Corruption, Cowardice, Complicity, and Capitulation - The Folly of Empowering a Psychopath

[B.See]

As Trump Dodges Court Orders, Samuel Alito Suggests Obeying Judges Can Be Optional - Mother Jones

Monday’s complicated case concerned how Louisiana drew a second majority-Black district as the result of rulings from both a federal district court and the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.... Alito wanted to know if obeying this court order was actually required:

“What if the Robinson decision were plainly wrong?” Alito asked. “Would you still have a good reason to follow it?

...there is a through line connecting the attack on the voting rights of Black people and the will to flagrantly ignore bedrock democratic principles like following court orders. The GOP, with the assistance of the Roberts Court, has for more than a decade unwound minority voting rights. That lack of commitment to democracy creates a permission slip to take a sledgehammer to the Constitution by, for example, acting outside the law.

Imagine that. A corrupt conservative SC justice, positing that court decisions don't necessarily have to be followed... if they don't like them.

[rickyhall]

1. That's what I thought about pot laws but they busted me anyway.

But I'm on the lower level, not like a US Supreme Court Justice.

[B.See]

3. As I've oft written

their laws are written for US. Not for THEM.

[H2O Man]

2. Terrible.

Alito is a fecal stain on the social fabric.

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