Samuel Alito’s Resentment Goes Full Tilt on a Black Day for the Court – The associate justice’s logic on display at the Trump immunity hearing was beyond belief. He’s at the center of one of the darkest days in Supreme Court history.
https://newrepublic.com/post/181023/samuel-alito-trump-immunity-black-day-supreme-court
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Alito is a national danger.
gotta protect the people who bought you
Yeah… Law schools and any history course need to start teaching the next generation about the morally bankrupt, corrupt crap we have now… Be fully honest. There is no reason to pretend that these folks should be respected at this point. They are a laughing stock in the face of history.
Anyone post their addresses online yet??
So let me get this straight. Some are appealing to “original intent” to argue that; the determining factor as to whether or not the President can go on a legal crime spree [who can also pardon those enabling these actions] is whether or not they have a 1-vote majority in a *single* legislative branch to impeach? Which, mind you, is held to a lesser regard than the 2/3rds majority required for cloture?
The lines of questioning from all the rightie justices with the exception of Barrett were totally unhinged. It was all grievance from a bunch of bozos who worked in republican administrations. I’m expecting some equally unhinged opinions and a bizarre ruling that somehow gives Trump a bunch of immunity but denies it to Biden.
I always thought he was very low IQ but was lucky enough to do well in life. But actually he is evil.
If Biden gets the presidency, has the house and senate I don’t see how he wouldn’t expand the Supreme Court! At this point they’re not even trying to hide their bias
Impeach him.
If the supreme Court really is corrupt enough that it finds that Trump had immunity as president, then Biden should immediately dissolve the supreme Court in the best interests of the country and re-establish it without The corrupt Federalist society assets on it.
>Alito throws all that democratic history out the window and treats Trump as the new normal, assuming that the American future is ineluctably strewn with a series of lawless Trumps.
It’s because he’s been breathing his own and the Heritage Foundations’ farts for so long it smells normal to him. He thinks he’s right. He knows he’s right. He’s like a prequel-directing George Lucas who’s so full of himself that only “yes-men” surround him and love the smell of his farts too!
Corruption is king to these out-of-touch, purchased, billionaire-beholden pieces of trash.
Am very sure the founding fathers that wrote the Constitution never imagined a court bought by special interests allowing a facist take over of their country
Chutkan halting this case is a historic mistake. She should have trucked on, let the SC step in which would force their hand to come up with a judgement more quickly. This is so lame.
They wanted a king
“An incumbent who can kill off a challenger without consequence as part of ‘official duties’ will scare off all other challengers — and ensure the hereditary monarchy that the founders expressly sought to avoid.”
— What Alito should have said had he any kind of ethics to shake off the zillionaire handlers
He knows only magas will try all the illegal shit lil don did, and they want the 2025 plan so bad, which any maga will try implement, so he wants them protected for whatever they do.
Pack the court now
Disgusting pig
Something that I’ve been wondering more and more. Why are these Judges so willing to cover up for Trump? Why are they willing to tarnish (or further tarnish) their names and legacies over a man like Trump who has shown time and time again the only person he cares about is himself?
They have to understand that the logical conclusion of what they are proposing is that Biden can order their and Trump’s assassination.
The man literally walked into the court under the words, “Equal justice under the law” etched into marble. I didn’t see any asterisks for that not applying to Republican presidents.
Biden should just off this mf right now then ffs
So, if SCOTUS rules sitting POTUS has full immunity, Biden should use that lol.
>Let’s look to something I’d have thought lawyers and judges took seriously: historical evidence. American democracy has existed for nigh on 250 years, and power has been transferred from a president to his successor a grand total of 40 times (not counting deaths in office). On 11 occasions, a challenger has defeated a sitting incumbent—that is, a situation that creates the potential for some particularly bitter and messy post-election shenanigans.
>**But what does the record show? It shows, of course, that there is only one case out of the overall 40, and one case out of the more narrowly defined 11, in all of U.S. history where anything abnormal and non-peaceful happened. That, of course, was 2020.**
>And there was a lot of bad blood in previous transfers of power. You think John Adams loved the idea of handing power to Thomas Jefferson? John Quincy Adams was popping champagne to turn things over to Andrew Jackson? Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, who traded wins, weren’t bitter in defeat? These people couldn’t stand each other. But they did what custom required—a custom never questioned by anyone until Trump came along.
We all see this, why has it made it this far unless the United States Supreme Court is against democracy and is courting (pun intended) the governments of our enemies?
I personally felt super patriotic most of my life until 2016. I still have some pride, like caring for the flag, supporting troops. But all this shit the republicans and Trump have turned our nation into is disgraceful and disgusting. It’s shit I learned was wrong and traitorous in fucking fifth grade social studies in Texas of all fucking states.
Yesterday the Supreme Court really showed it’s the lair of criminals. I feel like everything else that’s been done by Trump and his followers pales in comparison to what the Supreme Court displayed in the case. I am a viewer from the other side of the pond, but in my humbleness, it worries me that a large majority of the American people are indifferent to this desolate show and that the media flies over these events, downplaying their breadth.
Zero respect for SCOTUS. None.
Why does Biden, who clearly has more power, not simply eat this Donald Trump?
I will be dancing in the streets the day that it’s announced that Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas or Donald Trump have died. I’m throwing a fucking party actually. If we’re not in the midst of a civil war before then.
The SCOTUS continues to be illegitimate, and puppeteering for the federalist society with their bought partisan hacks.