U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

oh no

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— The Senate Majority (@NRSC) September 26, 2020

Great, offensive on two levels and counting

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who doesn't support taking up a SCOTUS nomination, now says she'll meet with Amy Coney Barrett https://t.co/jSviJQC8u9 pic.twitter.com/Mo443lGUaP

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 26, 2020

BREAKING: Contrary to theories advanced by certain credulous journalists, Lisa Murkowski is, in fact, a member of the Republican Party.

A.C.(a).B.

Isn't Question 2b for appointees "Will you invalidate the ACA?"

"do you pledge to merely dismantle the ACA, or will you pledge to completely obliterate it along with any cultural memory of its existence? and i just hope democrats and the lying media don't make a spectacle out of these serious proceedings"

"Judge Barrett, will you invalidate the ACA?"

She'll just look serious and intone that every case is different, so if such a case is argued before the court, she will read all the briefs, consider all the arguments and arrive at the decision that seems to her most in alignment with the US Constitution and established precedent. If she even says that much.

"Judge Barrett, do you believe that God's law is higher than human laws? And is God's law contained in the christian Bible?"

At least this line of questioning will require her to get off autopilot.

According to this article they won’t ask anything tough:

Senate Democrats say they want to avoid a replay of the bitter fighting that characterized Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 Senate confirmation hearings, which centrist former Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) thought cost them their reelection bids that year.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/518669-senate-democrats-want-to-avoid-kavanaugh-20

So no questions re why she always rules for corporations over workers

Her highest-profile business-focused actions on the federal bench have limited the enforcement of age-discrimination laws, restricted federal agencies power to punish companies that mislead consumers and reduced consumers’ rights against predatory debt collectors, according to a recent report from the Alliance for Justice.

[/i]Barrett’s August ruling in the overtime case is particularly significant: It comes as technology companies have been trying to use mandatory arbitration clauses to avoid better remunerating so-called gig workers. Those provisions often force worker disputes to be decided by private arbitrators hand-picked by the companies, rather than in an impartial court of law. [/i]

Dave Sirota website
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/barrett-crushed-gig-workers-weeks

So no questions re why she always rules for corporations over workers

Her highest-profile business-focused actions on the federal bench have limited the enforcement of age-discrimination laws, restricted federal agencies power to punish companies that mislead consumers and reduced consumers’ rights against predatory debt collectors, according to a recent report from the Alliance for Justice.

[/i]Barrett’s August ruling in the overtime case is particularly significant: It comes as technology companies have been trying to use mandatory arbitration clauses to avoid better remunerating so-called gig workers. Those provisions often force worker disputes to be decided by private arbitrators hand-picked by the companies, rather than in an impartial court of law. [/i]

Dave Sirota website
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/barrett-crushed-gig-workers-weeks

I think senate dems would probably be more inclined to attack her rulings if they actually disagreed with them

Invalidating the ACA would at least accelerate the Single Payer debate America should’ve had 70 years ago like the rest of the industrialized world. The West Coast and New York will pass their own versions of it and then wait decades for the rest of the country to catch up

So is this 2006 open letter about Roe vs. Wade worth anything? My guess is NO.

are you surprised

The West Coast and New York will pass their own versions of it and then wait decades for the rest of the country to catch up

I have bad news for you about California's actual politics...

YO, EVERYONE. milo z has bad news for us about American politics.

not holding my breath

Neither is trump apparently

Here's the only likely way she doesn't get confirmed before Election Day:

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

― pplains, Saturday, September 26, 2020 5:07 PM

There's two out of seven. Shaking the monkey paw for two or three more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Q79lls1f0

Don't you know you have to ... shake the monkey.

Up to THREE out of seven! Plus a bonus one not even at the event!

https://i.imgur.com/I4MRx6S.gif

I saw Ron Johnson. Who's the 3rd Judiciary Committee member besides Lee and Tillis?

Whoops, counted Tillis twice. There's getting to be so many, it's hard to keep track!

