U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

celebrated moderate Kennedy really got over

Kennedy at least retired strategically and he knew it -- he even picked his successor.

It can impeach and remove justices. It can increase or decrease the size of the court itself (at its inception, the Supreme Court had only six members). It can strip the court of its jurisdiction over certain issues or it can weaken its power of judicial review by requiring a supermajority of justices to sign off on any decision that overturns a law. Congress can also rebuke the court with legislation that simply cancels the decision in question

Jamelle Bouie re what a Congress could do, if we had the numbers and leadership

Key word there being "if"

Nine justices is not enough for a country of 50 states (plus territories) and 300 million people.

We should have 450 justices, with the option of shooting one when they get uppity

Good idea, Lord Alfred! We could fund the court's operating costs by having an annual raffle for the chance to hunt the justices for sport.

2 justices. Duking it out for justice. And the winner gets to be president until they are defeated in physical combat

Thomas vs Alito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWVpcypf0w

Ginny Thomas would definitely put gorilla glue in the opponent’s mouthguard and then Clarence would gallantly pretend to hear or see absolutely nothing and to completely ignore any allegations that she was trying to help him or he was trying to help her. “What happens in the ring is completely separate and irrelevant to what happens outside of the ring, even in cases where a gluelike substance may or may not have found its way into my opponent’s mouthguard, many are saying that Thomas Paine believed”, he will think (but not say)

Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education. https://t.co/hrUYCcIq8Y

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 25, 2022

He's got him there — Brown v. Board did limit the rights of millions of white supremacists.

But this Court will put that right, given the chance.

I THINK he's saying Brown corrected a historic wrong like yesterday's case did Roe, but this is John Fucking Cornyn.

Yea that's what it seems in context. Mega clumsy way to put it

‘clumsy’ is being charitable. certainly a troll job if not a trial balloon

Cornyn quick to squander the thimbleful of goodwill the gun bill bought him.

Things Biden could do:

1. Set up abortion clinics on federal land inside red states (@ewarren’s idea)
2. Federal telehealth service for free abortion pills
3. Funding for abortion clinics and travel vouchers in nearby states

None of this is “waiving a magic wand”

— Childless Feminist Slut with Cats (@katewillett) June 24, 2022

Oral contraceptives should be over the counter like they are in over 100 other countries. I will die on this hill.

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) June 24, 2022

1) I see mentioned behind counter with pharmacist consultation. That makes sense. There are other issues any medications besides ones that most people are aware of. Less known are contra-indications with one's other prescriptions--even BC and HRT.

— 🧜‍♀️Traci Cleaver💉🍸☕🍺B5 ✨FS🐛⭕STOS🖖DS9🌌🦈🐙 (@ChrysantheSEA) June 25, 2022

Dunno of this is right, almost finished

2) also as mentioned by many is that insurance would not cover OTC.

— 🧜‍♀️Traci Cleaver💉🍸☕🍺B5 ✨FS🐛⭕STOS🖖DS9🌌🦈🐙 (@ChrysantheSEA) June 25, 2022

ugh, not deleting and reposting so edit mentioned here:
"There are other issues any medications besides ones that most people are aware of." should be "There are other issues for any medications besides ones that most people are aware of." oh and contraindication has no hyphen.

— 🧜‍♀️Traci Cleaver💉🍸☕🍺B5 ✨FS🐛⭕STOS🖖DS9🌌🦈🐙 (@ChrysantheSEA) June 25, 2022

Don't dare blame RBG for anything when you are a man that publicly posted about liking to jerk off in your office bathroom. Or go about your day and we are all still thinking it.

Feel like I missed something

My liberal boomer mom texted me joking about the potential ironies of loosening gun laws going poorly for 3-6 Justices.

If Ginsberg had retired while there was a Republican majority in the Senate and Obama was President, McConnell would have blocked a replacement as long as possible, maybe 'til Trump came in. Obama tried to get Merrick Garland in there, and even if he had, that's a wishy-washy Republican, a swing vote probably, nobody like Ginsburg (which was also her point when asked about retiring). It was a hell of a situation, whatever choice she made.

1. I deleted a couple of tweets cabout this summary of @PressSec's comments on the filibuster because I now have the transcript and I believe that @ValerioCNN's viral tweet mischaracterized @PressSec's remarks.

🧵https://t.co/lLjnFiDEXw

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 25, 2022

Mischaracterization of the positions of those you disagree with is rife in every part of political discourse. What's odd is anyone acknowledging it.

...the Supreme Court is also set to make another major decision in a less-publicized suit involving climate change.

The case, about how far the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, could affect the way the entire government makes rules and regulations.

With history of this long game.

Yeah extremely worried and despondent about that one

SCOTUS basically running its own version of The Purge here, just one atrocity after another.

They want to dismantle as much as humanly possible as quickly as possible because they know justices can die unexpectedly. They're forgetting President Joe Manchin is a pushover.

Here comes the bonus track!

SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach's free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2022

fuck this place

I mean, at least this ...

SCOTUS declines to take up a case that asked the court to overturn its landmark 1964 First Amendment decision, New York Times v. Sullivan. Clarence Thomas dissents from the decision not to take up the case.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2022

lol

Sotomayor's opinion in Concepcion is a major victory for federal defendants, and the split is extremely unusual: Gorsuch and Thomas joined the three liberals in the majority, while the remaining conservatives dissented. https://t.co/rIdxsjR58I pic.twitter.com/JCDV9RpoPZ

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 27, 2022

Thomas is the Armond White of SCOTUS.

but likes The Outfield instead of Prince.

Likes nothing at all IIRC

https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media.salon.com/2012/08/AP111110115461.jpg

I think most of us are old enough to remember vividly what he likes

I remember the trial vividly for mom yelling at the tv.

I remember the trial vividly because I couldn't figure out if Biden's hair was for real.

*hearing

had my elementary school aged self known what I know now I'd have destroyed the fucking TV and promised mom to use my allowance to get a new one tomorrow

Did TVs go on sale the next day back in '91?

my dad managed a Radio Shack, coulda just shoplifted one i'm sure

The fact that Clarence Thomas was nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall is one of history's all-time combinations of both insult and injury.