@heidilifeldman cc @jwz look man, I'm ready for two countries. Fuck SCOTUS. That's no longer the United States I believe in. I dissent... permanently. California should secede... anything else is utter cowardice at this point.
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@heidilifeldman the Civil War was a frozen conflict nobody won. Everyone lost with the possible exception of war industry oligarchs. And yeah, it's thawed.
Shareholder owned prisons equalized who can become a slave while the financial services industry restructured endentured servitude as the default for all but the intergenerationaly wealth. Sharecropping with a cellphone.
@heidilifeldman Perhaps a better name for the country would be something like „The Biblical Patriarchy of the Confederate States of Apartheid America“ which I'm sure Musk & Thiel would adore. They might even want to induct Jan Smuts, Daniël François Malan and Ian Smith into the ranks of „founding fathers,“ which I'm sure they can bribe/lobby into reality. (Do usanians have any idea how cultish the „founding fathers“ talk sounds to the rest of the world?)
@heidilifeldman This is beyond heartbreaking. In other news-
May 4 is Liberation Day for many European countries. A celebration of defeating the Nazis not so long ago.
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This thread is powerful poetry. Thank you.
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Supreme Court basically ruling in favor of canceling an election. They might call it "postponing" but with courts like this, how could they be motivated to start the elections up again?
On the heels of the awful substantive Supreme Court ruling and opinion in _Callais_, Louisiana’s governor sought to cancel an ongoing election, House primaries, which had begun before the decision was handed down. He ordered cancellation even before the Callais judgment was made final, “certified”. There is a Supreme Court rule which delays certification for 32 days, allowing time for a party to request rehearing. 2/
There are almost no times when the Supreme Court has not followed this rule. But the Callais plaintiffs applied to the Court to have the judgment certified right now and tonight the Court ordered this to happen, trying to quash ongoing lawsuits filed to prevent Louisiana’s governor from cancelling the election, a result in no way required by Callais itself. 3/
@heidilifeldman They make me nauseous. Unconscionable.
All of this has happened on the shadow docket. So the Roberts Court has ok’d election cancellation without merits briefing, oral argument, etc.
This would be extraordinary and pernicious enough. But because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and pointed out how exceptional and dangerous the Court’s order is, Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, wrote an opinion basically calling her uppity. 4/
@heidilifeldman Sean Casten had some interesting recommendations for things Congress could do now if it flips for the midterms that sounded to me like a strong platform for Democrats, namely using the power of the purse to refuse to fund the court in various ways until they institute serious ethical reforms and get rid of the shadow docket. It’s not the long-term fix that will take time to accomplish, but it IS using Congress as a check on a run-away SCOTUS.
@heidilifeldman Most of SCOTUS needs to be fumigated like the "vermin" they are.
You can read the order, opinion, and dissent at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a1197_097c.pdf.
You may want to read Jackson’s dissent, the second document in the file first. 5/