McConnell preparing to argue that cardboard likenesses of Senators with walkie talkies attached count towards a quorum

leaked footage depicting mitch's practice run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8oUIqrOsHs

No Senator who is ill will be allowed to vote. https://t.co/nsvx0Rux5A

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 3, 2020

I’m betting this going to come down to one vote and Collins will switch over to vote to confirm ACB because the Democrats are being too divisive

In the face of Amy Barrett's nomination to fill Ruth Ginsberg's seat, one has only to recall that the seat vacated by Thurgood Marshall was filled by Clarence Thomas to realize that the Federalist Society are expert trolls.

I’m betting this going to come down to one vote and Collins will switch over to vote to confirm ACB because the Democrats are being too divisive

Yep -- quite possible she changes her vote as needed.

who’s Joy pic.twitter.com/uSpap5qX3O

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) October 5, 2020

these people are so intensely creepy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BaN2xlk00

I'd wish death on Clarence Thomas, but it would mean another Federalist society replacement:

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said Monday that Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that mandated all states recognize same-sex marriages, is "found nowhere in the text" of the Constitution and threatens "the religious liberty of the many Americans who believe that marriage is a sacred institution between one man and one woman."

The statement was written by Thomas and joined by Alito about the case of Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who said she would not give same-sex couples marriage licenses. The two justices said they agreed with the consensus of the court that it should not take Davis' case, but only because it did not "cleanly present" the "important questions about the scope of our decision in Obergefell."

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Thomas said Obergefell forced Davis to choose "between her religious beliefs and her job. When she chose to follow her faith, and without any statutory protection of her religious beliefs, she was sued almost immediately for violating the constitutional rights of same-sex couples."

“follow her faith” doing all the heavy lifting in that graf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-uBHA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/amy-coney-barrett-people-of-praise/2020/10/06/5f497d8c-0781-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html

More details on Coney Barrett--

In 2010, Barrett was one of three handmaids in the South Bend branch’s northwest area, according to the directory obtained by The Post. She and 10 other area handmaids were overseen by the branch’s principal handmaid.

Barrett’s position was in keeping with her family’s prior service in the community. Her mother, Linda Coney, served in the New Orleans branch as a handmaid, the Associated Press previously reported, and her father, Michael Coney, led that branch as principal coordinator and sat on the national group’s all-male board of governors.

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the group replaced the title of handmaids with “women leaders” in 2017.

Connolly said in a 2018 statement that the title was dropped out of a recognition that its meaning had “shifted dramatically in our culture in recent years.” The phrase took on a particular meaning in popular culture after Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was adapted for television in 2017. Atwood said in a tweet last month that she was inspired by “a different but similar” group.

the thing no one is supposed to say is, barrett's beliefs and background aren't different from mainstream christian beliefs. the man is the head of the head of the household; women are to defer to men. she's a good pick because if you criticize her on these grounds, you're also against pence and any one of millions of fucked up christians, many of which are your boss or friends. we're all supposed to ignore the bible verses that explicitly advise this kind of thinking

i dreamed that i woke up and before checking my phone somehow was aware that trump, hepped up on goofballs and in a fit of pique, had tweeted out a withdrawal of her nomination. not true sadly :(

karl otm

is anyone else watching the hearings?

kennedy apologizes to barrett on behalf of the people who called her a racist (? i didn't know about this yet), and says that being called a racist is "one of the worst things you can call someone", says it must have been really hard for barrett.

also says that the kavanaugh hearings were a FREAK SHOW!!!!! (emphasis very much kennedy's) that looked like the cantina scene from star wars.

Kennedy is every Looney Tunes cartoon about the Solid South in one gibbering Crisco-fried package.

Sheldon Whitehouse is killing it, laying out how the John Roberts and the Furious Five has dismantled democracy.

but republicans don't care about democracy as an ideal or as a goal. on the whole they seem to despise it.

well yeah

"we're a republic, not a demo-CRAZY amirite" - republicans

even amy klobuchar made an aside today about how she wishes she were a queen, sometimes, because she would be "benevolent" and it would be "easier to get things done"