A 9-0 court is way different than a 7-2, 6-3, etc. The further right the court is going to get the worse off life is going to be and it can get a lot worse before it breaks.
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How much of Thomasā writing have you read?
Yeah, my understand is itās way off base to call Thomas a particularly bad writer.
Heās a horrible person, but not a particularly bad writer. I believe Alito is thought to be the worst writer.
Heās a particularly good writer when you consider that English is his second language.
This sentence is true even before knowing what the last word is.
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Typically they announce their retirements at the end of the term, so youāre looking at mid-late June.
Does Biden have 50 Supreme Court votes?
No
Biden doesnāt even have 50 votes for ice cream.
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He does until January 2023. Then he does not. The nominee will need to be center-left, though.
Iām more worried about who Biden will pick than I am about getting it confirmed, but I also donāt trust Breyer to retire in time so it may all be moot.
I have a funny feeling Biden is going to pick Garland as a sort of āgotchaā to the GOP, which will make Mitch McConnell laugh hysterically in smokey back rooms with expensive bourbon toasts.
No toppings though, we donāt want to inflate the price!
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Toppings are ok if thereās a work requirement.
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Thatās great, letās get Garland out of the AG spot before he offers to defend Trump in any legal proceedings against him or something.
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I donāt think Breyer will retire. His comments about this seemed to have a vibe like āthe more people push me on this the more I am going to dig inā. Similar to Manchin. The country is run by spoiled toddlers.
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Also ice-cream and toppings will have to be paid for by cuts to social programmes. #nodeficit
Didnāt Biden explicitly promise to nominate a black woman if thereās an opening? From what I remember Ketanji Brown Jackson was viewed as the most likely choice, especially now that sheāll have a year of experience on the DC Circuit if/when the time comes.
Oh yeah I forgot about that. Well thatās good. I donāt know much about her but sheās 51, so thereās that.
She has to be better than Garland, right?
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Right?
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Itās just not the same without Anakin and Padme.
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Some wild shit in here.
Clarence Thomas met Ginni Lamp, in 1986, he was an ambitious Black conservative in charge of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionāand she was even more conservative and better connected than he was. Her father ran a firm that developed housing in and around Omaha, and her parents were Party activists who had formed the backbone of Barry Goldwaterās campaign in Nebraska. The writer Kurt Andersen, who grew up across the street from the family, recalls, āHer parents were the roots of the modern, crazy Republican Party. My parents were Goldwater Republicans, but even they thought the Lamp family was nuts.ā Ginni graduated from Creighton University, in Omaha, and then attended law school there. Her parents helped get her a job with a local Republican candidate for Congress, and when he won she followed him to Washington. But, after reportedly flunking the bar exam, she fell in with a cultish self-help group, Lifespring, whose members were encouraged to strip naked and mock one anotherās body fat.
Legit insane
The White House meeting was held in the Roosevelt Room, and by all accounts it was uncomfortable. Thomas opened by saying that she didnāt trust everyone in the room, then pressed Trump to purge his Administration of disloyal members of the ādeep state,ā handing him an enemies list that she and Groundswell had compiled. Some of the participants prayed, warning that gay marriage, which the Supreme Court legalized in 2015, was undermining morals in America.
One participant told me heād heard that Trump had wanted to humor Ginni Thomas because he was hoping to talk her husband into retiring, thus opening up another Court seat. Trump, given his manifold legal problems, also saw Justice Thomas as a potentially important allyāand genuinely liked him. But the participant told me that the President considered Ginni Thomas āa wacko,ā adding, āShe never would have been there if not for Clarence. She had access because her last name was Thomas.ā
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Tbf, several of the ābetterā sororities did the whole naked fat shaming thing, too, when I was in college.