The Supreme Court

[Ragnarök_62]

Eric The Green Wrote:That's why the Supreme Court is on the ballot this November. I suspect Clarence Thomas will resign, and Hillary, if she wins, will appoint a liberal successor to him. Perhaps another A-American.

Another?  Hmmm... So there was an Ameridian American on the Supreme court in the past ?  

So yeah,  if where there's identity politics, I'll go along with a "It's Mr. it's my turn, Rags".

[Eric the Green]

Mostly Kennedy has gone along with the conservatives; that's why most decisions since Scalia died have been 4-4 stalemates.

[Anthony '58]

It is so awesome that we are at last ringing the curtain down on the sex-based Culture Wars.

It will now be a lot harder for the right to make the case for the white working poor to vote against their economic interests in favor of voting for their "values."

[Dan '82]

Why the Court is about to get more ideological one way or another.

https://newrepublic.com/article/134918/o...reme-court

Quote:The last week of the Supreme Court’s last full term of the Obama era was a microcosm of his administration’s relationship with the Roberts Court. The decisions handed down certainly did not represent an unmitigated victory for the White House. In a one-sentence opinion, the Supreme Court left in place a lower court ruling that the president’s DAPA immigration program—which aimed to defer the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants—was illegal, meaning that it will almost certainly not be implemented before President Obama leaves office. Still, the news from what is now an eight-member Court was good. A surprising majority opinion upheld the University of Texas’s affirmative action program, and a somewhat less surprising majority opinion struck down Texas’s draconian abortion statute. Given that the Court lacks a majority of Democratic nominees, the week went about as well as Obama could have expected...


https://newrepublic.com/article/134918/o...reme-court