They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.
They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.
Trump could slaughter every Democrat in Congress and SCOTUS would shrug.
Truly the most corrupt SCOTUS of all time. Every Republican member should be impeached.
At this point all i wonder is how they will keep the FED working to save their own wealth...
The SCOTUS majority does not even pretend that their decisions are not driven by their ideology over any considerations of the law, Constitution, or precedent. Their authoritarian mindset ("We get to say what the law is, so suck it") is very compatible with the shamelessness of their buddy DJT.
Balls and strikes…there will be a political price to pay. I hope we reform the structure of the court itself—why have a Chief justice? Term limits, rotations.
At this point they're illegitimate.
Even when they are totally partisan, must we point out "both Sides"? Spare me.
This is sickening.
They're just as corrupt as Trump.
GOPreme Court, nothing but bought and paid for MAGA partisan hacks.
You think Roberts is really self deluding or that he understands what the Court is doing? In another decade when they've overturned a huge swath of "decided law"...will he still look back and say he was just calling balls/strikes and not reinventing the game???
Competent enough, I guess? bsky.app/profile/chri...
Scary shit, no backstop to this mad man.
It's always an ideological in one direction.
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And what a one!
Perhaps one day our Congress will do their job and there will no need to run to the Supreme Court. One can dream.
This court is illegitimate as it’s a full on activist led court. Thomas is compromised , lack any credibility and should be removed immediately and all cases he is involved in need to be set aside for review. The others need to be reviews for their associations and related record of voting.
yep. the newest ones lied to get confirmed. we all knew it at the time but still they got the votes. meanwhile, Alito is a radicalized white evangelical.
Their confirmations were one of the biggest failures of Obama…
that’s some troll logic: things that happened under bush and trump or were caused by Republican Senators are obama’s fault.
So trump just magically pulled up rules that allowed him to do recess appointments?
Pretending like maintaining norms in the face of racist obstructionism would have held any of this back is liberal buffoonery. This kind of nonsense is why Democrats always lose in the end.
Winning is the only “high road” they should consider. Whatever it takes. Ya can’t effect any change if you aren’t sitting in the big chair.
Accepting a losing stance as an excuse is why Dems always lose.
Compared to America's current SCOTUS, Baghdad Bob was a man of honor and justice.
If the President can unconstitutionally remove Congressionally authorized independent agencies, then the next Democratic president can remove the six non independent Fascist justices on the Supreme Court. Let’s make this happen in 2028
The MAGA justices scold her at Heritage and Federalist meetings, but Justice Jackson is proven right yet again: "This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins."
tempo, etc.
Can someone explain why we bother having a SCOTUS any more.
We need more justices! This is absolutely disgusting that they are doing this!!! They think they are god and they need to be rained in! Lopsided justice is not EQUAL!!!! America is a shithole anymore!
whatever the opposite of supreme is, they're that court now
In pizza, I think cheese is the opposite of supreme.
they can't be the cheese court tho that's rad
OTOH it is kinda funny, given how Trump supporters feel about "cheese pizza"
"Tonight on... CHEESE COURT..."
What decision hasn’t gone Trump’s way?
SCOTUS needs to be impeached!
My guess and hope is as soon as Dems get in the WH some of SCOTUS will be quickly leaving the country!
Omg
An ideological decision to maintain minority control.
I remember learning in middle school SCOTUS judges got lifetime appointments as a means to remove political influence on them. Everything I’ve learned since shows the exact opposite. They’re completely immune from political activism.
It’s wild to see the Supreme Court breaking down right in front of our eyes. They’re barely hiding it anymore.
We all know they are corrupt!
We need to stop saying SCOTUS is enabling fascism, and call a spade a spade. The SCOTUS *is* fascist.
"We're going to stay an injunction consistent with existing precedent while we decide whether to overrule the precedent." The Supreme Court conservatives are not independent arbiters and guardians of existing legal norms. They are political activists hell-bent on destroying US democracy.
Look, they obviously don’t care anymore because they know there will never be another Democratic administration ever again. Even if a Democrat wins in 2028, the House will vote to override the results, install the Republican and that’s all she wrote.
f****ck
sorry i find the state of SCOTUS and their enthusiastic support for the swing to evangelical sharia law to be the most disheartening of all of it.
The six MAGA Nazis on the court are open enemies of the US Constitution and the American Republic. They want an authoritarian state and are shepherding it into existence. Roberts is as much of an institutionalist as Hitler was.
