kingdragonfly: Alito has been called "one of the most conservative justices on the Court." ...

 

Absolutely incredible these judges are appointed for life. Surely, they will get out of touch or lose their marbles.

Must be the best job in the world with no oversight and with great ability to 'enhance' their income and social status.

But, nothing to see here. Move on, says Roberts, all good.

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/national-polls-dont-matter-biden-trump-2024 a pic of a highly deplorable idiot right at the start of the story.

Two deplorables turning against each other? Never saw that one coming! 😃😄

Another deplorable (the one who thinks he's a lawyer) who did Trump's bidding for him - and failed - also finds that the walls are closing in on him:

https://www.salon.com/2023/06/24/coup-memo-lawyer-may-face-disbarment--but-thats-the-least-of-john-eastmans-problems/

Like so many other attorneys, advisers and aides who have fallen under Trump's spell and done his bidding, Eastman must now face the consequences of his actions. >> I certainly hope this guy does! He was arrogant and smug enough to ask for a pardon from Trump not long after the rioters had been cleared from the Capitol.

https://abovethelaw.com/2023/06/judge-howell-reminds-rudy-giuliani-that-her-courtroom-is-not-some-landscapers-parking-lot-outside-philly/

Deplorable Rudy gets the smack laid down on him. Funny how he made money materialise when required?

The NY Times - Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections

June 27, 2023

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a legal theory that would have radically reshaped how federal elections are conducted by giving state legislatures largely unchecked power to set rules for federal elections and to draw congressional maps warped by partisan gerrymandering.

 

The vote was 6 to 3, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. writing the majority opinion.

 

The Constitution, he said, “does not exempt state legislatures from the ordinary constraints imposed by state law.”

 

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch dissented.

 

A lucky escape for democracy - but note the deplorable dissenters ...   🙄

The NY Times - Affirmative Action - Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and U.N.C.

June 30, 2023

Race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, the latest decision by its conservative supermajority upending decades of jurisprudence on a contentious issue of American life.

 

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the 6-3 majority, said the two programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner” and “involve racial stereotyping,” in violation of the Constitution.  ...

 

Justice Clarence Thomas chimed in with an oral concurrence, welcoming the court’s reasoning.  He began by explaining his decision to speak up in support of the ruling, saying “race-based discrimination against Asian American students compels me.” ...

 

Justice Sonia Sotomayor followed with a vastly different view of the role of the court and the legacy of affirmative action.  She denounced the decision as “profoundly wrong,” while arguing that the court had, in effect, condoned systemic racism in the United States. 

 

She went on, addressing Justice Thomas directly, as he appeared to shift uncomfortably at times. “Ignoring racial inequality will not make it disappear.” ...

 

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."  Animal Farm, by George Orwell

Reuters - More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders

June 27, 2023

Among America's political elite, Reuters found that ...

 

5 Living Presidents *
2 Supreme Court Justices
11 Governors &
100 Legislators (Democrats and Republicans alike)

 

... descend from ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's "original sin".

 

*  Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and - through his white mother’s side - Barack Obama.  (Trump’s ancestors came to America after slavery was abolished.)

This is the introduction to a long, in-depth article - the above link gives free access.

The NY Times - Rep. George Santos’s Summer Reading List: 80,000 Pages of Evidence

30 June 2023

While other Republicans prepared to celebrate Independence Day, Representative George Santos appeared on Friday before a federal judge for the first time since he pleaded not guilty to 13 felonies in May.

 

Mr. Santos’s case is still in limbo, with no trial date yet set. But in a hearing that lasted less than 10 minutes, the prosecution and defense agreed to reconvene on Sept. 7.

 

Mr. Santos and his lawyer said they would spend Congress’s August recess poring over the evidence provided by prosecutors thus far - 80,000 pages of it.

 

Mr. Santos is facing up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds.