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  • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

    Anyone still think Gorsuch and Thomas aren't the same guy? Cause everything I read points that they are. Which means that we got the biggest right wing whack job we could out of Obama's third Supreme Court placement.
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    Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
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    • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
      Anyone still think Gorsuch and Thomas aren't the same guy? Cause everything I read points that they are. Which means that we got the biggest right wing whack job we could out of Obama's third Supreme Court placement.
      Duh. Staying home because you're not "inspired" is always the right move.
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      • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
        Anyone still think Gorsuch and Thomas aren't the same guy?
        Thomas is an ideologue who thinks he's making America a shining city on a hill. Alito is a politician pushing a party agenda without any goal but power.

        Remains to be seen which Gorsuch is.
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        • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          Thomas is an ideologue who thinks he's making America a shining city on a hill. Alito is a politician pushing a party agenda without any goal but power.

          Remains to be seen which Gorsuch is.
          He's Thomas. There is enough evidence now. The jury came back.
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          • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

            Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
            Anyone still think Gorsuch and Thomas aren't the same guy? Cause everything I read points that they are. Which means that we got the biggest right wing whack job we could out of Obama's third Supreme Court placement.
            Serves the left properly for murdering a justice in order to try to take control.

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            • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

              Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
              Serves the left properly for murdering a justice in order to try to take control.
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              • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                He's Thomas. There is enough evidence now. The jury came back.
                He's not Thomas, but he's definitely right of Alito on most major issues. Thomas is off on his own island in terms of reasoning.

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                • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                  The possibility of sanity.

                  The attorneys for the state, who are defending the maps, got plenty of questions from Kennedy, while the Wisconsin Democrats, who want the maps struck down, got none. Kennedy spoke 10 times during the state of Wisconsin’s arguments. He asked five questions and made five statements.

                  “If you get a lot of questions, you’re going to lose,” Adam Liptak, The New York Times’ Supreme Court reporter, told FiveThirtyEight in 2015.

                  Justices aren’t just asking questions to get information from the lawyers arguing their cases. In some ways, the questions aren’t meant for the lawyers at all. The justices ask questions to signal their positions to their fellow members of the court, and to potentially sway other justices to their side. If they’re skeptical of one side’s argument, they often pepper that side with queries. Chief Justice John Roberts has even described the lawyers as a “backboard” — the questions bounce off them and come right back to the bench.
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                  • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    The possibility of sanity.
                    I wonder if the Maryland Ds are siding with Wisconsin or with their party? If the W Ds prevail, then the Maryland gerrymander would also be consigned to the dustbin.

                    I am of two minds. I prefer a legislative solution to political problems, but, on the other hand, Maryland Rs are unfairly excluded in the drawing of congressional districts.
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                    • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                      Originally posted by joecct View Post
                      I wonder if the Maryland Ds are siding with Wisconsin or with their party? If the W Ds prevail, then the Maryland gerrymander would also be consigned to the dustbin.

                      I am of two minds. I prefer a legislative solution to political problems, but, on the other hand, Maryland Rs are unfairly excluded in the drawing of congressional districts.
                      I believe Wisconsin just won the coin toss, as both Maryland (R's) and North Carolina (D's) were also going to court for the same thing
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                      • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                        Originally posted by joecct View Post
                        I wonder if the Maryland Ds are siding with Wisconsin or with their party? If the W Ds prevail, then the Maryland gerrymander would also be consigned to the dustbin.

                        I am of two minds. I prefer a legislative solution to political problems, but, on the other hand, Maryland Rs are unfairly excluded in the drawing of congressional districts.
                        Both parties are guilty of partisan redistricting and it's long past time when the Court took it out of the crooks' hands. It might be possible to get a bipartisan solution on this one since both sides are equally culpable and the long term effect is a wash (but a win for democracy). Unlike vote suppression, this isn't the GOP f-cking over the Dems, it's the incumbents f-cking over the challengers. (In that it is much like finance bribery.)
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                          Originally posted by joecct View Post
                          I wonder if the Maryland Ds are siding with Wisconsin or with their party? If the W Ds prevail, then the Maryland gerrymander would also be consigned to the dustbin.

                          I am of two minds. I prefer a legislative solution to political problems, but, on the other hand, Maryland Rs are unfairly excluded in the drawing of congressional districts.
                          This isn't legislation from the bench, this is the bench telling the legislation that they are doing it wrong and do it again to satisfy the law as the court does.

                          I wish people would stop calling it "legislating from the bench" because it's not. They are just saying that the legislation is does not have legal backing with the constitution.

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                            Originally posted by alfablue View Post
                            I wish people would stop calling it "legislating from the bench" because it's not.
                            LFTB is just another thought-terminating cliche used by knucks to squawk when things don't go there way. As we've seen, when they want to they are perfectly fine with inventing stuff out of wholecloth.
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                              • Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                                From all accounts it sounds like Kennedy and Sotomayor shredded the Sconnie lawyer. Hell Notorious RBG shredded Gorsuch when he was on one of his "Strict Constitutionalist" rants
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