#PaydayLenders Gave Millions to #GOP Group That Backed #SupremeCourt Suit to Annihilate #CFPB, this case that could lead to the elimination CFPB
The #Republican #AttorneysGeneral Association (#RAGA) fought to help a Supreme Court case against the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Despite widespread approval among Republican voters to regulate or prohibit #paydaylending, Republican officials in more than 20 states are backing industry groups in the #lawsuit.
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/30/payday-lenders-supreme-court-cfpb-republicans/

“Simply put, it is not acting like a court; it will not be treated indefinitely by friend or foe as if it were one.”

Interesting piece on what a mess the #SupremeCourt has become and how some of its rulings might get defied given its rapidly diminishing authority in the eyes of so many across the political spectrum

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/08/14/the-looming-supreme-court-nullification-crisis/

#politics #law

I’m reading “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751) in which two conservative legal scholars come at the 14th Amendment from an originalist/textualist perspective to argue that ex-President Trump is constitutionally barred from holding federal office. It’s pretty good so far. It makes me wonder (as an aside): there must be analyses of how originalist/textualist the *original* (1800-era) courts were. Links?

#SupremeCourt #originalism #legalInterpretation #history

How the outside world sees US Politics:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2023/6/1/how-corrupt-is-the-united-states-supreme-court

#SupremeCourt #AlJazeera #News #USPol #ClarenceThomas #Corruption #CorruptAsFuck

Will the Supreme Court take up the denial of religious exemptions for unvaccinated schoolchildren? #AntiVaxers #health #SupremeCourt #law #covid https://religionnews.com/2023/08/10/will-the-supreme-court-take-up-the-denial-of-religious-exemptions-for-unvaccinated-schoolchildren/ #mgshare

It's not that #ClarenceThomas has never heard of Cesar's wife, it's that he thinks Caesar was a weak sap for divorcing her. He clearly feels entitled to whatever largesse his "new" friends shower on him because HE'S A GODDAMMED #SUPREMECOURT JUSTICE, DAMMIT, and anyone who questions his integrity can go pound sand.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/10/more-revelations-emerge-about-billionaires-gifts-clarence-thomas/

Roberts and Barrett join liberals as #SupremeCourt revives federal ghost #gun restrictions https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/supreme-court-ghost-guns

Elena Kagan is a CHAMPION OF ETHICS

Many people have called on the Supreme Court to establish an #ethics code to help prevent grifting & pay-to-play in the future—which the justices have resisted, until now

Elena Kagan Hits Back at Samuel Alito, Endorses #SupremeCourt Ethics Reform

#SCOTUS

https://newrepublic.com/post/174851/elena-kagan-hits-back-samuel-alito-endorses-supreme-court-ethics-reform

Following #SupremeCourt ’s decision striking down loan forgiveness, however, #Biden administration announced the Saving on a Valuable Education #SAVE plan, raising income thresholds at which payments must be made, capping max costs and reducing undergraduate loan payments by half.

Some members of this #SupremeCourt think it's nobody's business how they spend their time.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/politics/supreme-court-ethics-alito-roberts/index.html #SCOTUS

Add to these examples — #FossilFuel lobbying (A); #GOP #PAC payments for criminal defense attorneys to fight charges relating to withholding classified documents, trying to overthrow legitimate elections, mounting the #Jan6 insurrection at the Capitol (all cases of disregarding the #Constitution and the law) (B) — efforts to sway the #SupremeCourt: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus

#Money in #politics is corrosive.

QED.

A) https://newrepublic.com/post/174310/earth-hotter-ever-ted-cruz-republican-solution-gut-climate-funding
B) https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/politics/donald-trump-campaign-spending-legal-costs/index.htm #SCOTUS #MoneyInPolitics

"The objection to [measures to limit the Supreme Court's power] — an objection I have long shared — has been that they will undermine the legitimacy of the Court, turning it in the minds of the public into just another political institution and undermining respect for the rule of law. But that ship has sailed." https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-136/the-imperial-supreme-court/ #SupremeCourt #fascism

July 24, 2023
The Church Of Leonard Leo
The Supreme Court’s dark-money operative bought a church near his tony summer home, where neighbors are protesting his political crusade.
Andrew Perez
https://www.levernews.com/the-church-of-leonard-leo/

#RomanCatholic #Christofascist #lawyer #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #MAGA #GOP #MitchMcConnell #NortheastHarbor #MountDesert #Maine #church #SacredSpacesFoundation #LeverNews #AndrewPerez

@darwinwoodka As you might imagine, there are sharp divides along party affiliation lines. Here's one chart on that (other demographic charts at link), from the article.

More info and charts are at the link.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/21/favorable-views-of-supreme-court-fall-to-historic-low/
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #USpol

Couldn't Justices Sotomayor & Jackson (for instance), sign and release their own code of ethics and leave it the other justices to sign - or not?
(Asking for 300 million friends ;-)

#Constitution #Law #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Ethics

Favorable views of Supreme Court fall to historic low

"...the share of Americans with a favorable opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to its lowest point in public opinion surveys dating to 1987.

Fewer than half of Americans (44%) now express a favorable opinion of the court, while a narrow majority (54%) have an unfavorable view, according to a new Pew Research Center survey."

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/21/favorable-views-of-supreme-court-fall-to-historic-low/

What the actual....... They get the Supreme Court stacked in their favor and still complain that they aren't conservative enough and actually just ignore the court altogether.....

If you're a politician or a millionaire you can just do whatever the hell you want apparently.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715

#Alabama #SupremeCourt #redistricting

"The #attorney cited the pretrial publicity that came with the case and the potential for #violence if Chauvin had been acquitted."

And they think that potential for violence has just gone away? That witnessing a murder but letting the killer go free is ok to do now? 🤬

Lemme know how that works out for y'all.

But hey, if he wants to be convicted of murder again, that's cool. 🙄

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4107930-chauvin-to-ask-supreme-court-to-review-conviction-in-george-floyd-murder/
#Chauvin to ask #SupremeCourt to review #conviction in #GeorgeFloyd #murder

#IAmDB

“You don’t just stay inside the lines; you stay well inside the lines. This is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It is ethics in the trenches.” #MichaelPonsor https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/opinion/supreme-court-ethics.html ht @kmontenegro

#SupremeCourt

Meanwhile the US Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that itself taking less than 10 luxury trips from or money less than $10 million from “friends” wasn’t unethical enough to constitute corruption. #supremecourt https://press.coop/@washingtonpost/110709766631795801