U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot-disaster.html

I would hope that after Trump we'll never have another insurrectionist with a serious shot at becoming president

The SCOTUS as it presently stands was never going to thread the needle between either eliminating Section 3 as a meaningful part of the US Constitution or opening an ugly can of partisan worms with the potential to destroy all future US elections. They aren't judicious enough for that.

that moment Scalia died and the immense joy I felt feels like an eternity ago

This and Israel have sealed Trump’s reelection

everyone's a pundit these days

a one-note one, at that

Take that to the containment thread

no containing him

FP'd beamish, please join me everyone

love to have expatriates talk shit about the country they ran away from, fuck off forever

Hey, I didn’t run away-I fucking escaped

The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to keep Donald Trump on Colorado’s ballot was styled as a unanimous one without any dissents. But the metadata tells a different story. On the page, a separate opinion by the liberal justices is styled as a concurrence in the judgment, authored jointly by the trio. In the metadata of the link to the opinion posted by the court, however, this opinion is styled as an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, authored not by all three justices but by Sonia Sotomayor alone. Even a techphobic reader can discern this incongruity through careful copying and pasting, piercing the facade of unanimity that the conservative justices sought to present.

Yea Mark Stern of Slate was tweeting about the metadata. I just wished Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan had written a dissent, but sadly they ultimately went along with the result and the supposed value of of a 9-0 judgment. Plus there was no published dissent from them on the delay and the handling of the immunity case, or for that matter on whether, per new code of ethics, their colleague Thomas should be participating in any of these cases.

fyi sleeve I will stop talking shit about the US when I stop having to file a goddamn tax return every year

love to have expatriates talk shit about the country they ran away from, fuck off forever

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:45 (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Expat (I prefer the term migrant) here, to hell with that bullshit! You’re as bad as the people who say we shouldn’t have a vote despite, y’know, citizenship making it an inalienable right. Much as I’m pissed off about Gaza, and the US coddling of Netanyahu, I’m holding back on deciding on my DFL voting choices until nearer the time, apart from voting for Ilhan Omar, a given.

sleeve's comments are based on that specific poster, iirc, who popped in the hour RBG died while we were all experiencing intense fear and despair, to talk about how her legacy was bullshit. and often shows up to post condescension about their superior knowledge of American politics and tell us how we should feel.

they also post a lot of interesting stuff as well on a variety of topics...but I get where sleeve is coming from. as I learned this weekend by playing peacemaker between two squabbling friends, sometimes when you're worried and angry, you don't want your neighbor coming over escalating your anger and worry by telling you how bad things are in hyperbolic fashion, over and over, when you already know these things and are aware of them.

For many reasons, I suppose I’m immune to the sleeve-offending poster’s schtick but resenting Americans who are living outside the US *on ILX* is kind of dumb no matter what.

yeah I'm familiar enough with sleeve to not be truly offended here, but I thought it was kind of funny to try drum up FPs for beamish's whatever post and then follow it up with something way more aggro and fairly close to love it or leave it territory

fled fascist spain? sorry your opinion on franco is invalid u coward

don’t worry expats, we’ll all burn.

Xxxp to Suzy

I don't think that's what he's doing? Not wanting to speak for sleeve, so I'll bow out, but a search will reveal this poster has gotten under a few posters' skins in the past

Xpost to rob, I read it more as being aggravated that a poster who no longer has skin in the game on account of moving often shows up merely doompost or be condescending to those of us that still unfortunately live here

I'm not v familiar with beamish's posting history, but sure I get it and like I said I wasn't really that bothered. But I do think sleeve's wording was objectively objectionable in the way that it applied to any US emigrant, and it seems like suzy and Tracer agree?

For numerous reasons I'd also personally object to the idea that as an emigrant from the US I "no longer have skin in the game." But maybe we should talk about that in the immigrant poll thread I just started instead

Gore Vidal used to say, so long as I pay American taxes I can criticize my own government.

Vidal could also have said that as long as his blood relatives were part of it, he could criticize the government...

and Vidal paid a lot in taxes while he chilled in his beautiful Italian villa

lol I did not know I was inadvertently quoting Vidal earlier

...with beautiful boys, writing Burr.

this seems good

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/12/federal-courts-move-against-judge-shopping-00146594

It seems good, but Republicans are trying to block and resist it

Lawrence Hurley, NBC new reporter on bluesky post-- McConnell and other Republicans have sent letters to judges around the country indicating they are not bound to follow the new policy cracking down on "judge-shopping"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-take-aim-new-move-judiciary-curb-judge-shopping-rcna143405

jeeesus.

https://bsky.app/profile/gbbranstetter.bsky.social/post/3knqkvce34l2e

Blocked for freebies what the hell happened now

for those without bsky, post is this screenshot.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreidfsx3asljx6ncblptcy7orugnr67bn3mqy2d53g62mwhhaikslpa@jpeg

I guess Thanksgivings are tense.

Dang, that's like a Trollope novel

I had to honey, where else would I golf? Seriously, fuck that guy

my god what a piece of shit

Jesus Christ, imagine doing that to your own daughter. Garbage human being.

amazing the lack of awareness to think that had he merely said "I'm glad this is over", that would have been ok

apologizing to the father of your daughter's attacker for the inconvenience.

https://x.com/chrisgeidner/status/1768688451816247586?s=46&t=u2ZSlsY3trRV36IPP6jNDQ

Justices deny request to lift injunction barring drag events on Texas college campus. Underlying case on the merits still has not been heard yet

I think you got that reversed. The courts have so far not chosen to grant an injunction against the ban. Requests for injunctions are usually based on a claim that unless the injunction is granted "irreparable harm" will be suffered by those making the request. The courts have apparently decided that the harm done does not rise to meet that standard.

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows West Texas A&M University to continue its campus drag ban. The justices deny students the injunction they have thus far also been denied by Judge Kacsmaryk and the Fifth Circuit.

Sotomayor and Barrett want you to know they are chums:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/15/supreme-court-seems-bitterly-divided-two-justices-say-otherwise/

The justices are yoked together for life terms. Collegiality is just a recognition they are locked in a room together forever.

Doing joint public appearances together is hardly required for collegiality. Anyway, I'm not confused as to why they're doing this: the SC has a massive credibility problem due to it being thoroughly corrupted by the far right, and this is crisis PR.

I understand the intent and it still made me vomit a couple days ago.

lol & otm

I have zero interest in what beamish thinks, but to clarify for rob/tracer/suzy, my issue is really with the undertone of contempt in said poster's posts, implying that people who remain in the US are stupid or delusional. I don't have an issue with emigres per se. I don't know whether I would stay and fight or run if my friends started being murdered, I have no kids and not much to lose by leaving but my wife does, last time we discussed this we were on the "stay and fight" side. I keep this thread unbookmarked for my own sanity and wish death on the SC daily, so I was late responding.

xpost-- yep, you phrased it better Aimless.

This happened today too. Kagan voting with most of the conservatives; Gorsuch joining Jackson and Sotomayor in the dissent

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/kagan-leads-supreme-court-majority-in-tough-on-crime-ruling/article_4b2360de-53b3-567d-9fe8-0c8618129a40.html

Paging Alfred

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/18/supreme-court-murthy-missouri-problems-00147591