I was preparing for them to go full chaos on society and finish the job they started. I'm pleased to see Billionaire Buddy Thomas and Cranky Pants Alito were the only two who plunged into insanity. That does give us some time for a giant shift in the political landscape, which I plan on contributing my time and effort toward. So, huddle up for a quick mini celebration, and then let's get out there and shift the tectonic plates!
Apr 22, 2023·edited Apr 22, 2023Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
From the analysis I've listened to, this isn't clearly a 7-2 ruling. Only Injustices Alito and Thomas wrote that they dissented. It could have been 6-3 or 5-4. So let's not read too much into this stay. And, I've heard this appeals up to the Supreme Court can take everything from six weeks to several months to two years. Would be great if it were two years since in two years we'll know whether we've voted in a Congress that will make Roe law and not just an overturned precedent with second term President Biden signing it into law. What I'd like to see in the meantime is DOJ sue heavily gerrymandered states like North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Utah, Texas, Arkansas and Ohio for violating the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution - that all states will have a republican form of government, i.e. representatives of the People! After all didn't SCOTUS say in Dobbs that they were returning the decision to the People! No, they did a Pontius Pilate and washed their hands of any responsibility thereby allowing the minority ruled states to crucify the rights of women.
On a positive note: One of my hobbies is Beta testing new online courses for Coursera. This past week was a fabulous course from the London Business School titled Building a Resilient Organization. One talk was on "Disruption as a threat and an opportunity". Those organizations and I would add governments who come out successfully from disruptions like COVID or now the threat to democracy see the disruption as both a threat and an opportunity! Here is a short podcast that talks about this concept: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lbsbusinessstrategyreview/2020/04/28/how-to-convince-people-that-a-crisis-is-also-an-opportunity/?sh=55a48edd30f8 This course should be available to the public in a couple of weeks. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to be action oriented in a crisis! I remember the CEO of the Fortune 100 company I worked for saying he liked the difficult times because people worked harder to find new more creative solutions. As Einstein said “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” Let's seize some opportunities!
As soon as this broke and said the vote was 7-2, I immediately guessed Justice Thomas was one of the two. Had I more time and upon reflection I would have guessed Justice Alito was the other of the two dissenters. But the names were read before my thoughts waves coalesced.
I am being respectful here in using the titles of the two instead of just their given names. It’s obvious for certain now that neither’s cerebral cortex can conjure proper judgement in a time in human history when it is critical for anyone in a leadership position to possess.
Our future depends upon leaders who can exercise altruistic judgement for the continuance of mankind on this planet. As the most powerful nation on earth it is tantamount this nation’ leaders use the best judgement or humanity can no longer “endure” nor “prevail”, words from Lincoln and Faulkner, respectively.
It’s obvious; The Court must be expanded! Or these two and likely some others on the bench must be impeached and their expulsion upheld in the Senate.
Looks like the Supreme Court members became handwriting experts. They read the" handwriting on the wall" and it said: "The firestorm after Roe will be like a campfire gone wrong compared to the fiery fury if mifepristone were made illegal!"
And nary a peep on standing. Does the 5th Circuit opinion on the stay address that? Why is everyone ignoring that threshold issue. (By everyone I mean jurists, not commentators.)
I am happy about the Supreme Court decision but realistically it was the only sane decision they could have made. What concerns me greatly is that Judge Kacsmaryk lied on his application and in his confirmation hearing and Judge Clarence Thomas has a myriad of ethics and reporting issues and we the voting public can do nothing about it. This illustrates how important appointing Federal judges is and illuminates why Senator Feinstein not resigning is a major problem. We must protect the integrity of our courts.
Clarence T should not even be given the right to vote or dissent. I don’t want him to have a thing to ever say. Alito is a crankster who wants to be a slave owner. Women should be subservient to men, in his opinion. Screw them both!
Apr 22, 2023·edited Apr 22, 2023Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
SCOTUS is concerned about an expanded court being a clarion call in 2024- any other decision today would have fueled the fire. I was glad Biden called for voting in a Congress to protect women today to stoke the flames.
