So, is the SCOTUS Looking to Destroy the Country….

[Sieg67]

Trump-appointed judge in Alaska resigns after investigation finds he had ‘inappropriately sexualized relationship’

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-appointed-judge-in-alaska-resigns-after-investigation-finds-he-had-inappropriately-sexualized-relationship/ar-BB1pGfPb?ocid=BingNewsSerp

 

"According to the complaint, Kindred treated his law clerks “in a demonstrably egregious and hostile manner.”

The report cites witness accounts and hundreds of pages of text messages detailing inappropriate and vulgar comments Kindred made to his law clerks.

Specifically, the report alleges that Kindred “discussed his past dating life, his romantic preferences, his sex life, the law clerks’ boyfriends and dating lives, his divorce, his interest in and communications with potential romantic or sexual partners, and his disparaging opinions of his colleagues.”

Kindred also made disparaging comments about public and political figures, the report says, citing several specific examples.

“In the few instances where clerks came to Judge Kindred to discuss his inappropriate behavior, they were belittled or ostracized, and, in one instance, a clerk left the clerkship,” the report adds."

[1pooh4u]

2 Senate Democrats asked AG Garland to investigate Justice Thomas and his not reporting lavish gifts he received. This man made major decisions on cases while receiving gifts from people involved in said cases. That the only questionable thing he did was not report the gifts is frightening.  Had he reported it and still refused to recuse himself from certain cases where conflict of interest was obvious, that’s legal in this country. We have legal bribery here  he had nothing to lose by reporting the gifts  that he did not tells me he knew he was basically taking bribes 

https://www.courthousenews.com/senate-democrats-demand-special-counsel-to-investigate-clarence-thomas/
 

[Sieg67]

And AOC introduced articles of impeachment for Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.  I'm not getting my hopes up but at least they're trying.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/10/congress/blumenauer-biden-drop-out-reelection-house-democrats-00167452

[MasqueradeOverture]

Biden going scorched earth for his last months on earth/in office

 

[rpgamer]

Exactly the sort of thing he should've been doing from the start, with the expectation of being a one term president cleaning up after the last shitstain.

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

Biden going scorched earth for his last months on earth/in office

 

None of this will actually happen 

[Jman]

1 hour ago, 1pooh4u said:

None of this will actually happen 

No but you can campaign on it.

[1pooh4u]

3 minutes ago, Jman said:

No but you can campaign on it.

Absolutely, but most people realize it’s not going to happen.  

[discolé monade]

[1pooh4u]

I think 18 years is too long and I didn’t really understand the every 2 years appointments when the appointment is 18 years unless he’s talking about replacing all the justices immediately 

[1pooh4u]

Appointments should be 10 years 

[Raptorpat]

5 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

I think 18 years is too long and I didn’t really understand the every 2 years appointments when the appointment is 18 years unless he’s talking about replacing all the justices immediately 

the terms would be staggered, so one seat would become vacant every two years like clockwork.

haven't seen any proposal text itself, just the Biden WaPo op-ed, so not sure how the transition would work. would be funny it they just phased out the next longest-serving justice every two years until the cycle completes, in which case the first three out the door would be Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.

[1pooh4u]

2 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

the terms would be staggered, so one seat would become vacant every two years like clockwork.

haven't seen any proposal text itself, just the Biden WaPo op-ed, so not sure how the transition would work. would be funny it they just phased out the next longest-serving justice every two years until the cycle completes, in which case the first three out the door would be Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.

I would love for that to happen but since that requires a constitutional amendment I just don’t see it happening. Don’t like 2/3 of the states have to agree or something?, idrk how that works so I’m not even gonna pretend like I do

[Raptorpat]

A. 2/3 of both houses of Congress propose an amendment, and then 3/4 of state legislatures ratify the amendment

B. 2/3 of state legislatures vote to convene a constitutional convention

[1pooh4u]

2 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

A. 2/3 of both houses of Congress propose an amendment, and then 3/4 of state legislatures ratify the amendment

B. 2/3 of state legislatures vote to convene a constitutional convention

A. No way

B. Also, no way 

not in this ‘Murica

[Raptorpat]

10 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

B. Also, no way 

now HERE's the nightmare fuel

https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/

[1pooh4u]

3 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

now HERE's the nightmare fuel

https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/

WTH did I just read?  ☹️

[Raptorpat]

There are several conservative efforts to trigger a constitutional convention that are surprisingly far along, the plan being to take advantage of the fact that post-2010 Republicans have controlled a disproportionate amount of state legislatures.

Here's an article from 2022: https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7

[1pooh4u]

I vaguely remember a ballot question about a constitutional convention. I voted no cuz idfkwtf that was and my gut was like “don’t do it” so I didn’t but I’m probably misremembering and voted no on something different. Seemed like it happened though 

[Raptorpat]

Slightly different. NY requires the state constitutional convention ("concon") ballot question every 20 years.

It started out with general public support, our state constitution is horribly long with a lot of old/outdated/irrelevant content. But there are a lot of important protections in there too so all the institutional stakeholders from across the spectrum universally opposed it and collectively ran scorched earth campaigns against it.

[discolé monade]

i had no idea. thank you, raptapat. even signed up for some spam emails. 

[katt_goddess]

16 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

WTH did I just read?  ☹️

Republicans attempting to shred the Constitution constitutionally. 

It's the problem with any attempt to convene - it's highly likely to be immediately hijacked and used to put the worst of things into motion. 

[tsar4]

Both parties agree?

[1pooh4u]

29 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

Both parties agree?

From my quick read it does seem promising that voters from both parties agree with this reform but republican politicians don’t seem to care what their own voters and constituents want 

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/supreme-court-donald-trump-sentencing/index.html

Four justices injustices still voting that Trump can do whatever the hell he wants and not have to face any kind of accountability whatsoever, even when a jury has already found him guilty. The sad thing is that if there's any surprise here, it's that Coney Barret and Roberts didn't join them. Doesn't really matter since we know he's not gonna face any real punishment anyway, but just imagine if he gets the chance to replace any of the four remaining liberal justices. There's some extra nightmare fuel for ya.

[tsar4]

10 hours ago, Dark_Cloud_Overhead said:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/supreme-court-donald-trump-sentencing/index.html

Four justices injustices still voting that Trump can do whatever the hell he wants and not have to face any kind of accountability whatsoever, even when a jury has already found him guilty. The sad thing is that if there's any surprise here, it's that Coney Barret and Roberts didn't join them. Doesn't really matter since we know he's not gonna face any real punishment anyway, but just imagine if he gets the chance to replace any of the four remaining liberal justices. There's some extra nightmare fuel for ya.

He'll pull an FDR and try to add seats to the SC so he can override the Liberal Justices.

Edited January 10 by tsar4

[katt_goddess]

10 minutes ago, Dark_Cloud_Overhead said:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/supreme-court-donald-trump-sentencing/index.html

Four justices injustices still voting that Trump can do whatever the hell he wants and not have to face any kind of accountability whatsoever, even when a jury has already found him guilty. The sad thing is that if there's any surprise here, it's that Coney Barret and Roberts didn't join them. Doesn't really matter since we know he's not gonna face any real punishment anyway, but just imagine if he gets the chance to replace any of the four remaining liberal justices. There's some extra nightmare fuel for ya.

He can't.

According to the excuse argument made by republicans that allowed them to refuse Obama a choice because he was a lame duck president, Drumpf can't have any picks because he is currently a lame duck president.

And I encourage everyone possible to remind their representatives of that multiple times should anything occur giving that douchecanoe another bite if an apple he already ruined.