U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

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The point is not merely Monday morning quarterbacking. The point is that liberal individualistic veneration of these justices is about as helpful to democracy as praying to Jobu and possibly even counterproductive.

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I don't think 'not retiring under Obama' was a vain decision, it was just a decision

as a 39 year old Business Instructor in an HR outsourcing firm, I am uniquely qualified to tackle this topic

The point is not merely Monday morning quarterbacking. The point is that liberal individualistic veneration of these justices is about as helpful to democracy as praying to Jobu and possibly even counterproductive.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, September 18, 2020 10:11 PM bookmarkflaglink

i don't think that was beamish's point so much when she also went into the RIP RBG thread to say this exact shit

it was a decision with huge consequences, which she was beyond smart enough to understand, but it's too late now. at my old job (lawyer) two women had at least 20 pieces of horrible "notorious RBG" paraphernalia decorating each of their offices and that kind of shit always bothered me but i never told them any hot takes about RBG, i just wish people were not like that.

fun times:

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman showed up to the Supreme Court and got mobbed after saying Roe v. Wade is “dead” and the Supreme Court will soon get a new justice. pic.twitter.com/KkeQZj5L4T

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) September 19, 2020

as a 39 year old Business Instructor in an HR outsourcing firm, I am uniquely qualified to tackle this topic

― origami condom (Neanderthal)

wait were you the one that replied to me AS Max Linn?!
#onethread

your job description reminds me of will ferrell's I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS snl skit

lol sorry neanderthal, i thought you were mirroring my recent disqusion on the comments at the bottom of this: https://www.blacklivesmatternationalservice.com/

which, if you haven't been #onethreading, is a really bizarre and obviously fake campaign by the long-shot independent candidate Max Linn in the Maine senatorial race, which most observers believe to be primarily a contest between susan collins and sarah gideon

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sorry about it eric

Not to get all maudlin, but let's all try and be good to each other till November.

More like Ruth Later Gonesburg.

let's just try to be good to each other period yo

We should close this thread.

it ain't helping

the "America is broken and we're hurting" love-in thread

Seriously, I got married yesterday because in part of this justice. It's filled with the brutal irony that is characteristic of this shitty, exciting year.

Well, to be totally fair, Minnesota was already clear before that decision. But print the legend.

congratulations, Eric!

co-sign. congrats, Eric :)

Congrats Eric! Thank you for sharing this happy news on an otherwise bummer day. May you bring each other joy for decades to come!

Congrats!

congrats Eric! that really is the best way to celebrate her life and accomplishments. sorry to bring it up in a bad way, but i'm happy all the same

Somehow I saw this thread had a bunch of new answers before I saw the news or noticed the RGB RIP thread, but I had a gut feeling it meant she had passed — maybe partly because I remembered recently seeing the headline that Trump had a shortlist of 20 new appointees to the court. I hope the consequences don't turn out as dire as they seem.

Congrats to Eric, whose horror film poll I remember with great fondness. Hope your chosen one shares that passion.

What’s up with the smug Canadians lately? Jesus.

was wondering why I got a notification email

"avenge my FP"

also one more round of congrats to Eric <3

Another congratulations! to Eric plus sad condolences from this non-smug Canadian

Congrats to Eric

I don't think 'not retiring under Obama' was a vain decision, it was just a decision

one fun thing if ginsberg dies will be watching all the bluecheck resistance types going "merrick garland much my good sir" as mcconnell serenely jams through justin walker to take her seat six weeks before the election

— The 20th Dryjacker (@allahliker) May 6, 2020

in addition to fighting over a new justice, how about impeaching and jailing the two rapists currently on the supreme court?

I know, I know...

Trump is going to nominate Barrett in a few days because he (correctly) intuits that the judge list won over the skeptical Republicans he actually needed to win. Democrats will be incredibly motivated to vote and will turn him out decisively, she gets confirmed in December. https://t.co/1mURiWidx8

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) September 19, 2020

Well, one of those two rapists on the SC is there today because of the other idiot running for President

do you oversimplify this much in other parts of your life, too?

Halfway through this round-up of her record:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/03/the-rise-of-the-ruth-bader-ginsburg-cult

Coney Barrett=Another Pynchon-esque Character Name In Government

RBG was no Wm. O. Douglas. Then again, Justice Douglas constantly was on the losing side of 8-1 votes and spent his tenure writing dissenting opinions that have been mostly ignored in later jurisprudence.

I don't know about his entire tenure, though. He's responsible for Griswold, Brady, and Terminiello, among others, which have had seismic influence.

"In January, the Court issued its opinion in the case of Kansas v. Carr. The Kansas Supreme Court had overturned a pair of death sentences, on the grounds that the defendants’ Eighth Amendment rights had been violated in the instructions given to the jury. The U.S. Supremes swooped in, informing Kansas that it had made a mistake; nobody’s Eighth Amendment rights had been violated, thus the defendants ought to have continued unimpeded along the path toward execution. The Court’s decision was 8-1, the lone dissenter being Sonia Sotomayor. Ginsburg put her name on Justice Scalia’s majority opinion instead."

Love too be on the winning side..

Like y'know Ginsburg above all people didn't believe in just ruling based on her gut feeling on the core issue (capital punishment).

Despite being pro-choice herself, she long felt that Roe v Wade's decision was based on shoddy legal reasoning

Also did you even read Sotomayor's dissent? Her dissent was that SCOTUS shouldn't have even heard the case because she felt nobody's eight amendment rights were violated

the case did not involve the Constitutionality of the death penalty

why are you falling for alphabet bait

Cos he's so dreamy

it's better not to encourage the spread of selective misrepresentations of fact. too much of that going around these days.