U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.

Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.

"The Basic Con," by the late great Lew Welch

the rest of us, god's unchosen people

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms and diagnosed with an infection, court says. https://t.co/Zlt736elvM

— CNN (@CNN) March 20, 2022

be still his heart

An infection of what

I have dumbass Black neoliberals in my Facebook feed wishing Clarence Thomas a speedy recovery and I’m like “no, die bitch”

One wonders if he’s vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.

All justices are purportedly vaxed and boosted

Come on Grim Reaper, give us this one please

pls pls pls pls pls pls pls

I've been so good, I deserve it

god? are you listening?????

It's me, everybody who's not a c*** in America.

Perhaps it was from an infected pubic hair on his Coke.

You'll know the matrix is glitching if Biden gets to pick Thomas' replacement.

You'll know the matrix is glitching if Biden gets to pick Thomas' replacement.

Haha, "and the judicial committee approves the nomination of Clarence Thomas Jr.!"

brb, buying Gorsuch BASE-jumping lessons

In the first 35 minutes Grassley and Graham mentioned Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown, and broken car windows and spittle during the Kav hearings.

the GOP strategy is just to complain about past hearings?

building a justification for the shitty things they're going to do/say?

How’d day 1 go?

I heard Lindsay Graham had a few crackers.

Brown Jackson seems like an excellent nominee, it's just really hard to get enthusiastic about a 3-6 court going into an election where dems are about to get slaughtered. At least it (probably) won't be 2-7 I guess?

used to be alito followed scalia's lead like they were grafted together in a scotus version of the human centipede. why can't he do it just one more time?

the GOP said that they were definitely not going to ask the Judge if she likes beer.

Fuck Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz going after the 1619 Project and CRT at the hearings right now

Made sure to name drop Marx as well

she did a good job slapping down his gotcha quote

"Do you agree that babies should confess to their racism? Answer the question!!"

y'all didn't watch Graham this morning evidently. A performance for the ages.

These hearings are basically like, "So how can you, as a black woman, empathize with the white man?"

soft on child pornographers, tough on white folks

oh great it's ben's ass

Jackson's response to Ben Sasse on how to thread "originalism" and modern sensibilities while interpreting Fourth Amendment case law was marvelous and intelligible to the average person.

Lots of unintentional comedy today but “rate your faith 1-10” is up there.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 22, 2022

Apparently it was Graham who came up with this howler.

Listening to it live ranks with my first viewing of Pulp Fiction as an epochal moment.

She gave it an 8.3 but not BNM for some reason

lol

so many candidates but I think Lindsey Graham is my least favorite Senator

more child porn!!

I only wish she cared as much about the rule of law as she does about perverts and GITMO inmates

It's like watching a class of kindergartners question their teacher about her job. She tries to explain the concepts of education and employment and it goes right over their heads so they get mad and say something like "it's not a hard question! Should my mom let me eat cake for breakfast on my birthday? Yes or no!"

I don't have the fortitude to watch these hearings, so can somebody please run down the state of play: we're basically waiting to see if Manchin/Sinema will embarrass themselves and find a reason not to approve Jackson, right? And in that event then Dems have to peel off votes from Romney/Murkowski/Collins?

Neither is on the Judiciary Committee.

I'd say there's a near zero chance of Manchin or Sinema not approving, unless one of them suprise announces switching parties or something.

not voting to confirm I mean

Whatever else, Manchinema have been good on judicial appointments.

Yeah, and I feel like that's one area where people virtually always stick with the party.