Wow! It should be very clear to all Americans we have 6 members on SCOTUS who are pushing for the United States to become a Banana Republic. They're openly showing us they are compromised & corrupt, long live their King!
politicians in robes
The six GOP appointed justices aren't real judges - they are political operatives wearing black robes.
Can’t believe we ever thought these monsters were operating in good faith. Republicans tricked us into thinking they were reasonable people and I’ll never trust one again. Ever.
Imagine if we had umpires officiating games wearing the jersey of one of the teams. That's it.
Is Roberts officially on the White House payroll yet, or is it still under the table for now?
Nice Cava lunch bag
Can the DOJ investigate members of the Supreme Court?
They corrupted an entire branch of government.
The Founders never imagined that an entire party, once in possession of all 3 branches of government, would betray the Constitution itself to amass a monopoly on power. But here we are.
Thomas Jefferson did. That was one regret he had.
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They’re lawless
Indelibly corrupt. Their ouster is the only way to repair the institution
But will Dems in Congress show courage and push to reform? Tepid inaction vs GOP bold, active (and lawless) change. America is clamoring for change — major change — from the GOP run from democracy. Going back to incrementalism is exactly what NOT to do.
I am so disgusted by this court. They are betraying everything this country should be about and they know it. May god have mercy on their souls for causing such harm to so many.
Packing the court doesn't feel so radical now, does it? I'm just imagining all the good that could've been done if Biden had been allowed to do the extremely reasonable things, like on student debt, that this same court said presidents couldn't do when he tried it. Breathtaking partisan hypocrisy.
just so long as it goes in favor of fascists and religious nutbars. its a federalist thing. you wouldnt understand
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My suggestion is 3 fair judges should not be involve with any shadow dockets and they should not participate in as this court result is already known.
I guess I just don't get why they bother with this theater and pagentry? Authoritarianism would come a lot faster without all the paper work, procedures, and precedent they clearly do not give a shit about?
This court is as guilty of wrecking our country as anyone. The whole concept of precedent has been tossed aside.
Will it help people? Better gather studies on that shit for the next hundred year before we do anything impulsive. Will it devastate the global economy, permanently reduce the country's standing in the world and immiserate millions? LET THAT BITCH RIP! -The United States Supreme Court
If we ever have a democrat president again, the first order of business must be to reform the Supreme Court. The rule of law must be reinstated.
“Independent agency” you keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you thing it means
They have absolutely no shame.
The Supreme Court is deliberately f*cking up democracy. Makes me wonder what kind of leverage trump has on Roberts…don’t know what it is but it must be Epstein file level!!
Or, and I’m just spitballing here, Roberts is a fascist asshole.
They have lost all credibility. Period. Legitimate legal opinions are out. The current majority ideology is in.
One thing I need people to understand is they are not doing it to benefit trump they are doing to benefit the fascists. They are not compromised or bribed. They are doing what they want to beacuse conservatism hates the us and always have. If trump dies they are still doing this.
Republicans used to claim to hate an activist Supreme Court court. Now they bathe in activism and ignoring precedent.
The authoritarian threat will not be stopped until SCOTUS is reformed
Shocking exactly no one.
All three branches of government are one big Trump Cabinet Meeting where they tell him he is very special. Complete implosion of any sort of law, or order, in this country. Just some guy in his golden luxury box, giving thumbs up or thumbs down.
If I understand this correctly, the Supreme Corrupt 5 can be indicted for giving aide and comfort to an insurrectionist (i.e. rump). A grand jury just needs to be assembled. Any lawyers out there able to do this? Link in comments.
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The most corrupt Supreme Court in the history of this country
Can there be one fucking day of news that isn't as shitty as the continued driving a stake into the heart of normalcy in this fucking country.
So it took them this long to find the previous (1935) case they could overturn to let Rump get away with murder. The cons on the Supreme Cult have made themselves irrelevant.
The Supreme Court makes me embarrassed to have a law degree. Then again I’m already about as embarrassed as I can be with Habba, Bove, Vance, Halligan et al.
yea, we know
The Roberts Court legacy will be the most corrupt court in history—It’s not close how bad this group of 6 is—the payoffs must be massive!!!
As was said elsewhere, I don’t think you need the “whether”.
corruption!
Do you remember when the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from ending the Trump executive order relating to the border?
They don’t need to placate him unless they want their mortgages paid for and take private jets and yacht trips and get their kids college paid for and … oh yeah, I guess they do. Nevermind.
