Still way too close. Withholding pay for contracted work that was already performed? Alito and Thomas are no surprise (good luck getting a mechanic to work on your RV, Clarence!) but Gorsuch, who pretends to actually give a shit about contracts? I guess kissing orange ass is more important to him.
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How many death threats is Barrett getting now, ya think?
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DEI Justice appointed by … lemme check my notes … Donald Trump.
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The middle ground, says Professor Yale-Loehr, might be for the Supreme Court to allow the Trump administration to at least begin its plans to obliterate birthright citizenship.
“The Supreme Court may well limit the injunctions partially, maybe not to the extent that the Trump Administration wants, but [to the extent] that will allow the Trump administration to claim a political victory.”
So the middle ground is still fucking fascist.
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Yeah….they could also do what originalism claims to do and follow the plain meaning of the amendment, which would mean telling Trump no.
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IANA Constitutional L but, what I’m guessing will happen is that they’ll come up with a tortured “originalist” interpretation of the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction [of the United States]” that somehow relies heavily on the hottest of hot takes from some theologian from 1610 or so, while ignoring any actual relevant common law, legal theory, or case precedents from US history that contradict their position.
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Alito and Thomas will do that, for sure. I think Barrett will again side with the three liberal women. So it’ll come down to Roberts, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. I have a hard time seeing all three of them buying the bizarro interpretation, but who knows?
The tortured interpretation, by the way, will be that the sole intent of this clause of the 14th Amendment was to undo the Dred Scott decision and grant citizenship to all formerly enslaved people and their descendants.
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Look who woke up. Well, half woke up.
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Eventually, we will need 5. We know Alito and Thomas will go with whatever Il Duche wants, Barrett is probably the most likely to side with Rule of Law. That would do it. I can only hope for the other 2 to come to the light.
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The problem will be when Trump just ignores SCOTUS. At that point, Roberts will probably regret granting Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution. Because ultimately, SCOTUS has no ability to enforce its orders. There’s no Judge Dredd in the real world.
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Trump: the streets will run like rivers with the blood of my enemies. Their heads on spikes will adorn Congress and every federal building and court.
Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel
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Pretty much.
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Oh hey fascist enabler, nice to see you have an opinion on this, now that you’re watching jackboots marching up to your door.
Too bad, too little, and way too fucking late, my dude. You systematically worked to set up the conditions for these guys, and you do not get to be surprised when you find yourself surrounded by hungry leopards.
You were told. You did it anyway. Fuck you.
PS, tell Thomas to go fuck himself as well. I mean, and those other guys, you know who I mean, but especially Thomas. You and he deserve each other.
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Trump has also long wanted defamation law weakened, so this is another sign that SCOTUS isn’t going to just automatically support Trump on everything. Although, if Trump weren’t President, I don’t think that would even be a story. Wynn just didn’t have a case.
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So there was a not-entirely-insane SCOTUS ruling on ghost guns, and it was a 7-2 decision written by Gorsuch, of all people. I guess I’ll take that as a minor win, for once.
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Ok, before I go read the article, I’m going to predict the 2 were Alito and Thomas. Lemma go see if I was right. BRB.
ETA: Wow! I must be psychic! How did I guess it would be those two dissenting?
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Was Gorsuch’s primary rationale that ghost guns robbed hardworking American gun manufacturers of their well earned profits?
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