Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
"Granting a stay pending appeal should be an “extraordinary” act. Unfortunately, it appears the Government has treated this exceptional mechanism as a new normal. Historically, the Government has made this kind of request rarely; now it does so reflexively. Not long ago, the Court resisted the shortcut the Government now invites."
"To translate this paragraph a bit, a “stay pending appeal” is an order that suspends a lower court’s decision while the case is working its way through an appeals court."
"As Sotomayor notes, the Supreme Court rarely granted such stays in the past, and for good reason. Because the Supreme Court is the final word on any legal dispute, it typically likes to hang back for a while as lower court judges wrestle with new legal questions. A lower court decision will eventually work its way through the appeals process and can be reversed by the Supreme Court if it is wrong about the law."
"The Court historically has preferred to give lower court judges time to consider novel legal questions so that the justices can be informed by those judges’ opinions before the Supreme Court hands down a final word. Sotomayor’s warning is that her Court may no longer be exercising such caution — at least when the Trump administration comes knocking"
"A majority of the Supreme Court, in other words, appears to be sacrificing caution and care in favor of a process that makes it easier for the Trump administration to implement its policies."
"In less than three years, the Solicitor General has filed at least 20 applications for stays in the Supreme Court (including 10 during the October 2018 Term alone).”
"By contrast, during the 16 years of the George W. Bush and Obama Administrations, the Solicitor General filed a total of eight such applications — averaging one every other Term.”
"The Trump administration, in other words, is behaving as if the Court is its personal concierge service — and the Republican-controlled Supreme Court is doing little to disabuse the administration of this idea."
https://www.vox.com/2019/9/12/208623...t-favors-trump
I thought conservatives were all about judicial restraint, least that was supposedly one of their guiding principles up until 1/2017
I actually find it surprising that Justice Sotomayor could possibly be that naive to think the Trump appointees were actual Supreme Court Justices rather than the political tools that Trump wanted to "cover his back."
And the saddest figure in all of this is Roberts, who even once said that he didn't want his Court to be remembered in history as an obvious political partisan vehicle
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
Cinnabar (09-13-2019)
^pathetic pandering to partisanship.I actually find it surprising that Justice Sotomayor could possibly be that naive to think the Trump appointees were actual Supreme Court Justices rather than the political tools that Trump wanted to "cover his back."
Think exigent circumstances - 1,000,000+ illegals being apprehended per year
Bigdog (09-13-2019), Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
Like Ginsberg, Sotomayor is being UNETHICAL.
Trump works much harder than Obama and Bush. She needs to keep her mouth shut and try to keep up.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Gonzomin (09-14-2019)
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
Bigdog (09-13-2019), Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
How is authoring a dissent opinion "unethical?"
She is just highlighting the facts:
"In less than three years, the Solicitor General has filed at least 20 applications for stays in the Supreme Court (including 10 during the October 2018 Term alone). By contrast, during the 16 years of the George W. Bush and Obama Administrations, the Solicitor General filed a total of eight such applications — averaging one every other Term.”
How is she wrong "chiwawa?"
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
Rune (09-14-2019)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019), nolongertolerant (09-13-2019)
Excuse me, but Sotomayor was easily approved by a partisan Senate, and Ginsburg is recognized as a honorable Justice, can't say the same for Neil and especially Brett, who even Roberts had reservations about sitting on his Court. Facts Stotmayor revealed point out the obvious, their Trump's tools
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
Rune (09-14-2019)
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
a stay pending appeal should be a matter of course when the decision of the lower court is wrong........hasn't Trump won every appeal so far?......the last one was a 7-2 decision in his favor.....and one of the two was Ginsberg who's been dead for months.........
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Cancel 2020.2 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
Illiberal "judges" need not be taken seriously.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
cancel2 2022 (09-14-2019), Earl (09-14-2019)
The vote was 7 to 2, this wasn't even close. Pretending that this was just the two that were appointed by Trump is idiotic. If such were the case the vote would have been 7 to 2 in her favor.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
cancel2 2022 (09-14-2019), leaningright (09-13-2019)
Bigdog (09-14-2019)
Rune (09-14-2019)
Rune (09-14-2019)
After doing ‘extraordinary favors’ for abortion, gay marriage and Obamacare why should SCOTUS get out of the extraordinary favor business?
All of a sudden.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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