U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

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.

and how Poppy lied when he said race wasn't a factor

still wondering whether some well-times exercises of second amendment rights aren’t our only way out of this

https://www.vox.com/2022/6/27/23184848/supreme-court-kennedy-bremerton-school-football-coach-prayer-neil-gorsuch

So Gorsuch called the public school football coach's actions a "private" "quiet" prayer at the 50 yard line, even though the dissent included a photo showing a crowd of players around the coach and the school principal testified that he later became aware of a parent's complaint that his son "felt compelled to participate" in Kennedy's religious activity, even though he was an atheist, because "he felt he wouldn't get to play as much if he didn't participate."

"he felt he wouldn't get to play as much if he didn't participate."

Learning that life is unfair is so fucking cruel in high school sports. The prayer thing is wildly obnoxious but merely a good leaping point for The Shit That High School Coaches Use To Avoid Merit-Based Playing Time.

High school coaches and Justices with no self-awareness of how others will feel. The coach kept articulating his prayers in team meetings and at the 50 yard line and since some chose to join him, just assumed this was ok and effective

I'm sure he thinks he's a big fucking hero and a soldier for god

Never knew a football coach who didn't believe that.

I'm reminded of this still stunning incident from my childhood: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-11-25-9311250178-story.html

Youth football coaching legend Three Year Letterman is on the case.

As a youth football coaching legend, I am disturbed and infuriated by this coach’s actions.

I get the Declaration of Independence gives us free speech, but the post-game is for belittling and intimidating your defeated opponent. This coach embraced mediocrity.

— Three Year Letterman (@3YearLetterman) June 27, 2022

A year of work proving Louisiana's congressional map discriminates against Black voters. A 152-page district court opinion finding discrimination, upheld in a 33-page opinion by the most conservative federal court in the nation. Taken away by 6 justices in an act of raw power. https://t.co/PhJ9iROha1

— Sam Spital (@SamSpital) June 28, 2022

The US Supreme Court yesterday chose to overrule the Louisiana redistricting congressional map . Above tweets give some details.

Was talking to another parent at the baseball game last night and he said it feels just like one gut punch from the Supreme Court every single day right now. It's really hard to not get dispirited and start to feel hopeless.

Voting in our primary yesterday helped a little, but even though I voted as *hard* as I could, I'm doubtful it will lead to meaningful change like the notable Twitter dems told me it would.

what are the realistic chances of expanding the court to 13? who gets to decide who those extra judges are, if they succeed?

Congress. Court size varied widely during the 19th century.

Diets being what they were.

Today Wednesday was a 5-4 decision that overturned law regarding Native American reservations.

The Supreme Court rules that states CAN prosecute crimes against Native American victims committed on Native American reservations if the defendant is non-Native. The decision limits the scope of the 2020 ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma (which involved a Native American defendant).

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 29, 2022

Don't tell me: Gorsuch joined the libs.

Is that good or bad?

Gorsuch's only virtue is consistent support for indigenous sovereignty.

Not only did he join the dissent, he wrote it. He wrote the original decision that's being overturned, so he's pissed.

Oh, and Breyer is officially out effective noon tomorrow.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/midterms-pressure-senate-biden-on-circuit-court-appointments

Democrats risk running out of time before filling all current or expected federal appeals court vacancies with their grip on the Senate in doubt, legal scholars who follow judicial nominations say.

Progressives want the White House and Senate Democrats to move faster. The usual summer congressional slowdown and November midterm campaigning leaves limited time for committee and floor action before a lame-duck session to end the year.

Senate Democrats, who have confirmed 16 circuit nominees in the first year and a half of Joe Biden’s presidency, are aiming to nearly double the tally in the next six months.

But filling all available vacancies is unlikely without changes to how the majority manages vetting, said John Collins, a George Washington University professor who tracks judicial nominations. “I just don’t think there’s enough time,” Collins said.