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I really like Vladeck's "reporting" on legal issues.  I think he's understandable, while also being accurate.

If you are honest about it, the temporary or interlocutory orders made on the shadow docket are most often fact-and-circumstance bound, and, absent a grievous legal mistake by the lower courts, should not even be reviewed by the Supreme Court.  The rulings are creatures of equity, and the Supreme Court has very little business in equity.

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  On 2/9/2022 at 4:21 AM, Satchel said:
The results coming from that shadow docket are making a mockery of justice. Racial gerrymandering is illegal.

Dude….the Voting Rights Act has been functionally repealed. By the same crew that screams about “LEGISLATING FROM THE BENCH!” Irony is dead.
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  On 2/9/2022 at 4:33 AM, Brisketexan said:


Dude….the Voting Rights Act has been functionally repealed. By the same crew that screams about “LEGISLATING FROM THE BENCH!” Irony is dead.

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Roberts trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube is a little late. And nauseating.

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  On 1/28/2022 at 5:53 PM, Johnny Sack said:

Same as pretty much any Ivy League law school.  They figure if you are smart/driven enough to get in, they don't need to weed you out.

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I found myself in New Haven on a deposition trip once, years ago.  For shits n giggles I walked around Yale and poked into the law school.  There was a listing on the bulletin board of jobs taken by the third year class.  Probably just under half were clerk, Judge ____________, US Court of Appeals for the ______ Circuit.  A couple were Supreme Court clerks.  Dozens of Manhattan and other white shoe firms.  Even the public interest stuff was pretty high-level.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/18/newsom-texas-style-bill-sue-gun-makers-00010201

tl;dr - CA copying TX abortion law framework to give citizens broad rights to sue gun makers and sellers.

Fairly obvious attempt to give the court something else to consider when it reviews the TX abortion law in full. Of course, I have little doubt the current could would just make something up to uphold the TX abortion law while striking down the CA gun law.

Funny to me because, before this country began its slide into autocracy, I always said that if I ran the Democratic Party for a day I would offer to back off guns in exchange for the GOP doing the same on abortion. And here we are with tit for tat escalation with these two issues.

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The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas

The Supreme Court justice and his wife battled for years for a more conservative America. New reporting shows how far she was willing to go after Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html

 

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The call to action was titled “Election Results and Legal Battles: What Now?” Shared in the days after the 2020 presidential election, it urged the members of an influential if secretive right-wing group to contact legislators in three of the swing states that tipped the balance for Joe Biden — Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. The aim was audacious: Keep President Donald J. Trump in power.

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The group, the Council for National Policy, brings together old-school Republican luminaries, Christian conservatives, Tea Party activists and MAGA operatives, with more than 400 members who include leaders of organizations like the Federalist Society, the National Rifle Association and the Family Research Council. Founded in 1981 as a counterweight to liberalism, the group was hailed by President Ronald Reagan as seeking the “return of righteousness, justice and truth” to America.

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As Trump insisted, without evidence, that fraud had cheated him of victory, conservative groups rushed to rally behind him. The council stood out, however, not only because of its pedigree but also because one of its newest leaders was Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas and a longtime activist in right-wing circles. She had taken on a prominent role at the council during the Trump years and by 2019 had joined the nine-member board of C.N.P. Action, an arm of the council organized as a 501(c)4 under a provision of the tax code that allows for direct political advocacy. It was C.N.P. Action that circulated the November “action steps” document, the existence of which has not been previously reported. It instructed members to pressure Republican lawmakers into challenging the election results and appointing alternate slates of electors: “Demand that they not abandon their Constitutional responsibilities during a time such as this.”

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I wasn't able to post this a few weeks ago but the New Yorker profile on Amy Comey Bryant. was really interesting, given the divide in our times.  Here is a person who I will not be able to understand, culturally.  But she truly is an amazing human from an intellectual and work ethic standpoint and an arguably truly good/saintly person in terms of her family and interpersonal relationships.  You want to dislike her while reading the article because of her problematic legal interpretations but she really is a someone who you just have to respect and admire.

Sort of a reminder about to stay calm and try to understand people.

Sorry if paywell.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/amy-coney-barretts-long-game

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  On 2/25/2022 at 4:26 PM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I wasn't able to post this a few weeks ago but the New Yorker profile on Amy Comey Bryant. was really interesting, given the divide in our times.  Here is a person who I will not be able to understand, culturally.  But she truly is an amazing human from an intellectual and work ethic standpoint and an arguably truly good/saintly person in terms of her family and interpersonal relationships.  You want to dislike her while reading the article because of her problematic legal interpretations but she really is a someone who you just have to respect and admire.

Sort of a reminder about to stay calm and try to understand people.

Sorry if paywell.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/amy-coney-barretts-long-game

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  On 2/25/2022 at 4:26 PM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I wasn't able to post this a few weeks ago but the New Yorker profile on Amy Comey Bryant. was really interesting, given the divide in our times.  Here is a person who I will not be able to understand, culturally.  But she truly is an amazing human from an intellectual and work ethic standpoint and an arguably truly good/saintly person in terms of her family and interpersonal relationships.  You want to dislike her while reading the article because of her problematic legal interpretations but she really is a someone who you just have to respect and admire.

Sort of a reminder about to stay calm and try to understand people.

Sorry if paywell.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/amy-coney-barretts-long-game

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Fuck that bitch. 

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  On 2/25/2022 at 4:26 PM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I wasn't able to post this a few weeks ago but the New Yorker profile on Amy Comey Bryant. was really interesting, given the divide in our times.  Here is a person who I will not be able to understand, culturally.  But she truly is an amazing human from an intellectual and work ethic standpoint and an arguably truly good/saintly person in terms of her family and interpersonal relationships.  You want to dislike her while reading the article because of her problematic legal interpretations but she really is a someone who you just have to respect and admire.

Sort of a reminder about to stay calm and try to understand people.

Sorry if paywell.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/amy-coney-barretts-long-game

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I don’t want to dislike anyone. I am obliged to dislike a SCOTUS nominee-turned-justice who values themself, their politics, or anything other than public perception that the SCOTUS is non-partisan. You have the same obligation.Fuck out of here.

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  On 3/1/2022 at 3:10 AM, Willfully Horn said:

I don’t want to dislike anyone. I am obliged to dislike a SCOTUS nominee-turned-justice who values themself, their politics, or any reason other than public perception that the SCOTUS is non-partisan. Fuck out of here.

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Just curious as to whether any of you guys actually read the article?

Not sure what you are trying to say in the italicized sentence.

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  On 3/1/2022 at 3:26 AM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Just curious as to whether any of you guys actually read the article?

Not sure what you are trying to say in the italicized sentence.

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I said, in an admittedly garbled way, that anyone who would accept a place on SCOTUS given the circumstances AB faced is not worthy of the job. Because her appointment reeked of partisanship, which diminishes the court. Had she declined that opportunity, and were afforded another, your link would have been helpful.

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