Chris why do you always tip toe around? Why can’t you just call the kangaroo court the kangaroo court?
Lifetime appointments are undemocratic
Corruption.
Some Justices should start leaking some information on what's going on behind the scenes!!!
Too bad Senator Durbin didn’t have the energy to go after justices when it first came out that they’d been bought and paid for. When he let them off the hook, it just made them more powerful. No oversight is what they want. Durbin gave it to them on a geritol laden platter.
@indivisible.org Perhaps the next national protest should be for expanding SCOTUS!
There essentially is no federal law anymore or constitutional law.
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Nothing supreme about these hacks
But I am wondering where are the veteran groups When all this is happening to the country? Shouldn't they be rallying behind their World war II veterans who fought so bravely to end this when they were on the front line. Maybe Chris needs to do a show on this.
We are in deep trouble. This court will be the end of our country.
This reads like Hammer’s “Addams Groove”, but much much bleaker.
Hey, at least President Ocasio Cortez will be able to fire all of Trump’s appointees on day 1, right? Right??
They obviously could have granted cert for judgment in the Jack Smith case and they didn't because they wanted to run out the clock as much as possible.
Any reason we should support any future Dem Pres candidate that doesn't vow to expand supreme court? Have seen at least going back to when Obama tried to nominate a justice, they have no norms, no rules, and don't care for the rule of law. Dem's can't continue to play nice, to get ran over more
Expanding is the only viable option and frankly should be viewed as a moderate position. These six are just as guilty as the Congressional members allowing trump's authoritarian rule. All must go
So much corruption
Obvious partisan hacks.
Every time someone voted 3rd party in a swing state in the last 40 years or sat out the election instead of thinking about the Supreme Court they were setting up this situation. Get ready for the mid terms. Vote 3rd party in local elections, but vote strategically in federal elections. Vote.
Adams’ gov of laws, and not of men ended when the SC granted the potus presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution last year w explicit exemption for ordering “sham” DOJ investigations into his opponents. Dems need a plan to hold ppl accountable for crimes to reassert the rule of law.
The six may as well have maga hats stitched to their robes at this point. Why hide it?
Because "objective" journalists will never, ever call them out on their ideological behavior
Black robe Red hat Won't you fill up the tank? Let's go for a ride Sure like to feel some pride But this place just makes me feel sad inside
Are they hiding it?
Do MAGA hats fit over white hoods?
Yes. Unfortunately
So Trump attempted to overthrow the government, and the Supreme Court collaborated with him to finish the job. Why aren't we calling this treason?
I really hate that I need to be a lawyerly scholarly interpreter of the SC decisions to understand what the f*** is happening in my country. Someone make this stop.
Just like how the financial industry forced me to learn what credit default swaps were so I could follow their corruption. Capitalist predators
…as just one example. When they want to, they can even be slower than Merrick Garland. 🙄
No justice in America. SCOTUS Six see to that.
Supreme Court has been absolutely corrupted and they have stripped themselves of any authority other than rubber stamping the president’s will. We’re cooked.
a corrupt court running interference for the most corrupt president in history. they are the most powerful and insulated group of people in the country and this will be their legacy.
F U, Mitch McConnell.
They are going to overturn the Humphrey’s precedent, aren’t they? @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
Just one of the reasons that I, along with many, MANY of my fellow USA Citizens, have lost ALL Respect for the 6 'conservative' justices on SCOTUS! Justice delayed is Justice Denied! Follow the Law, not Ideology, or Personal 'Feelings/Prejudices'!
I look forward to whatever reckoning awaits this Court. May it be soon.
No, no, no, no, you can't give a pass to Jack Smith and Merrick Garland on this one. Both are complicit in this debacle.
I'm going to say what I've not seen anyone else say: this court got WORSE after Biden's appointment of KBJ. Because the six MAGA Judges clearly took it as a direct offense to them and their side, and took it as the excuse to discard whatever pretense of ethics they had left.
Prior to the KBJ appointment, the Roberts Court stood up to Trump and didn't take his case to overturn the 2020 election. I cannot imagine these "Justices" doing such a thing nowadays. They're pissed, vengeful, and determined to utterly end the American republic as we knew it.
I have to disagree. Wouldn't have mattered if Biden resurrected Blackstone to sit on the bench. This crowd is invested in disrupting the liberal system. They want religion back into politics undercutting even Adam Smith. Nothing would have changed that.
