When the rule of law is under attack, there are few things as disturbing as a judicial system led by people who also appear eager to avoid accountability for their acts.
Overruling Humphrey's Executor by way of ignoring it. This is the worst Court in the nation's history. What a malign conjunction of the stars it was that got us Trump 2.0 and the Roberts Court at the same time.
The court is made up of Catholics (Gorsuch goes to the Episcopal church too, but refuses to renounce Catholicism) and one Jewish person and one Southern protestant. All Yankee educated, at very high-brow Yankee institutions.
Formally, Catholics, including in the South, opposed the US CIVIL war and largely opposed slavery. Although some Southern Catholics took the official church position against the war (the Pope wrote Jefferson Davis a letter refusing to recognize the Confederacy, which he used as anti-catholic propaganda) some bishops supported the Confederacy. Because of the anti-confederacy position, Catholics were long referred to as papists in the South and the KKK discriminated against them as well as Jewish people.
Yankees like to tell people what to do and the court does plenty of that. So, yet another Yankee Court opposed to the tradition of Thomas Jefferson, a Southern.
The Catholics and Yankees are why I used the word sympathizers. They provide most of the phony intellectual heft for the movement, but the core voter base that got us here are reacting against the civil rights movement and feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, and they are culturally and geographically exactly the same as the people who lost the civil war.
The pattern is emerging. Trump does something that is challenged, resulting in an injunction; the Circuit Court denies the application for a stay order, and the DOJ presents an emergency appeal to SCOTUS, which with its 6-3 majority, can force the case on the shadow docket and keep it off the briefing docket. SCOTUS stays the injunction, stating that SCOTUS "expresses no opinion on the merits". The case works its way back through the District & Circuit Courts, with a year or two passing by in the interim. By that time, SCOTUS could grant certiorari, and then dismiss the suit as moot; as the merits have become a fait accompli.
The overall effect is that SCOTUS is allowing Trump to do whatever he wants while avoiding issuing any rulings on the merits against the administration.
This shadow docket business will continue until Kavanaugh (or maybe Barrett or even Roberts) becomes the 4th vote to grant certiorari to put the case on the briefing docket and keep it off the shadow docket.
We are indeed. And who would have thought? America, Land of the Free, becomes a National Socialist cosplay … with real damage that no one wants to notice.
The actual pattern is the court follows the law, the so-called liberals who oppose the workings of the liberal experiment called the United States don't like the side that they end up on, so, instead of arguing the law, they call people names and claim they are the smart people. LOL.
What's the rush? Why not follow proper procedure if you're going to change the law?
The answer is there are deadlines of midterm elections next year and a presidential election two years after. Enough has to be broken to ensure we don't have free and fair elections at those dates. You don't give a revolution back to the whims of the voters.
When a Supreme Court dismisses long standing precedent and continually overrules the lower courts' cautious and considered review and alignment, the Supreme Court demonstrates it is no longer a fair arbiter of the law but rather a corrupt body overturning the rule of law.
It sure will be interesting to see if any of these corrupt justices make an appearance in the Epstein files. That might help explain why they seem more determined than ever to chose trump over the constitution.
Remembering a professor at VCU who tried to tell other classmates SCOTUS is apolitical. Lmao! What a shame students believed him over me calling out such bs.
Humphrey's Executor should not be overturned. Kagan's dissent in Seila Law is correct.
But, SCOTUS is taking the most chickenshit way to go about a bad thing. It comes off as if they are embarrassed. Or, they are full YOLO and know they can. Either way is not illegitimate.
This nation was founded on the principle, at some point, that non-illegitimate tyrants have no business being in power.
Impeach Roberts and the male conservatives for judicial improprieties and Constitutional ignorance. They are destroying the foundations of our democracy with unjustified anti-Constitutional amateurish rulings that boldly declare “you can’t stop us on our mission to rewrite Article II based on our view of the Unitary Executive.” Even Leo and the Heritage Foundation have gone into hiding as they watch America burn itself down
Overruling Humphrey's Executor by way of ignoring it. This is the worst Court in the nation's history. What a malign conjunction of the stars it was that got us Trump 2.0 and the Roberts Court at the same time.
Well the exact same people who lost the civil war and their sympathizers worked for six decades to get us here so I wouldn't call it the stars.
Stars and bars more like?
Excellent!
The court is made up of Catholics (Gorsuch goes to the Episcopal church too, but refuses to renounce Catholicism) and one Jewish person and one Southern protestant. All Yankee educated, at very high-brow Yankee institutions.
