U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

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

A key fact of this case which is too often ignored: Florida *does not know how much court debt ex-felons owe.* And it has no intention of figuring it out. The state has forced ex-felons to pay up—then refused to tell them how much they must pay. https://t.co/1ImLIKOOMX pic.twitter.com/yAyXouRaoh

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 16, 2020

Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing.

Just a few short years ago, a president publically opining that someone was "guilty as hell" of criminal acts would have been a scandal covered for days on end and solemnly denounced by editorials across the country. Now it's just another tweetstorm.

Wrong thread

RGB’s cancer is back!

This whole situation is so fucked I can’t stand it.

RBG rather

oh fuck im so hung over

That's bad news for RBG first and foremost. I'll worry about the further ramifications later, but first: Get Well Soon, Justice Ginsberg!

how could this have happened

🤯There are a massive number of behind-the-scenes leaks from the Supreme Court in this piece and it’s apparently just the first entry in a four-part series.

My guess: Someone with intimate knowledge of the justices’ deliberations is mad at Roberts. https://t.co/pnefWBZaO5

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 27, 2020

Ugh.

This comment otm:

Roberts's political genius is siding with liberals in symbolic matters, and conservatives in substantive ones. Democrats who only pay attention to the big headlines about high-profile cases will think Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land (it hasn't really been since Casey, but whatever), while the wingnuts who actually care about the Court see abortion rights being eroded left and right, the 4th-9th Amendments being read out of the Constitution, and imaginary versions of the 1st and 2nd Amendments being read in

The Federalist Society has been fighting a long war of attrition relentlessly since the late 1970s. They are winning that war.

That's the thing. Roe v Wade might be safe but if you ok a bunch of heavily restrictive state abortion limits, it might as well not be