Really big win for tribes (is that an appropriate way to refer to them?) today: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) viewed as constitutional, which was not at all an obvious outcome. Alito and Thomas dissent.
Gorsuch really loves him some pro-Indian votes.
Has Thomas ever been on the correct side of anything? Heās the worst of the worst.
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No. Apparently even Long Dong Silver used a fake penis.
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This Home Depot one is actually about a specific legal point, but based on this description of the facts, it looks like the good guys won.
Alito got caught by ProPublica so he runs to the WSJ op-ed page.
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Hereās the ProPublica article. They even manage to show that Scalia did the same thing, take a fancy trip with a conservative mega-donor, in connection with the Federalist Society. If I were naive Iād say the Federalist Society provides a nice chummy networking opportunity between justices and the rich donors who fund their movement, but luckily Iām wise to know that theyāre just a debating society.
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Kavanaugh likely accepted (at a minimum) hundreds of thousands in bribes and no1curr despite it being incredibly obvious before he was even confirmed, including Democrats, so this is all whatever at this point.
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I think we can all agree that Sam did a great service by not letting that seat go empty on the private jet. Think of all that wasted carbon.
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The Federalist Society is non-partisan sir. Itās really the liberal justices who are partisan for refusing to participate in it.
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Gosh Iām glad that private jet didnāt go down. Think of the crisis of having to replace two SCOTUS justices at once!
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If that happened, the Dems would negotiate against themselves and make a deal with Rs that Ds get to pick one and Rs get to pick one. Bipartisanship! Then theyād confirm the R pick and then the Rs would refuse to confirm the D pick. Ds would be Deeply Concerned.
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Rs would claim it was an assassination and insist both replacements be conservatives.
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Why couldnāt Thomas have a buddy who want to take him to explore the Titanic?
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No Walmart parking lots under the sea
@mosdef - whatās the actuarial odds of Thomas or Alito crossing the rainbow bridge before Jan 2029?
Also Jan 2027 if Biden loses the Senate in the 2026 midterms, which seems to happen a lot to a two term president.
White collar men in that age range have mortality rates of (ball park) 1.5% per year. So the chance that a single, relatively affluent 73/74 year old would die in the next 5 and half years is roughly 8%. The chance that at least one of the two dies is something like 15%.
Both those fuckers are going to hell*
*as Iāve stated I donāt believe in heaven but I want to there to be a hell cause some people just deserve it.
Late to this but man you guys are overthinking this. Thomas is just a partisan conservative in the mold of a David Sacks or Dinesh Dāsouza who happens to hold one of the most powerful seats in the country. His wife is a Jan 6 Qanon fanboy and likely wears the pants in the relationship. Trying to ascribe some overarching philosophy to his judicial opinions is bonkers.
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I think we can bump that up a little for Thomas - he looks unhealthy AF. So basically we have something like 22 vs. AA.
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