U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

Did the media articles have misleading titles earlier today? Saw a bunch of people celebrating, thinking SCOTUS was requiring electors to vote for the winner of the Federal popular vote, then blaming a confusing headline, but every article I've seen clearly says state popular vote.

Note though it really just ruled states with laws on the books against faithless electors can punish the electors, but not mandating that they have to, or that any of the states with no such laws must follow suit

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/supreme-court-says-trump-administration-can-let-religious-employers-deny-birth-control-coverage.html

Today is a good day for those who believe that religious employers, from churches to private corporations, should be allowed to impose their beliefs on employees, even when doing so inflicts real harm. The court's expansion of (what it deems) religious liberty is breathtaking.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 8, 2020

Such a twisted view of freedom of religion.

if it were possible to encourage even more suburban women to turn out to vote against trump & the GOP, this seems like it ought to help

At this point I’m basically yelling Retire Bitch at every Justice except Sotomayor

(After 1/21/21 obv)

xp please refrain from further yelling until late december
okay you're forgiven

This is some Kafka-esque shit:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-ministerial-exception-religious-employers.html

The upshot of this new constitutional rule is that religious employers now have carte blanche to discriminate against workers. After all, if anyone sues, their employer can simply deem them “ministerial” under Alito’s deferential test, thwarting litigation. (Indeed, that appears to be exactly what happened to Biel and Morrissey-Berru.) As Sotomayor pointed out in her scathing dissent, Alito’s “laissez-faire analysis appears to allow that employer to make employment decisions because of a person’s skin color, age, disability, sex, or any other protected trait for reasons having nothing to do with religion.”

The court, Sotomayor continued, defeated the very purpose of civil rights laws by allowing employers “to decide for themselves whether discrimination is actionable.” In short, it “traded legal analysis for a rubber stamp.” Alito’s opinion, she concluded, “absolves religious institutions of any animus completely irrelevant to their religious beliefs or practices and all but forbids courts to inquire further about whether the employee is in fact a leader of the religion. This sweeping result is profoundly unfair.”

Morrissey-Berru comes on the heels of Espinoza v. Montana, a 5–4 decision that will force a majority of states to fund parochial schools. Taken together, these two decisions mark a startling expansion of constitutional “religious liberty.” Most states must now provide taxpayer money to parochial schools—yet they are handcuffed from enforcing their own civil rights laws against the institutions they fund. The Supreme Court has not only bulldozed the wall separating church and state; it has also handed religious institutions a trump card they can use when the state asks them to follow the rules that apply to the rest of us. Religious liberty is a fundamental American value. But in the hands of this court, it has become a weapon that employers can use to make the rest of us less free.

fuck this fucking country and burn it to the goddamn ground

is it safe to say this is the most damaging decision since citizens united?

This one wasn't even close, either... 7-2?

Constantly don't understand how "religious freedom" keeps getting expanded legally

The public funding parochial and religious schools I find even more upsetting, that's going to be the source of a lot of corruption

were the liberal concurrences just referencing Hobby Lobby v Burwell and respecting precedent they didn't agree with, or something else

I don’t have a good feeling about this one but at least it won’t be a shock. Other than like if it’s another 7-2 blowout


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-financial-records-353428

Tax returns lol better late than never I guess

Also gorsuch again

💥 BREAKING: CREEK LANDS IN OKLAHOMA REMAIN "INDIAN COUNTRY"

Justice Gorsuch writes for a 5-4 majority

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) July 9, 2020

The Supreme Court said a New York prosecutor can see Trump’s private and business financial records, ending an intense legal battle waged by the president to keep them secret - via @scotusreporter https://t.co/lNFTkUbYyK

— Terri Rupar (@terri_rupar) July 9, 2020

well damb

lol

PreSiDenTial HaRassMent !!!

The NYTimes article threw in this line, "but a decision that probably means the records will continue to be shielded from public scrutiny until after the election and perhaps indefinitely". Does that just mean since it will be in prosecutor's hands it will still be withheld from the general public until when/if it gets entered as evidence?

yeah the Mazars cae was simply punted back to the lower courts, right?

Xp yes this case is still at the grand jury stage so evidence is secret.

There is another Supreme Court ruling due today about whether congress can see them which would presumably happen before the election.

Gorsuch siding with libs no surprise; he considers himself a westerner like Gary Cooper.

I am 100% down for him spending the rest of this life under criminal indictment and being sued by lots of being being bankrolled by rich people with grudges, but I couldn’t care less whether they get released before the election.

There is another Supreme Court ruling due today about whether congress can see them which would presumably happen before the election.

There it is, this one was rejected.

The non-Trump case from today seems arguably bigger - the court ruled that most of Oklahoma is Creek tribal land.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcfWheUWoAEo2Vj.jpg

"I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way etc etc etc"

I imagine he'll be rewarded with a big fine post office, but that's about it.

afaict they alternate great rulings with bottomlessly horrible ones just to fuck with my emotional state

The persistent theme of Gorsuch's Indian jurisprudence is (1) empathy for tribes screwed over by the government, and (2) an insistence on holding the government to its treaties and (broken) promises. Here's the beginning and ending of his opinion today. https://t.co/8tlfo2uafh pic.twitter.com/8RuDtuNfca

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 9, 2020

lol

John Roberts has punted masterfully. A New York grand jury will see Trump's tax returns, but the information will likely remain secret to the outside world. The House *might* get Trump's financial records eventually, but will remain mired in the lower courts for months.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 9, 2020

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otm

Just for laffs...

We have a totally corrupt previous Administration, including a President and Vice President who spied on my campaign, AND GOT CAIGHT...and nothing happens to them. This crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it, and yet all are frozen stiff with fear....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020

....No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO “JUSTICE”, NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing. A 3 year, $45,000,000 Mueller HOAX, failed - investigated everything....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020

....Won all against the Federal Government and the Democrats send everything to politically corrupt New York, which is falling apart with everyone leaving, to give it a second, third and fourth try. Now the Supreme Court gives a delay ruling that they would never have given...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020

....for another President. This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020

wait, he posted all 4 of those within the same minute? he's actually...drafting these out first? lol

i do like how it ends on an upbeat note

"GOT CAIGHT" for August thread title.

He's like a drunken stepfather sitting in a darkened kitchen at 1 AM and ranting about how his first wife screwed him over.

you can't blame him, with this activist liberal court

but i must of got CAIGHT
i must of got CAIGHT
i must of got CAIGHT
somewhere down the line

REPORTS

The persistent theme of Gorsuch's Indian jurisprudence is (1) empathy for tribes screwed over by the government, and (2) an insistence on holding the government to its treaties and (broken) promises. Here's the beginning and ending of his opinion today. https://t.co/8tlfo2uafh pic.twitter.com/8RuDtuNfca

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 9, 2020

Oops. I meant:

Gorsuch writes Indian cases the way Kennedy wrote about gay rights and RBG writes about reproductive rights. Gorsuch and Sotomayor are the staunchest defenders of tribal rights the Supreme Court has ever seen.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 9, 2020

i would fucking hope someone in the ny prosecutors office leaks those papers; presumably will happen once fucko is out of office

Maybe the tax returns confirm the diaper theory

is the diaper theory the rumor that his favorite meals is eating sloppy joes with his bare hands out of a Pampers

gross but irl lol

Maybe all these years he's been writing off diapers as a Doing Your Business expense.

the real story of this Supreme Court term is the unrelenting assault by Roberts and the conservatives on voting rights, but media coverage of the Court has been dedicated almost exclusively to praising Roberts for his moderation https://t.co/97C20q3ZjO

— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) July 16, 2020