U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

Separation of powers means stop asking us to talk to you so we can get on with overturning your laws

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/mike-johnson-trump-supreme-court?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=twitter

Speaker of the House Johnson says on Fox News that he knows many of the Supreme Court Justices personally, as part of a discussion of how to get the Trump verdict overthrown

very legal, very cool

brb, gotta tell my wife to stop taking a giant patriotic shit in mike johnson's mouth

On the sloppiness of some of Alito's recent decisions:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/the-man-who-would-be-a-very-sloppy-king

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judges-luxury-travel-mask-mandate_n_665e065be4b0a8b68eea43fa

https://punchbowl.news/article/supreme-court/democrats-supreme-court-miss/

More details on Congressional Dems attempts re Supreme Court ethics issues

https://punchbowl.news/article/supreme-court/raskin-ocasio-cortez-holding-roundtable-supreme-court-ethics/

House Dems seeing what they can do re Supreme Court

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-justices-disclose-bali-hotel-stay-beyonc-tickets-book-deals-2024-06-07/

Alito asks for 90 day extension on reporting as he does every year. Thomas now finally reporting Bali trip from years ago that I think billionaire Harlan Crow funded. Also article noted that due to security concerns Thomas is either saying he’s no longer traveling or no longer reporting he’s traveling. I need to re-read that! Justice Jackson got 4 pricey Beyonce tickets and some artwork. Kavanaugh is writing a book. Elsewhere I saw that Thomas has received countless more millions in gifts over the last 20 years than any Justice. He has reported only half of it.

Pro Publica on what Thomas acknowledged with new filing and what he did not.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-gift-disclosures-harlan-crow

Justice Jackson's artwork is from awesome musician and artist Lonnie Holley (and now I remember that when I saw him perform in DC last year he mentioned going to the Supreme Court).

poor Abe Fortas!

I assume the calls for her to recuse from all further cases are incoming

From Pro Publica :

Thomas did not mention the flight to Indonesia or the yacht trip in his new filing

X-post - don’t know a lot about Abe Fortas but yeah that history is interesting.

amazing to think this may be real:

EXCLUSIVE UNDERCOVER AUDIO:
Martha-Ann Alito Unfurled

"I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month." pic.twitter.com/okNsW7SPlu

— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) June 10, 2024

It is real:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-martha-ann-alito-pride-flags-left-media-1235037338/

can't a helicopter land in their house

"Look at me. I’m German, from Germany. my heritage is German. If you come after me, I’m going to give it back to you. And there will be a way - it doesn’t have to be now, but there will be a way they will know. Don’t worry about it"

That Rolling Stone article is behind a paywall for me. One thing I'm wondering about is when that audio was recorded

She has more

EXCLUSIVE UNDERCOVER AUDIO:
Sam Alito x John Roberts x The Undercurrent 🧵

1/ Justice Alito admits lack of impartiality with the Left, says: “One side or the other is going to win.” pic.twitter.com/b5nmxToZ9z

— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) June 10, 2024

It was recorded last week, at a Supreme Court Historical Society dinner. xp

I wish this could amount to something, anything, you know?

Asked how the country can become less polarized, Alito responded: “I wish I knew. I don’t know. It’s easy to blame the media, but I do blame them because they do nothing but criticize us. And so they have really eroded trust in the court. … “

Yes, it’s the media’s fault that Clarence Thomas is gorging at the trough of free stuff while the court delays a Trump trial by slow walking a decision on presidential immunity. I blame Rolling Stone.

It’s not surprising at all but always a bit depressing to be reminded just how dumb our ruling castes are. Just fucking idiots.

not sure what you mean by our ruling classes, but I think the members of the supreme court and their spouses and enablers are much more evil than they are dumb

I suppose. It’s more their stupidity I find depressing. Dipshits all the way down. Just vapid incurious people.

Tho tbh Roberts doesn’t come off so badly in the secret recordings.

Yahoo! has published the Rolling Stone article on Alito's bigoted wife so now you can read it without a paywall.

Be a shame if they faced unrelenting harassment

They think they already do

Victimized by seeing a pride flag from a couple miles away

young thug judge just lapping these SCOTUS losers tbf

I can not imagine loving someone so much or needing someone around so much and MYSELF BEING SUCH A SHITHOG that i would willingly stay with that woman

Because they're both shithogs?

I know it’s just like - is there a competition within the household to see who can be more of a shithog?

John Denver's plane crashed why couldn't it have been theirs?

Interesting to read the National Review’s handwaving of the whole flag skirmish. I assume some version of this is what Fox is running with as well.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-transparently-flimsy-and-misleading-alito-flag-story/

ah, so we've been misled

Good for a new dn though.

(The Bar Song) Flimsy

I can see the 'BIDEN GUILTY' headlines now

(meant for US politics thread)

looks like a paywall is blocking me from the National Review Baseball Crank guy take. I used to look at his nonsense on twitter.

Alas, Schumer won't pressure Durbin to hold a hearing or to subpoena anyone, and Durbin is waiting for a magical 60 seat Dem majority in the Senate and Dems regaining the House before having a vote on a tougher ethics bill.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4716602-senate-democrats-supreme-court-ethics/

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters that Democrats will attempt to move the ethics bill, which he authored with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), via unanimous consent. A Durbin spokesperson said the UC request would happen on Wednesday.

how’s it hanging Pierre

and Durbin is waiting for a magical 60 seat Dem majority in the Senate and Dems regaining the House before having a vote on a tougher ethics bill.

Not to be That Guy but they wouldn't get to that now. I understand the symbolic gesture.

Another Alito tape from same event. He’s complaining about “well funded groups “ out to get the justices and mentions Pro Publica .

Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will block Democrats' effort to unanimously pass Supreme Court ethics bill
The South Carolina Republican’s objection means the bill won't be able to move forward under a unanimous consent request, which any senator can block.

From NBC News

On Tuesday, Dem reps Raskin and AOC held a round table with guest speakers including a law professor and the Rhode Island Dem Senator re Supreme Court corruption

https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/06/11/pair-of-u-s-house-dems-add-to-chorus-calling-for-alito-thomas-recusals/