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I only hope he lives to see his rulings reversed and that legacy enshrined.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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I only hope he lives to see his rulings reversed and that legacy enshrined.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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In October 2008, I ran into one of my former law profs who was then at G'town Law. Prof sd there was talk Roberts could leave the court after say ~10 yrs bc $$. Can never stop thinking about this after learning his wife's new profession was founded in '09
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Did they rebut the hypotheticals by saying that none of those could be official acts? If not, seems like not fearmongering!
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The fact that there is any question at all about it mean likely yes.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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State laws require minimum car insurance which forces you to pay for it. Not forcing "someone else" - forcing the regulated entity. Agency could just raise the price of permits to cover these costs, which is what most agencies do, but this was more transparent.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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That's so awesome you paid cash for your house, car, and don't have any credit cards! And that you don't pay for your car insurance and smog inspections.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Corporations are people under the First Amendment with a protected right to speech when it means giving money (or gratuities) to politicians or judges but not people when they want to actually control the words that appear under their names.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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You're saying that agencies can spend money not authorized by Congress? Come on.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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The employees don't have a financial stake - they get the same salary either way. Did Congress provide money for the government to pay, or not? That's how Congress tells us who is supposed to pay, and Congress most definitely did not provide that money.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Wow, so the Constitution doesn't empower Judges to figure THIS out, but does empower judges to substitute themselves in every single other technical regulatory issue? Like subbing in for EPA and not allowing the regulation of "nitrous oxide"
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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One power grab justifies another? The law also says nothing about the feds paying for the observers. Typically, the regulated industry pays for operating in a regulated environment. Refineries pay for pollution controls, land developers pay permit fees, etc.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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As an example of judicial expertise, Neil Gorsuch referred 5x to nitrous oxide (laughing gas) in his EPA opinion gutting the good neighbor Clean Air Act rule, rather than the pollutant actually being regulated. Talk about high on your own supply (of nitrous, of course)
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Textualism is no match for outcome driven results.
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They'll pair it with a 5th Circuit decision that wipes away all of CA's protections at once.
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I mean, the Supremes would fast-track that reversal, so no.
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Have you seen how complicated the laws are to begin with?
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Delegation to the Executive actually means delegation to the Judiciary because textualism only matters when it yields the desired result.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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And also how many of Trump's people are convicted felons, either currently or who needed to be pardoned. Biden doesn't need to pardon his people because he's not running a criminal enterprise.
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No way. Roberts wants that reputation without actually doing anything for it (like giving up power by retiring or restraining corruption). There was chatter the he might retire because of money concerns back in '08 but then they solved that through his wife's new career.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Then we will discuss Cain and Abel, and discuss why, after killing Abel, Cain needed a protection mark when only his parents were left.
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I believe San Francisco is at 17, which is below the 25 we had at the same time last year (and rate for 54 for the year). All of which is pretty low for us anyway. Our property theft rate is way down too.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Not freaked out enough to (a) stop legalizing bribe-taking or stop justices from taking corrupt payments, even after repeated stories about their corruption, (b) stop giving Trump win after win on timing, (c) stop allowing decisions to stay in effect for months even though no standing, etc
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there was established practice and tradition by the founding fathers of being paid in gold.
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At least 3. Paying Roberts' wife to "place" Supreme Court clerks in major co's and lawfirms is only slightly less corrupt than buying him a fancy vacation directly. Roberts was floating that he might leave the court bc $$, then suddenly his wife got this very lucrative career...
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Gratuities! like $13,000 in cash! I guess it was 10% of the total worth of the project?
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Actually, I think it will be that weirdos flying the flag upside down is speech, but flying a rainbow flag in near proximity to a Supreme Court justice is threatening behavior.
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Chief Justice totally ok with Alito and Thomas taking all that money via RVs, houses, school tuition, vacations, trips on private planes, and so on.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Gratuities! like paying your kid's tuition, buying them a $250,000 RV or buying their family member a house. And let's not forget the Chief Justice is totally on board.
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State courts in CA have to make decisions within 90 days or they don't get paid. It is absolutely ridiculous that they can drag these out for so long. No reason the supposed best legal minds in the country, with the best legal clerks, can't decide these cases. Should start a lazy meme.
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Chief Justice saying he's cool with all the money flowing to conservative justices from right-wing billionaires. Hard for him to say much, since major law firms are literally putting money in his pocket via his wife.
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Seems like it. Though I guess they could still move to delay until after he serves his federal time?
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I thought they were going to delay his trial until after he served time for the feds because transferring him for the trial is such a PITA.
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Seems pretty good. Amazing that it is completely missing climate change/environment.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Oh right. And why didn't they? -- because she lined up a lot of support/is better at politics, no? AIPAC also targeted Katie Porter's old seat this cycle and lost.
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To go along with your parenthetical, is Bowman not as good at politics? Didn't AIPAC unsuccessfully target a rep outside of Pittsburgh also?
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It's all going to be Friday, after the debate. Junior varsity politicians.
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It's not "due" to anything except trying to bad mouth a big blue city.
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They are going to hold the immunity decision until after the debate.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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I realize there are likely a lot of dissenting and concurring opinions in the remaining rulings however its hard to avoid thinking that the majority is just trying to push their biggest decisions until after the debate.
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That doesn't make any sense. The Trump trial overseen by Merchan is finished. There is nothing to remove him from.
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She has life tenure, but that doesn't mean she makes the assignment rules for the District. That belongs to the Chief judge, who was already alarmed. Extraordinary case, with extraordinary 11th cir decision. Seems like the CJ fell down here and is now leaking to the NYT to rehabilitate her rep
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I'm not familiar with his opinion writing but Mendoza's bio would diversify the Court.
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And not savvy enough.
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Will never forget hearing from relatives in NJ about a contractor they knew who Trump stiffed for over $1M who STILL voted for him because Hillary. smdh
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Exactly - next we're going to see Thomas enshrining the "rule of thumb".
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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Analyzing the underlying principles? Sounds like a living constitution to me... Breyer having a moment.
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This has happened a few times in recent memory. Each time its a head scratcher.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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You think that, and then let Alito get his hands on this case, which Roberts will assign to him and all the other R judges will sign on...
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Clearly only sorry she got caught. I mean, claiming she flicked water onto a bug or didn't know whose bag it was? Just obvious straight up lies before she knew how much video evidence there was.
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@bluebadger.bsky.social
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About time someone detailed how this court openly uses various tools to favor Republicans. Thanks to Litman. Roberts might say more palatable things to strangers at Court events, but he allows this calendar manipulation and, for example, assigned the bump stock opinion to Thomas (and signed on)
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