Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett 3 days after RBG died! and she was confirmed 27 days later. Biden today just promised to nominate someone by the end of February, a month from now
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:36 (two years ago) link
I know the timelines for the two nominations are different, but it would be nice to see some fire around this from the White House
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link
I expect they're figuring out a strategy to blunt the intense negative media campaign against any black woman they nominate. They're probably busy testing the water with Democratic senators since they notoriously can't afford to lose even one. Maybe approaching a couple of Republican senators, too, in case they can bust one loose from Mitch's grip. Nothing comes easy these days.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2022-01/27/20/asset/0993aa7da167/sub-buzz-651-1643315598-12.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=autoBoop.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 January 2022 02:27 (two years ago) link
there was an intense negative media campaign over Amy Coney Barrett and they just did it. and nobody is talking about it anymore
― Dan S, Friday, 28 January 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
there was an intense negative media campaign over Amy Coney Barrett and they just did it.
There was never the slightest doubt the Republicans had enough votes to confirm her from the instant RBG died. They had enough of a cushion the outcome was ordained. (see what I did there) The Dems have to keep weird-ass Sinema on board, among others, and every Dem senator knows their leverage is nearly infinite.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 28 January 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
Truly shocking - the Court tonight, 5-4 and without explanation, reinstates an execution that a district court and a unanimous court of appeals concluded should not proceed https://t.co/BnFpfmiAzI— Kate Shaw (@kateashaw1) January 28, 2022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 January 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
Not truly shocking with this court Law Professor Shaw.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 January 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
The shocking thing I suppose is that Barrett sided with the liberals.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 January 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
....but didn't join Kagan as a concurrence.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 January 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
I suppose being in the majority of a 6-3 court means you can make a game out of taking turns having the others provide cover for you.
― henry s, Friday, 28 January 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
Saw somewhere the thought that she may have been spooked at the prospect of actually OKing the execution of someone the state went out of their way to pursue.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 January 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
BREAKING: By a 5–4 vote, with Roberts joining the liberals in dissent, the Supreme Court halts a lower court order that required Alabama to redraw its congressional map, which diluted Black votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 7, 2022
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
i see our future has arrived and it has a big dollop of Jim Crow on it
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
just want to check back on this article and see how well it has aged
https://www.aei.org/articles/justice-john-roberts-was-right-things-have-changed-in-the-south/
― Barfl Suckown (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 February 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
Here's a horror story we should read on Halloween:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/amy-coney-barretts-long-game
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 February 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that it will consider a renewed request from New York City teachers and staff to block a vaccine mandate due their religious objections, despite an earlier denial by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The teachers had previously asked Sotomayor -- who has jurisdiction over lower courts in New York -- to consider their emergency request. Sotomayor denied the request without referring the matter to the full court, likely because she did not think her colleagues would be interested in granting the application. The court has been reluctant to get involved in state and local vaccine mandate disputes.But the New York group then took the unusual step of directing a new request to conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who referred it to the full court to consider. Supreme Court rules allow a party to make a renewed request to "any other justice" after a denial from the justice who has jurisdiction over the lower courts involved in the case. The rules state, however, that such a renewed application is "not favored."
Maskless anti-vaxer Gorsuch at work
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/sotomayor-gorsuch-new-york-vaccine-mandate/index.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/17/2080743/-Gorsuch-overrules-Sotomayor-again-demonstrating-the-Supreme-Court-has-to-be-expanded-to-be-saved?detail=emaildkre
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
holy shit
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
interested to see the religious argument for not masking (actually not interested in this)
excited for our forthcoming smallpox epidemic
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 19 February 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
but it will be divinely inspired smallpox epidemic so it's ok
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 19 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will decide whether LGBTQ non-discrimination laws that "compel an artist to speak or stay silent" violate the First Amendment. https://t.co/YlxSXnMjCI pic.twitter.com/isF4Px7yUi— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 22, 2022
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
Motion to fire up new thread U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Roberts Edition
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
overruled, with roberts, thomas, alito, gorsuch, kavanaugh, and barrett in the majority, and sotomayor, kagan, and breyer in disisent
― dig your way out of the shit with a gold magic shovel! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
that's just how it is here
I had to read Stern's article to understand "speak or stay silent."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
America has a long and storied tradition of gay bashing
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
Consider a photographer who refuses to shoot a Muslim wedding; a florist who refuses to sell flowers for a Bat Mitzvah; a hairdresser who refuses to provide services to Black people; a chef who refuses to cater a quinceañera.SCOTUS could exempt them all from civil rights laws.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 22, 2022
I feel like I should know this, but are there really current state civil rights laws that require non discrimination in things like wedding photography?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
don’t see how providing wedding photography is different than baking a wedding cake, making floral arrangements or creating a web page
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
ADF is a well-known Southern Poverty Law Center-designated extremist group. As Joe My God said, “it’s likely that Smith’s is yet another fake company created by the Alliance Defending Freedom in order file a peremptory challenge. In other words, she’s never refused any LGBT clients because she’s never had any attempt to hire her.”
