The SCOTUS is a Disgrace

[A Director]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:18am

History will look at today's rulings as a dark day for the court.

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 9:32am

And, unfortunately, I only think it's going to get worse-- with this President and Senate confirming at least one more Justice before 2021.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 9:46am

The Roberts Court was already bad as being a noted pro-corporation court but now with these latest decisions that include lying to pregnant women, siding with anti-gay bakers despite explicit non-discrimination clauses by not actually getting into the meat of the issue, gerrymandering to oppress minorities, and the Muslim ban which will be looked on as our generation's Korematsu case, it's clear that it's not just corporate economic interests that this Court cares about...much like many of the right who claim it's only about the "economy".

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 11:10am

Today’s ruling regarding unions is another 5-4 decision...all of these recent 5-4 decisions would have gone very differently had it been Merrick Garland, not Neil Gorsuch, on the bench. These are all the result of a stolen seat, something we must not forget.

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:19pm

Justice Kennedy is retiring. We are beyond screwed. Hope all those Trump/Stein/Bernie or Busters on this forum are proud of themselves. Seriously, you all should be ashamed of yourselves. 

[javero]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:26pm

When it rains it pours these days.  With Justice Kennedy announcing his retirement, Trump and the neocons will get another pick for the high court.  Please let Justices Breyer and Ginsburg hold on until at least the 116th Congress can convene in Jan.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:36pm

Well, that’s that.

[javero]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:50pm

A colleague just suggested that Trump will nominate, gasp...Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.  He could kill two birds with one stone.

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 3:28pm

javero said: "A colleague just suggested that Trump will nominate, gasp...Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. He could kill two birds with one stone."

God f*cking help us. Well, at least that as*hole is 71.

Updated On: 6/27/18 at 03:28 PM

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 3:59pm

Trump already said he was going to choose someone off his list of 25 names he published in the campaign. Was Sessions on that list? I can’t recall.

Updated On: 6/27/18 at 03:59 PM

[javero]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 4:10pm

adamgreer said: "Trump already said he was going to choose someone off his list of 25 names he published in the campaign. Was Sessions on that list? I can’t recall."

I know.  My colleague's text was laced with sarcasm.  Nevertheless, the man changes his mind at least 7 times a day depending on the last person in his presence.  And a helluva lot has happened since the campaign, from Russiagate to double digit indictments.  Earlier in my life, I couldn't imagine someone like Chris Christie or Jeff Sessions being considered by a sitting president but these are strange times.  The name Trump has never been synonymous with convention so I submit that we brace ourselves for the mother of all "wtf"  nominations.

 

Updated On: 6/27/18 at 04:10 PM

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 11:01pm

Well, given Don’s love of television personalities like himself, it would not surprise me in the least if he were to nominate Judge Jeanine Pirro, as Don Jr. posited on Twitter today.

(Sadly, I’m only half kidding.)

Updated On: 6/28/18 at 11:01 PM

[Melissa25]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 6:30am

I am rooting for Judith Sheindlin.

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 9:24am

Lyl said: Justice Kennedy is retiring. We are beyond screwed. Hope all those Trump/Stein/Bernie or Busters on this forum are proud of themselves. Seriously, you all should be ashamed of yourselves.

I hope the morons who nominated Clinton are especially cherishing the moment.

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 9:42am

South Florida said: "Lyl said:Justice Kennedy is retiring. We are beyond screwed. Hope all those Trump/Stein/Bernie or Busters on this forum are proud of themselves. Seriously, you all should be ashamed of yourselves.

I hope the morons who nominated Clinton are especially cherishing the moment."

So I'm the moron because I voted for the person who received the most votes in the primaries (of ANY candidate from EITHER party) AND won the popular vote? Get out of here.

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 10:18am

Clinton lost to Dump, can you imagine how bad she would've lost to a normal Republican, sad days indeed for us who supported Sanders, voted for Hillary, who couldn't beat this.  That popular vote dosen't matter now does it, and even so it wasn't by all that much.  Let's run her again in 2020.

 

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 11:17am

South Florida said: "Clinton lost to Dump, can you imagine how bad she would've lost to a normal Republican, sad days indeed for us who supported Sanders, voted for Hillary, who couldn't beat this. That popular vote dosen't matter now does it, and even so it wasn't by all that much. Let's run her again in 2020.

"

No one, not even the most ardent Clinton supporters, has suggested running her again in 2020 (if we even hold elections by that point). Why do you keep bringing that up?

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 12:06pm

adamgreer said: "South Florida said: "Clinton lost to Dump, can you imagine how bad she would've lost to a normal Republican, sad days indeed for us who supported Sanders, voted for Hillary, who couldn't beat this. That popular vote dosen't matter now does it, and even so it wasn't by all that much. Let's run her again in 2020.

"

No one, not even the most ardent Clinton supporters, hassuggested running her again in 2020 (if we even hold elections by that point). Why do you keep bringing that up?"

Because ragging on Clinton makes them some how feel better about the position they put all of us in. They are lucky Sanders lost in the primaries because they feel safe in their fantasies about how the 2016 election would have went for him once the Republicans and their bots played dirty.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 1:04pm

Responsibility for Donald Trump lies solely with the human garbage who voted for him.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 1:35pm

kdogg36 said: "Responsibility for Donald Trump lies solely with the human garbage who voted for him."

But this in-fighting is so much more productive! Especially if you're a fan of losing.

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 2:02pm

Because ragging on Clinton makes them some how feel better about the position they put all of us in. 

Position, who, put, where?  LYL started this by bashing Trump, Stein, or Bernie or busters that dwell in here, all of them.  What are there 3 in here?  

[mar6411]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 2:23pm

Position, who, put, where? LYL started this by bashing Trump, Stein, or Bernie or busters that dwell in here, all of them. What are there 3 in here?"

As always, an incomprehensible post.

 

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 2:58pm

ErikJ972 said: "kdogg36 said: "Responsibility for Donald Trump lies solely with the human garbage who voted for him."

But this in-fighting is so much more productive! Especially if you're a fan of losing."

Nothing we write in this thread is productive.

mar6411 said: "
Position, who, put, where? LYL started this by bashing Trump, Stein, or Bernie or busters that dwell in here, all of them. What are there 3 in here?"

As always, an incomprehensible post."

What South FL is saying is that he didn't start it and why bother bashing Trump, Stein, or Bernie or Bust supporters on BWW because there are only like three of them on this forum. 

Updated On: 6/28/18 at 02:58 PM

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/28/18 at 3:30pm

Thanks for translating Scotty.  We should stop that battle.  Until I was bothered by LYL's statement I had not bothered to see how Bernie voters voted in the general.  Apparently the switches that were made to Trump were one in ten which is outrageous.  If "Bernie Bros." cost us the election than I'm saddened as I'm sure Bernie is.  I never knew a "Bernie Bro", but I wonder if the bots weren't responsible for a lot of that.  In any case, yeah LYL has a point, we should all accept responsibility.

[Renart]

Posted: 7/3/18 at 2:24pm

We have to admit, though, it would be hysterical of Judge Amy Coney Barrett had a son named Leaf.