrongly) that there’s a significant constituency of people who are in the 65% who don’t normally vote in midterms who might be motivated to turn out for him if he gets a knockabout confirmation hearing.

I don’t think he’s right btw. The set of people who wouldn’t otherwise vote who can be motivated to turn out solely by *controversy* about a Supreme Court nomination process has to be tiny. But in trump’s mind ratings = votes.

SCOTUS is only good to motivate the already politically engaged. Getting a nominee through pre-mideterms, which he probably will, seems neutral for him. Being unable to get one through pre-midterms might slightly motivate republicans but it will also motivate democrats to at least the same degree.

Uh-oh. The influential conservative evangelical American Family Association has come out AGAINST Brett Kavanaugh! @AmericanFamAssc is powerful with the grassroots. Don’t think @realDonaldTrump and @WhiteHouse was expecting this. Worth following. Read their beef. @CBNNews pic.twitter.com/g5SLRBc8oC

— David Brody (@TheBrodyFile) July 10, 2018

I don't understand that Susan Hennessey tweet at all fwiw. Why would that be so?

Fact check: Trump chose names off a list given to him by an interest group, then he interviewed four candidates in under 2 hours last Monday. https://t.co/RpQCgxhgMV

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 10, 2018

Think Hennessy is arguing that the dem attacks will be based on investigations into the president and not about the law

The law is easier to tapdance around and not say anything controversial

Is the idea that democrats will be able to hold "hypocrisy" over him because he was part of the Starr investigation but later 180'd and said presidential investigations are a big waste of time and shouldn't happen?

Our Democratic colleagues cry wolf whenever a Republican president nominates anyone to the Supreme Court. No matter their qualifications. No matter their record. No matter their reputation. It’s the same hyperbole. The same accusations. The same old story. #SCOTUSnominee

— Leader McConnell (@SenateMajLdr) July 9, 2018

remember when this motherfucker said he would oppose any nominee Obama put forth like one day after Scalia died

he's one of the worst people i can think of currently alive, probably top five. just don't say he is like a 'turtle' or some shit because that is so boring and lame

Is the idea that democrats will be able to hold "hypocrisy" over him because he was part of the Starr investigation but later 180'd and said presidential investigations are a big waste of time and shouldn't happen?

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, July 9, 2018 10:16 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the idea is that dems will be able to say "the president clearly nominated this man so he could exonerate himself from the wide-ranging investigation into his misconduct." it's a good line of attack. the more trump's naked corruption is publicly discussed, the better.

xpost

yeah, and then there was that famous meeting of top GOP cronies the night of obama's inauguration where they agreed to oppose every single obama initiative possible. admittedly mcconnell wasn't present at that one, but it just goes to show how thoroughly the GOP executed this strategy a decade ago

xp yeah that part I get I just don't understand what difference it makes that he was part of the Starr investigation

weak credibility re the dignity of the presidency

credibility is overrated

Also, Roger Stone is apparently not a Kavanaugh fan. pic.twitter.com/Q11DenFJni

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 10, 2018