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Re: Court packing
« Reply #75 on: June 20, 2022, 11:15:18 pm »

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #76 on: June 23, 2022, 05:34:54 am »

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #77 on: June 23, 2022, 02:07:22 pm »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-rules-gop-lawmakers-141909882.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in a fight over the state's latest photo identification voting law.
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North Carolina voters amended the state constitution in 2018 to include a voter ID mandate. Lawmakers then passed the law at issue in the case to put in place the change. The law requires voters to show a photo ID to vote — a driver's license, a passport or certain student and local government identifications.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the measure, but lawmakers overrode it. The state NAACP and several local chapters immediately sued in federal court to halt enforcement, arguing that the law discriminates against Black and Latino voters in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.


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Re: Court packing
« Reply #78 on: June 28, 2022, 11:22:15 pm »
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1541868415681544195

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NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts a lower court order that had struck down Louisiana's racial gerrymander. All three liberals dissent.
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Although nearly a third of Louisiana's population is Black, Republicans' new congressional map gives Black voters control over just one of six congressional districts.

The Supreme Court has now effectively ensured that this map will remain in place for the 2022 elections.

The new map, which the Supreme Court just reinstated, packs Black voters into a single district, diluting their political power in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. But the far-right justices have effectively repealed that provision already.
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Remember: The Supreme Court is not just *allowing* states to pass racial gerrymanders; it's also *prohibiting* states from increasing representation for racial minorities. It claims that increasing Black voting power violates the equal protection clause.

https://twitter.com/SamSpital/status/1541884729187864578

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A year of work proving Louisiana's congressional map discriminates against Black voters. A 152-page district court opinion finding discrimination, upheld in a 33-page opinion by the most conservative federal court in the nation. Taken away by 6 justices in an act of raw power.

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #79 on: June 30, 2022, 09:37:48 pm »

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #80 on: July 03, 2022, 07:45:24 pm »

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #81 on: July 08, 2022, 08:27:48 pm »
https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/brett-kavanaughs-dine-not-infringed-145900540.html

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Brett Kavanaugh's Right to Dine Shall Not Be Infringed
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You can't vote the superlegislators out. It is unreasonable to expect any will be impeached thanks to the entrenched advantages that allow Republicans outsize control of the Senate. Even the House of Representatives is dangerously skewed, thanks to gerrymandered redistricting maps and the hyperpolarization they help to generate. The reason Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and others worked so hard to seize control of the judiciary was precisely because so many other institutions have ceased to function properly. Even if you do succeed in electing representatives to make policy through the legislature—after this same Court savaged the Voting Rights Act and unleashed an avalanche of money in our elections—the courts can throw out whatever they choose.

You cannot protest at the steps of the Supreme Court, as they've walled that **** off. You can't protest at the justices' houses, and there's some merit to the idea that private residences—where spouses and children are in the mix—should be off-limits. (Of course, in the case of Clarence Thomas, his spouse has very much been in the mix.) But you can't protest in neutral public venues, either, even if you're on a city street outside a restaurant. We learned that this weekend, when Mr. Kavanaugh was disturbed during a meal at a Washington, D.C. steakhouse, as reported by the Beltway encyclical known as Politico Playbook:

    On Wednesday night, D.C. protesters targeting the conservative Supreme Court justices who signed onto the Dobbs decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion got a tip that Justice BRETT KAVANAUGH was dining at Morton’s downtown D.C. location. Protesters soon showed up out front, called the manager to tell him to kick Kavanaugh out and later tweeted that the justice was forced to exit through the rear of the restaurant.
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Do public figures who make the rules we all have to live by get to do whatever they want at all times without any social repercussions?
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The right to eat dinner shall not be infringed. (Particularly by the Unduly Unruly.) Which, according to Politico's Daniel Lippman, it was not.

    While the court had no official comment on Kavanaugh’s behalf and a person familiar with the situation said he did not hear or see the protesters and ate a full meal but left before dessert, Morton’s was outraged about the incident.

