Slate shows that the originalist claims the Founders would want domestic abusers to keep their guns underestimate the scope of the Founding Fathers’ reasoning.
A judge in New Jersey struck down a ban on guns near schools.
Contrary to right-wing media no, the courts did not give Hunter Biden a sweetheart deal.
Wyoming banned abortion pills. A judge says not so fast.
A judge in Oklahoma tossed out state abortion bans.
Ron DeSantis is suing the college accreditation agencies because (I gather) their standards might not mesh with the right-wing dystopia he wants to make from college education in Florida.
Alex Jones continues using the bankruptcy system to thwart his creditors.
Retailers think the court system is too soft on shoplifting, but there’s no evidence criminal-justice reforms are to blame.
The NRA thinks there’s a better solution to mass shootings than guns: imprison the mentally ill. Okay, “thinks” is probably not the word, I’m sure they know that’s bullshit.
One of the J6 seditionists wanted a minimum security prison stay for his 4.5 year sentence. Too bad, so sad.
An atheist organization got Mississippi to stop requiring “In god we trust” on license plates.
The twentieth century saw Japanese Americans locked up, black Americans segregated, and previous centuries saw slavery. Nevertheless Neil Gorsuch thinks government covid restrictions are the worst rights violation we’ve ever seen.
DeSantis promises a way more conservative SCOTUS than Trump gave us.
“The current Supreme Court represents a coalition that has burrowed itself into the judiciary in the hope that it can reshape the political order by judicial fiat even as it loses at the ballot box. ”
“A judge dismissed Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers’ restraining order against a reporter Wednesday, saying that the investigative journalist’s conduct did not rise to the level of harassment.”
“Even though Samuel Alito is a Supreme Court justice with lifetime tenure and all the power that position entails, he still wants more. The justice seems to believe that he and the court are so thoroughly supreme that they must be free of even a whiff of public criticism. Alito demands perpetual public and professional affirmation — a safe space, if you will, where he is protected from micro-aggressions, bathed in praise and consistently depicted as reasonable and judicious regardless of whether he actually is. And when his reception falls short of that, he lashes out at his critics no matter who they are.”
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a website designer who didn’t want to make websites for gay marriages — except nobody asked her to. This is significant because “somebody some day might want me to do something that goes against my conscience” is not grounds for a lawsuit; the court isn’t supposed to design hypotheticals. LGM points out the convoluted logic.
Then there’s affirmative action. As Hilzoy points out, just being in a high school where the counselors don’t give good college advice is a significant handicap, but not to SCOTUS. Oh, and in defending the discussion, John Roberts declares the Civil War was fought to end racism. Um, no. Clarence Thomas isn’t much better.
I’ll close with one of the few cases where I’m solidly with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Colorado resident Billy Counterman sent multiple harassing messages to an unidentified musician, including “Die. Don’t need you.” and opening new accounts when she blocked existing ones. On a 7-2 vote the Supreme Court decided he shouldn’t have been found guilty because we can’t be sure he knew he came off as threatening. WTF? Thomas, with his general distaste for freedom of speech, was one dissenter; Barrett was the other, writing “He knew what the words meant. Those threats caused the victim to fear for her life, and they ‘upended her daily existence.’ Nonetheless, the court concludes that Counterman can prevail on a First Amendment defense. Nothing in the Constitution compels that result.”
The “Brennan” in your final paragraph should, I think, be “Barrett”.
Yep. Thanks, fixed in a sec.