Running SCOTUS thread

An unfortunate stat that I like to cite every now and again: Thurgood Marshall died on Jan. 24, 1993, four days after Bill Clinton's inauguration.

Think how different history would be if he'd stuck out his whole term.

 

This lady has been NAILS her whole life!!! Thank you RBG for your sacrifices and service to our country. Keep it up!!

 

Just make it to the new year, RBG.

 

If Biden wins but Trumpists retain control of the Senate, she'll have to make it until noon on Jan. 20.
If Biden wins and Democrats have cushion in the Senate -- i.e. more than 51 in order to neuter DINO Joe Manchin -- Jan. 3 will suffice.
If Trump wins, she'll need at least four more years.
Under any circumstances, she's an American hero whose survival pisses off Trumpists every day.

 

But if Biden wins and the Republicans keep the Senate, Moscow Mitch will do his usual crap.

 

I want her to retire 60 seconds after it’s too late to benefit Trump.

 

It doesn't appear the Supremes are willing to invalidate ACA -- or any major legislation -- on a single provision. Or at least that's the feeling from oral arguments today.

Supreme Court appears to signal Obamacare will survive latest GOP challenge - CNNPolitics

 

The message from Kavanaugh at least was at least come up with some actual legal support for your position; we’re not your lapdog.

 

They aren't? Sure fooled me.

 

This is my read on the SCOTUS; Scalia/Rehnquist/Kennedy I disagreed with them most times, most probably because I did not like the end result but I understood that they had substantive reasons for their decisions. You need that type of basis so you don't look like a fool in the annuals of history. I find Gorsuch and Roberts following those footsteps. Kavanaugh looks like he may as well.

Thomas is a joke.

I admit I have a blind spot for the liberal justices, Sotomayer/Kagen/Breyer, because they're in the dissent, which may lay the groundwork for future decisions but doesn't have any binding effect.

That's why I hope that at the barest minimum the SCOTUS doesn't completely just make rubberstamp political decisions. I may be completely off base, I frankly haven't read a SCOTUS decision in my legal capacity in over 25 years, its way over my practice.