U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

Do I have this right? In the span of 2 days SCOTUS said that businesses can refuse service to protected minorities, but also businesses have to give their Christian employees Sundays off or whatever other religious demands they make?

Yeah, but in the "both the rich and the poor are forbidden to sleep under bridges" spirit of fun, businesses can now refuse service to Christians, too.

Oh that'll be on the next docket, no doubt

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/the-supreme-court-cant-kill-student-loan-relief.html

430 billion in student debt relief is wiped out but contributor to New York mag says to be happy because a smaller plan that applies to less people and cancels less debt is still working.

The Supreme Court's decision today means that no one who qualified for relief under Biden's plan will have even a penny of their student debt cancelled. The majority has blocked about $430 billion in debt relief for roughly 40 million Americans. https://t.co/TK3eTzQgiE

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 30, 2023

430 billion in student debt relief is wiped out but contributor to New York mag says to be happy because a smaller plan that applies to less people and cancels less debt is still working.

― curmudgeon,

thanks for the insight

I'm posting another POV without endorsement.

Seeing some speculation that this decision could be the tipping point that ultimately leads to a late-2023 recession that the country has, so far, managed to somehow avoid. I'm no economist, but if that does happen, it'll be timed up nicely for the presidential election year.

(The reasoning being that graduates who have been able to spend money elsewhere will now be forced to focus on buckling down and paying off the debt.)

I can’t help but hope between the recent decisions and the exposure of Alito/Thomas’ various examples of grifting, these conservative justices are in the middle of overplaying their hand.

Alright maybe I skimmed that New York mag article too fast

I just wish I owned a business so I could refuse service to Christians and heterosexuals

RBG always had a shitty record, and the idolatry of her by center-right Democrats always mystifies me. She continually supported endless expansion of police powers. She was no fucking hero to the working class

Biden’s shoulders must get sore from the helpless shrugging

Macimillion-I feel your rage. Impotent, incompetent leadership from Biden and Obama definitely contributed to this. Leaving America is the only sane option at this point. I have no doubt that total fascism WILL exist by 2030

Biden DID, however, take the time this week to give a big shout out to asshole Jeffrey Katzenberg

According to Chief Justice Roberts, he and his colleagues are merely acting in their capacity as 'umpires' to call balls and strikes, so we mustn't get mad at them because they are perfectly neutral arbiters of the law and good custodians of our rights.

Macimillion-I feel your rage. Impotent, incompetent leadership from Biden and Obama definitely contributed to this.

yes I'm sure it did

Thanks for the useless snark. You’re all in the same boat.

Keep voting harder?

Time to take a breath here

Republicans win because they play dirty. Democrats have an obsession with decorum, which frankly hasn’t panned out well during this century

You don't say.

Do go on, darling, instructing the only gay Floridian public university employee how #bothsides are to blame.

On this message board at least

You really need to stop directing your anger towards me. Be constructive with it.

Good luck in Florida

I'll tell the local party of which I'm a member, hon. Thanks!

Good luck! Thanks for the patronizing attitude. Just please don’t respond to me anymore. I wasn’t even commenting directly to you earlier

Are you still here shouting at people who don't deserve it?

idk if you all remember but this exact argument played out with this exact same poster the moment RBG died in 2020

Oy gevalt

Play the hits

time warp

Nah. I’ll sit back and watch

Science Fiction/Double Feature

idk if you all remember but this exact argument played out with this exact same poster the moment RBG died in 2020

Did not remember, and was starting to wonder if beamish13 was map, back under another name.

unfair to map

otm

ftr I hate what RBG did too, and on another board today I was as splenetic as bearmish, but what happened today would've happened in a 5-4 Court instead of 6-3.

map rules

map is good people IMO

Biden inspires no passion ANYWHERE. There are no lawn signs or bumper stickers for him because people are, at the absolute best, moderately satisfied with him. This will be his undoing when he loses in November to the syphilitic nightmare that is a Donald J. Trump

― beamish13, Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Beaming with insight.

I’m an outsider to America at this point, and I freely admit that.

Why am I the focus, though? Guys ran out of things to say?

return of the mack.xls

Leaving America is the only sane option at this point.

I know you’re super proud of moving to Canada, but maybe some people here don’t have that option.

Hey bearish, pretty please, shut the fuck up.

Oops. U know who I mean.

Why am I the focus, though?

utterly bewildering. here's a thought. stop posting to the thread for an hour or two and see if you're still the focus. so crazy it might work!

Here we are on rerun #6,704 of "I'm leaving this country," and its close companion "but that will leave the vulnerable people even more vulnerable," lather, rinse, etc.

mmmm right