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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Posts: 3,988
    Oh, I am!
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • OnWis97OnWis97 Posts: 5,004
    CM189191 said:
    teskeinc said:
    mickeyrat said:
    gift article.....


    Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes
    By Tyler Pager and Michael Scherer
    July 16, 2024 at 17:16 ET
    President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
    He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
    The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to reform the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including abortion and federal regulatory powers.
    Biden previewed the shift in a Zoom call Saturday with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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    what took so long? was he waiting to see how many rights the supreme court could take away before he finally did something?
    Can you list the rights that the Supreme Court has taken away of the “many”. I might have missed some. 

    I know they sent abortion to the states so each state could decide but what others?


    idk the right to bodily autonomy seems like a pretty big one

    now give me your liver, I need it more than you do and will make better use of it

    I'm reminded of Andrew Sullivan's infamous, astonishingly tone-deaf "Setting aside the Dobbs decision..." comment. Dobbs is far from a side note for anyone with a uterus.
    Setting aside the chance at death, the weight loss from cancer is pretty great.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,300
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 Posts: 23,246
    i wonder if alito's wife is flying her "LESH GO BARNDON!!" flag at half mast, or upside down today.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,300
    "You Can't Touch This": Challenging the Power of The Supreme Court (with Dahlia Lithwick). Episode: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/you-cant-touch-this-challenging-the . Media: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/146998931/e9df3b04c41ba5868ff04d0d0b0aebac.mp3?token=e78cefd6-3934-4f97-a8b1-c007ccd43ee0 . <p>Michael Steele speaks with Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate and host of Slate's Supreme Co... -- Sent from Podcast Republic.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,300
    US Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed travel funded by billionaire, senator says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-courts-clarence-thomas-took-more-undisclosed-travel-funded-by-2024-08-05/
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 38,745
    mickeyrat said:
    US Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed travel funded by billionaire, senator says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-courts-clarence-thomas-took-more-undisclosed-travel-funded-by-2024-08-05/
    But if they only knew what RBG took! If only THEY knew!!!!!!
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  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,364
    mickeyrat said:
    US Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed travel funded by billionaire, senator says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-courts-clarence-thomas-took-more-undisclosed-travel-funded-by-2024-08-05/
    I wish we could just all have some common sense.  Clearly Thomas benefiting from his position, and it is in one of the only roles were it is extremely clear what is right and wrong.  Clearly he doesn't deserve to remain on the court.  His lack of accountability is amazing.  If he were a liberal judge the GOP would wan him gone....if we had people with standards and morals in government, both sides would want him gone.
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Posts: 19,744
    mickeyrat said:
    US Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed travel funded by billionaire, senator says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-courts-clarence-thomas-took-more-undisclosed-travel-funded-by-2024-08-05/
    I wish we could just all have some common sense.  Clearly Thomas benefiting from his position, and it is in one of the only roles were it is extremely clear what is right and wrong.  Clearly he doesn't deserve to remain on the court.  His lack of accountability is amazing.  If he were a liberal judge the GOP would wan him gone....if we had people with standards and morals in government, both sides would want him gone.
    agreed...it's a fucking mess. Robert's should be strongly condemning this
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)

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  • tbergstbergs Posts: 9,663
    Thomas is the worst justice to serve in the last 50 years and maybe longer. I don't recall enough specifics from my constitutional law classes to remember other corrupt justices from early 20th and 19th century courts.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,300
    mickeyrat said:
    US Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed travel funded by billionaire, senator says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-courts-clarence-thomas-took-more-undisclosed-travel-funded-by-2024-08-05/
    I wish we could just all have some common sense.  Clearly Thomas benefiting from his position, and it is in one of the only roles were it is extremely clear what is right and wrong.  Clearly he doesn't deserve to remain on the court.  His lack of accountability is amazing.  If he were a liberal judge the GOP would wan him gone....if we had people with standards and morals in government, both sides would want him gone.

    but now, with the bribery ruling by that same body......
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,300
    at this point, IRS should be involved.
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  • Merkin BallerMerkin Baller Posts: 11,285
    mickeyrat said:
    US Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed travel funded by billionaire, senator says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-courts-clarence-thomas-took-more-undisclosed-travel-funded-by-2024-08-05/
    I wish we could just all have some common sense.  Clearly Thomas benefiting from his position, and it is in one of the only roles were it is extremely clear what is right and wrong.  Clearly he doesn't deserve to remain on the court.  His lack of accountability is amazing.  If he were a liberal judge the GOP would wan him gone....if we had people with standards and morals in government, both sides would want him gone.
    Well said. 
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,300

    Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ returns with a vengeance

    By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN
    6 minute read
    Updated 4:46 PM EDT, Wed August 21, 2024
    Passing storm clouds are seen over the US Supreme Court on July 30 2024 in Washington DC
    Passing storm clouds are seen over the U.S. Supreme Court on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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    CNN  — 

    Less than a month ago, Justice Elena Kagan suggested the Supreme Court consider dialing back its review of significant cases on its controversial emergency docket.

