U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

I put the book on hold at the library. Robin's The Conservative Mind is terrific.

*REACTIONARY mind

Robin was on Doug Henwood to talk about that book recently and it's fucking fascinating

good news
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/supreme-court-lets-sandy-hook-143642777.html

otoh (short thread)

It looks to me like the Supreme Court is going to uphold the Trump administration's DACA rescission, probably by a 5–4 vote. I think the conservative majority will say that the rescission was handled lawfully, while a few conservative justices will say DACA itself is illegal.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) November 12, 2019

I think this was a foregone conclusion - legal reasoning is pretty clear ie a President did it unilaterally, therefore a President can undo it unilaterally

in this case the weakness in the system was Congress and the POTUS, not the SCOTUS.

otm

Wow.

Inside the Federalist Society dinner featuring Brett Kavanaugh.

A man and a woman just stood up, blew a rape whistle, and yelled:

“WE BELIEVE CHRISTINE FORD! WE BELIEVE SURVIVORS!!”

Via @KristinMinkDC

pic.twitter.com/O3wGPujoae

— Joshua Potash 🆘 (@JoshuaPotash) November 15, 2019

should happen everywhere he goes imo

Ruth Marcus has a book about Kav:

It was a historic moment in April 2017 when Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy presided over the ceremonial Rose Garden swearing-in for the court’s new member, Neil M. Gorsuch: the first time a sitting justice was joined on the nation’s highest court by one of his former law clerks.

But a secret meeting moments later in the White House was just as significant, according to a new book by Ruth Marcus, a Washington Post deputy editorial page editor.

Kennedy requested a private moment with President Trump to deliver a message about the next Supreme Court opening, Marcus reports. Kennedy told Trump he should consider another of his former clerks, Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was not on the president’s first two lists of candidates.

“The justice’s message to the president was as consequential as it was straightforward, and it was a remarkable insertion by a sitting justice into the distinctly presidential act of judge picking,” Marcus writes in “Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.”

Seems on the level!

Aren't they meeting to discuss the cert petition re 45's taxes today

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/10/conservative-supreme-court-justices-are-showing-their-biases-on-twitter-now/

That’s an October article about Alito and Kavanaugh posing for a photo with an anti-gay organization, and how they should have to recuse themselves from cases, but won’t

Today's ruling is just gross

every time this thread is bumped my heart just sinks

FUCK

i wish more and more that somehow Obama had rammed Merrick Garland through during recess. if we'd known what was coming....fuck.

fucking disgusting

Give me your tired, but not too tired, we’re not made of money here

Wait, I havent read the ruling itself yet but based on the news isn’t this just a temporary, not on the merits decision that says no injunction for the moment?

yes, it allows the trump administration's plans to proceed (not sure on the timeline for their plans to implement?) while challenges work their way up the system

Man, I was really thrown off by the emoji in your dn for a sec, like what an odd reaction to that

it does insert a sometime unwanted levity to any topic

https://i.imgur.com/qEYxCJr.png

holy shit, have never considered this. NYT on the beat!!!!

so i think i have one more 'good' year

The New York Times reports:

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a third major case on the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s health care law, granting petitions from Democratic state officials and the House of Representatives in a case with the potential to wipe out the entire law. The court did not say when it would hear the case, but, under its ordinary practices, arguments would be held in the fall and a decision would land in the spring or summer of 2021.

Democrats, who consider health care a winning issue and worry about possible changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, had urged the justices to act quickly even though lower courts had not issued definitive rulings. They wanted to keep the fate of the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, in the public eye during the presidential campaign and to ensure that the appeal was decided while justices who had rejected earlier challenges remain the court.

possible changes in the composition of the Supreme Court

I'm assuming this is code for RBG

xp some real galaxy brain stuff that this is actually good because it's bad electoral politics for the trump administration

Die, voters!

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court denied its support Monday for the growing consensus that voting in the midst of a pandemic may be best done by mail.

Refusing to depart from its opposition to last-minute changes that can confuse voters, the justices blocked a federal court order that voters in Wisconsin should be able to vote absentee for six days beyond Tuesday's primary election.

"Extending the date by which ballots may be cast by voters — not just received by the municipal clerks but cast by voters — for an additional six days after the scheduled election day fundamentally alters the nature of the election," the court said in an unsigned opinion.

The vote broke down on ideological lines, with the four liberal justices dissenting.

"The question here is whether tens of thousands of Wisconsin citizens can vote safely in the midst of a pandemic," Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote. Under the court's decision, "either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own."

BREAKING: Supreme Court on 5 to 4 vote sides with Wisconsin Republicans and says absentee voting cannot be extended

There’s a Wisconsin primary scheduled for Tuesday to vote on an elected judge position ( and I think Biden v Sanders also). Democratic governor tried to postpone the election and Republican legislators won in Wisconsin courts and federal that Wisconsin constitution doesn’t give governor that power. Governor tried to extend period for submitting absentee ballots and Republicans challenged that all the way to US Supreme Court and won.

The issue for Wisconsin voters should be that the Republican legislators blocked the governor's plan in the first place, putting them in jeopardy. If the state constitution legit doesn't give the governor that power (which seems likely), then surely the legislature had the power to make that happen and failed to use it to protect the safety of voters. They won the battle, but at the cost of parading in front of the whole state what assholes they are.

does this mean that in-person voting will happen? it does seem like an attempt to suppress the vote. I hope the democrats can optimize the number of voters by November

The in place voting is now scheduled for tomorrow but they’re having trouble getting volunteers to work polling places and likely will have less polling spots open.

The jerks who elected Republican legislators are probably happy with Republican legislators doing this.

There's always a ray of hope that some of the voters in Wisconsin who once vaguely thought they liked Republican ideas will tire of the flaming assholes on parade.

Milwaukee will have five polling places tomorrow, instead of 180. Five! My mom, who's been waiting for her absentee ballot for ~a month, won't get to vote.

This is insanity

I have no idea what the political climate is like in WI right now. Are there going to be repercussions for this shit or are people rolling with it?

People have rioted over less

Yes, they have, but will they now?

ashamed to say that one of those WI-R legislators is a family member of mine. not immediately close but have had to be made more and more aware of their shitty political decisions over the more recent Walker/Evers years.

Terrible situation in Wisconsin. But Justice Roberts, who keeps insisting he’s impartial, is comfortable with the ruling

he's an umpire iirc

tip for voting in WI: wear a hazmat suit covered in protest signs

then burn the state capitol down on the way home

fucking bullshit

It's been quite surprising to see the sheer numbers of Twitter pundits suddenly shocked, shocked I tell you(!), that Roberts might not be as impartial as he hinted.

if you’re young and healthy and vote in a heavy republican district just go and conspicuously cough at the old whites. what are they going to do? Arrest you?

In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, THIS is the line for in person voting as the polls open for Election Day in Wisconsin. #COVID19 #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/WplsSHy9RF

— Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) April 7, 2020