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Silent3

(15,295 posts)
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:44 PM Apr 25

It's beyond fucking time for the liberal court Justices to call a press conference...

...at make it damn plain they know the corrupt game the other Justices are playing, and ruthlessly expose them.

Is that breaking a norm? Yes. But to possibly save us from far, far more consequential norms being blown apart in an ugly, cynical game of power politics.

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TexasDem69

(1,850 posts)
1. That's simply not how things work
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:49 PM
Apr 25

First, there’s no corruption for them to call out. And second, there’s zero chance any justice would do that. This is real life, not a Grisham novel, and that’s not how the Supreme Court operates.

It’s shocking how little knowledge folks seem to have about our government and the rule of law.

dem4decades

(11,306 posts)
3. Are you seriously suggesting what we are witnessing is the "rule of law"‽
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:51 PM
Apr 25

More like the corruption of law.

TexasDem69

(1,850 posts)
4. So I'll ask you the same thing I've asked others
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:53 PM
Apr 25

Haven’t received a response yet. What “corruption” has occurred? Where did the Court do anything that violated the Constitution?

Tribetime

(4,712 posts)
11. Some people just keep.Defending the supreme court over and over
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 11:38 PM
Apr 25

And are the first to respond to each post about it

FHRRK

(511 posts)
14. Dude called CA a shithole State
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 11:50 PM
Apr 25


Sitting in Dallas right now, enjoying the lovely humidity, think we get hail tomorrow!

And he wants to be my Latex salesman.

Silent3

(15,295 posts)
5. I don't give a damn that "that's simply not how things work"
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:54 PM
Apr 25

Our goddamned democracy itself is on the line. It wouldn't break a single law, it wouldn't go against the Constitution. It would do nothing but ignore dainty norms of conduct that we can't afford now.

But sure, let's also worry about whether the Justices properly extend their pinkies while sipping tea.

BlueKota

(1,806 posts)
8. If the law doesn't apply to everyone equally, it's not a just system any longer.
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:59 PM
Apr 25

If they grant Trump immunity they will have broken the social contract. It will be them who violated it, not anyone else, and them who will be responsible for anything that results, from that decision.

I am not saying they will or won't grant him immunity, just giving my opinion, of how I would view it, if they do.

LonePirate

(13,431 posts)
15. No corruption for them to call out? Are you serious? When Thomas and Kavanaugh sit on the court?
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 11:53 PM
Apr 25

I am sure you mean well and probably want to believe there is no corruption on the court. However, the billionaires funding Thomas’s lifestyle and the mysterious benefactor(s) wiping out Kavanaugh’s debt and mortgage are impossible to explain away as anything other than corruption.

I’ll give you that Alito and Gorsuch are just grade A assholes and Barrett is little more than a deer in the headlights completely out of her league. Then there’s Roberts who is as feckless and as derelict as humanly possible. But it’s difficult to explain away Thomas and Kavanaugh as being anything other than corrupted to the core.

Silent3

(15,295 posts)
6. If that's all that holds the liberal Justices back...
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 10:56 PM
Apr 25

...then the best I can say about them is that they are only half as corrupt as their conservative colleagues.

DemocraticPatriot

(4,431 posts)
9. YES!!! I would like to see the liberal SC Justices act like the
Thu Apr 25, 2024, 11:02 PM
Apr 25

grass-roots activists in Tennessee!!!!


If the far-right majority of the "court" backs Idaho in the pending decision,
they ought to stage a "die-in" !!!


B.See

(1,310 posts)
17. If conservative "justices" can go before the press and bemoan the fact that America has begun
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 12:38 AM
Apr 26

raising questions about the court's legitimacy,

then certainly the liberal justices can go before the press with equal concerns as to WHY actions and decisions of their conservative colleagues have given RISE to America's perception of the institution they (presumably) hold dear.

If you were part of a business or an entity and you knew some of your colleagues were compromising and UNDERMINING it, would YOU sit shit faced silent?

70% of Americans believe Supreme Court justices are too influenced by politics: poll - MSNBC

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