🇺🇸 Discussion: The Supreme Court II

[squeekness]

Schumer vows Supreme Court reform will be 'a very big priority' if Democrats win election

In an interview with NBC News, Schumer tore into a “derelict” Chief Justice John Roberts for enabling an ethical and substantive “morass” that he said is forcing Congress to intervene.

www.nbcnews.com

Hope they can get it done.

 

[blueharvest]

Supreme Court returns Trump Jan. 6 immunity judgment to lower court

One month after the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, the judge overseeing former President Trump's Jan. 6 case now has jurisdiction over the case again.

abcnews.go.com

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Lily Adler]

Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act targeted CO2 as climate pollutant, study says

New paper digs into congressional archives to settle a legal debate.

arstechnica.com

 

[Sithborg]

I mean the GOP are still mad Bork, the man who eventually killed the Watergate investigation for Nixon, didn't get his SCOTUS seat.

 

[blueharvest]

Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg

Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.

www.vox.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Neil Gorsuch issues two-word warning about Joe Biden's Supreme Court plan

Biden last month released a new three-part plan to reform the nation's Highest Court, calling for there to be term limits on justices, among other plans.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Teelie]

Subtlety is not one of his strong points either. Like ethics, consistency or morality.

 

[blueharvest]

Opinion | Biden’s Supreme Court term limit proposal is too little — but maybe not too late

Term limits would get rid of good Supreme Court justices along with the bad ones. Instead, justices should be held accountable with a Senate review.

www.msnbc.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.

www.nytimes.com

He’s still refused to come entirely clean, only admitting to things people dig up about him.

 

[blueharvest]

Supreme Court rejects longshot effort by Missouri to block Trump sentencing in New York case

Republican officials in Missouri had asked the Supreme Court to halt former President Donald Trump's sentence and temporarily lift a gag order.

www.google.com

 

[Teelie]

Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.

www.nytimes.com

He’s still refused to come entirely clean, only admitting to things people dig up about him.

Imagine what skeletons are in his closet and buried in the backyard that have not been uncovered yet.

 

[Lily Adler]

Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.

www.nytimes.com

He’s still refused to come entirely clean, only admitting to things people dig up about him.

He also wrote some of these trips off on his taxes.

 

[blueharvest]

Justice Alito Almost Messed Up The Internet; Then He Threw A Temper Tantrum

It turns out the internet was one Sam Alito petulant tantrum away from being a total disaster. In two key First Amendment cases, Alito was given the majority opinion to write. And, in both of them,…

www.techdirt.com

 

[blueharvest]

Supreme court immunity ruling to cause new delay in Trump 2020 election case

Prosecutors in court filing ask Tanya Chutkan for additional time to sort through impact of ‘absolute immunity’ ruling

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Americans want to rein in Supreme Court justices, poll finds

Vast majority of Americans favor a constitutional amendment confirming the president isn't above the law.

www.usatoday.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[squeekness]

Because, duh. If you're above the law you're not a president , you're a dictator.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Clarence Thomas’s favorability has plummeted in past 2 years: Poll

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-favorability-plummeted-past-183622051.html

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s favorability with the public has cratered in the past two years, amid a wave of reporting about his financial disclosures and, particularly, gifts from wealthy donors, a USA Today/Ipsos poll published Monday revealed.

Thomas’s net favorability sits in the new survey at negative 15 percentage points — 27 percent favorable to 42 percent unfavorable — down 24 points from a net positive of 9 points in April 2022.

The decline was driven largely by Democrats’ and independents’ souring views.

In 2022, Thomas’s net favorability among Democrats was negative 19 percentage points, but it has plummeted to negative 63 percentage points: only 9 percent favorable to 72 percent unfavorable

 

[Still Wynning]

Clarence Thomas’s favorability has plummeted in past 2 years: Poll

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-favorability-plummeted-past-183622051.html

Yeah, this guy is going to be gone in a Kamala Harris presidency.

 

[blueharvest]

Supreme Court's immunity ruling a recipe for governmental lawlessness | Opinion

Opinion: One of the easiest ways to predict the future is to study the past.

www.cincinnati.com

 

[blueharvest]

Wisconsin Capitol Police decline to investigate leak of state Supreme Court abortion order

Wisconsin Capitol Police have declined to investigate the leak of a state Supreme Court abortion order in June because of a conflict of interest

abcnews.go.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[blueharvest]

Yeah, this guy is going to be gone in a Kamala Harris presidency.

One can hope. With any luck, he'll retire and be replaced by someone liberal, after Kamala Harris wins.