Disloyalty? The whole point of a Judge is to be impartial and not just vote how they are told to. Otherwise what is the point. Just put any yob off the streets into the judiciary to vote yes to what you want.
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Democracy is a matter of conflict and peaceful resolution towards solutions that benefit the most people. They don't want democracy, they never did.
Send this to Clarence
He can't talk right now, mouth too full of dick
They are supposed to be the interpreters of the law, and to send things back down to lower courts for things that are not spelled out in laws or the constitution so that the courts can help settle the grey (untested/unsettled ) areas of the law.
The Court currently is anti human rights, pro corporate, anti environmental, pro Christian indoctrination, and pro Trump and/or fascists. The majority hasn't ruled on anything based on case law in years. And that became super apparent when Trump got to stack the court with rubber stamp judges.
They are supposed to be the interpreters of the law
Uhhh don't forget that the supreme court literally GAVE themselves that power and job. The Constitution does not say at all that the supreme court is to interpret law.
Judicial review was established in 1803, and was just never objected to because neither of the other 2 branches want to do the job (and IMO they immediately recognized the tool or weapon it could be)
True, but I have a hard time imagining them not having that job. What else would be the point of a court?
Just put any yob off the streets into the judiciary to vote yes to what you want.
This is what Trump expects from them. He appointed him, they owe him everything. It's not surprising his supporters feel the same
Ironically, ACB really is a DEI hire with the undertone of “unqualified” they use. At the time Trump was either pressured or he had otherwise promised he’d nominate a woman.
ACB has less than HALF of the experience of any other SCOTUS judge, Kavanaugh included. She was blatantly unqualified.
Clarence Thomas has entered the chat.
Not only wasn't he the most qualified judge, he wasn't the most qualified Black judge, and he wasn't even the most qualified Black conservative judge.
The irony is that he was very interested in the civil rights movement as a student. (And let's face it, this is not surprising for a Black student from the late 60's/early 70's.) And he was a bright student, he got accepted unto many law schools and was one of only 12 black law students at Yale. He's not a moron.
And when he graduated from Yale, and sought a job in private practice, he found that law firms assumed he must have gotten his degree because of affirmative action, and not on his merit. So, having experienced systemic racism firsthand, he sought to root it out everywhere....
.... Sike! That's not it at all. Rather than blame the racist law partners who assumed nobody with that much melanin could graduate from Yale without help, he blamed Yale for giving him a "worthless degree" with the taint of affirmative action all over it, and embarked on a career dedicated to tearing down anything that would help minority groups. No wonder Republicans like him so much.
There was a time when Clarence's mindlessly textualist dissents were basically a drinking game for Law Students. Take a shot every time he mentions that something didn't exist in 1789! He was also famous for never, ever asking questions in oral arguments. Then of course there are the famous complaints about salary. Dude simply does not give a fuck, but that kind of committed disdain for the institution ended up serving him well as the GOP sank down to meet him.
Did the others have a history of being a sex pest and easy to buy off with an RV worth a couple hundred thousand dollars?
That's why Thomas was picked, he was a useful idiot.
That was before I started paying attention so I’m unfamiliar with his nomination process
If you have time for drama, look up Anita Hill.
Thomas's nomination was a giant shit show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill
https://wams.nyhistory.org/end-of-the-twentieth-century/the-information-age/anita-hills-testimony/
Thomas' confirmation hearings are now the template for all of them because they were so batshit insane.
The republiQans hate getting a calm, competent, immenently qualified judge like Kagan where they got nothing.
This would be true, but all of Trump's appointees are underqualified, so it's on par for him.
Kavanaugh had the necessary professional experience, on par with the rest of SCOTUS at the time. It’s just that he’s so clearly partisan, that he should not have been confirmed by the senate.
Also, had he had an actual backbone, he would have let the FBI run and finish his background check. Allegations are allegations. People may lie. The FBI should have run the full investigation to see if the allegations had merit or not. But this didn’t happen. Therefore, in my opinion, he is unqualified even if he didn’t commit sexual assault
His crybaby blubbering "I like beer" temper tantrum is pretty disqualifying IMO
Well, yes. I’m saying his legal career on paper made him look qualified. What made him look unqualified was, well, (IMO) everything not directly related to his legal work.
The perjury he was doing while testifying to Congress was also enough in my book as well as his beer outburst trying to respond to Klobuchar.
I'm addition to his sexual assault history, the FBI should have been allowed to look into the large amount of gambling debt that disappeared when journalists looked into it, and his alcoholism. Any of those should be disqualifying for the highest Court in the country.
Many of Trump's appointees have been highly qualified. He usually ends up firing them and calling them idiots.
You must be talking about his first term. Even then, some of them were…. yeah
Reince Priebus was Trump's first Chief of Staff. He was a big wig in the GOP with tons of Washington experience. Totally qualified for the job, iirc he lasted less than a month.
I especially love how this decision was 5-4 that the government has to honor a contract it signed, and the MAGA folks are upset that the government can't simply scam everyone and everything.
In addition, I believe some if not all of the contacts in question were completed on the vendors side. This is an attempt at the biggest dine and dash in history.
Edit: sometimes my spelling is wrong when I swipe type
That's correct. This was entirely to pay for work done before the Stop Work Order, with contracts already in place, money obligated and ready to go.
Dine and dash is the perfect comparison.
of course. she's a woman after all. how could a woman know how the law should work. only men can determine law because they have a strong sense of responsibility that women could never understand. /s
The law states, plain as day
Trump wins
cmon Amy, did you not realize who you sold yourself to?
I bet you were cheap too.
can't be a proper traitor even, pathetic.
She’s turned out to be slightly better than I thought, almost as if she hasn’t completely sold her soul.
The first term justices were all from the pre-existing Federalist Society list. It was full of overly partisan, reliable conservative activist judges, but they were generally people who'd arrived at their positions through arguments that, while arising from shitty first assumptions, one could cogently follow and even appreciate some of the mental gymnastics. They were either nominally qualified or on their way to being so. Alito (aka Great Value Scalia) has arguably been worse than the Trump Three; in retrospect I would have happily taken our chances with Harriet Miers.
I guarantee that Trump's list for this term is much, much worse. Frankly I would assume Aileen Cannon is at the top of it.
Oh no. What if they kill each other.
I'll be honest, I am expecting an angry, armed J6er to off a SC Justice before Trump's term ends, so Trump can appoint Matt Gaetz to that seat. But my money was on one of the liberals, not on ACB....
She was literally an unqualified DEI hire. If we ever have another dem president (not likely) they could fire her using mcdiaper's executive order.
If the Dems could fire her, then so could The Fanta Menace.