Roberts and Kavanaugh outright stated that it doesn't make sense for the individual mandate to be non-separable. So should be safe on the whole destroying the entire ACA on a flimsy pretext thing.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
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That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
It's good, because the argument Texas was making was this:
1) Health care advocates say the law doesn't work as intended without a mandate
2) Roberts previously ruled the mandate was fine because it was a tax
3) Congress zeroed out the tax and isn't a tax you don't pay anymore not really a tax?
4) Therefore the individual mandate is unconsitutional.
5) Therefore since the law doesn't work without it, the whole law has to go.
Note that this argument is essentially "when Congress didn't repeal the whole law, they actually repealed the whole law."
The counterarguments to this are twofold and pretty obvious:
1) Congress didn't repeal the whole law, so they definitely didn't mean to do so when they zeroed out the penalty for not having coverage.
2) The advocates argument' was a matter of policy effectiveness, not a matter of law.
3) Therefore, if you rule the individual mandate unconstitutional since it's not a tax anymore, you can just invalidate that part of the law and keep all the other stuff (Medicaid expansion, pre-existing conditions coverage, etc)
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
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I do not think for a second that Roberts and Gorsuch will let Trump's idiot brigade make them clowns, I think they will save Trump in a method that's constitutional only if you squint at it from a distance, but I don't think they'll do so unless Trump's legal team displays some basic fucking competence
trying to turn the aca ruling into some bullshit about vote counting I feel like will rub Roberts the wrong way for sure and Gorsuch probably
I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
The rub is that normally those laws specify that the clauses are severable. The authors of the ACA messed up. I hope it doesn't matter. My small-time apartment lease even has a clause in it that if any provision falls, it is severable and the other ones continue to apply.
Interestingly questions of standing can tie into this. SCOTUS might decide that if plaintiffs have standing on some clauses but not others, that a successful challenge will only invalidate those clauses where you do have standing. Severability due to standing or lack thereof, so to speak.
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I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
The rub is that normally those laws specify that the clauses are severable. The authors of the ACA messed up. I hope it doesn't matter. My small-time apartment lease even has a clause in it that if any provision falls, it is severable and the other ones continue to apply.
Interestingly questions of standing can tie into this. SCOTUS might decide that if plaintiffs have standing on some clauses but not others, that a successful challenge will only invalidate those clauses where you do have standing. Severability due to standing or lack thereof, so to speak.
Honestly, I've never understood those severability clauses. It seems like whether a clause is severable depends on the clause and the law and such. You can't make something severable by sticking a clause at the end if it results in a nonsense outcome, and not having a clause shouldn't make completely separate things not severable. Severability doctrine predates those clauses, and they seem like boilerplate and shouldn't be given any weight imo if they're just stuck on everything.
I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
My little elliptical comment was actually echoed by Justice Roberts. That's weird.
"I think it's hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act," Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law.
"I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that's not our job," Roberts added.
I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
My little elliptical comment was actually echoed by Justice Roberts. That's weird.
"I think it's hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act," Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law.
"I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that's not our job," Roberts added.
I swear, I'm almost starting to like Robert's. I mean I know at his core he's a POS conservative like the rest of them, but he actually has values he believes in. Not to mention ever since he took over as chief justice he's been bending over backwards to try and maintain a semblance of law and dignity. Now if only Alito & Thomas could retire in the next couple of years...
I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
My little elliptical comment was actually echoed by Justice Roberts. That's weird.
"I think it's hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act," Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law.
"I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that's not our job," Roberts added.
I swear, I'm almost starting to like Robert's. I mean I know at his core he's a POS conservative like the rest of them, but he actually has values he believes in. Not to mention ever since he took over as chief justice he's been bending over backwards to try and maintain a semblance of law and dignity. Now if only Alito & Thomas could retire in the next couple of years...
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Roberts isn't our friend
it's just not a sure thing he'll do the wrong thing
Yeah, Roberts' main thing is that there still be a country that still considers the SCOTUS a legitimate and final arbiter of... anything. Everything else is negotiable.
Because if everyone stops caring what they think and say, he's just one old man sitting on a bench with some other people.
I don’t l ow if that’s good or bad and those are earnest or sarcastic awesomes
That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
My little elliptical comment was actually echoed by Justice Roberts. That's weird.
