hippie4ever, May 19 at 12:51 pm #

Inherit The Wind, I agree with you except were Scalia to recuse himself whenever tainted, he’d never sit on any trials!
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What is wrong with THAT?

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Same for Thomas and that hack Roberts, the former who has NEVER written a significant decision;
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You mean the guy who was deciding who would be our next President in 2000 while his wife was busy vetting appointment candidates for Bush?

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the latter who couldn’t (competently) swear-in the President of the United States.
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If that was his worst problem I’d be delighted. Roberts’s flub was nothing really.  But his decisions consistently come down on the side of corporations or EXTREMELY liberal (in the true sense) interpretations of the breadth of the Executive Branch’s powers, that far exceed the Constitution or any intention of the framers or justices up till now.  THAT is the one definition of “Liberal” that’s both accurate and sickening.  And he’s not alone.  Alito is a clone.

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This Court is disabled and will not fulfill its Constitutional mandate for years to come. This is one of the systemic problems that prevents the nation from following its own laws.
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Oh, it’s not disabled, but it needs to be. The rest of your statement in this paragraph is, however, 100% accurate.

Inherit The Wind, I agree with you except were Scalia to recuse himself whenever tainted, he’d never sit on any trials! Same for Thomas and that hack Roberts, the former who has NEVER written a significant decision; the latter who couldn’t (competently) swear-in the President of the United States. This Court is disabled and will not fulfill its Constitutional mandate for years to come. This is one of the systemic problems that prevents the nation from following its own laws.

About a year ago people here were fervently arguing for Botch to be impeached.  Now it’s blatantly obvious that that effort should have been to impeach Scalia for his obvious biases and refusals to recuse himself from cases where he either had a personal interest or was “tainted”.

No serious REAL law will be written as long as these five assholes are determined to shred the Constitution in favor of the powerful and the religious right.

Talk about judicial activism! These are the most activist justices in the last 100+ years.  NOTHING in the Constitution means anything to these 5, nothing.

Under the neoliberal police state that the Bushites initiated and Obama is continuing, the powerful are no longer constrained by law.  Being powerful means that what you do is no longer illegal.  The banksters steal in plain sight, the Dems rob the treasury for them, Obama continues torture, rigged trials, secret police spying spying on the population, lawless imprisonment and covering it all with Dem rebranding and liberal deceit.  Obama is intent on continuing to deprive the American people of power, including gutting social security and medicare to the extent he can get away with it.

Endless war abroad and a neoliberal police statte at home.  and lawless brutalizing of resistence.

Keep this (and other decisions) when letting your Senator know about Obama’s nominee for the next open seat on the US Supreme Court.  And do remind those who voted for Roberts, etc that we knew how he/they would vote on the Court.  Phooey. Where do we go from here?