Horowitz’s humor is sparkling, precious, and right on target! Gotta love the absurdities he exposes, and exposes them so well with such deft and aplomb. He presents them in such a way that at first sight of the title of one of his satires you’re drawn in so quickly by the plausibility of it you’ll actually believe the article to be real.
And some, like this title, might not be such a bad idea to pursue and make real! Hmmm, let’s throw around some possible names for this corporation. Anybody got any ideas? Post them in a reply. Maybe we can make it happen! I’ll start; how about “The Conscervical Freedom Caucus LLC.”
I still like the idea of making unprotected sex a crime of assault for men. If we can’t take care of our consequences, they shouldn’t have free rein to participate in causing those consequences.
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!
Right on, Wendy! Enjoy a short time of celebration and then saddle up for the long haul to push back hard for more sanity. I’d be skeptical about seeing this court regaining too much sanity, especially with the well funded liberty and religious zealot groups pushing on a number of fronts. Rock on!
I dunno, Robert. Though I am loath to make predictions, both the decision itself (7-2) and Alito's oddly worded dissent suggests that the Court may want to back down on this one. If so, that might leave room for a more rational approach for revisiting Dobbs. One hopes, and I agree that we do have to push back hard and keep the Court uneasy about both its reputation and the chances of more lower court challenges. They are coming.
Professor Litman said the dissent sounded more like a political argument than a legal one. “It just generally reads like an old guy who watches a lot of Fox News and is ranting about how he had to pay for a blue check mark,”
Right on, Wendy! Be it good news (“temporarily”) or abysmal (usual SCOTUS fare), all can be useful incentive to depart the sidelines, dispassionately make it personal and renew my commitment to defending democracy.
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.
PA has flipped a Senate seat blue with John Fedderman. Voted in our THIRD democrat governor, Gov Josh Shapiro, in a row. We also flipped our state House blue with sites set on the Senate. Abortion rights remain safe here. Regardless of the gerrymandering, we managed all of that in ‘22.
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.
Yes. I totally agree. One of my main reasons for not wanting Trump to be POTUS in 2016 was among other things, his SCOTUS picks. I said back then-Do you want Trump to pick RBGs successor? Turns out I was right and if tfg gets in again(lord help us) he will continue what he started.
“…leaders who can exercise altruistic judgement for the continuance of mankind on this planet.“
Yes! Enlightened leadership is needed!
From a historical perspective, enlightened leaders throughout history are few and far between. Sadly many of those enlightened leaders have been killed/ assassinated during their tenure. Hopefully we can find our way to one for our country who will seek the higher good for all (including those who would want the demise of such a leader). Such a leader would not only be of great service to our country, but for the world at large.
You just described Zelenskyy. He has been the perfect leader/inspiration for this time in Ukraine and the Protector of Democracy globally. Let's hope we get one in the US, though I am extremely grateful for Biden's place at the top of our elected offices right now for bringing reason and sanity back in fashion.
George T. "many of those enlightened leaders have been killed/ assassinated during their tenure." I have thought there has to be a thread that connects those assassinations. It seems just in time to prevent good the shoe drops.
I tend towards the idea of making all elected and appointed officials fiduciaries per se with well defined fiduciary duties where failed performance has swift consequences. Also, term limits...
Associate Justice Thomas certainly SHOULD be impeached. Actually getting the House of Representatives to charge Thomas with his improprieties and transgressions and the Senate to vote guilty would not be doable with the current composition of both chambers. More's the pity.
That doesn’t mean House Democrats shouldn’t introduce articles of impeachment and try to force a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. Force Representatives yo take a public stand on Clarence Thomas’s behavior.
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.)
found it. Does the panel realize that their same arguments could be used by doctors who feel treating gunshot patients offends their conscience? Lets get some out there making legislatures rewrite stand your ground laws.
Brava! The standing test should have thrown this case into the shredder! Perhaps, the three Sane ladies on the court argued this issue but did not push it in order to get a stay of the wacko Texas judge’s order!
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.
Can California recall Feinstein like they tried unsuccessfully to do to Newsom? She is clearly suffering from dementia, probably Alzheimer’s. Judgement is the first to go. My late husband remained fluent and entertaining up to the last, despite being diagnosed with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s.
We’re she her former self she would be the first to call for someone in this position to step aside. Assuming Newsom would name a reliable Democrat to fill her place pending the election of her permanent successor. That she has not is evidence for my diagnosis.
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!
“Crankster” is too kind. They are religious zealots who would like nothing better than to upend the concept and practice of separation of church and state. Quite frankly, Comey Barrett and Gorsuch aren’t that far behind them.
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.
