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| The overwhelming evidence that SCOTUS is on Trump's team |
| 2025-09-05 |
| Popped up on wife's iPhone feed. I knew y'all would want to see the shining scholar at the root of the story. [Yahoo News/VOX, h/t Smart News] Last month, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dropped an inflammatory allegation on most of her colleagues. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling order that required researchers, who claim that the Trump administration illegally cut off their federal grants, to navigate a convoluted procedural maze in two different courts. Jackson labeled this decision "Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist." Calvinball, an ever-changing game featured in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, "has only one rule: There are no fixed rules." In this Court, Jackson continued, there are two: The rules always change, and "this Administration always wins." Q.E.D. Last year, after five of the Court’s Republicans voted to neutralize a constitutional provision barring insurrectionists from seeking public office during the 2024 election, the Court’s Democrats signed a brief opinion accusing them of going "beyond the necessities of this case to limit how [the Constitution] can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President." That opinion triggered another from Justice Amy Coney Barrett. While Barrett agreed with her Democratic colleagues about how the case should have been decided, she scolded the three Democrats — declaring that "this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency." Barrett’s call for honeyed words in a case about a violent attack on the Capitol is quaint, but it is also a perilous thing for a justice to ignore. If the Democrats offend Barrett, they risk pushing her deeper into the arms of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party. Sorry, I can't read any farther. You'll have to go to the link. |
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