I love all the comments, but to my mind, here’s the big picture: the once respected Supreme Court has become a laughable group of “political hacks,” to quote one of the clowns on the bench, who swore they weren’t. Kavanaugh and Barrett lied to the Senate in order to secure their nominations, Thomas has seen no problem with accepting (for years) huge perks from a fellow Conservative. A spineless Chief Justice is apparently content to let all this pass without comment or action to correct. At 80 years old, I most likely won’t live to see a major overhaul of the Court, but I certainly hope my grandchildren will! And I’m going to make sure they are aware of the consequences if there isn’t.
Okay, I'll take the "win," with a "but" glaringly staring at us. Justices Alito and Thomas once again disgrace themselves and the court. As Milhiser points out, "Moreover, no federal court has jurisdiction to even hear this case in the first place," and other legal minds have stated, this case and Kacsmaryk’s ruling, which started this train wreck, is simply not based on "the law," but his personal views on abortion. It is not based in reality, so how is it that to these two embarrassments dissent and are not (at least nothing I've seen yet) lambasted.
Thomas should be impeached, Alito should be pressured into retirement. They are both an embarrassment. If only we had a Chief Justice with a spine, it might help, but alas, that is simply not the SCOTUS in 2023.
I am very grateful that we don’t have to wake up to an even worse world than we left yesterday! It is obvious from Alito’s tone-deaf comments about “no irreparable harm” for women who have to wait to get their medication that he is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. It is not his job to share his personal misogyny about women and their bodies. He sounds as awful as the lying Kasmaryck, who did not reveal during questioning the ugly and misogynistic articles he wrote before being selected as a judge. We’re sick and tired of white men in power deciding in their infinite wisdom what is good for women. Remember we almost had a Civil War because white men decided they couldn’t stand wearing a mask during a global pandemic. Would Alito have told them they would suffer no “ireparable harm” by wearing the damn mask????? And Thomas has no business even being seated on the Court much less objecting to something that 85 % of the country approves of. He is just rotten to the core. Pack the Court!
WOMEN DECLARE THEMSELVES CORPORATIONS TO FORCE SUPREME COURT TO GRANT THEM RIGHTS AS PEOPLE
- Andy Borowitz piece headline
June 27, 2022
I was preparing for them to go full chaos on society and finish the job they started. I'm pleased to see Billionaire Buddy Thomas and Cranky Pants Alito were the only two who plunged into insanity. That does give us some time for a giant shift in the political landscape, which I plan on contributing my time and effort toward. So, huddle up for a quick mini celebration, and then let's get out there and shift the tectonic plates!
From the analysis I've listened to, this isn't clearly a 7-2 ruling. Only Injustices Alito and Thomas wrote that they dissented. It could have been 6-3 or 5-4. So let's not read too much into this stay. And, I've heard this appeals up to the Supreme Court can take everything from six weeks to several months to two years. Would be great if it were two years since in two years we'll know whether we've voted in a Congress that will make Roe law and not just an overturned precedent with second term President Biden signing it into law. What I'd like to see in the meantime is DOJ sue heavily gerrymandered states like North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Utah, Texas, Arkansas and Ohio for violating the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution - that all states will have a republican form of government, i.e. representatives of the People! After all didn't SCOTUS say in Dobbs that they were returning the decision to the People! No, they did a Pontius Pilate and washed their hands of any responsibility thereby allowing the minority ruled states to crucify the rights of women.
On a positive note: One of my hobbies is Beta testing new online courses for Coursera. This past week was a fabulous course from the London Business School titled Building a Resilient Organization. One talk was on "Disruption as a threat and an opportunity". Those organizations and I would add governments who come out successfully from disruptions like COVID or now the threat to democracy see the disruption as both a threat and an opportunity! Here is a short podcast that talks about this concept: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lbsbusinessstrategyreview/2020/04/28/how-to-convince-people-that-a-crisis-is-also-an-opportunity/?sh=55a48edd30f8 This course should be available to the public in a couple of weeks. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to be action oriented in a crisis! I remember the CEO of the Fortune 100 company I worked for saying he liked the difficult times because people worked harder to find new more creative solutions. As Einstein said “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” Let's seize some opportunities!
