SCOTUS Thread (News and Discussion) III: Abandoning 90 Years of Precedent

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/4TaxFairness/sta...782756865?s=20
https://twitter.com/4TaxFairness/sta...590710280?s=20

[Tyche]

[kuronosan]

Fuck that bag of shit.

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[mallister]

What is that from?

[Tyche]

What is that from?

Obama's 2010 state of the Union speech. After the Citizens United decision, Like, less than a week after it. Obama used the platform to detail how it was going to completely and predictably fuck over politics and introduce unlimited spending by special interests and foreign companies. Which is exactly what happened. And Alito, who is apparently dumb as fucking shit, said "that isn't true". I think he had to pen the Dobbs decision because he was tired of getting dragged for that obviously stupid comment. Ever since then, he hasn't come to a single SOTU address ..fucking pussy.

[mallister]

lol, what a piece of shit, man.

[Tyche]

I mean, yeah, but the issue here is that is such a dumb fucking thing to say. It's the type of thing someone who stabs themselves with a fork because they didn't see their own hand coming would say.

[TsingTao]

I mean, yeah, but the issue here is that is such a dumb fucking thing to say. It's the type of thing someone who stabs themselves with a fork because they didn't see their own hand coming would say.

[6souls]

https://www.propublica.org/article/c...tuition-scotus

Harlan Crow paid the tuition for Clarence Thomas' grandnephew's private schooling. Thomas was the boy's caregiver since the boy was 6.

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.

“Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.

Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. “Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.

ProPublica interviewed Martin, his former classmates and former staff at both schools. The exact total Crow paid for Martin’s education over the years remains unclear. If he paid for all four years at the two schools, the price tag could have exceeded $150,000, according to public records of tuition rates at the schools.

As per the theme, Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/lauraapollo/stat...464141825?s=20
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...070023689?s=20

[6souls]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo

Leonard Leo is pretty much a kingmaker when it comes to selecting and electing conservative judges.

From his wiki page;

In 2011 and 2012, Leo arranged for Liberty Consulting, owned by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be paid $80,000 by The Polling Company, owned by Kellyanne Conway, and billed through the Judicial Education Project, which filed a brief to the court in a landmark voting rights case the same year. Leo directed Conway to not mention Ginni Thomas in paperwork. Leo told The Washington Post "As an advisor to JEP I have long been supportive of its opinion research relating to limited government, and The Polling Company, along with Ginni Thomas's help, has been an invaluable resource for gauging public attitudes." He also said "Knowing how disrespectful, malicious and gossipy people can be, I have always tried to protect the privacy of Justice Thomas and Ginni."

In 2016, after the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Leo raised funds to rename George Mason University's Law School the Antonin Scalia Law School. Leo worked with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to block President Barack Obama's replacement appointee, Merrick Garland and first contacted Gorsuch about the possibility of President Donald Trump appointing Gorsuch to the seat vacated by Scalia's death.

Leo was heavily involved in the campaign to prevent Merrick Garland from filling the Supreme Court seat previously occupied by Antonin Scalia; the Judicial Crisis Network, linked to Leo, reported that it spent more than $7 million to prevent Garland's confirmation. Leo was connected to two dozen conservative nonprofit entities that raised over $250 million between 2014 and 2017. Donors who contributed to this network included Charles Koch and Rebekah Mercer.

In 2017, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Leo was "responsible, to a considerable extent, for one third of the justices on the Supreme Court."

In October 2018, Leo appeared on an episode of Firing Line. When asked about a possible vacancy on the Supreme Court in a future election year, he replied by saying: "If a vacancy occurs in 2020, the vacancy needs to remain open until a president is elected and inaugurated and can pick. That's my position, period." Leo said he would advise Trump not to act on an election year Supreme Court vacancy, saying he had never asked Trump about the possible scenario, but that it was Leo's opinion that he should not act on a 2020 Supreme Court vacancy, should it arise.

After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020, Leo said the impending Supreme Court nomination fight "can be an important galvanizing force for President Trump." In September 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that Leo was involved in the selection process for a Supreme Court nominee to replace Ginsburg; this ultimately resulted in the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett.

[Byrthnoth]

I bet the maddest person about all this is Alito, because he has probably been an asshole for free for years.

[Cantih]

I bet the maddest person about all this is Alito, because he has probably been an asshole for free for years.

[Meresgi]

[Emphasis]

So do you guys think anything will actually be done about Clarence Thomas?

[Tyrath]

So do you guys think anything will actually be done about Clarence Thomas?

Lol. No.

[arus2001]

I say this not to encourage, but the only thing that'll happen is a heart attack or an assassination. Our government only has interest in policing democrats.

[6souls]

[6souls]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...nure-rcna85956

Roberts comments on ethics reforms.

In his brief speech Tuesday, he bemoaned public criticism of the judiciary, including protests outside the homes of justices, and appeared to take issue with Congress legislating on ethics reform for the court in the wake of recent stories about conservative Justice Clarence Thomas.

But Roberts, indicating legislation was not necessary, also said he thought the court could make its own reforms and hold itself to the highest standards so that it would not be necessary for a standoff with Congress.

“I want to assure people I am committed to making certain that we as a court adhere to the highest standards of conduct. We are continuing to look at things we can do to give practical effect to that commitment,” he said.

It's being touted that if Congress were to legislate on the court's ethics it would unconstitutionally infringe on the Supreme Court's status as a separate branch of government.

[Tyche]

Oh man, the Roberts court is concerned about one branch of government fucking over another branch of government?

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA