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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    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.
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    curmudgeoness said:
    CM189191 said:
    teskeinc said:
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    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.

    continues.....

    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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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,308
    interesting observation...

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,010
    i wonder if alito's wife is flying her "LESH GO BARNDON!!" flag at half mast, or upside down today.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,308
    "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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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,308
    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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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,002
    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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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,810
    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 Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,144
    cincybearcat said:
    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
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,398
    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...
  • mickeyrat
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    cincybearcat said:
    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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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,308
    at this point, IRS should be involved.
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,753
    cincybearcat said:
    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. 
  • mickeyrat
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    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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  • mickeyrat
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    good luck....

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  • mickeyrat
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    https://www.threads.net/@katiephang/post/C_gFT0GOxAq/?xmt=AQGz2-MNPdLMwaOsMp4hyZriac8ffjmzEur5EpRxDs9u4A
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  • mickeyrat
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,308
    hmmmm.....

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  • mickeyrat
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,308
    memos leaked?

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