"I think it's hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act," Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law.
"I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that's not our job," Roberts added.
I swear, I'm almost starting to like Robert's. I mean I know at his core he's a POS conservative like the rest of them, but he actually has values he believes in. Not to mention ever since he took over as chief justice he's been bending over backwards to try and maintain a semblance of law and dignity. Now if only Alito & Thomas could retire in the next couple of years...
Shelby County v Holder
Yes, this and Citizens United are why I said almost. I'm sure he's made many other terrible rulings I'm not familiar with as well. It's just sad that the court has shifted so far right Robert's comes off as the moderate in the group.
Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
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Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
Indeed, both Roberts and Gorsuch are people with a rational theory of government, and a rational desire for power that you can say, "They are doing this according to some legal theory of good governance they have, they genuinely think what they are doing will help people"
They are often wrong, but, they do genuinely think they are doing the right thing. Barrett is a loon, Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh do have a legal theory, but they do not really believe they are helping everyone. They just think the law is some weird magic and it doesn't matter what the consequences are of their interpretations. They treat it as if they were deciding on the rules of a complicated board game, not real life.
Kavanaugh i haven't been able to get a good read on. I mostly envision him as a hungover frat boy trying to piece together chunks of his conservative buddies' legal decisions with some legal gibberish, then smacking it down on the table like "LOOK AT ME, I DID A SCOTUS."
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Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
Indeed, both Roberts and Gorsuch are people with a rational theory of government, and a rational desire for power that you can say, "They are doing this according to some legal theory of good governance they have, they genuinely think what they are doing will help people"
They are often wrong, but, they do genuinely think they are doing the right thing. Barrett is a loon, Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh do have a legal theory, but they do not really believe they are helping everyone. They just think the law is some weird magic and it doesn't matter what the consequences are of their interpretations. They treat it as if they were deciding on the rules of a complicated board game, not real life.
Again, please square this with Shelby County. He invented principles of governance out of whole cloth and pretended that a seven year old law was too far out of date to consider how much the country had changed.
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I think he's also just a little fed up with his own party at the moment.
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Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Eh, disagree. I don’t see Thomas’ judicial philosophy as hugely influential, mostly because it’s more facially horrid than Scalia’s and because he’s a worse writer.
As for the ACA, Barrett wasn’t quite the brilliant mind described. Roberts is right that this is an easy call because severability is legal basics 101. He’d be happy to strike down the ACA with the right case and argument, but this ain’t it bro.
I’m pretty sure Kavanaugh is dumber than I had previously thought and that was a low bar to begin with. As posner said, they’re not justices because they’re brilliant legal minds, they’re justices because they could get confirmed.
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Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Eh, disagree. I don’t see Thomas’ judicial philosophy as hugely influential, mostly because it’s more facially horrid than Scalia’s and because he’s a worse writer.
As for the ACA, Barrett wasn’t quite the brilliant mind described. Roberts is right that this is an easy call because severability is legal basics 101. He’d be happy to strike down the ACA with the right case and argument, but this ain’t it bro.
I’m pretty sure Kavanaugh is dumber than I had previously thought and that was a low bar to begin with. As posner said, they’re not justices because they’re brilliant legal minds, they’re justices because they could get confirmed.
Angel never said that Thomas' philosophy was hugely influential, just that it has its own internal consistency separate from that of other justices, and it might behoove us to approach things from that perspective rather than just treating him as a shittier Scalia.
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Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Eh, disagree. I don’t see Thomas’ judicial philosophy as hugely influential, mostly because it’s more facially horrid than Scalia’s and because he’s a worse writer.
As for the ACA, Barrett wasn’t quite the brilliant mind described. Roberts is right that this is an easy call because severability is legal basics 101. He’d be happy to strike down the ACA with the right case and argument, but this ain’t it bro.
I’m pretty sure Kavanaugh is dumber than I had previously thought and that was a low bar to begin with. As posner said, they’re not justices because they’re brilliant legal minds, they’re justices because they could get confirmedthey got pushed through in a super partisan majority vote.
Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Eh, disagree. I don’t see Thomas’ judicial philosophy as hugely influential, mostly because it’s more facially horrid than Scalia’s and because he’s a worse writer.
As for the ACA, Barrett wasn’t quite the brilliant mind described. Roberts is right that this is an easy call because severability is legal basics 101. He’d be happy to strike down the ACA with the right case and argument, but this ain’t it bro.
I’m pretty sure Kavanaugh is dumber than I had previously thought and that was a low bar to begin with. As posner said, they’re not justices because they’re brilliant legal minds, they’re justices because they could get confirmed.
Angel never said that Thomas' philosophy was hugely influential, just that it has its own internal consistency separate from that of other justices, and it might behoove us to approach things from that perspective rather than just treating him as a shittier Scalia.
Thomas' judicial philosophy is much more well considered than what Scalia was pushing. It's just that it never advanced beyond the 19th century.
I wonder how many of the Justices still remember that the ACA is pretty much a conservative plan meant to prop up insurance companies against the possibility of actual universal healthcare, and the primary reason the that Republican Party opposes it is that Obama did it and they want to tear down everything that Obama did?
Roberts is smart and doesn't take bullshit, and he's a good person to have in your corner if he happens to agree with you.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Eh, disagree. I don’t see Thomas’ judicial philosophy as hugely influential, mostly because it’s more facially horrid than Scalia’s and because he’s a worse writer.
As for the ACA, Barrett wasn’t quite the brilliant mind described. Roberts is right that this is an easy call because severability is legal basics 101. He’d be happy to strike down the ACA with the right case and argument, but this ain’t it bro.
I’m pretty sure Kavanaugh is dumber than I had previously thought and that was a low bar to begin with. As posner said, they’re not justices because they’re brilliant legal minds, they’re justices because they could get confirmed.
Angel never said that Thomas' philosophy was hugely influential, just that it has its own internal consistency separate from that of other justices, and it might behoove us to approach things from that perspective rather than just treating him as a shittier Scalia.
Thomas' judicial philosophy is much more well considered than what Scalia was pushing. It's just that it never advanced beyond the 19th century.
I've come to realize that the only real consistency to Thomas's philosophy that I see anymore, is that he really hates the establishment clause, and often seems to rule in such a way as to protect the potent right wing industry that he pulls a good bit of cash out of on the side.
Alito delivered a keynote speech at a Federalist Society gathering today.
He railed against same-sex marriage, abortion, contraception, criticism of conservativism in general... oh yeah, and against restrictions put in place by governors to try and combat the spread of COVID.
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For the ACA overturn case.
I followed one of my old law profs who scanned the important questions the justices were asking
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That's good--individual clauses of laws are generally considered severable. If, for whatever reason, the mandate clause was rendered unconstitutional, it does not invalidate the entire ACA--just that one portion.
I would leave that whole question aside, of course, since we've already gone through a cycle where it was lowered to $0 *without* being considered unconstitutional.
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It's good, because the argument Texas was making was this:
1) Health care advocates say the law doesn't work as intended without a mandate
2) Roberts previously ruled the mandate was fine because it was a tax
3) Congress zeroed out the tax and isn't a tax you don't pay anymore not really a tax?
4) Therefore the individual mandate is unconsitutional.
5) Therefore since the law doesn't work without it, the whole law has to go.
Note that this argument is essentially "when Congress didn't repeal the whole law, they actually repealed the whole law."
The counterarguments to this are twofold and pretty obvious:
1) Congress didn't repeal the whole law, so they definitely didn't mean to do so when they zeroed out the penalty for not having coverage.
2) The advocates argument' was a matter of policy effectiveness, not a matter of law.
3) Therefore, if you rule the individual mandate unconstitutional since it's not a tax anymore, you can just invalidate that part of the law and keep all the other stuff (Medicaid expansion, pre-existing conditions coverage, etc)
Is there any more detail on this? How the absolute hell can they weasel standing for 2020 election challenges into the ACA case?
This doesn't sound good at all.
trying to turn the aca ruling into some bullshit about vote counting I feel like will rub Roberts the wrong way for sure and Gorsuch probably
The rub is that normally those laws specify that the clauses are severable. The authors of the ACA messed up. I hope it doesn't matter. My small-time apartment lease even has a clause in it that if any provision falls, it is severable and the other ones continue to apply.
Interestingly questions of standing can tie into this. SCOTUS might decide that if plaintiffs have standing on some clauses but not others, that a successful challenge will only invalidate those clauses where you do have standing. Severability due to standing or lack thereof, so to speak.
