Likely SCOTUS decision day at 10 am

Seems bad for Trump on the Jan 6 matter.

 

The scary thing is that it wasn't a unanimous 9-0 decision. Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch are right wing freaks.

 

Kavanaugh is like Roberts. Both recognize that if they're perceived as too extreme, they'll lose power. The game is to give the other side a win now and then, but leave enough slack in the decision that they can rule for Republicans later when it suits them.

 

Anyone think that Clarence Thomas should have recused himself from participating in the Moore v. Harper case considering that Ginni Thomas was a big supporter of the independent state legislature theory?
From a year ago.
https://www.courthousenews.com/ginn...ose-electors-could-be-advanced-by-high-court/
Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show
From six months ago.

 

He needs to watch the 50 shades trilogy.

 

What is remarkable it that any justice would retreat from Marbury. This is a core principle that was decided long ago. It was not a liberal or conservative issue. Any other ruling would open the door to gutting bedrock principles of Judicial review.

 

To be just a little fair to them, because I generally agree with you, I thought I read that most of their dissent was based on the case before the court now being moot based on the actions of the North Carolina Supreme Court?

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/sup...-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html
Race can’t be considered for admission at public schools.

 

Looks like it was right down partisan lines. I haven’t read the arguments, but I think I can anticipate some valid reasons for this decision.

 

Asian families everywhere in America are celebrating.

 

That was one of my first thoughts on this as well. For all the understandable angst about what this means for minorities, whites will get hit by this too. And if a majority of top schools’ students are now disproportionately Asian for example, so be it. If white america wakes up in a few years and doesn’t like it, compete harder for those spots.

 

In a 2003 case supporting racial preferences, Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion and stated "we expect in 25 years that the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary". Apparently a couple years short of that she still thinks we need it.

 

I don’t remember who wrote the majority in Grutter, but Sotomayor wasn’t even on the court then.