Unlike any other president in American history, Donald Trump faces both an utterly supine Congress and an utterly supine Supreme Court. Never before has either branch come close to defaulting so thoroughly in the performance of its constitutional duties as an independent branch of government as both have today. One would find more defiance—and more…
Tag: Amy Coney Barrett
Shorter John Roberts/Amy Coney Barrett: We’re not 24/7 whores! We’re Monday, Wednesday, Friday whores!
It’s true! The U.S. Supreme Court is definitely not Donald Trump’s personal gumball machine! In a small but genuine triumph for judicial modesty and common sense, only four of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court rolled over for His Donaldness, because the other two—namely Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney…
Is Amy Coney Barrett a damn FINO? (Fascist in name only) Or is she just, you know, a WOMAN!
A question, apparently, to be asked. The MAGAverse threw itself into a foamin’ at the mouth frenzy last week when Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with Chief Justice John Roberts and the “Unholy Three”, aka “the Bitches”—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson—to briefly check the Musk Trump administration’s attempt to claw…
Shorter John Roberts/Amy Coney Barrett: We’re not 24/7 whores! We’re Monday, Wednesday, Friday whores!
It’s true! The U.S. Supreme Court is definitely not Donald Trump’s personal gumball machine! In a small but genuine triumph for judicial modesty and common sense, only four of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court rolled over for His Donaldness, while the other, well, stood firm with the four Democrats on the Court,…
Amy Coney Barrett to her sisters: “Ladies, ladies, ladies! You shouldn’t call Chief Justice John Roberts a two-bit political whore just because he is one! That’s not polite!”
Well, indeed it isn’t, but it is quite apropos factually, which is sometimes supposed to count in legal matters. Both Mark Joseph Stern at Slate, The Supreme Court’s “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster, and Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy, Supreme Court rules for Trump in Section 3 disqualification case, are…