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wildcat09

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  1. It's always frustrating every time JBJ comes in to defend an indefensible, purely-politically-motivated SCOTUS decision. I honestly wish he could be a better advocate for his position, because his arguments are always terrible.
  2. Lol, no it's obviously not you fucking rube.
  3. They can try. The worst thing that will happen to them is that it will get smacked down on appeal.
  4. Lol, of course the chatbot thinks AI will fix higher education.
  5. I always find it funny when ledge-Brisket takes a back seat to lawyer-Brisket. I totally understand thinking this should be the case, but ledge-Brisket damned well knows that actually they could absolutely decide that income-based admission is de-facto illegal AA while also finding some bullshit reason that legacy admissions aren't. Because law is Calvinball.
  6. Well this will make tomorrow more interesting:
  7. He went to Yale law, but otherwise this is basically correct. He dealt with a lot of racism and when he graduated law school none of the top firms wanted him, which he blamed on affirmative action rather than that they were all incredibly racist. There was a time where he could actually be a somewhat interesting thinker (though he tended not to demonstrate that much, as he was on the black Republican grift train from a very early point in his professional career). But a lifetime of personal grievances and decades surrounding himself in the rightwing grift and propaganda complex has turned him into exactly what it turns every other Republican who marinates in that shit long enough into.
  8. Man, this is some shameful shit. D- level shittalking. I know you can do better.
  9. Y'all remember this guy? The fellow in what's probably the most influential conservative think tank around right now? Turns out he's even more of a nazi in private: I guess it's funny that Breitbart is pretending to be offended by that kind of stuff just to fuck with DeSantis supporters, at least. But it really cannot be exaggerated how horrible the next generation of the GOP is.
  10. Same here, he's far and away the most entertaining conservative poster.
  11. President Harris would obviously run as the incumbent then, but I could see Newsom and Pritzker jumping in to try to primary her.
  12. I don't want to diminish what a big win this is for American democracy, but a ruling the other way would have been so completely at odds with the entire structure of American law and government and so inconsistent with the entirety of American legal history (in other words, so insanely and clearly wrong) that it would've made the Dobbs decision look like serious, reasoned judicial practice by comparison. It's not so much a make up call as it is simply calling a fastball that was as dead center in the strike zone as possible a strike. This is how Roberts gives the left "wins" and it's how he's trying to restore the court's legitimacy in the eyes of the public. He's not suddenly good. But he does care about he court's reputation and its perceived legitimacy. He prefers to carry out his legal sabotage in a more methodical and pragmatic way, to maintain a pretext that it's all about the law, so that the changes he makes endure without serious public objection.
  13. They're probably also trying to give us some crumbs to make some people happy before releasing some truly atrocious decisions in the remaining cases.
  14. Gorsuch on Indian Law vs. Gorsuch on literally everything else is so weird.
  15. Hah, everyone quoting Vladeck at the same time. My theory is that Roberts is extraordinarily pissed at Thomas and Alito for embarrassing him and this is basically a brushback aimed near their heads.
  16. Legitimately stunning. I thought it was probably more likely than not that Roberts and Kav would toss this on standing grounds to avoid having to answer the question. But, given that Kav pretty explicitly entertained the validity of ISLT in 2020 before the election, and Roberts' own personal history of "all legal theories concerning elections must help Republicans," this is shocking.
  17. I still think it's extremely funny that someone stole Swam's name on the switch to Surly and I think he got so mad about it he just bailed? IIRC Swam did actually create a different name here and posted for a bit but disappeared pretty quickly. I could be wrong, but I've never gotten the sense he's one of the DT posters here under a new name.
  18. There's no pushing out a SCOTUS justice. It's 100% their choice. The most Biden can do is guarantee she can pick her replacement if she retires before the next election and remind her of the possible downsides if she doesn't. Which she's well aware of I'm sure, after Ginsburg. I sure fucking hope someone in the administration is communicating with her about her plans, but I really wouldn't be surprised if they're really not.
  19. Let's not forget that he voted against impeaching Trump. That's a huge goddamn red flag.
  20. It's an audition for one of CNN's 500 "token" conservative spots.
  21. There could still be some shadow docket fuckery that allows these states to use illegal maps for another election.
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