My take on this recent SCOTUS action is that it is just a delay. I expect that when they make a final determination they will return to the Dobbs mentality of taking the law into their own hands/zealotry. I'd like to believe I am wrong BUT it is my thinking that these hard line right religious extremists have waited for this moment for nearly 50 year and are not determined NOT WASTE ANY opportunity to impose their dogma on the the country.
So, when we expand the courts as Robert proposes how about starting by recognizing that we have had enough of the "Catholic wannabe traditional Bishops" as jurists for a while. I was surprised several years back when I recognized that the majority are Catholic. And please, before anyone goes on the defensive, I have nothing against Catholics and differentiate from the every day parishioner and the hardcore doctrines of the church. Even though Pope Francis has been gentle in his use of words, accepting of diversity and sexual identity, he has not moved away from the male dominant priesthood and stance of women's healthcare re: abortion and secondary roles of women in the church.
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!
I can not speak to the other Justices but Alito and Thomas are the opposite of what a Supreme Court Justice should be ideally, they are deductive thinkers have formed conclusion and search for mostly specious and suspect data to support their conclusions. They should be inductive thinkers of making devious based on the careful analysis of the available data and facts.
That’s absolutely correct but Robert’s may be the only GOP appointee that in contrast to the other GOP appointees who could be considered moderate, and maybe that’s not the word but rather moderately extreme.
WOMEN DECLARE THEMSELVES CORPORATIONS TO FORCE SUPREME COURT TO GRANT THEM RIGHTS AS PEOPLE
- Andy Borowitz piece headline
June 27, 2022
That's beautiful! Women United!
Horowitz’s humor is sparkling, precious, and right on target! Gotta love the absurdities he exposes, and exposes them so well with such deft and aplomb. He presents them in such a way that at first sight of the title of one of his satires you’re drawn in so quickly by the plausibility of it you’ll actually believe the article to be real.
And some, like this title, might not be such a bad idea to pursue and make real! Hmmm, let’s throw around some possible names for this corporation. Anybody got any ideas? Post them in a reply. Maybe we can make it happen! I’ll start; how about “The Conscervical Freedom Caucus LLC.”
Repo Repro Rights, Inc
I still like the idea of making unprotected sex a crime of assault for men. If we can’t take care of our consequences, they shouldn’t have free rein to participate in causing those consequences.
Women United, Inc
I am a corporation whose name is Annie Stratton. That is all that should be needed.
Love it!
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!
Right on, Wendy! Enjoy a short time of celebration and then saddle up for the long haul to push back hard for more sanity. I’d be skeptical about seeing this court regaining too much sanity, especially with the well funded liberty and religious zealot groups pushing on a number of fronts. Rock on!
We must push back AND get out the Vote for 2024. Talking directly to voters pays good dividends!
I dunno, Robert. Though I am loath to make predictions, both the decision itself (7-2) and Alito's oddly worded dissent suggests that the Court may want to back down on this one. If so, that might leave room for a more rational approach for revisiting Dobbs. One hopes, and I agree that we do have to push back hard and keep the Court uneasy about both its reputation and the chances of more lower court challenges. They are coming.
We need to snuff out the Christo-Fascists in 2024 once and for all time.
💙⬇️
Professor Litman said the dissent sounded more like a political argument than a legal one. “It just generally reads like an old guy who watches a lot of Fox News and is ranting about how he had to pay for a blue check mark,”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion-pill-roe-wade.html?
Count me in!
Right on, Wendy! Be it good news (“temporarily”) or abysmal (usual SCOTUS fare), all can be useful incentive to depart the sidelines, dispassionately make it personal and renew my commitment to defending democracy.
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.
PA has flipped a Senate seat blue with John Fedderman. Voted in our THIRD democrat governor, Gov Josh Shapiro, in a row. We also flipped our state House blue with sites set on the Senate. Abortion rights remain safe here. Regardless of the gerrymandering, we managed all of that in ‘22.
The importance of voting in state elections. Lots of power there in the states.
Kudos to Pennsylvania ... !
Yes - well done Pennsylvania! 🤜🤛
Thank you, Cathy. You see the light but are not fooled by this court and the realities of our on-going fight to right the ship of state (court).
Thanks Cathy, terrific information.
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!
Cathy, thanks for your comments and this terrific link 🙏
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.
One big reason not to vote for Trump is his ability to rig the court even more than he has so far.
Yes. I totally agree. One of my main reasons for not wanting Trump to be POTUS in 2016 was among other things, his SCOTUS picks. I said back then-Do you want Trump to pick RBGs successor? Turns out I was right and if tfg gets in again(lord help us) he will continue what he started.
They - Alito and Thomas - should take a bow to their handlers and exit stage “right.” But then, I’ve always been something of a dreamer.
