U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

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

Conservatives complaining about Roberts has the effect that some liberals now see him as an ally ("He stuck it to Trump!"), or at least a useful counterweight. So I suppose it's not surprising that approval of the Court is now highest since 2009. As long as the liberals get thrown a bone once in a while, the Court doesn't *appear* to be too partisan.

New SCOTUS list names:

Bridget Bade
Daniel Cameron
Paul Clement
Tom Cotton
Ted Cruz
Kyle Duncan
Steven Engel
Noel Francisco
Josh Hawley
James Ho
Greg Katsas
Barbara Lagoa
Chris Landau
Carlos Muniz
Martha Pacold
Peter Phipps
Sarah Pitlyk
Allison Rushing
Kate Todd
Lawrence VanDyke

the fuck?

"THE ARISTOCRATS!"

new SNL cast

no Amy Coeyn Barrett!

Trump doing some potential Cotton picking

justice ted cruz

New SCOTUS list names:

B-b-but there aren't any vacancies on the SCOTUS! (Or did I miss something?)

it's how he excited the base in fall '16

is this supposed to get people to vote for him?

it's supposed to remind conservatives that even if your POTUS is a lying, self-dealing, pandemic-escalating rapist, he will most likely get to put another ass on the bench if he wins in November. throwing Cruz and Cotton and the like on the list is simply a means of juicing up headlines.

he probably will just put a disembodied human ass on the bench

a lying, self-dealing, pandemic-escalating rapist

They were all in love with dyin', they were doin' it in Texas

federalist beef

To appease Sen. Hawley, Neomi Rao -- an excellent jurist that has more than proven herself as a strong textualist over the past 1.5 years on the DC Circuit -- was not only excluded from the list, but Hawley (not a serious contender), was added.

I'm absolutely livid. More later.

— Ashley Baker (@andashleysays) September 9, 2020

wahhhh

Ashley is livid. Absolutely livid that her strong textualist got bumped from a list of candidates for a non-existent opening.

Oh shit.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

now it's dark

oh, god. no. no no no no no.

this would be awful news under the BEST of circumstances.

ohhhh shit

Legit feels like a gut punch right now :(

Fucking fuck.

R.I.P. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Chances of democrats taking a hard line on this?

how can they stop it