• @[email protected]
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    398 months ago

    You can tell they are pissed they even have to do this.

    And you could practically see that Thomas popped a chubby when he was called Chief Justice by mistake.

    • Flying Squid
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      188 months ago

      Wait, Clarence Thomas said something? Maybe I should have listened to catch that rarity.

      • @[email protected]
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        428 months ago

        Hes said a couple things lol.

        Also it seems they don’t want to find him ineligible because that means they will have to do more work instead of vacations at billionaire retreats.

        • Flying Squid
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          218 months ago

          Isn’t that the general gist of most of their decisions?

          • @[email protected]
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            418 months ago

            Pretty much. They keep circling back to “Well, he might have committed insurrection, but if we find him guilty, republican states said they will declare Biden committed insurrection and we will have to litigate that over and over.” So they are scared of literally enforcing the law because of threats.

            • Melkath
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              238 months ago

              “If we seek justice, then the other side will lie, and we are corrupt, so while we don’t want to uphold justice, we will try to uphold the lie.”

            • memfree
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              38 months ago

              republican states said they will declare Biden committed insurrection

              Great! All they have to do is point to the live coverage of Biden calling for his supporters to gather in Washington (“It’s going to be wild!”), telling them to “Fight like hell”, and directing them to march on the Capitol.

              Hey Court, don’t ya think pretty much anyone doing that stuff SHOULD be banned from holding office?

              If you are arguing that Republicans would claim lesser, stupid crap (“he vetoed a bill”, “he stood with union members”, “he asked for a recount”) is the same as insurrection, we want the lower courts to test such claims and make that a hard row to mow.

            • @[email protected]
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              38 months ago

              I was thinking about that today… we’ve reached a point in the US where “fear is speech,” but then I recognized I’m white, so it’s only new to me.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 months ago

        His decade+ of silence ended years ago. Now he has a sugar daddy and he does what he’s told.

        • @Evilcoleslaw
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          58 months ago

          It ended basically as soon as they had a conservative majority locked in. Now he doesn’t need to nap anymore.