Robert ReichJul 1, 2024

Alito & Thomas violated SCOTUS' "code of ethics," which requires them to recuse from cases with even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Alito flew 2 insurrectionist flags.

Thomas' wife tried to overturn the election.

If that's not the appearance of conflict, what is?

Show threadSoliyra (she/they)Jul 1, 2024
@rbreich and if they don't, then what?
Show threadA HotdogJul 1, 2024
@moonlitfractal @rbreich apparently @potus can just arrest them and hold them indefinitely. Sounds like an official act.
Show threadSoliyra (she/they)Jul 1, 2024
@Hotdog @rbreich @potus That's what POTUS can do. What can we do?
Show threadJayJul 1, 2024
@moonlitfractal @Hotdog @rbreich @potus Keep Trump out of the Oval is the short term goal, because while Biden is unlikely to abuse this new power, Trump absolutely would.
Show threadSoliyra (she/they)Jul 1, 2024
@WhiteCatTamer @Hotdog @rbreich @potus so that's the best we can do? Can't get them out of office, can't expand the court, just make it so it gets worse more slowly?
Show threadSoliyra (she/they)

@WhiteCatTamer @Hotdog @rbreich @potus

Even with trimp not in office these rulings are going to keep happening and they're going to keep ruining and taking lives.

Jul 1, 2024 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadJayJul 1, 2024

@moonlitfractal @Hotdog @rbreich @potus Past: This is why SCOTUS is so goddamn important and so it must be part of any one person’s voting calculus, not just the individual candidate.

Present: You can’t make any progress with a newly crowned Trump on the throne.

Future: Given Alito and Thomas’ age, we don’t know that the deck is stacked forever in a 6-3, but it will be if Trump gets in and those two happily step down.

Show threadMartin ClausenJul 1, 2024
@WhiteCatTamer @moonlitfractal @Hotdog @rbreich @potus Why the f does no American get that the fact that it is important who is on the Supreme Court is the f-iking problem.
Show threadA HotdogJul 1, 2024
@MartinClausen @WhiteCatTamer @moonlitfractal @rbreich @potus We understand. There was only 1 critical moment, and it was in 2016, and Putin and the billionaires and the religious nuts got a victory. Everything was locked in then. Nothing in the following 8 years could change what was going to happen.
Show threadMartin ClausenJul 1, 2024
@Hotdog @WhiteCatTamer @moonlitfractal @rbreich @potus The system was broken long before that. The crenellated nature of the common law system coupled with a ultra politicized nomination and confirmation process is a recipe for disaster. How do you see a court creating critical law for ages and not fix it? A court is supposed to apply and interpret, not create.
Show threadA HotdogJul 1, 2024
@MartinClausen you’re gonna have to take it up with the Marbury vs Madison court.
Show threadMartin ClausenJul 1, 2024
@Hotdog I will give them a call 🙂