As far as I can tell via further Twitter commentary, nothing about the election was stated.
(this person is formerly of the GAO and NYS Dept of Health, now a partner at some law firm)
Seems targeted at Medicaid questions.
Honestly, I've never understood those severability clauses. It seems like whether a clause is severable depends on the clause and the law and such. You can't make something severable by sticking a clause at the end if it results in a nonsense outcome, and not having a clause shouldn't make completely separate things not severable. Severability doctrine predates those clauses, and they seem like boilerplate and shouldn't be given any weight imo if they're just stuck on everything.
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I am not sure. Alitos question sounds like “are you sure you don’t want to have standing look at this way I would rule you had standing?”
My little elliptical comment was actually echoed by Justice Roberts. That's weird.
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I swear, I'm almost starting to like Robert's. I mean I know at his core he's a POS conservative like the rest of them, but he actually has values he believes in. Not to mention ever since he took over as chief justice he's been bending over backwards to try and maintain a semblance of law and dignity. Now if only Alito & Thomas could retire in the next couple of years...
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it's just not a sure thing he'll do the wrong thing
Because if everyone stops caring what they think and say, he's just one old man sitting on a bench with some other people.
Yes, this and Citizens United are why I said almost. I'm sure he's made many other terrible rulings I'm not familiar with as well. It's just sad that the court has shifted so far right Robert's comes off as the moderate in the group.
EDIT: He can still go get fucked.
He will also happily twist the law into any old shape if it gets him to what he sees as a conservative-friendly result, so fuck him with a hammer.
He's better than Thomas or Alito.
Indeed, both Roberts and Gorsuch are people with a rational theory of government, and a rational desire for power that you can say, "They are doing this according to some legal theory of good governance they have, they genuinely think what they are doing will help people"
They are often wrong, but, they do genuinely think they are doing the right thing. Barrett is a loon, Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh do have a legal theory, but they do not really believe they are helping everyone. They just think the law is some weird magic and it doesn't matter what the consequences are of their interpretations. They treat it as if they were deciding on the rules of a complicated board game, not real life.
Which makes it the opposite of the 3/5 compromise.
Again, please square this with Shelby County. He invented principles of governance out of whole cloth and pretended that a seven year old law was too far out of date to consider how much the country had changed.
I think he's also just a little fed up with his own party at the moment.
I mean, a parrot that says "I concur with Scalia" brings about as much to the table as Thomas does.
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More, actually. At least the parrot would be active during the oral arguments.
This gooseshit needs to stop.
One, Thomas has his own unique legal worldview, one that's a fuckload more consistent than Scalia's "originalism", which was often treated as legal Calvinball when Scalia wanted a certain result. It's a really fucking terrifying worldview, but that's just more reason to actually understand it, instead of dismissing him as parroting Scalia.
Two, Thomas doesn't participle in oral arguments because he feels that they're basically theater, and the main work of the Supreme Court is handled through briefs. And...I can't say he's wrong in that assessment.
In short, instead of dismissing Thomas, we need to properly grapple with him.
Eh, disagree. I don’t see Thomas’ judicial philosophy as hugely influential, mostly because it’s more facially horrid than Scalia’s and because he’s a worse writer.
As for the ACA, Barrett wasn’t quite the brilliant mind described. Roberts is right that this is an easy call because severability is legal basics 101. He’d be happy to strike down the ACA with the right case and argument, but this ain’t it bro.
I’m pretty sure Kavanaugh is dumber than I had previously thought and that was a low bar to begin with. As posner said, they’re not justices because they’re brilliant legal minds, they’re justices because they could get confirmed.
Angel never said that Thomas' philosophy was hugely influential, just that it has its own internal consistency separate from that of other justices, and it might behoove us to approach things from that perspective rather than just treating him as a shittier Scalia.
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Thomas' judicial philosophy is much more well considered than what Scalia was pushing. It's just that it never advanced beyond the 19th century.
I've come to realize that the only real consistency to Thomas's philosophy that I see anymore, is that he really hates the establishment clause, and often seems to rule in such a way as to protect the potent right wing industry that he pulls a good bit of cash out of on the side.
He railed against same-sex marriage, abortion, contraception, criticism of conservativism in general... oh yeah, and against restrictions put in place by governors to try and combat the spread of COVID.
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