Supreme Court Overrules Lowly District Court Judge, Okays Trump to Merely <i>Plan</i> for Mass Firings in the Government

Supreme Court Overrules Lowly District Court Judge, Okays Trump to Merely Plan for Mass Firings in the Government

Note that the lowly district court judge didn't just rule Trump couldn't fire his own employees.

No, the lowly district court judge issued a restraining order blocking Trump from even making plans for firing them.

The Supreme Court overturned that insurrectionist ruling.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to begin carrying out sweeping layoffs across the federal government, lifting a lower court's block on a February executive order directing agencies to initiate major workforce reductions.
Key Details:
The Court granted the administration's emergency appeal, overturning a May injunction by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston that had halted layoffs at over 20 federal agencies.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.
Affected departments include State, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and the Social Security Administration, with legal battles expected to continue over the broader implications.
Diving Deeper:
President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory Tuesday when the Supreme Court cleared the path for his administration to implement a sweeping plan to cut the federal workforce. The high court lifted a district court injunction that had barred the administration from enforcing a February 11 executive order directing agencies to prepare for widespread "reductions in force" (RIFs).
The unsigned order, which appeared to have an 8-1 majority, allows Trump officials to move ahead with plans that could impact tens of thousands of federal workers. The decision doesn't settle the ongoing legal fights surrounding the layoffs, but it does permit the administration to begin executing the executive order and a related Office of Management and Budget directive in the meantime.
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In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, sharply criticized the majority, accusing them of greenlighting legally questionable moves without fully examining the facts. "While the President no doubt has the authority to manage the Executive Branch, our system does not allow the President to rewrite laws on his own under the guise of that authority," she wrote. Jackson also took aim at the court's increasing willingness to override district courts in emergency decisions, suggesting the majority showed "enthusiasm" for rubber-stamping the administration's actions.

Note that the DEI hire Katanji couldn't even get the old DEI hire Sotomayor to agree with her.

In fact, Sotomayor rebuked her for once again refusing to apply the actual laws and rules of jurisprudence and ignore the fact that no cuts have yet even happened. You cannot rule that a plan is illegal, Sotomayor lectured Ketanji Brown Jackson, until that plan actually exists.

But Ketanji thinks the obligation to wait for a plan before ruling that plan unconstitutional is just more "legalese" and would prefer to continue with her Opray Winfrey Jurisprudence, in which nothing is based on precedent, rule, or reason, but is just the sort of thing that stupid leftwing women shout and yammer about to get applause from other stupid leftwing women.

For the second time in two weeks, a Supreme Court justice is using her opinion to scold Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for not understanding what she is talking about.

Twist: This time, it's progressive Justice SONIA SOTOMAYOR doing it, patiently explaining that the Court can't… pic.twitter.com/3POzNEQXOU
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 8, 2025

This is part of Jackson’s dissent from the NY Post. Scary actually. Jackson believes the Executive branch has to go to Congress first to dictate the administration of Federal Agencies. Wow. pic.twitter.com/K9r1ajMAuQ
— Marcus Notrealius (@TheLieKeeper) July 9, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1
Good Afternoon

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

2 uno

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)

3 drat !

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)

4
You didn't run fast enough, lol

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (3ek7K)

5
fourseasons said something confusing at the end of the last thread about "new one." Is this some sort of code?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (UmB+t)

6 Law is hard.

Posted by: Ketanji Barbie at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

7
Just doing my duty, lol

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (3ek7K)

8 who took KBJ's exams ??

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (g47mK)

9 For the second time in two weeks, a Supreme Court justice is using her opinion to scold Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for not understanding what she is talking about.

THAT's RACIST!

Twist: This time, it's progressive Justice SONIA SOTOMAYOR doing it, patiently explaining that the Court can't� pic.twitter.com/3POzNEQXOU

Oh, uh, not racist. Carry on

Posted by: Some NPC at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (t0Rmr)

10 Ah crap.

Posted by: Nigel at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (pdGVg)

11 Yikes! What is happening in the new King Harv ad??

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (XZ5S6)

12 Feral Employees? Get out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (zhBpy)

13 ATF, FBI, CIA, TSA, STATE, CDC. In that order.

Posted by: Farm Owner Looking For More Handouts at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (/U5Yz)

14 Every republican senator up for re-election should have an ad run in their district asking why they voted for that idiot during her confirmation.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (3Ope8)

15 off greedy sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (/U5Yz)

16 Our side's judicial appointments are supposed to be originalist. Why can't we get any district judges to issue injunctions against democrat policies? Do I just not notice it when it happens?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (B9Prs)

17 ATF, FBI, CIA, TSA, STATE, CDC. In that order.
Posted by: Farm Owner Looking For More Handouts at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (/U5Yz)

Can we make room for fedjudges?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (dGCAG)

18

I would like to diversity hire several dozen young peni...

