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Netted out, the loan obligations of rich people can be zeroed out in an emergency, but don't you dare forgive the loans of students overpaying for a college education.
States and localities did that, not Trump. But I sort of agree. It made sense to give out no recourse loans, just as it made sense to pause student loan payments.
Worth noting it wasn't the lenders who brought the case but Missouri, which wasn't hurt by the decision. Not sure how the state has standing here.
Netted out, the loan obligations of rich people can be zeroed out in an emergency, but don't you dare forgive the loans of students overpaying for a college education.
no facts, no dispute, totally hypothetical injury. there was no email request, no gay marriage requested nor was any state compelled "expression" at issue here. nothing happened to the plaintiff.
remember when SCOTUS made up facts to vindicate a proselytizing public school coach?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...1-418_i425.pdf
I mean, traditionally the First Amendment did protect Klan members from legal consequences for spewing their vitriol.
The way this eventually works out is society shunning anybody that has a "Klan member" sign on their business.
What's problematic about this decision is that they should've avoided tiptoeing through the tulips, and simply asserted that public-accommodation laws run afoul of the First Amendment, which would've undone a half-a-century precedent on the matter.
So what's going to happen is likely they'll be having to do some gymnastics again soon, once we move from same-sex to another protected class, like race or national origin. These are the kind of self-inflicted damage like Dobbs, which they could've avoided by sticking with stare-decisis.
Elie Mystal Rips Biden’s Hesitancy to ‘Politicize’ Supreme Court:
‘Happened So Long Ago That Joe Biden Probably Doesn’t Even Remember It’
for refusing to expand the Supreme Court over fear of politicizing it, arguing that “that horse left the barn” decades ago.
Biden expressed concern over expanding the Supreme Court.
“If we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re gonna politicize it maybe forever in a way that is not healthy,” he warned.
“That I can’t get back.”
that horse left the barn in 2000 in Bush v. Gore.
That was the fulcrum point for the politicization of the court,
so I don’t know what President Biden is talking about.
If he’s worried about never getting something back, no, you’re never getting it back.
... The question is, are you gonna clean it up?
Are you gonna do something about the toothpaste out of the tube
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elie-mys...n-remember-it/
Fascist Capitalist oligarchy exploiting for decades the Dems' reliable fecklessness
America is ed and un able
Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court
The exclusive Horatio Alger Association brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of access.
On Oct. 15, 1991, Clarence Thomas secured his seat on the Supreme Court,
Within months, the new justice enjoyed a far-warmer acceptance to a second exclusive club: the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans,
named for the Gilded Age author whose rags-to-riches novels represented an aspirational version of Justice Thomas’s own bootstraps origin story.
If Justice Thomas’s life had unfolded as he had envisioned, his Horatio Alger induction might have been a celebration of his triumphs as a prosperous lawyer instead of a judge.
But as he tells it, after graduating from Yale Law School,
he was turned down by a series of top law firms, rejections he attributes to a perception that he was a token beneficiary of affirmative action.
At Horatio Alger, he moved into
While he has never held an official leadership position, in some ways he has become the association’s leading light.
He has granted it unusual access to the Supreme Court, where every year he presides over the group’s signature event
The organization, he added, “has allowed me to see my dreams come true.”
his Horatio Alger friends have welcomed him at their vacation retreats, arranged V.I.P. access to sporting events and invited him to their lavish parties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/u...sociation.html
Many $Bs of PPP given to 1000s of companies, some still laid off employees anyway, esp airlines
at no other level of the judiciary would this be considered at all appropriate.
https://newrepublic.com/post/174259/...-supreme-courtAn array of high rolling lawyers with cases before the Supreme Court paid money to one of Justice Clarence Thomas’s top aides through Venmo. The Guardian reports that these lawyers have done everything from successfully arguing against affirmative action, to leading the charge to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to, well, protect the environment.
These top lawyers appeared to be paying for exclusive access to a Christmas party hosted by the Supreme Court justice, according to the payment descriptions on Venmo. The former aide, Rajan Vasisht, received seven payments in November and December of 2019, The Guardian reports; each Venmo payment was listed with descriptors like “CT Christmas Party,” or “Thomas Christmas party.”
Alito thinks SCOTUS is and should be unaccountable.
"The Cons ution doesn't say that I am not the king."
Zero s given to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
See, when you lose cases, you just refuse to obey the dictate out of the SC..."Just ignore it. What can they do? Nothing. Rip your child out of your womb at your leisure, you're covered." When we lose cases and ignore the dictate you come and get us, drag us before a judge and read us a in' riot act...make us get down on our hands and knees and beg to let us obey it now and ever more..."Fine, get up. If I ever see your White ass in here again, you're goin' away...10 years, suspended sentence, 100,000 dollars fine, cash. Now, git...after you pay the 100k. Out of my sight. It makes me sick to look at ya."
At the minimum, it's unseemly for judges to lie and mislead. Concealing large gifts from special interests out to be completely out of bounds
You called down the thunder when you ran Bork off like that. It's never been the same since.
You've nobody to blame but yourselves.
Your regrets are your own.
I've nary sympathy for you.
Very unjudicial, to whine in the press via a party with a case before him, related to his own alleged unethical behavior.
We quit "judicial" long ago when you tarred & feathered Bork, frog-marched him out came dawn and high tech lynched him on the scaffolding.
You've nobody to blame but yourselves.
Your regrets are your own.
I've nary sympathy for you.
muh ghost guns going to SC
The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers.
The court on Tuesday voted 5-4 to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that invalidated the Biden administration's regulation of ghost gun kits. The regulation will be in effect while the administration appeals the ruling to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans — and potentially the Supreme Court.
Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas would have kept the regulation on hold during the appeals process.
The Justice Department had told the court that local law enforcement agencies seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021, a more than tenfold increase in just five years.
still haven't hit the bottom yet
zero of these were disclosed
https://www.propublica.org/article/c...-supreme-court
insanity
Can't imagine a judge collecting money directly from lawyers who plead before him would be considered ethical or proper at any other level of the judiciary.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-supreme-courtSeveral lawyers who have had business before the supreme court, including one who successfully argued to end race-conscious admissions at universities, paid money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide’s Venmo transactions. The payments appear to have been made in connection to Thomas’s 2019 Christmas party.
The payments to Rajan Vasisht, who served as Thomas’s aide from July 2019 to July 2021, seem to underscore the close ties between Thomas, who is embroiled in ethics scandals following a series of revelations about his relationship with a wealthy billionaire donor, and certain senior Washington lawyers who argue cases and have other business in front of the justice.
Vasisht’s Venmo account – which was public prior to requesting comment for this article and is no longer – show that he received seven payments in November and December 2019 from lawyers who previously served as Thomas legal clerks. The amount of the payments is not disclosed, but the purpose of each payment is listed as either “Christmas party”, “Thomas Christmas Party”, “CT Christmas Party” or “CT Xmas party”, in an apparent reference to the justice’s initials.
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