    “Our summers used to be actually summers,” Kagan told a group of judges in California, lamenting the “relentless” filing of emergency appeals.  “We’ve gotten into a pattern where we’re doing too many of them.”

    Since then, the Supreme Court’s emergency caseload has exploded.

    In coming days, the high court is expected to tackle short-fuse challenges to President Joe Biden’s latest effort to reduce student debt and to cut planet-warming pollution by limiting power plant emissions. And the court must decide whether Arizona, a presidential battleground, may require thousands of people to prove their US citizenship before voting this year. Also pending is a fight over Biden’s requirement that family planning clinics that receive federal public health funding provide referrals for abortions for patients who request it.

    The court’s emergency docket – the “shadow docket,” to critics – is where the justices deal with questions that need resolution faster than the months it can take to submit briefs, hear oral arguments and draft formal opinions on its regular docket.
    The cases usually deal with the narrow question of what will happen as that underlying legal process plays out. But the orders can have significant and immediate real-world consequences.

    “There’s just no disputing that this has been a busier summer for emergency applications, both by volume and by significance, than any summer we’ve seen in a long time – if ever,” said Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who says the court is essentially inviting these cases by issuing emergency rulings with more impact.

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  • my state just executed a man most likely innocent of this murder.


    Supreme Court allows Missouri to execute Marcellus Williams


    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4897389-supreme-court-marcellus-williams-missouri-execution/

    The Supreme Court refused to block Missouri from executing Marcellus Williams on Tuesday amid questions about the jury selection process and key evidence used in convicting him of murder in 2001.

    Williams, 55, who maintains his innocence, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday at 6 p.m. CDT.

    Moments before, the Supreme Court denied his emergency requests to halt the execution. The three justices appointed by Democratic presidents — Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — voted to block it.

    A jury convicted Williams in the 1998 murder of 42-year-old newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle, who was stabbed 43 times with the knife left lodged in her neck. 

    Wesley Bell, the St. Louis County’s current prosecuting attorney, does not stand behind the conviction won by his predecessor, citing concerns Williams’s constitutional rights were violated and he may be innocent. Court records show the victim’s widower also does not want the death penalty used.

    The Midwest Innocence Project backed Williams’s defense, with his legal team in court filings calling his execution a “horrifying injustice” that reveals “systemic problems bigger than even Mr. Williams’ case.” 

    “The ever-present undercurrent of residual doubt as to Mr. Williams’ innocence plagues this case, even as his execution looms. Mr. Williams’ conviction and death sentence were secured through a trial riddled with constitutional errors, racism, and bad faith, much of which only came to light recently,” his defense team wrote in an emergency request to delay the execution. 

    Williams latched on to revelations that the murder weapon was mishandled ahead of trial. Last month, new test results indicated the knife had DNA on it belonging to two people involved in prosecuting the case. A trial attorney has also admitted to repeatedly touching the knife without gloves.

    Williams’s legal team also claimed that attorney recently admitted he struck a potential juror in the case in part because they were Black, which would run afoul of Supreme Court precedent. 

    The state contests that interpretation. The attorney moments later said, “No, absolutely not,” when asked if the person was struck because of their race, saying that it was because he and Williams both wore glasses and had similar piercing eyes.

    “He struck this potential juror in part because he thought Williams and this potential juror looked similar, but not because he was black,” the state wrote in court filings. 

    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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    gift article....

    Sweeping bill to overhaul Supreme Court would add six justices
    By Justin Jouvenal and Tobi Raji
    September 26, 2024 at 16:16 ET
    A sweeping bill introduced by a Democratic senator Wednesday would greatly increase the size of the Supreme Court, make it harder for the justices to overturn laws, require justices to undergo audits and remove roadblocks for high court nominations.
    The legislation by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is one of the most ambitious proposals to remake a high court that has suffered a sharp decline in its public approval after a string of contentious decisions and ethics scandals in recent years. It has little chance of passing at the moment, since Republicans have generally opposed efforts to overhaul the court.
    Wyden, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said the goal of the bill is to restore public confidence in a battered institution. He said he hopes to get parts of the bill passed, even if the whole package is not embraced by lawmakers.
    “It’s not an atomic secret that the process for selecting justices is politicized,” Wyden said. “You’ve got this thoroughly politicized process resulting in a Supreme Court that now frequently issues sweeping rulings to overturn laws and upend precedents. We are proposing a way to restore some balance between the three branches of government.”
    The bill’s most significant measure would increase the number of justices from nine to 15 over the course of 12 years. The staggered format over two or three administrations is aimed at diminishing the chance that one political party would pack the courts with its nominees.
    During the rollout, each president would approve justices in the first and third year of their terms.
    The bill would also require a ruling by two-thirds of the high court and the circuit courts of appeals, rather than a simple majority, to overturn a law passed by Congress. Wyden said the current court has been too quick to discard precedent and curtail rights by narrow majorities.
    The legislation would also require Supreme Court nominees to be automatically scheduled for a vote in the Senate if their nominations have lingered in committee for more than 180 days.
    The measure would prevent senators from blocking a president’s nominees by refusing to hold a vote on them, as then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) did after President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016.

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