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (DZnNJ)

19 On April 7, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 53–47 vote Later that day, she was confirmed by the same margin Republicans Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins joined all Democrats in confirming Jackson to the Supreme Court

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (t0Rmr)

20 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy."

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That's what we need, Jumanji. A wrecking ball the size of Jupiter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)

21 They did leave open a huge loop hole for future lawsuits when Trump actually comes up with an actual plan to fire people and close departments.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (e5NfL)

22 Ketanji please.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (zhBpy)

23

14 Every republican senator up for re-election should have an ad run in their district asking why they voted for that idiot during her confirmation.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

beep

Posted by: Ambulatory Mitch at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (/U5Yz)

24 Some pissant judge ruled Trump can't implement a LAW that has just been passed in both house of Congress.. Why not say he can't even think about firing anyone without permission...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (VE6XX)

25 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy."

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You can stop now, I said I already support it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (B9Prs)

26 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts. And, I would imagine her clerks who probably write most of this nonsense for her to "massage" with her own "thoughts" are also DEI dropouts from some inner city shit hole school system.

Or they're all just fucking stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Q4IgG)

27 Cue another six dozen news stories about how Judge Jumanji is "making her voice heard" and offering her the opportunity to expound on her judicial philosophy of opining on the way government should work.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (lIio7)

28 >>>20 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy."

Why it's almost as if that's what the people voted for.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Riz8t)

29 The fact that she was reversed 9-0 by the Supremes when she was an appellate judge should have been a tell.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (jc0TO)

30 What KJB really wants is to replace the Supreme Court with The View.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (od0dV)

31 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

https://tinyurl.com/e5mtx8mc

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (QqW4y)

32 Nothing the Dems do is scary.

You're giving them too much gravitas.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (fV+MH)

33 A hard lawyer is good to find.

Posted by: They just bend over the pages at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (jtoyl)

34 At first I was leaning towards the idea that KBJ was actually intelligent, but was consumed by ideology. Now I think she's a barely literate affirmative action beneficiary who has no clue what she's supposed to be doing there, and is too arrogant to accept any advice, even from her friend Sotomayer.

Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (uWKK8)

35 KBJ is a BFJ

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2sMLA)

36 Oprah Winfrey Jurisprudence

You get an injunction and you get an injunction and you get an injunction (you being Trump).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (ZVgZ4)

37 It would be supremely ironic if DEI hire KBJ caused DEI hire Sotomayor to have a diabetic stroke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (JtH6i)

38 I need a drink...

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (jtoyl)

39 KBJ is a BFJ
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2sMLA)
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On the QT. PDQ.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (XZ5S6)

40 31 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

https://tinyurl.com/e5mtx8mc
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (QqW4y)

Ironically, that is one of the few things Harris was right about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

41 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (QqW4y)

Bwahahahhahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (3Ope8)

42 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.
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I don't have a problem with POTUS doing that.

It's literally part of his job as the head of the Executive Branch.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (7fElN)

43 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.

THAT'S WHAT WE VOTED FOR YOU TWIT.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (DNyHT)

44 Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.

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That would be a *difference without a distinction*.

Both are "fundamentally non-serious" choices.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (TN0g+)

45 Affirmative action Jackson!!!

What an ultra maroon!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (hpmMD)

46 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

I mean, if she was doing this stuff intentionally she'd be one of the top comedians in the world.

Debating whether bacon is a spice with a Muslim? Comedy gold.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (t0Rmr)

47 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (zhBpy)

48 But KJB is super smart, she knows the lyrics to musical Oklahoma.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (Oy/m2)

49 I was thinking the NPC's at DU are probably melting down over this ruling, not knowing who deserves the 15 minutes of hate. I then realized the NPC will probably pretend this ruling never happened.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

50 Jackson also took aim at the court's increasing willingness to override district courts in emergency decisions,

BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT AUTHORITY.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (DNyHT)

51 Jackson believes the Executive branch has to go to Congress first to dictate the administration of Federal Agencies.
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No she doesn't. What she "believes" will change depending on the day and who it is she's doing the believing to and for.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (E0p3T)

52 I VOTED FOR DRUMHEAD COURTS SO YOU BETTER BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU'RE GETTING, DU.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

53 Jeez this broad is thick.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (DNyHT)

54 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?

And drinking your own bodily fluids!

Posted by: Gandhi at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

55 It's really amazing to see that over the last 50 or 60 years, the Democrats really have come to believe that the Bureaucracy is a 4th separate branch of government, and the most important one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (uWKK8)

56 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (zhBpy)
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The bacon must flow!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (XZ5S6)

57 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

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I like how this makes me actually like her a teeny tiny little bit more and the dems are so mental that they ensured I never heard of it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (B9Prs)

58 Bacon is meat. Don't overthink it.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (fV+MH)

59 Stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (HFcKg)

60 The bacon must flow!

Pigs
In
SPACE

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (t0Rmr)

61 But KJB is super smart, she knows the lyrics to musical Oklahoma.
Posted by: dantesed

I bet she used cue cards/teleprompter while "acting".

