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The Supreme Court was hit by a flurry of damaging new leaks Sunday as a series of confidential memos written by the chief justice were revealed by The New York Times.
The court’s Chief Justice John Roberts was clear to his fellow justices in February: He wanted the court to take up a case weighing Donald Trump’s right to presidential immunity—and he seemed inclined to protect the former president.
“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently,” Roberts wrote to his Supreme Court peers, according to a private memo obtained by the *Times. *He was referencing the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to allow the case to move forward.
Roberts took an unusual level of involvement in this and other cases that ultimately benefited Trump, according to the Times— his handling of the cases surprised even some other justices on the high court, across ideological lines. As president, Trump appointed three of the members of its current conservative supermajority.
I’d like to take a moment to remind y’all that Clarence “I’m For Sale” Thomas turned down a FREE RV offered by Last Week Tonight. So he’s not corrupt. He’s selective.
Let’s wait and see how he votes on repealing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
I’m sure he’ll vote his conscience
but he already has a free RV,
I think Oliver also offered him $1 million a year from Oliver’s personal moneys. Which is not an insignificant amount of money for a justice who isn’t corrupt.
In the past, he signaled he’d retire because he wasn’t getting paid enough, meaning he needed to be bribed to keep a conservative justice on the SCOTUS.
If you take it at face value, then he should have jumped at John Olivers’ offer.
The only thing Thomas likes more than money is respect. He would never take Oliver money because it would publicly embarrass him. He hates embarrassment more than anything.
Embarrassment suggests he has a sense of shame. He has already conducted a number of shameful acts already (taking gifts) without any sense he’s embarrassed.
When he was in front of the Senate confirmation hearing he was absolutely embarrassed. He knew everyone was watching while he was accused of sexual harassment. He basically stopped interacting with the media because he was so furious with how he was portrayed publicly. Dude hates being publicly shamed. Doesn’t mean he’s wise enough to stop doing shitty things.
Yeah he’s not shameless. You can say a lot of negative things about him, but he has a hell of an ego and being publicly criticized and embarrassed pisses him off. Though nothing seems to anger him like being pitied.
Shameless and integrityless are different things and he has shame but not integrity.
to retire, yes. i remember that, lol.
This one would be newer. A truth lost on us plebes who have to pay for things.
but he was holding out for a private jet.
How to avoid bribes with this one weird trick.
And one million dollar a year
Why take a bribe from John Oliver, who would immediately turn around and disclose that Thomas accepted it on his television program, when he could just go ask Daddy Harlan Crow for an identical RV and then not disclose it?
The Supreme Court is corrupt to the core. There’s an inability to hold them accountable for anything. The system of checks and balances functionally doesn’t exist for this “apolitical” branch.
“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently,” Roberts wrote to his Supreme Court peers, according to a private memo obtained by the Times.
That’s all the Times is gonna give us? One sentence of a memo relating to one of the most questionable Supreme Court decisions of all time? The voters should know everything about how they got to this decision.
Yeah that’s not even enough for me to know if it’s controversial. I, also, think SCOTUS will have different opinions on separation of powers.
While I agree we need more, this may not sound like much to you or me… but a SCOTUS judge saying it basically states he already has made up his mind about where he stands before even taking the case. They are supposed to be impartial at all times
Exactly. This is a conservative-majority SCOTUS saying, “We decided long ago what we were going to do about this issue and many others. Nothing you can say will change our course. This conversation is over.”
When Thomas said he thinks they will have different views, he wasn’t saying “we” as in the various supreme court justices. That may be a more reasonable statement.
Thomas said “we” the Supreme Court will have different views than both Chutkin and the DC appeals courts. He was saying SCOTUS will probably overturn the two lower courts.
this would be very “study shows parents more tired than non parents” energy
We all know what they had very stupid reasoning, the only question here is “how stupid?”
I am shocked…shocked to find corruption going on in the Supreme Court!
I’m shocked that they kept the records of the corruption
This … I’d have thought he would not have put it in writing
Well not that shocked.
“Here’s your free vacation, sir!”
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Imagine how much worse off we would be if that kid actually had manage to not miss Trump. We would likely still have Biden running for president against God knows what.
Realistically killing john roberts would save american lives, who can say if good or bad.
no.
we don’t want their side becoming martyrs. this is a bad idea.
its more of a trolley problem thought exercise.
The overturn of roe alone has probably lead to several deaths. Who are you or I to say his life is more valuable than others,
no. for a hundred years we’d be hearing ‘if they hadn’t murdered our donald’.
no.
they still mourn the confederacy
I could say but won’t because I like getting news from Lemmy.
You could have made the same point without being disgusting by saying impeach.
I understand your frustration. I really, really do. But the trouble with political violence is that it doesn’t end there. Look at our justice system - it isn’t about making people whole, it’s about getting even. That’s what the other 40% of America will do. I don’t want a civil war in my lifetime.
We the people cannot impeach.
Bro, please stop. It’s a bad look, it’s morally and ethically wrong, and it hurts our chance at never having to hear Trump’s name ever again.
You should be banned and your comment should be deleted. If you want to be a dumbfuck, please do it into the mirror like your apparent role model, Travis Bickle.
Maybe politicians should think about violence when they destroy so many peoples lives for their corporate overlords.
I’m GLAD that these LAWMAKERS are UNELECTED and Appointed for a LIFETIME!
Term limits won’t help with systemic corruption, because replacing corrupt judges with new corrupt judges would be the natural response.
Enshrining impeachment as a regular and viable strategy for actual corruption would be.
Make them elected and dark money will guarantee that the self-same bastards are elected. You think that democracy is a roadblock to these people?
Not surprised that it happened, shocked that the story got out.
Are they going to vigorously investigate these leaks just long enough to find out it was one of the conservatives and then drop the whole thing?
It wasn’t a conservative, it was probably some random clerk.
And they deserve a fucking medal.
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That’s what they said last time.
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At this point the majority has moved so far right they are beyond conservative and well into autocratic and flirting with authoritarian.
That is to say there may be conservatives who are willing to blow the whistle to try to keep this stink off of themselves.
That’s what they said last time.
Last time it was to force a vote they wanted to go right, which it did.
This one is actually embarrassing to the court.
The news has been embarrassing to the court for a few years now.
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I say…“And?”
Like anything will come of it.
Damn. Maybe time to revisit whether Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided.
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