Interactive map of the vast corruption in SCOTUS.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-303-creative-decision-mystal/

I’d argue that #lying and accepting lies is more dangerous when it comes from the #SupremeCourt. Voters can reject #politicians like Ron DeSantis who are obsessed with the #genitalia of high school #students. But there is very little the people can do about #justices who are appointed for life and give themselves veto power over the rest of government.
#corruptscotus #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

Influential activist #LeonardLeo helped fund media campaign #lionizing #ClarenceThomas. Public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of #rightleaning #justices aftr helping them secure #lifetime appointments. It adds to emerging portrait of Leo as behind-the-scenes #benefactor, defending justices from public criticism and exalting their jurisprudence while tending to personal matters including private travel and a spouse’s employment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/

#AP examination of #ethics practices of the U.S. #SupremeCourt relied on documents obtained from more than 100 #PublicRecords requests to public #colleges, #universities and other institutions that have hosted the justices over the past decade. Inside the AP’s investigation into the #ethics practices of the #SupremeCourt #justices #SCOTUS #ethicsreform #oversight #justicedenied #rightwing #elites #federalistsociety #HoratioAlgerAssociation #ClarenceThomas #JohnRoberts https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ethics-documents-conflicts-9fa2847e60e11601c872c3ba3eea12a3

The recent #SCOTUS rulings are going to wreck havoc. They have opened the door for suppressed groups to seek #revenge for all the bs practices that organizations have built-in for decades. Let's see what the pos #justices rule on these cases. I'm sure they'll find some #originalist argument to defend #suppression. All groups need to do the same. Break the system!

https://apnews.com/article/legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-colleges-4a4e1191274e91e695e0631ff5156875

#AffirmativeAction #CollegeAdmissions

Defund the #SupremeCourt. Shut it down. No salaries for the court. lock the doors. No security for the #Justices. Turn off the lights, #Democrats. #joebiden

No peace, No Justice(s.)

Defund the #SupremeCourt. Shut it down. No salaries for the court. lock the doors. No security for the #Justices. Turn off the lights, #Democrats. #joebiden

No peace, No Justice(s.)

#Progressives in 2016: "But moderates", "But centrists", "But corporate #Democrats ", spreading Russian propaganda and poisoning the well against HRC just enough for Trump to eek out an electoral college win.

2016-2021: Trump stacks the #SupremeCourt with #authoritarian #justices

2021-2023: The SC dismantles every #civilrights gain of the last century

Progressives in 2023: "Why aren't Biden and Democrats doing anything?!"

This is why I HATE progressives; they refuse to take responsibility

More than 100 U.S. #leaders – #lawmakers, #presidents, #governors and #justices – have #slaveholding #ancestors, a #Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin” https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/ #slavery #descendents #LindseyGraham #history #education #StopBookBanning

#Justices take up “#Trump Too Small” #trademark case
https://amylhowe.com/2023/06/05/justices-take-up-trump-too-small-trademark-case/

Opinion | The justices’ ethics are to blame for the court’s legitimacy problems

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/02/supreme-court-ethics-clarence-thomas/

#SupremeCourt #Ethics #Legitimacy #Justices #JudicialSystem #Opinion

#ChiefJusticeRoberts says he cares about the integrity & trustworthiness of the #SupremeCourt but he allows his court to disintegrate right before our eyes.

The right-wing justices have defiled the court. The court has become corrupted with the stench of the #MAGA disease and its ideology.

It is my opinion that the court has lost the legitimately & respect due to the unethical actions & behavior of some of its #Justices like #JusticeAlito and #JusticeThomas. And also inject to that mixture unfit justices that sit not because of their qualifications but because of their #MAGA credentials.

The court needs an injection of antibiotics & disinfectant to clean out the infection and put the patient on the road to recovery to restore trustworthiness, respect and #JudicialRestraint unless protection of constitutional rights, particularly those of minorities, demands a certain degree of #JudicialAssertiveness.

#Justices appear likely to side with homeowner in #foreclosure dispute
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/04/justices-appear-likely-to-side-with-homeowner-in-foreclosure-dispute/

@npr Gosh, the mind boggles at what could come out if reporters start seriously investigating #SupremeCourt justices.
I'm willing to predict that we'd need at least 6 new #justices appointed.
Would also be nice to see the #FederalistSociety and #LeonardLeo go under the microscope. 🥥

#impeach #clarence #thomas #investigate #ginny & #gorsuch #SCOTUS #disgraced #corrupt #justices #bought #judge #congress #must investigate & #set a #code of #ethics
Gorsuch exposed as selling his #land to an #attorney who files #amicus #briefs with the #Supreme #Court. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

#Justices lean toward split decision for suits challenging misleading #securities registration statements
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/04/justices-lean-toward-split-decision-for-suits-challenging-misleading-securities-registration-statements/

#Justices divided on the #constitutionality of the federal law that #bans “encouraging” #immigrants to remain unlawfully in the United States
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/03/justices-divided-on-the-constitutionality-of-the-federal-law-that-bans-encouraging-immigrants-to-remain-unlawfully-in-the-united-states/

#Democrats and #Republicans are putting together a #bill that would oblige all open sessions of the #SupremeCourt to be televised, with exceptions for #DueProcess.

If they have nothing to hide, the #SCOTUS #Justices should have no objection to it.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-televise-livestream-arguments-rcna75491

@gme @cautionarytale @TomGerhard

So the Post Master General is like #Supreme Court #Justices, incompetence by design?

@dustcircle

This seems the whole point of Stare Decisis. Lots of laws are vague and people challenge them, causing courts to fill gaps.

If the legislature disagrees, it can override precedent set by the court by creating an actual law. But to keep from having a lot of trivial laws that say "Yeah, that thing the court said", we just assume that if the legislature has had a long-time ability to change things and chose not to, it must be right.

Stare Decisis is in some ways, oddly, a bit like the "Like" button on social media, which is there to avoid a lot of "me too" posts. If the court says something and the public agrees, it can just leave the court case unchallenged and is supposed to eventually be taken as something firm without having to do more.

This is why it's so VERY improper for judges (or the recent crop of people ironically called justices) to be going back and reconsidering these cases. They treat it as no small matter, and even an oversight, that no one has intervened. But it's a big deal, because they are overriding the fact that majorities for a long time have, in their own way, already said "Like".

They make the flimsy claim that they have wanted to but haven't had the votes, not realizing they are saying "our position was not the consensus position". That's not how Democracy works.

And it's only made worse when you see the whole SCOTUS appointment system heavily leveraged to allow popular minorities excess power and to allow false statements by candidates to go unchecked. The Supreme Court is supposed to be about something beyond the popular vote, but that doesn't mean it's supposed to be about private capture of the Court for a selfish purpose. Something way out of kilter there. Not even an enforceable code of ethics among those who seem clearly to have lied to get there, especially on a point so important as policy about Stare Decisis.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. But I think this is something we all need to discuss in a nation responsive to the people.

#Law #Abortion #ReproductiveRights #CaseLaw #StareDecisis #Judges #Justices #SCOTUS #philosophy #JudicialPhilosophy