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
The web page, according to Stern, is more recognizably "speech" than baking.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html
Some of this has been previously reported but this article adds more details re Clarence & Ginni Thomas and right wing craziness
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 04:41 (two years ago) link
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:19 (seven hours ago) link
I hadn’t realized that public accommodation laws were this broadly defined - I assumed it was places with a physical location open to the public.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 11:03 (two years ago) link
I'm as despairing as everyone else, but I really think they might just do a limited ruling that allows discrimination against LGBTQ+ people...which will be horrible and egregious and despicable and personal, obv, but essentially rolling back all civil rights laws doesn't seem prudent in any way, shape, or form.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Supreme_Court_Clarence_Thomas_21940.jpg?w=640
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
Conflict of interest? Our interests are completely aligned!
― dig your way out of the shit with a gold magic shovel! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
The only upside I can see is that maybe all us sick queers can move somewhere else.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
I'd love asylum in Portugal
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, February 23, 2022
why should services offered on the internet be treated any differently than Masterpiece Cakeshop or Arlene's Flowers?
― Dan S, Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
President Biden has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court, two people familiar with his decision said, choosing a well-regarded federal appeals court judge who if confirmed would make history by becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice.
In Judge Jackson, 51, Mr. Biden selected a liberal-leaning jurist who earned a measure of Republican support when he nominated her to the influential federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., last summer. If confirmed by the Senate, she would replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the senior member of the court’s three-member liberal wing, who announced last month that he would retire at the end of the current court term this summer if his successor was in place.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 February 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
Congrats, KBJ!
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Friday, 25 February 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
Nice.
https://fop.net/2022/02/fop-national-president-patrick-yoes-statement-on-nomination-of-kentaji-brown-jackson-to-scotus/?fbclid=IwAR1mygAcxof5AwY36Br_JFO14vMdL74SbE_r2LVE_mUnFAWywRoqAxltmWQ
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 25 February 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
Strike against her afaic.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 25 February 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
the first South Floridian to get nominated!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
by contemporary progressive standards even thurgood marshall would have strikes against him
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 25 February 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
Now we just need someone to <parody> Gorsuch and Thomas.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 25 February 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/north-carolina-republicans-scotus-gerrymandeering-assault.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=twitter_share
In a late Friday afternoon filing as war raged in Ukraine and as President Joe Biden announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans dropped their own bombshell: a legal filing in the Supreme Court that if successful would not only restore the state legislature’s ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering and perhaps tip control of Congress, but would radically alter the power of state courts to rein in state legislatures that violate voting rights in federal elections. There are strong arguments Republicans should lose this case, but don’t count them out before a polarized and politicized Supreme Court.
...This is the “independent state legislature” doctrine because it proposes that the legislature is supreme against all other actors that might run elections. This is a wacky theory of legislative power, but it is one that four Supreme Court justices (Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas) expressed support for in various opinions during the 2020 elections, and it echoes an alternative argument that former Chief Justice William Rehnquist, joined by Justice Thomas and former Justice Antonin Scalia, made in the Bush v. Gore case ending the 2000 election and handing victory to Republican George W. Bush.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 February 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link
Fucking Bush v. Gore case was one of the worst reasoned court opinions of the past century.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
they managed to actually do the thing that half this country is pretty sure happened in 2016
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
(and the other half is convinced happens in 2020)
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link