U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

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

Cloning?

Kidnapping?

That's what I don't get. People tweeting this is a done deal cos Dems are cowards but only 51 votes are needed. Well, really 50 with Pence tiebreak.

Very cool that our shithead president is going to have such a lasting judicial legacy. 1/3 of the Supreme Court. I'd like to especially extend my personal thanks to every left-of-center American who decided they were too pure of heart to vote Hillary.

And our favorite justices who were too fucking stubborn to retire during the last admin when they had a decent shot of being replaced by similarly minded jurists instead of kavanaughs

well, while we're blaming, i'll never understand why she didn't retire when she was 80

yeah that

OTM
Born in 1933 ffs

fuck everything

i am housesitting for a friend this weekend, just shy of 4 years to the day of another time I housesat for him, just under a month before the election, and I remember being in a state of zen then, feeling fairly assured of future events, that just makes me sad to remember now.

i'll never understand why she didn't retire when she was 80

her husband died in 2010, when she would have been 77 or 78. after his death, her work was what she lived for and she was a highly effective justice all through her final years. she probably pulled Roberts into new ways of thinking about the court and sometimes won unexpected support in particular cases. but not retiring when Obama could name her successor was a strategic error in terms of safeguarding the issues she most cared about.

It would be great if this country was motivated to end lifetime appointments.

xp yeah, as i said, i'll never understand. but thanks for trying.

I have difficult feelings about her. I had some admiration for her but it was overwhelmed by the disdain I have for the whole institution and the very idea that lone “great jurists” should be deciding questions such as whether unions can require their members to pay dues or whether a state can ban abortions. To the extent the Court was a force for good at all it was short lived compared to the courts overall reactionary history, and she was sort of a remnant of that period. Her “greatness” was constructed by a shitty system, even though she was a silver lining. And of course not retiring under Obama strikes me as a vain decision.

She was no progressive icon, and her failure to retire 10 years ago was a tragedy

are SCOTUS justices *supposed* to be progressive icons?

Today, we’re all Robert Bork

Ginsburg has become venerated as one in the last few years, for reasons I don’t really understand

Lifetime appointments are worse than the cancer which killed her

"She was no progressive icon"

no

"Her “greatness” was constructed by a shitty system, even though she was a silver lining"

yes, she was a silver lining

oh cool, more posts to flag from non-US posters who think they have anything close to a fucking clue

I was born in the States. We DO read about you guys up here, too

You’re going to flag this, too?

yup! fuck off.

Enjoy yours, motherfucker :)

nothing worse than a postgame armchair quarterback, any point you might have is irrelevant now.

What’s up with the smug Canadians lately? Jesus.

I’m a US poster and a practicing lawyer

The point is not merely Monday morning quarterbacking. The point is that liberal individualistic veneration of these justices is about as helpful to democracy as praying to Jobu and possibly even counterproductive.