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| The Three Liberal SCOTUS Justices Are Stark Raving Mad |
| 2024-07-05 |
| [Powerline via Hot Air] Note that Sotomayor dishonestly fails to characterize the majority’s holding correctly. She claims that immunity attaches when the president "uses his official powers in any way," such as by ordering a political assassination. But obviously, ordering assassinations, pulling off military coups, and taking bribes are not "actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority." The president has no constitutional authority to order murders, carry out military coups or take bribes. On the contrary, murders and coups would be high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Constitution specifically calls out taking bribes as a ground for impeachment. Do these justices seriously think that if a future president were to carry out a political assassination, and the case were to come before this Court’s majority, they would say, "Yes, that is what we had in mind. Political assassination is A-OK!" Of course not. These three are not intellectual giants, but they can’t possibly be that stupid. The Democrats’ dissent is so dishonest, and so obviously a political rather than a judicial document, that it must sadden anyone who believes in the rule of law, and who has any respect for the Supreme Court as an institution. It was obviously intended to provide fodder to rile up Democratic voters so as to help Joe Biden (or whoever) win the 2024 election. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson should be ashamed of themselves, but it seems that on the Left, shame is an obsolete concept. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Funny... I don't hear them denouncing their own immunity - past and future. I'm pretty sure each of them had something bad happen as a result of one of their rulings in the past. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool In Texas 2024-07-05 14:34 |
| #8 I think they lack the kind of motivation required to be absolutely crazy. That said, they plainly aren't bright enough to do minimal research (cough, cough CLERKS) if for no other reason to not appear the public fool. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2024-07-05 12:55 |
| #7 ed, I'm not a constitutional scholar or anything, but I believe it was Marbury v Madison where the court gave itself the power of judicial review. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-07-05 12:38 |
| #6 The problem is, they're used to deciding things based on how they feel about it. That doesn't work in their current job. Someone needs to explain to them, the only reason that they have any authority at all is because the Constitution gives it to them. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-07-05 11:18 |
| #5 Sometimes Jackson acts sane and Barrett goes statist. It is a weird mix where even Roberts does something decent 30% of the time. Mostly the direction of the rulings is towards the good. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-07-05 09:43 |
| #4 ...looks south of the border. That's wisdom? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-07-05 09:18 |
| #3 You are just incapable of understanding the wisdom of a "Wise Latina". |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-07-05 08:57 |
| #2 jackson chosen by biden because of gender and skin color. biden is masochistic racist by his own admission. |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-07-05 08:13 |
| #1 Insanity and Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) share many of the same symptoms and are generally considered comorbidities. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-07-05 03:09 |