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Supreme Court Rejects Right-Wing ‘Theory’ That Would Have Upended American Elections
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I honestly don't know. Nothing Alito or Thomas has said recently has made any sort of logical or philosophical sense. I think Roberts is trying to preserve some semblance of legacy of unbias with the current court reputation which is why I think he's sided the past few cases where he has.
Thomas does this shit, he writes nonsense dissents, and then when he's allowed to write the majority opinion, he will reference his own nonsense dissent in another case as if it had the weight of actual law.
He does the same with nonsense concurrences.
Always referencing himself, to fuck over everyone else. He's the ultimate example of "I got mine, fuck you"
Alito then has Fox News brain. Completely rotted by whatever culture war bullshit is popular at the time he writes an opinion. Even if it contradicts a position he held previously.
Gorsuch is an odd one. He's good on personal liberties (sometimes) but also believes that the prohibition of mixing religion and state doesn't exist for the states.
So yeah, the three judges who dissented here are three very different forms of crazy.
I'm not sure if Roberts is trying to preserve or can preserve anything. At some point legacy means nothing. Just ask Bill Barr.
That said, I agree with you. Thomas and Alito are not arguing from any defensible position. They hate precedent -- which is the entire basis of common law jurisprudence -- yet continually reach back to witch trials and love letters between slave owners to defend their positions. They are, in my opinion, literally insane.
They're corrupt pieces of shit. In a better world there would be actual crimes they committed and they would've been hauled off to jail. Actually in a better world they would've never been justices in the first place.