SCOTUS ruling upholds access to the abortion drug mifepristone. It sounds like they tossed the case due to lack of standing of the plaintiff, not particularly on the notion that the drug must be protected or allowed. I saw it accurately described this way: "The opinion does not prevent extreme Republicans from passing a law to ban mifepristone, nor does it prevent a future Court challenge that has standing."
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I agree with your assessment, and I don't think it should be banned.
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Biden is slapped down again for trying to go against the Constitution. He must really hate the Constitution.
Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks' ban is unlawful
Story by Lawrence Hurley • 15m
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supre ... r-BB1oejK1
Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks' ban is unlawful
Story by Lawrence Hurley • 15m
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supre ... r-BB1oejK1
WASHINGTON — In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that federal ban on “bump stocks,” gun accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly, is unlawful.
In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines with the court's conservatives in the majority, the court held that an almost 100-year-old law aimed at banning machine guns cannot legitimately be interpreted to include bump stocks.
Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said that a firearm equipped with the accessory does not meet the definition of "machinegun" under federal law.
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Not too surprising that SCOTUS ruled that way, but thanks for sharing the link about it.
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Yeah, these aren’t machine guns. These are regular assault rifles without the automatic part. People buy a bump stock that makes them fire automatically just like machine guns. The Supreme Court said just because they fire just like a machine gun doesn’t mean they are machine guns. Makes total sense. All those Constitution hating people that don’t like mass shootings makes me sick.
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Justice Alito neighbor says secret tapes prove he lied about flags
https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-alit ... yDhRbW6r0u
Mary-Ann Alito was caught on tape in blunt remarks captured by a liberal advocate posing as a conservative judicial activist.
The jurist’s wife is captured admitting that she uses provocative public flags to send what she hopes are powerful right-wing messages to anyone who cares to look.
“I had to look across the lagoon at a pride flag (so) I’m going to send them a message every day. Maybe every week i’ll be changing the flag,” Martha-Ann Alito said, apparently referring to the so-called Appeal to Heaven flag she erected at their vacation home.
Her explanation is hard to square with Samuel Alito’s claim in a letter to Congress that his wife did not even know the flags’ political significance and was not trying to make any political statement by hoisting them.
Justice Alito asserted that he demanded his wife take down the upside-down flag in the weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but did not explain why he did that if the couple didn’t know its meaning.
Critics say the upside-down flag at the Alitos’ home shows his support for former President Donald Trump and raises questions about his impartiality as a jurist. They say Alito should recuse himself from hearing Jan. 6-related cases.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-alit ... yDhRbW6r0u
Mary-Ann Alito was caught on tape in blunt remarks captured by a liberal advocate posing as a conservative judicial activist.
The jurist’s wife is captured admitting that she uses provocative public flags to send what she hopes are powerful right-wing messages to anyone who cares to look.
“I had to look across the lagoon at a pride flag (so) I’m going to send them a message every day. Maybe every week i’ll be changing the flag,” Martha-Ann Alito said, apparently referring to the so-called Appeal to Heaven flag she erected at their vacation home.
Her explanation is hard to square with Samuel Alito’s claim in a letter to Congress that his wife did not even know the flags’ political significance and was not trying to make any political statement by hoisting them.
Justice Alito asserted that he demanded his wife take down the upside-down flag in the weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but did not explain why he did that if the couple didn’t know its meaning.
Critics say the upside-down flag at the Alitos’ home shows his support for former President Donald Trump and raises questions about his impartiality as a jurist. They say Alito should recuse himself from hearing Jan. 6-related cases.
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OMG!!! She's using semaphore messaging! We are all doomed! It's treasonous!
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I think they are trying to say the Alito household is ultra partisan like the Thomas household. No law against that really. There is a rule that Supreme Court Judges are supposed to at least pretend to be non partisan I think. Ultra partisan US was relying on its super honorable Supreme Court to always vote non partisan. I think most of America can see just how partisan and bribed they seem to be and the Supreme Court seems to be ok with it I guess.
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Here's the problem I have about this. We know that there are also hyper-partisan justices on the other side. Does anyone think differently? Why aren't you calling them out? Why only the other side?