As soon as this broke and said the vote was 7-2, I immediately guessed Justice Thomas was one of the two. Had I more time and upon reflection I would have guessed Justice Alito was the other of the two dissenters. But the names were read before my thoughts waves coalesced.
I am being respectful here in using the titles of the two instead of just their given names. It’s obvious for certain now that neither’s cerebral cortex can conjure proper judgement in a time in human history when it is critical for anyone in a leadership position to possess.
Our future depends upon leaders who can exercise altruistic judgement for the continuance of mankind on this planet. As the most powerful nation on earth it is tantamount this nation’ leaders use the best judgement or humanity can no longer “endure” nor “prevail”, words from Lincoln and Faulkner, respectively.
It’s obvious; The Court must be expanded! Or these two and likely some others on the bench must be impeached and their expulsion upheld in the Senate.
Looks like the Supreme Court members became handwriting experts. They read the" handwriting on the wall" and it said: "The firestorm after Roe will be like a campfire gone wrong compared to the fiery fury if mifepristone were made illegal!"
Alito is a crank all right, straight out if the Middle Ages.
And nary a peep on standing. Does the 5th Circuit opinion on the stay address that? Why is everyone ignoring that threshold issue. (By everyone I mean jurists, not commentators.)
I am happy about the Supreme Court decision but realistically it was the only sane decision they could have made. What concerns me greatly is that Judge Kacsmaryk lied on his application and in his confirmation hearing and Judge Clarence Thomas has a myriad of ethics and reporting issues and we the voting public can do nothing about it. This illustrates how important appointing Federal judges is and illuminates why Senator Feinstein not resigning is a major problem. We must protect the integrity of our courts.
Clarence T should not even be given the right to vote or dissent. I don’t want him to have a thing to ever say. Alito is a crankster who wants to be a slave owner. Women should be subservient to men, in his opinion. Screw them both!
Let sanity prevail some more. Expand the Court!
SCOTUS is concerned about an expanded court being a clarion call in 2024- any other decision today would have fueled the fire. I was glad Biden called for voting in a Congress to protect women today to stoke the flames.
I love all the comments, but to my mind, here’s the big picture: the once respected Supreme Court has become a laughable group of “political hacks,” to quote one of the clowns on the bench, who swore they weren’t. Kavanaugh and Barrett lied to the Senate in order to secure their nominations, Thomas has seen no problem with accepting (for years) huge perks from a fellow Conservative. A spineless Chief Justice is apparently content to let all this pass without comment or action to correct. At 80 years old, I most likely won’t live to see a major overhaul of the Court, but I certainly hope my grandchildren will! And I’m going to make sure they are aware of the consequences if there isn’t.
Okay, I'll take the "win," with a "but" glaringly staring at us. Justices Alito and Thomas once again disgrace themselves and the court. As Milhiser points out, "Moreover, no federal court has jurisdiction to even hear this case in the first place," and other legal minds have stated, this case and Kacsmaryk’s ruling, which started this train wreck, is simply not based on "the law," but his personal views on abortion. It is not based in reality, so how is it that to these two embarrassments dissent and are not (at least nothing I've seen yet) lambasted.
Thomas should be impeached, Alito should be pressured into retirement. They are both an embarrassment. If only we had a Chief Justice with a spine, it might help, but alas, that is simply not the SCOTUS in 2023.
I am very grateful that we don’t have to wake up to an even worse world than we left yesterday! It is obvious from Alito’s tone-deaf comments about “no irreparable harm” for women who have to wait to get their medication that he is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. It is not his job to share his personal misogyny about women and their bodies. He sounds as awful as the lying Kasmaryck, who did not reveal during questioning the ugly and misogynistic articles he wrote before being selected as a judge. We’re sick and tired of white men in power deciding in their infinite wisdom what is good for women. Remember we almost had a Civil War because white men decided they couldn’t stand wearing a mask during a global pandemic. Would Alito have told them they would suffer no “ireparable harm” by wearing the damn mask????? And Thomas has no business even being seated on the Court much less objecting to something that 85 % of the country approves of. He is just rotten to the core. Pack the Court!
One wonders if Judge Kacsmaryk will be invited to leave the bench.