Sure, but they seemed a little more reasonable and varied in their rulings prior to Dobbs. After that, it's just been one thing after another even when it's nakedly unlawful of them, like they believe they're unstoppable (and thus far, they've been right.)
They are unstoppable. The ultimate authority vested in the SCOTUS was always problematic but held at bay by the generalized rules of a "established law. These have been emboldened by the "do it anyway" attitude prevalent in the fed gov't today.
This. Which is why the whole institution must be torn down. A single "Highest Court in the Land" doesn't work in a land as big and overpopulated as our country.
Ok, but replaced with what? Or is the idea that the country is too big to be governed as a whole? Re-writing the Constitution from the left is still a revolution. Bad news is that the right has been thinking this through for about 40 years and the left can't find common ground.
Because they are corrupt and don't care who knows. If the Dems ever get the majority. "Changing the number of Supreme Court justices is done through ordinary legislation, not a constitutional amendment. A simple majority is therefore sufficient to pass a bill in both the House and Senate" Fuck em.
But let's hear the RTTs shriek and screech that this is the "least political" SCOTUS in history. Because they constantly need to paper over all the evil, vile shit their caregivers do to support the fascist destruction happening right now before our eyes.
Any sane democrats should run with promise to fire all Trump installed agents. Clean sweep on day one. No bipartisanship bs. No it looks bad. EO firing them all. Install interim Supreme Court judges. Who cares at this point.
America's high courts are discredited, and no liberal government should ever bow to them.
Clearly we need an Edward Tufte style graphic to go with this.
As I understand it, an Appeals Court has ruled in this case. I don't like this Court. I think it is a partisan Court. But I don't see you point in this case. They did not skip the Appeals Court.
Oh, but as Amy Conehead Barrett said as she pocketed the six-figure advance on her book, "We're not sitting on the left or right team. We're not political." Another liar appointed to a lifetime position to screw Americans.
Court reform is necessary if we are to continue to function as a nation.
Time for some Grand Juries to hold these Insurrectionist supporters to be held accountable. It can be done! #Epsteinaminophen works
Supreme Court isn’t even trying to hide their corrupt practices anymore.
They aren’t a real court and younger generations don’t view them as legitimate. Gonna be fun when it comes to a head
Groundhog Day at SCOTUS. The Appeal to Heaven crowd controls it all while the same dissenters dissent.
Corrupt.
This court must be on a one way ticket to Jerusalem for the rapture.
I never want to hear the term "settled law" again.
The majority is bad at their jobs. Bad enough to deserve impeachments.
These emperor judges have no....robes.
The most corrupt SCOTUS in history.
SCOTUS will not abolish precedent entirely, just for trump. You watch. As soon as a Dem president tries the same thing, Oh! Wait a minute, you can't do that!
But if there's ever again a Democratic POTUS: Whoopsies, we erred & he must follow the law and can't fire Trump appointees without due cause. Correct?
So this court is hell bent on setting a precedent that precedent doesn't matter. This should make drafting legal briefs a breeze: Hey, we don't think this is cool. Do you current judges dig it or not?
You know they’ll absolutely approve his tariff BS in the end too.
OMG... the dollar will tumble
A rotten, fully corrupted court.
We don’t have a Supreme Court any more per the constitutional order. We have a partisan show court of 6 members who are totally in the bag for Trump and MAGA whatever the issue. 1st amendment — gone when it comes to them as it relates to non GOP. We are cooked and they are corrupt. Totally corrupt.
Don't forget that John Roberts worked for George Bush to help stop counting the votes and award the 2000 election to Bush by judicial fiat. John Roberts is an important part of the slow coup. www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/p...
The most corrupt SC in our history
Yep
The traitorous 6 gots to go. We will remember. Impeachment is coming when this is all over. Guantanamo will be filled with all of the fascist enablers. And we will lock em up and throw away the key in the middle of the pacific.
Wall Street loves it apparently.
JC 😤
SPHINCTER lickin' SCROTUS 6, gobbling POtuS' 🍆
Time to +4 the SC, on a 50+ dem senator vote. There really is no other option
#BoycottRepublicanBusiness
SCOTUS seems to be running roughshod over not just precedent but norms. At some point the 3 dissenting judges are doing nothing but adding legitimacy to a court that lacks it. I understand that resigning would be a dramatic step but…
They’re political hacks in robes.
In the CULT. ALL six of them!
I flat out guarantee if it was a democratic President wanting to fire a Republican on the board the Court would have been 9-0 against!