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I read all the articles detailing Thomas and Alito’s escapades. I am pretty sure stuff happens like that on the other side. I just haven’t read about it.
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I already spoke to this a few pages ago in this thread. It isn't that they are partisan; it's that they (Alito/Thomas) are (a) unable to comport themselves in a way that gives the slightest hint that they will evaluate cases fairly; and (b) corrupt.
There's a big difference between "tends to rule on cases in a more liberal / conservative way" and "openly takes millions of dollars of bribes from Republican megadoners" or "flies Trump flags at his house during an attempted coup."
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Oh, so if you control your wife or you hide it, even though everyone knows you are partisan and talk about it to many groups, you are fine? So many unwritten rules...Mori Chu wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 7:20 amI already spoke to this a few pages ago in this thread. It isn't that they are partisan; it's that they (Alito/Thomas) are (a) unable to comport themselves in a way that gives the slightest hint that they will evaluate cases fairly; and (b) corrupt.
There's a big difference between "tends to rule on cases in a more liberal / conservative way" and "openly takes millions of dollars of bribes from Republican megadoners" or "flies Trump flags at his house during an attempted coup."
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I haven’t seen any reports of Progressive judges taking bribes, intentionally displaying their partisanship to the masses or their spouses joining super partisan groups that try to overturn elections.
Maybe they are there and I just haven’t seen them. In my experience, if there was anything there, Maga would have sniffed it out by now or at least made up a few fake stories.
Maybe they are there and I just haven’t seen them. In my experience, if there was anything there, Maga would have sniffed it out by now or at least made up a few fake stories.
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They should have a strict code of ethics and should follow it. But the conservative justices refuse. I am not sure there's anything we can do other than pack the court.
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Really? Do you know the code of ethics that you are speaking of? Can you post them here? I want to see which codes they are violating.
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I said they *should* have a code of ethics. They should create one. Not that they already have one and are in violation of it.
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Taking gifts from cases you work should be a minimum and common sense, one would think.
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They do have a code of ethics, freshly written November 13, 2023 and enforceable by the Supreme Court.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/Code ... 3_2023.pdf
The Court has long had the equivalent of common law ethics rules, that is, a body of rules derived from a variety of sources, including statutory provisions, the code that applies to other members of the federal judiciary, ethics advisory opinions issued by the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct, and historic practice.
The rules that apply to ALL other Federal employees says you are NOT allowed to accept any gift over $20 and even that is not recommended. Accepting Winnebago’s, houses, expensive vacations and tuition for your relatives definitely goes over that $20 threshold that they supposedly adhere to. There is no conceivable way I can think of where Thomas wouldn’t be aware that what he was doing was really really wrong. His excuse seems to be that he was told by other members of the Supreme Court that is was ok. Also he mentioned that Supreme Court justices are paid a really bad salary that is hard to live off. I agree. How could any American survive off of only $300,000 a year?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/Code ... 3_2023.pdf
The Court has long had the equivalent of common law ethics rules, that is, a body of rules derived from a variety of sources, including statutory provisions, the code that applies to other members of the federal judiciary, ethics advisory opinions issued by the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct, and historic practice.
The rules that apply to ALL other Federal employees says you are NOT allowed to accept any gift over $20 and even that is not recommended. Accepting Winnebago’s, houses, expensive vacations and tuition for your relatives definitely goes over that $20 threshold that they supposedly adhere to. There is no conceivable way I can think of where Thomas wouldn’t be aware that what he was doing was really really wrong. His excuse seems to be that he was told by other members of the Supreme Court that is was ok. Also he mentioned that Supreme Court justices are paid a really bad salary that is hard to live off. I agree. How could any American survive off of only $300,000 a year?
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You need to contact your lawyer and go ahead and sue them for violating these rules. You would do the country a favor and be a hero, no?
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Nobody can touch a Supreme Court justice. An army of lawyers could do nothing no matter what any justice does. That’s the whole point. They can do whatever they want. Accept as many bribes as they want and are untouchable. Maybe the Progressive justices will get jealous of Thomas and say since it’s ok, maybe I should get in on the action. I could use a new house and a winnebago.
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