As we enter the three key weeks of the Supreme Court's term, a guide to what's still left to be decided, what to expect, and some of the broader takeaways.
Helpful but anything to do with "presidential" power or authority needs the asterisk for "Republican" Presidents. Same with other entities. The Republican justices can find a reason for removing restrictions on corporations spending unlimited money in coordination with political candidates, but they'd find reasons to restrict unions from doing so.
That's the lower court undercurrent you identified. "Remember which party appointed us and rule accordingly rather than go strictly by precedent" has been a theme this term.
These judges are acting like they are kings. And they must go. Their malfeasance has broken our democracy and is the pool of putrid filth from which the murderer, rapist-scum Trump draws his undue authority. Steve, you are the proof. You stand up. And you speak the truth with authority about how these judges are failing in their duty to the law, in fact ignoring the law. It's the end for them or it's the end for America. Time is up.
Steve, the transgender sports issue is not the same as the transgender bathroom case, you agree? Here in Idaho, transgenders are about to lose access to public bathrooms. Sports participation is not the same as bathroom “participation.”
(I originally meant for this comment to be a response to someone here who calls trans people “transgenders”, but I’d rather make it a comment of more general applicability) Trans people are law abiding, rule following American citizens who are being systematically denied equal protection of law, stripped of identity documents and the right to perform the most basic bodily functions on the same basis as other citizens. It’s already a felony in Idaho for trans people to use the correct bathroom, and there are states all across the “union” with similarly terrible laws. There are states like Kansas and others taking away id documents. and the federal government itself won’t issue accurate passports, even to people whose birth certificates have been corrected in accordance with law. The federal government claims that trans people are dishonest and dishonorable (so they can be denied the ability to serve in the armed forces), and claims now the right to forcibly detransition trans prisoners - literal torture - and house women who have fully transitioned with men. A lot of people, including “allies,” sure seem comfortable with all of this, and it is beyond chilling.
What makes trans people law abiding is literally the laws, as they relate to transition, and the abiding by those laws. What makes you an ignorant bigot is your lack of awareness of these laws, and your decision to use a slur to refer to a group of human beings who are no better than any other, but for damned sure no worse.
trannie isn't a slur, any more than black is a slur, but calling a member an insulting name such as an "ignorant bigot" should have zero tolerance. Letting you comment anonymously was always a mistake, imho
Trump is able to put CNN, CBS, and HBO under one corporate-fascist umbrella because SCOTUS has become a putrid pool of filth. Trump and SCOTUS must go the Hague for America to regain it's position as leader of the genuinely free world.
So helpful, Steve, as always. Thank you for all the work you put in for us non-lawyers.
Helpful but anything to do with "presidential" power or authority needs the asterisk for "Republican" Presidents. Same with other entities. The Republican justices can find a reason for removing restrictions on corporations spending unlimited money in coordination with political candidates, but they'd find reasons to restrict unions from doing so.
That's the lower court undercurrent you identified. "Remember which party appointed us and rule accordingly rather than go strictly by precedent" has been a theme this term.
We are under under fascist rule, and that's a guideline for following the fuhrer without saying "heil".
Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think Urias-Orellana v. Bondi was decided a few months ago (9-0).
Ack!! So it was. I just neglected to update my notes to cut that one out. Fixed now!
Thanks for the nudge.
A big thank you for this time consuming survey
Why is it that a Court that used to regularly issue hundreds of decisions a year down to the fifties?
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/98-why-is-the-courts-docket-shrinking
Is 58 merits cases a low number for recent years? If so, does the number of emergency/shadow docket cases explain the lower number?
Low for any term before OT2019; typical for any term since:
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/98-why-is-the-courts-docket-shrinking
TY!
These judges are acting like they are kings. And they must go. Their malfeasance has broken our democracy and is the pool of putrid filth from which the murderer, rapist-scum Trump draws his undue authority. Steve, you are the proof. You stand up. And you speak the truth with authority about how these judges are failing in their duty to the law, in fact ignoring the law. It's the end for them or it's the end for America. Time is up.
The “voting rights community”? That’s everyone who isn’t a racist right?
Steve, the transgender sports issue is not the same as the transgender bathroom case, you agree? Here in Idaho, transgenders are about to lose access to public bathrooms. Sports participation is not the same as bathroom “participation.”
(I originally meant for this comment to be a response to someone here who calls trans people “transgenders”, but I’d rather make it a comment of more general applicability) Trans people are law abiding, rule following American citizens who are being systematically denied equal protection of law, stripped of identity documents and the right to perform the most basic bodily functions on the same basis as other citizens. It’s already a felony in Idaho for trans people to use the correct bathroom, and there are states all across the “union” with similarly terrible laws. There are states like Kansas and others taking away id documents. and the federal government itself won’t issue accurate passports, even to people whose birth certificates have been corrected in accordance with law. The federal government claims that trans people are dishonest and dishonorable (so they can be denied the ability to serve in the armed forces), and claims now the right to forcibly detransition trans prisoners - literal torture - and house women who have fully transitioned with men. A lot of people, including “allies,” sure seem comfortable with all of this, and it is beyond chilling.
Call the courts what they are: broken. That doesn't make trannies law-abiding or otherwise.
What makes trans people law abiding is literally the laws, as they relate to transition, and the abiding by those laws. What makes you an ignorant bigot is your lack of awareness of these laws, and your decision to use a slur to refer to a group of human beings who are no better than any other, but for damned sure no worse.
trannie isn't a slur, any more than black is a slur, but calling a member an insulting name such as an "ignorant bigot" should have zero tolerance. Letting you comment anonymously was always a mistake, imho
Trump is able to put CNN, CBS, and HBO under one corporate-fascist umbrella because SCOTUS has become a putrid pool of filth. Trump and SCOTUS must go the Hague for America to regain it's position as leader of the genuinely free world.