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State constitution, baby, those assholes don't get a say
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@okjess.bsky.social
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State constitution, baby, those assholes don't get a say
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@okjess.bsky.social
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The author is completely incapable of recognizing that Roberts doesn't actually mean anything he wrote in the opinion and instead produced the outcome that would give his preferred presidential candidate the best shot at winning.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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The whole point of reaching the conclusion the majority did is that they - Roberts in particular - very much believe prosecuting Trump for insurrection would have made a difference in the election.
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That's to be expected, but it's really disheartening to see people like Quinta, Rick Hasen and Steve Vladeck *also* refusing to acknowledge why Roberts did this. If non-conservative legal pundits and academics don't get it, they're not going to be able to help the public get it.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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Again: Roberts was explicitly lying here. This opinion was very much about Trump, and we should not be led by the nose into thinking otherwise.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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This is a person who is never going to accept that Roberts did this to improve Trump's odds of wining the election.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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Genuine question: what *is* the worth in a Roberts clerk telling us the Pollyanna view of what's going on with them? We know better than he does!
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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@okjess.bsky.social
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Having a congratulatory circle jerk about their brave commitment to diversity of thought
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Thinking about the time NPR (I believe) posted the text of the Declaration of Independence on Twitter and right-wing accounts were freaking out it was some anti-Trump screed, while left-leaning folks were like "Yeah, it slaps."
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@okjess.bsky.social
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Just an incredible self-own to admit he *still* doesn't understand the reason for Roberts' shift. This does not require clairvoyance! It really is not mysterious!
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@okjess.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, issuing the immunity decision - which employs the level of jurisprudence that is now the Fifth's signature - sent a very different signal
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My theory is that they were more concerned about the Jan. 6 prosecution, but the NY conviction almost certainly prompted some last-minute additions to the opinion.
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That op-ed excerpt tells me its author is the kind of person who has spicy takes about the Civil Rights movement.
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Once you realize that the entire point of the immunity decision is to help get Trump elected, it becomes clear that they will have no problem granting cert in that circumstance.
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Yes it does. It makes perfect sense when you realize Roberts wants the Republican candidate for President to win the election. Trump being convicted of serious felonies would have imperiled that outcome, so you get this.
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If this is true, we probably deserve a second Trump administration
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Yes, but Joe Biden is old...
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none of this matters. he wants a republican to win and a democrat to lose. he wrote the immunity opinion because trump is currently the republican nominee and he wants him to be the next president. you don't have to overthink this. roberts certainly didn't.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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this may be hard to fathom but john roberts does not believe a single word of that opinion.
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Given that SCOTUS made quite plain just a few days ago that it will do whatever it takes to get Trump across the finish line in November, I don't know why people are so sure this suit has no chance.
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At this point I think we have more than enough evidence to say they had a lot of fun during the Trump administration and would like to repeat that experience.
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Maybe I am jaded, but I don't for a second believe that Merchan - who couldn't even hold Trump in contempt for conduct that would have landed anyone else a night in jail - intends to sentence a presidential candidate 7 weeks before the election.
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The fact that Merchan is giving so much additional time for this stupid farce to play out (and which should, at most, take 30 seconds to decide) shows that our judiciary is not up to the task of calling SCOTUS' bullshit.
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The chickening has begun...
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Rick Hasen is a good example: Roberts implies in the majority opinion that he ruled out of concern for future hypothetical conflicts re: executive authority. But it's pretty obvious he's actually not! And legal academics should be able to say so!
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@okjess.bsky.social
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It's worse: they are fundamentally incapable of *not* taking the conservative justices at their word. Just no ability to process the fact that they might lie.
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This is an especially tough pill for attorneys to swallow, but if there is one lesson of the Roberts court we all need to learn, it's this: we have absolutely got to stop taking these people at their word.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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(She's not confused.)
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The immunity decision, to me, seems a clear sign that Roberts intends to retire if he can get Trump across the finish line.
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Everything Barrett does makes a lot more sense when viewed within the context that she is a woman in a male-centric movement. She is genuinely smarter than her male colleagues on the Court, and she knows the liberal press and academics will point that out if she gives them the opportunity.
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Barrett's vote is very explicable. She likes to look different than the others despite supporting the majority's goals. It has resulted in favorable coverage without actually jeopardizing her preferred outcomes.
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He was explicitly lying about that, though. The whole point was to assist Trump with the election. As an added bonus, he gave future Republican presidents expanded powers.
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You would think so, but SCOTUS stands ready to do the brushing
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@okjess.bsky.social
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I'm sorry, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened here. Roberts is not worried about future hypotheticals - he wants Donald Trump to win an election in 2024. That, first and foremost, is what guided the majority.
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I think this misunderstands some fundamental differences between our current moment and Germany in the 1930s.
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I think they can - that is, the politicians, corporations, and churches that have been supporting and working toward this moment for decades. Those ones will do just fine, and they know it.
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The kind of thing that should be the easiest call in the world, but that liberal elites are typically incapable of making.
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She's not. The thing about Barrett is that she likes being seen as special while actually being fully on board with the Alito/Thomas project.
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Barrett only did the whole "I'm not fully on board with this, guys, really" thing because her preferred outcome was already locked in.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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Getting the message of those dissents out to the public in terms they can understand. Give interviews - televised and in print, over and over - where they explicitly set out the stakes of the immunity decision.
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That would be incredible, although I took the immunity ruling as his finally making clear that in point of fact, he does not actually care about the whole legacy thing.
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Starting to get pretty mad at the liberal justices as well. It's going to be extremely messed up if all they do is hang out in their little corner, reading dissents 98% of the population will never hear (and can't understand).
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There are attorneys on this very website who, even today, will insist that Barrett is different than the rest of them. The conservatives know very well how to play to legal academic audiences.
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@okjess.bsky.social
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She and Roberts are no different than Alito and Thomas - they just want the rest of us to think they are.
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The thing to understand is that she does not actually believe that, but writes things like this so that people will think she's not a regular mom, she's a cool mom
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There are still (non-millionaire) liberal lawyers on this very site describing ACB as though she is meaningfully different than any of the other conservative justices and I cannot handle that level of gullibility
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I'm pretty sure he just wanted to create a climate where Republican presidents are immune and Democratic ones are not!
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(Barrett has zero qualms; she just wants people to think she does)
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@okjess.bsky.social
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If nothing else, Donald Trump has been very useful for the conservatives on the Supreme Court.
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