With the current Supreme Court term coming to an end soon, there is growing speculation that 76-year-old Justice Sam Alito may step down from the seat he has held for 20 years, and that is leading to some under-the-radar maneuvering.
According to the Washington Post, Alito is widely considered the justice [most likely to step down, with observers pointing to his age, the release of his first book, and the November midterm elections as potential motivators due to Republican fears of losing control of the Senate.
“It’s too close to the election to appoint his replacement”. Remember that dems, don’t shit the bed on this one…
The Dems are in the minority in the Senate. That’s the whole reason why Alito would retire before the midterms, while Repubs still have the majority and have the votes to confirm a replacement.
They must be worried Dems could win the majority in the midterms and would then take control in January and be able to stop a replacement if he waits until then to retire.
Yeah. Make that letter very sternly worded.
They will shit the bed. Make no mistake.
– the dems
Chuck will hit em with his patented glower, then ca-bitch-ulate.
Does it matter?
The Dems can’t filibuster for the supreme court.
Providing there’s a Republican majority there’s literally nothing they can do to stop it.
I mean there might be ways. Probably illegal though.
Literally nothing?
Fuck right off. You have a whole amendment about.
Calm down Rambo, the second amendment’s only good for two things.
- Making it easy for kids to shoot up a school.
- Sitting there with your thumb up your arse and convincing yourself that your rights can’t be taken away so long as you’ve got a gun.
The only person that almost managed an insurrection was president at the time.
You deserve whatever MAGA decides to give you.
Watch how Trump nominates himself, gets the nomination confirmed, and gets to have two votes because he is president.
Justice Eileen Cannon incoming… and Senator Fecalman with the assist.
Please, pretty please can we Supreme Court Justice Kid Rock. Let’s just abosuletly confirm that SCOTUS is just a circus.
The text of “Bawitdaba” as a ruling would be more legible and have more basis in law than nearly 100% of their recent rulings.
Justice Candace Owens to “prove” they’re “not racist”
Fuck it. Sec of State MyPillow Guy, Treasury Secretary the Corpse of Charlie Kirk. And once they’re good and embedded; somehow, Epstein returned…
Just for what passes for fun in this hellscape, who would be worse: Justice Eileen Cannon, or Justice Alina Habba?
I don’t know about Cannon, she has enough wit to at least write coherent if corrupt decisions; but at best Alina Habba is a hack with mediocre legal skills who would get eaten for breakfast on the first day. Even the losers on this court are able attorneys, many (most?) with an encyclopedic knowledge of the law or close to it.
Cannon could easily become another Thomas, adequate, with just enough skill to sit there and hold a line for whoever pays him enough. So I’d say get Habba up there, just because I’d like to see her crash and burn, repeatedly shamed by peers with actual legal experience and skill. Trump judges legal acumen with his eyes, but SCOTUS isn’t going to give a shit what her legs look like when she can’t even turn in a coherent opinion, or worse. If she were to be allowed to throw out dogshit opinions, the court would lose its legitimacy in the eyes of many of the judges across the country who look to it for guidance and decisions. This may already be happening, but an appointment like Habba would speedrun the process.
That would be a fucking nightmare and I would believe it. Since she helped him out of the Jack Smith prosecution.
This feels kinda bold to me. Like yea Republicans might go for his replacement but Trump burned at least 2 senators who are there until next year and more than a few others who are retiring. Some in the GOP seem to suddenly find their spines when no longer in power so weird chance this backfires.
Also it feels like it would 100% fire up the opposition if they force through another justice like this. But Dems never cease to amaze me in their ability to fail when everything is stacked in their favour.
It would be hilarious if Mitch somehow uses the last of his remaining energy to ratfuck this for spite. It won’t happen but I like the idea of it
Supreme Court Justices should be elected by the people! As of now, they’re all illegitimate!
I can name a few that are basically fine, but I can just agree instead, let’s flush that toilet once and for all.
