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Summary
MAGA has turned on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, after she sided against Trump in two recent 5-4 rulings.
Online critics accuse her of disloyalty, with some even calling her a “DEI judge.”
Barrett has consistently ruled in favor of conservative causes but has occasionally taken a more independent approach. However, Trump supporters expect personal loyalty from the justices.
The backlash mirrors previous attacks on judges ruling against Trump, raising concerns about threats and judicial independence.
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Disloyalty? The whole point of a Judge is to be impartial and not just vote how they are told to. Otherwise what is the point. Just put any yob off the streets into the judiciary to vote yes to what you want.
Democracy is a matter of conflict and peaceful resolution towards solutions that benefit the most people. They don’t want democracy, they never did.
They are supposed to be the interpreters of the law, and to send things back down to lower courts for things that are not spelled out in laws or the constitution so that the courts can help settle the grey (untested/unsettled ) areas of the law.
The Court currently is anti human rights, pro corporate, anti environmental, pro Christian indoctrination, and pro Trump and/or fascists. The majority hasn’t ruled on anything based on case law in years. And that became super apparent when Trump got to stack the court with rubber stamp judges.
They are supposed to be the interpreters of the law
Uhhh don’t forget that the supreme court literally GAVE themselves that power and job. The Constitution does not say at all that the supreme court is to interpret law.
Judicial review was established in 1803, and was just never objected to because neither of the other 2 branches want to do the job (and IMO they immediately recognized the tool or weapon it could be)
True, but I have a hard time imagining them not having that job. What else would be the point of a court?
Send this to Clarence
He can’t talk right now, mouth too full of dick
Just put any yob off the streets into the judiciary to vote yes to what you want.
This is what Trump expects from them. He appointed him, they owe him everything. It’s not surprising his supporters feel the same
Ironically, ACB really is a DEI hire with the undertone of “unqualified” they use. At the time Trump was either pressured or he had otherwise promised he’d nominate a woman.
ACB has less than HALF of the experience of any other SCOTUS judge, Kavanaugh included. She was blatantly unqualified.
This would be true, but all of Trump’s appointees are underqualified, so it’s on par for him.
Kavanaugh had the necessary professional experience, on par with the rest of SCOTUS at the time. It’s just that he’s so clearly partisan, that he should not have been confirmed by the senate.
Also, had he had an actual backbone, he would have let the FBI run and finish his background check. Allegations are allegations. People may lie. The FBI should have run the full investigation to see if the allegations had merit or not. But this didn’t happen. Therefore, in my opinion, he is unqualified even if he didn’t commit sexual assault
His crybaby blubbering “I like beer” temper tantrum is pretty disqualifying IMO
Well, yes. I’m saying his legal career on paper made him look qualified. What made him look unqualified was, well, (IMO) everything not directly related to his legal work.
I’m addition to his sexual assault history, the FBI should have been allowed to look into the large amount of gambling debt that disappeared when journalists looked into it, and his alcoholism. Any of those should be disqualifying for the highest Court in the country.
The perjury he was doing while testifying to Congress was also enough in my book as well as his beer outburst trying to respond to Klobuchar.
I especially love how this decision was 5-4 that the government has to honor a contract it signed, and the MAGA folks are upset that the government can’t simply scam everyone and everything.
In addition, I believe some if not all of the contacts in question were completed on the vendors side. This is an attempt at the biggest dine and dash in history.
Edit: sometimes my spelling is wrong when I swipe type
That’s correct. This was entirely to pay for work done before the Stop Work Order, with contracts already in place, money obligated and ready to go.
Dine and dash is the perfect comparison.
She’s turned out to be slightly better than I thought, almost as if she hasn’t completely sold her soul.
The first term justices were all from the pre-existing Federalist Society list. It was full of overly partisan, reliable conservative activist judges, but they were generally people who’d arrived at their positions through arguments that, while arising from shitty first assumptions, one could cogently follow and even appreciate some of the mental gymnastics. They were either nominally qualified or on their way to being so. Alito (aka Great Value Scalia) has arguably been worse than the Trump Three; in retrospect I would have happily taken our chances with Harriet Miers.
I guarantee that Trump’s list for this term is much, much worse. Frankly I would assume Aileen Cannon is at the top of it.
I’ll be honest, I am expecting an angry, armed J6er to off a SC Justice before Trump’s term ends, so Trump can appoint Matt Gaetz to that seat. But my money was on one of the liberals, not on ACB…
She was literally an unqualified DEI hire. If we ever have another dem president (not likely) they could fire her using mcdiaper’s executive order.
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Oh no. What if they kill each other.
