https://prospect.org/justice/2023-07-12-gorsuch-opinion-303-creative-dangerous/
The #corruptcourt is: drawn toward broad and dangerous specifications that can only be applied selectively to benefit claimants whom the judges happen to like. The same claim could be made against all #discrimination #laws.
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
#WhitePrivaledge #structural #racial #inequality
#RepublicansBackLosers
https://overcast.fm/+5wvnQfFKI
the #court does not expect us to agree with the #principles that are espoused in these #decisions, but they expect us to agree that these are principled decisions. And on the #shadowdocket, when most of these #rulings have no #explanation whatsoever, that really, really complicates the story, especially when, as we've seen over the last five or six years, the #pattern looks far more #nefarious.
#ShelbyCounty #VotingRightsAct
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
#CorruptEqualsConservative
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by law professor Stephen Vladeck, author of the new book, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. The Supreme Court has received a lot of attention in the last several years for its extreme rulings on matters such as abortion rights, environmental regulations, and affirmative action. But there’s another very important court procedure that doesn’t receive nearly as much attention: the aptly named “shadow docket.”These are the cases that occur outside of the court’s regular docket and usually involve urgent matters, such as requests for emergency stays, injunctions, and other types of temporary relief. These cases are often decided through brief orders, meaning without oral arguments, full written opinions, or even disclosing how the justices voted. But in recent years, the court has increasingly used the shadow docket to effectively leapfrog over the appeals court system on major…
https://newrepublic.com/article/173228/supreme-court-corrupt-its-conservative
Let’s call the #SupremeCourt what it is: an openly #corrupt institution whose #rightwing members are destroying its reputation because they simply do not care how the broader #public sees them.
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #extremist_group #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #corruptscotus
Over the years, his Horatio Alger friends have welcomed him at their vacation retreats, arranged V.I.P. access to sporting events and invited him to their lavish parties. In 2004, he joined celebrities including Oprah Winfrey and Ed McMahon at a three-day 70th birthday bash in Montana for the industrialist Dennis Washington. Several Horatio Alger friends also helped finance the marketing of a hagiographic documentary about the justice in the wake of an HBO film that had resurfaced Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against him during his confirmation.
#corruptscotus
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #extremist_group #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/leo-alito-court-curruption/
We are apparently expected to believe that Alito knew Paul Singer socially and vacationed with him—but never noticed any of the numerous newspaper articles about the billionaire.
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptscotus #extremist_group #TaxBillionaires
https://www.propublica.org/article/behind-scenes-alito-wall-street-journal-prebuttal-editorial
#Kleptocracy #mouthpiece: Bill Grueskin, professor of #journalism at Columbia, told the Times that the fact that Singer’s #SCOTUSVote “chose The Journal — and that the #editorial page was willing to serve as his loyal #factotum — says a great deal about the relationship between the two parties.”
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptscotus #extremist_group
Edward Blum owns #JohnRoberts: Not #talking about #race doesn’t erase #discrimination; it reinforces the #privileges of #white applicants by ignoring the ways in which deep-seeded #structural #racial #inequality impacts individuals.
#Fisher
#ShelbyCounty #VotingRightsAct
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
“If you were good friends, what were you doing ruling on his case?” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor and leading expert on recusals. “And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?” referring to the flight on the private jet.
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
#CorruptionBromance involving Singer, Alito, Leo: #Alito did not recuse himself from the case and voted with the 7-1 majority in Singer’s favor. The hedge fund was ultimately paid $2.4 billion.
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
Gladwyn d’Souza
