Considering the Supreme Court in 2023 and looking forward to 2024

If you are the same person, more than one account is a violation too.

Particularly in that he embodies utter contempt for our US government & Constitution; and he lives in a fact free fantasy world; where all who aren’t for him, are blood Enemies.

His own “best interests” are all that matters to him.

The lie and manipulation are his stock and trade.

Never seen a contract he could break with alacrity, doesn’t care who gets hurt.

Not the kind of person anyone should be foolish enough to partner up with, let alone to blindly follow as a lead.

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Jun 2, 2024 - MeidasTouch
The MAGA extremist Supreme court majority is set to hand down several, possibly controversial decisions over the next few weeks; Including a decision on presidential immunity. How did we get here? To a court that’s so seemingly corrupt and out of touch with the majority of Americans? Suri Crowe explains it all and discusses how we can reverse course.

2:07 in the next weeks we could see,
legality of Mifepristone.),
Jan 6th obstruction cases
expansion of access guns, granting domestic abusers to own guns
Setting further limitation on the EPA,
trump’s Presidential Immunity,
etc.

What worries me is how much more damage the Reich (AKA Right, MAGAts, Dotard supporters) is going to do between now and election day.

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What’s the point?
Still, it is what we allowed to happen.
. . .

We were warned:

by David A. Kaplan – September 4, 2018

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.

Never before has the Court been more central in American life. It is now the nine justices who too often decide the biggest issues of our time—from abortion and same-sex marriage to gun control, campaign finance, and voting rights. The Court is so crucial that many voters in 2016 made their choice based on whom they thought their presidential candidate would name to the Court. Donald Trump picked Neil Gorsuch—the key decision of his new administration. The newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh—replacing Anthony Kennedy—is even more important, holding the swing vote over so much social policy. With the 2020 campaign underway, and with two justices in their ’80s, the Court looms even larger. Is that really how democracy is supposed to work?

Based on exclusive interviews with the justices, Kaplan provides fresh details about life behind the scenes at the Court: the reaction to Kavanaugh’s controversial arrival, the new role for Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas’s simmering rage, Antonin Scalia’s death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s celebrity, Breyer Bingo, and the petty feuding between Gorsuch and the chief justice.

Kaplan offers a sweeping narrative of the justices’ aggrandizement of power over the decades—from Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore to Citizens United. (He also faults the Court for not getting involved when it should—for example, to limit partisan gerrymandering.) But the arrogance of the Court isn’t partisan: Conservative and liberal justices alike are guilty of overreach. Challenging conventional wisdom about the Court’s transcendent power, as well as presenting an intimate inside look at the Court, The Most Dangerous Branch is sure to rile both sides of the political aisle.

Today:

Jun 7, 2024 #MSNBC #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

Conservatives on the Supreme Court have wasted no time using their majority power to advance their political and cultural goals, at least in terms of the cases they’ve agreed to hear. Now it appears that they’ve saved a significant number of rulings on major cases to all be released at the same time, likely with the hope that some of the controversy they generate will be lost in the rush of news. Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, talks with Alex Wagner about what could be a “news dump from hell.”

And they wonder why some are disillusioned . . . . .

Good politicians require strong citizen support, that’s where there power to accomplish things comes from. Sure deep money wins in that game, doesn’t mean we should try doing the best we can with what we have. But it requires a little moxie.

Jun 8, 2024 #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas

After a week in which Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s open political bias was cast in stark relief and literally run up a flag pole, followed by revelations of massive gifts accepted by Justice Clarence Thomas, frustration with the justices’ arrogant impunity has a growing number of Americans demanding that something be done. Nikole Hannah Jones, civil rights reporter for the New York Times, and Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, discuss with Alex Wagner.

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Jun 8, 2024 #SCOTUS #JusticeRoberts #SupremeCourt

Chief Justice John Roberts is facing increased scrutiny for his refusal to meet with Democratic lawmakers regarding the court’s ethics crisis. Following a series of ethics scandals and controversial decisions, some wonder whether Roberts has lost control over his court.

Roberts lacks leverage among his colleagues now that it’s a 6-3 Court, and due to the absence of a clear Democratic majority in the Senate that could have initiated impeachment proceedings or passed basic ethics protections, argues Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University.

“The fact that there isn’t a clear majority in the Senate makes it a lot harder for this Congress to control the court, and for the court to control itself,” she says. Leaving the Chief Justice “out in the wilderness.”

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HOW LOW WILL THEY GO?