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The Supreme Court is the joke… it has lost all credibility with partisan inconsistency and overt bribery.
by chabes 4mo ago
The Supreme Court is the joke… it has lost all credibility with partisan inconsistency and overt bribery.
- sieabahlpark 4mo ago[dead]
- throw101010 4mo agoAnd you have only one party to blame for this, it also predates all the Trump unhinged cases/decisons and even his first mandate. Republicans simply suceeded in their plan to take over the federal judiciary branch from the top, in great part with the help of the Federalist Society. The only answer if Democrats ever take power back is to pack the court now, no amount of unwritten rules following and norms respecting can work against people who abuse the system and packed the court themselves (by unjustifiably blocking candidates nominations which would have balanced the court, for years)
- chabes 4mo agoDemocrats, while better than republicans in this regard, are also to blame. It is not one or the other.
- platevoltage 4mo agoCould you elaborate?
- miltonlost 4mo agoNah, it's really just Republicans doing all the corruption these days at the SUpreme Court. Unless you can provide some decent examples of Democrats. You seem to be bothsidesing the issue when McConnell stole multiple seats.
- lostlogin 4mo agoHow so? The judiciary is stacked with compromised individuals. the republicans did this.
- chabes 4mo agoObama should have picked a replacement for RBG. Biden and the democratic congress should have done more to get the judiciary back in line. They had their opportunities.
- lostlogin 4mo agoObama and Biden should have done more. But they are not responsible for the malicious and calculated mess that has followed.
- litoE 4mo agoRBG passed away while Trump was president. Obama did pick a replacement for Antonin Scalia though: Merrick Garland. Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to even give Garland a hearing arguing it was "too close to the presidential election", even though Obama's term had about one year to go.
- UncleMeat 4mo agoObama could have done more to pressure RBG to retire into a friendly Senate.
- nosioptar 4mo agoClearance Thomas was confirmed 52-48, with 11 dems voting in favor [0]. He wouldn't have been confirmed without dem votes. (The other five shitheads would have been confirmed without dem votes if I'm not mistaken.) [0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1021/vote_102_1_00220.htm https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...
- watwut 4mo agoThis is downvoted, but true.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4mo agoI wonder if a two-party race to the ethical bottom is the only way to fix things because if underhanded unethical tactics only benefit one party then they won't want to fix it.
- 0xy 4mo agoWhat bribery?
- cumshitpiss 4mo agoClarence Thomas accepted multiple bribes from Harlan Crow
- snypher 4mo agohttps://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-com... https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollars-gifts-clarence-thomas.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-milli... Etc etc, and that's just one of them, and that's just what's public.
- Duwensatzaj 4mo agohttps://playbill.com/article/watch-supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-make-broadway-debut-in-juliet https://playbill.com/article/watch-supreme-court-justice-ket...
- boston_clone 4mo agoClarence and Alito have received gifts that would raise serious scrutiny if they were a “regular” government employee. Here’s a link to the series of articles covering this over the last few years. https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus
- copper-float 4mo agoI'm unfamiliar with this, can you elaborate?
- chabes 4mo agoAnalysis by Fix the Court identified 546 gifts valued at over $4.7 million given to 18 current and former justices, with Justice Clarence Thomas as the primary recipient. Judicial reform bills have tried to address the issue, but these bills have very little chance of success in the current political environment. From 2024: https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-lujan-welch-introduce-legislation-to-ban-gifts-for-supreme-court-justices https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hol...
- arjie 4mo agoIn some sense, it is quite remarkable that the institution has survived this long considering they control outcomes of such vast power while being indirectly elected, holding the post for life, and there being such a high standard for the legislature to remove them that it has never been used successfully. Looking it up, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned from office because he accepted $20k from a chap who he was judging a case on. It reminds me of Babe Ruth's life time earnings being under a million, while Shohei Ohtani's annual pay rewound to 1931 dollars is some 3 times that.
- margalabargala 4mo agoThey're probably referring to the millions of dollars of gifts Clarence Thomas received over the years, often just prior to ruling in the gift giver's favor. Here's the source I'm sure you'll want: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollars-gifts-clarence-thomas.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-milli... It's a big surprising thing to hear about for the first time! Glad to help you become familiar.
- akramachamarei 4mo agoNote that, when you say "ruling in the gift givers favor," we should be careful not to imply that the gift givers were involved in any Supreme Court cases. At least, not Harlan Crow, who is the big name on this topic, was not involved in a SCOTUS case during Thomas' tenure. Not sure about the other gift givers. Presumably, someone would have pointed out by now if Thomas had received gifts from a party to case, and more likely he would have already recused before that became an issue.