tw: politics

Today I learned that, since April, the Supreme Court of the United States has sided with Trump in all 15 rulings it has issued on the President’s emergency requests. Of those 15 rulings, the court has only written 3 majority opinions. 7 have come with no explanation at all.

I don’t have to convince anyone here of what’s going on in America, obvs. I just wanted to share because this fact surprised me. I didn’t realize that they weren’t even justifying their decisions, which normally they do.

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Turtle man was going to stack the court one way or another, but she didn’t help.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        Even if she had retired on the first day of his second term, turtleboi would have found a way to burn the clock down somehow. I will never underestimate the amount of sketchy back room bullshit he will pull to fuck things up.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      How so? The decisions that are coming down are all 6-3. 5-4 decisions are just as binding as 6-3 ones.

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      Mitch McConnell failed to let Obama select a justice in 2016. That same Congress was there since 2014, so she would have had to retire over 6 years early. She also would have had to predict that our government system would have fallen apart and all the normal checks and balances were removed. So sure it might have been better if she retired in 2010 but she left one hell of a legacy and the people that should be getting blamed are people like Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, Elon musk, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, that info wars fuck head whose name I can’t remember, and everyone else whose actions were only negative instead of a person whose only flaw was she didn’t quit her job early.

      Also I realize this was a joke but I still got to stand against any RBG slander as she was a G