“…leaders who can exercise altruistic judgement for the continuance of mankind on this planet.“
Yes! Enlightened leadership is needed!
From a historical perspective, enlightened leaders throughout history are few and far between. Sadly many of those enlightened leaders have been killed/ assassinated during their tenure. Hopefully we can find our way to one for our country who will seek the higher good for all (including those who would want the demise of such a leader). Such a leader would not only be of great service to our country, but for the world at large.
You just described Zelenskyy. He has been the perfect leader/inspiration for this time in Ukraine and the Protector of Democracy globally. Let's hope we get one in the US, though I am extremely grateful for Biden's place at the top of our elected offices right now for bringing reason and sanity back in fashion.
George T. "many of those enlightened leaders have been killed/ assassinated during their tenure." I have thought there has to be a thread that connects those assassinations. It seems just in time to prevent good the shoe drops.
Very good supplement to my statement. We’re on the same page.
I tend towards the idea of making all elected and appointed officials fiduciaries per se with well defined fiduciary duties where failed performance has swift consequences. Also, term limits...
Associate Justice Thomas certainly SHOULD be impeached. Actually getting the House of Representatives to charge Thomas with his improprieties and transgressions and the Senate to vote guilty would not be doable with the current composition of both chambers. More's the pity.
That doesn’t mean House Democrats shouldn’t introduce articles of impeachment and try to force a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. Force Representatives yo take a public stand on Clarence Thomas’s behavior.
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.
Which is where he draws his legal opinions from...
The 7-2 decision is indeed sanity and reassuring. Thank heavens sanity prevailed over medieval horreurs.
Agreed, so what’s he doing on a modern court?!
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.)
yes; the 5th circuit 3-judge panel ruling on the stay does address standing. but, hopefully, the entire 5th circuit will address en banc.
found it. Does the panel realize that their same arguments could be used by doctors who feel treating gunshot patients offends their conscience? Lets get some out there making legislatures rewrite stand your ground laws.
For those interested, starting page 10 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.183.2_1.pdf
Brava! The standing test should have thrown this case into the shredder! Perhaps, the three Sane ladies on the court argued this issue but did not push it in order to get a stay of the wacko Texas judge’s order!
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.
Can California recall Feinstein like they tried unsuccessfully to do to Newsom? She is clearly suffering from dementia, probably Alzheimer’s. Judgement is the first to go. My late husband remained fluent and entertaining up to the last, despite being diagnosed with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s.
It’s sad actually. She was at one time a trailblazer. She should put ego aside and do the right thing.
We’re she her former self she would be the first to call for someone in this position to step aside. Assuming Newsom would name a reliable Democrat to fill her place pending the election of her permanent successor. That she has not is evidence for my diagnosis.
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!
“Crankster” is too kind. They are religious zealots who would like nothing better than to upend the concept and practice of separation of church and state. Quite frankly, Comey Barrett and Gorsuch aren’t that far behind them.
Yes, you are correct.
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.
My take on this recent SCOTUS action is that it is just a delay. I expect that when they make a final determination they will return to the Dobbs mentality of taking the law into their own hands/zealotry. I'd like to believe I am wrong BUT it is my thinking that these hard line right religious extremists have waited for this moment for nearly 50 year and are not determined NOT WASTE ANY opportunity to impose their dogma on the the country.
So, when we expand the courts as Robert proposes how about starting by recognizing that we have had enough of the "Catholic wannabe traditional Bishops" as jurists for a while. I was surprised several years back when I recognized that the majority are Catholic. And please, before anyone goes on the defensive, I have nothing against Catholics and differentiate from the every day parishioner and the hardcore doctrines of the church. Even though Pope Francis has been gentle in his use of words, accepting of diversity and sexual identity, he has not moved away from the male dominant priesthood and stance of women's healthcare re: abortion and secondary roles of women in the church.
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!
I can not speak to the other Justices but Alito and Thomas are the opposite of what a Supreme Court Justice should be ideally, they are deductive thinkers have formed conclusion and search for mostly specious and suspect data to support their conclusions. They should be inductive thinkers of making devious based on the careful analysis of the available data and facts.
You can include Roberts in that. He's allowing this to happen.
That’s absolutely correct but Robert’s may be the only GOP appointee that in contrast to the other GOP appointees who could be considered moderate, and maybe that’s not the word but rather moderately extreme.
His wife is directly conflicted as well. She's a top legal recruiter, including for firms that go before SCOTUS. This will be his legacy.
One wonders if Judge Kacsmaryk will be invited to leave the bench.
Surely you joke. He'll be celebrated like Kyle Rittenhouse.
I wish I thought you were wrong.