Formally, Catholics, including in the South, opposed the US CIVIL war and largely opposed slavery. Although some Southern Catholics took the official church position against the war (the Pope wrote Jefferson Davis a letter refusing to recognize the Confederacy, which he used as anti-catholic propaganda) some bishops supported the Confederacy. Because of the anti-confederacy position, Catholics were long referred to as papists in the South and the KKK discriminated against them as well as Jewish people.
Yankees like to tell people what to do and the court does plenty of that. So, yet another Yankee Court opposed to the tradition of Thomas Jefferson, a Southern.
The Catholics and Yankees are why I used the word sympathizers. They provide most of the phony intellectual heft for the movement, but the core voter base that got us here are reacting against the civil rights movement and feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, and they are culturally and geographically exactly the same as the people who lost the civil war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/randoliberal/p/i-call-bullshit
Fuckers
The pattern is emerging. Trump does something that is challenged, resulting in an injunction; the Circuit Court denies the application for a stay order, and the DOJ presents an emergency appeal to SCOTUS, which with its 6-3 majority, can force the case on the shadow docket and keep it off the briefing docket. SCOTUS stays the injunction, stating that SCOTUS "expresses no opinion on the merits". The case works its way back through the District & Circuit Courts, with a year or two passing by in the interim. By that time, SCOTUS could grant certiorari, and then dismiss the suit as moot; as the merits have become a fait accompli.
The overall effect is that SCOTUS is allowing Trump to do whatever he wants while avoiding issuing any rulings on the merits against the administration.
This shadow docket business will continue until Kavanaugh (or maybe Barrett or even Roberts) becomes the 4th vote to grant certiorari to put the case on the briefing docket and keep it off the shadow docket.
Precisely! Always an “emergency” … must the demolition of democracy be so hasty?
Yup. Worked well for Hitler
Until it didn’t. As a Jew, though, I’m not sure I want to wait for that bunker to be occupied.
None of the harmless honest hardworking immigrants want to be in prison either and yet here we are ☹️
We are indeed. And who would have thought? America, Land of the Free, becomes a National Socialist cosplay … with real damage that no one wants to notice.
Very astute
The actual pattern is the court follows the law, the so-called liberals who oppose the workings of the liberal experiment called the United States don't like the side that they end up on, so, instead of arguing the law, they call people names and claim they are the smart people. LOL.
Really? And it has just been explained to you.
They aren't even pretending anymore.
What's the rush? Why not follow proper procedure if you're going to change the law?
The answer is there are deadlines of midterm elections next year and a presidential election two years after. Enough has to be broken to ensure we don't have free and fair elections at those dates. You don't give a revolution back to the whims of the voters.
Lawless Court
When a Supreme Court dismisses long standing precedent and continually overrules the lower courts' cautious and considered review and alignment, the Supreme Court demonstrates it is no longer a fair arbiter of the law but rather a corrupt body overturning the rule of law.
Thank you, Chris, for taking the gloves off!
It sure will be interesting to see if any of these corrupt justices make an appearance in the Epstein files. That might help explain why they seem more determined than ever to chose trump over the constitution.
"Chief Justice Roberts, who do you think will play you in the Nuremberg movie?"
Remembering a professor at VCU who tried to tell other classmates SCOTUS is apolitical. Lmao! What a shame students believed him over me calling out such bs.
In truth historians and political scientists have found that the Court is rarely apolitical, conservative liberal.
"DOJ ran to the Supreme Court the next day."
SCOTUS is on speed dial.
Humphrey's Executor should not be overturned. Kagan's dissent in Seila Law is correct.
But, SCOTUS is taking the most chickenshit way to go about a bad thing. It comes off as if they are embarrassed. Or, they are full YOLO and know they can. Either way is not illegitimate.
This nation was founded on the principle, at some point, that non-illegitimate tyrants have no business being in power.
So the lower courts try to save us, and the high court hates us.
Impeach Roberts and the male conservatives for judicial improprieties and Constitutional ignorance. They are destroying the foundations of our democracy with unjustified anti-Constitutional amateurish rulings that boldly declare “you can’t stop us on our mission to rewrite Article II based on our view of the Unitary Executive.” Even Leo and the Heritage Foundation have gone into hiding as they watch America burn itself down
What about Amy Coney Barrett?
Thank you Chris. You
state it clearly as do the
3 ladies. The 6 clearly
like hiding behind their q
masked shadow docket.
Thank you Chris!!!
This is really devastating. This court keeps expanding executive power, even weakening its own poor, just because of ideological bias.
Power*
Bravo for calling them out.