The right to tiramisu shall not be infringed. Seriously, though, at this point we're talking about what appears to be a complete non-incident. He went out the back because he heard secondhand there were some folks out front?

But even if the honorable justice had to hear the urban rabble outside—described by Politico as "D.C. protestors"—tell him to **** himself while he chowed down on a ribeye, what exactly is the problem here? The protesters are exercising their rights to speech and "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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Justice Clarence Thomas has signaled they're interested in going after the right to privacy itself with a so-called reconsideration of Griswold v. Connecticut, a move that would go way beyond contraception. Although the prospect of this Republican Court empowering states controlled by their ideological allies to restrict women's access to the pill in the Year of Our Lord 2022 does have a particular resonance.

And if that happens, you can expect the same bullshit routine from these same people. The work of working the refs is never done, and the self-victimization will never stop. This is the same impulse undergirding much of the Cancel Culture debate: while social-media mobs and a lack of due process are real problems, many of the fiercest Free Speech Warriors actually see free speech as their right to say whatever they want without getting criticized or made fun of. Similarly, these right-wing superlegislators believe they should be able to nakedly advance the policy priorities of the conservative movement by reverse-engineering decisions to meet preordained conclusions, all the while battering the lives of powerless people, without ever getting called an **** while they drink a $300 bottle of wine.
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until the Democratic Party finds the stones to nix the Senate filibuster, expand the Supreme Court, reform the judiciary, and restore the people's means of translating their will into the law we all are bound to live by.

Alternatively, someone could simply follow Yamagami's heroic example:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-ahimsa/msg14571/#msg14571

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #82 on: July 19, 2022, 07:50:22 am »
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[Amy Chua] and Jed Rubenfeld...who is married to Chua...played an outsized role in vetting the clerks who worked for Kavanaugh...and Kavanaugh was one of three judges who vetted clerks to serve in [Justice Anthony] Kennedy’s chambers. His role as a so-called “feeder” judge made his clerkships among the most coveted posts for law students across the country, but especially at his alma mater, Yale...[where] the process made some students deeply uncomfortable...[and they] would only speak under the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution and damage to their future careers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #83 on: August 27, 2022, 08:42:43 pm »

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #84 on: September 07, 2022, 04:08:23 am »


The Second Amendment was designed with those such as Cannon (and of course Trump himself) in mind.

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Corrupt Trump Mar-a-Lago Judge Issues TWO ORDERS after DOJ Notice of Appeal
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The corrupt and disgraced Trump appointed district court judge in Florida Aileen Cannon just issued back-to-back orders after the Department of Justice filed its Notice of Appeal and Motion for Partial Stay. The first orders requested Trump responded to the DOJ’s Motion by September 12. The second order asked Trump to consider the DOJs position about staying enforcement of the Court’s Order as it relates to the 100 confidential documents. These back to back orders demonstrate a fairly erratic judge but also show she may be regretting her previous horrible order granting a special master and enjoining the government from continuing to investigate based on the documents they obtained until the special master completes its work.

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #86 on: September 09, 2022, 05:52:09 pm »

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #87 on: September 10, 2022, 06:31:25 pm »
Harris finally states the obvious:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-says-shes-not-135803399.html

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Kamala Harris says she's not confident about the 'integrity' of the Supreme Court: 'I think this is an activist court'

Latest example:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-ruling-001113028.html

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling that required Jewish university to recognize LGBTQ group

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #88 on: September 15, 2022, 09:18:49 pm »
BREAKING: Corrupt Trump Judge DENIES DOJ Motion for Stay and Appoints Trump-Requested Special Master
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Judge Aileen just issued an order denying the Department of Justice’s Motion for Partial Stay. She granted the special master suggested by Trump. The DOJ will almost certainly appeal immediately.

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Re: Court packing
« Reply #89 on: September 30, 2022, 07:12:08 pm »


So when will someone shoot Cannon? And why is this not part of the discussion on the show?