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (2sMLA)

62

There sure does seem to be a long term plan to make black people seem a lot smarter than they are, and less savage and violent.

Wonder why that is and who made that DEIcision? Who would do such a thing and for what reason?

I'm not saying it's Jews and all that, there is some other thing going on. I mean, it's pretty obvious.

Is it that they are the progressive pets that keep the gravy train rolling? Could be. Where would those parasites be without black people to pretend to care about, who would give them awards for documentaries and shit?

It's hilarious.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (et1vG)

63 Lawdy! Looks like I bees in over my head! Help! Help! Help me!
I thinks dats dem Courts is when White folk give each other stuff don't neither of em need.

Posted by: Kunta Kinte Jackson at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (lX1hk)

64 50 Jackson also took aim at the court's increasing willingness to override district courts in emergency decisions,"

What I think is most interesting about this opinion is that it shows that KBJ and the rest of the court are splitting up hard, and they aren't even trying to respect each other in their opinions anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)

65 Ace, its worse than you think. In a forum she attended, she explains that her writings reflects her idea of how government and the courts "should" work and how she "feels" about any given case.

No wonder the other jurists are sick of her bullsh*t.

Posted by: WisRicih at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

66 At first I was leaning towards the idea that KBJ was actually intelligent, but was consumed by ideology. Now I think she's a barely literate affirmative action beneficiary who has no clue what she's supposed to be doing there, and is too arrogant to accept any advice, even from her friend Sotomayer.

Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (uWKK

I think everyone who has gotten advanced degrees saw these people in school. The assumption was though, they were going to end up in some dead end of the profession, and would not really be in a position to hurt too many people.

Then we see them years later, in charge of things.

It's scary.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (dGCAG)

67 When you've lost Sotomayer and Kagan........

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (tT6L1)

68 The bacon must flow!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM

Summon a wench.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (jc0TO)

69 MUADIBS!!!

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (zhBpy)

70 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yup, and both must flow!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (hpmMD)

71 My favorite part about the injunction was who was granted standing to sue:
Labor unions, non-profits and city governments.
Because they have a right, a superior interest in how the federal government is managed by the Executive.

You know whose interests are never considered in any of these illegal injunctions?
The voters, the taxpayers, the citizens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (T/tp/)

72 Why is everybody shouting?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (viF8m)

73 46 I mean, if she was doing this stuff intentionally she'd be one of the top comedians in the world.

Debating whether bacon is a spice with a Muslim? Comedy gold.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (t0Rmr

====
Theory:

Kamala is a Borat imitation that spiraled way out of control.

Discuss.

Posted by: TJM's phone at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Ea9fr)

74 Dune: Bacon Worms, The Harvest

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (tT6L1)

75 Her truth

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (63Dwl)

76 Yeah, yeah. Getting tired of this thing. Start digging up dirt on the sow. Release every nasty bit of research on her. Hound her from office. Say anything and everything about her to force the Ds to walk away from her. Her rulings have no basis in law, just politics. Destroy her if she won't resign. She has no business being on the court.

Do something you twink Rs.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (0eaVi)

77 Politifact: You Can’t Call Mamdani a Communist Just Because He Said All These Communist Things

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But use the wrong pronoun, I mean, you know, the right pronoun, and there's hell to pay!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:36 PM (L/fGl)

78 Jeez this broad is thick.
Posted by: rickb223

We're back to talking about this morning's art?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

79 Why is everybody shouting?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (viF8m)

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It won't be serious until we starting running in circles while screaming.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (tT6L1)

80

I remember stting down, first day of English II at a second rate state school.

The prof comes in, black guy in thick glasses.

Hands out the syllabus and says we're going to work real hard, essays all the time. The syllabus was all race-based bullshit. Every book.

I walked out and dropped the class and got a white British prof, who was a nice guy and an excellent teacher. Class was wonderful.

In another class we were given a book of short stories about life in the city. It was so awful. Who would live like that. Crime and squalor. Depression. Guess us whites needed to know.

I'm sure the author won an award for it.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (et1vG)

81 It won't be serious until we starting running in circles while screaming.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM

*prepares hair ignition torch*

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

82 Jumanji may not be the worst Supreme Court justice ever (Roger B. Taney and Earl Warren will forever tussle for that crown), but she's undoubtedly the dumbest.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (3CxhS)

83 Yeah, yeah. Getting tired of this thing. Start digging up dirt on the sow. Release every nasty bit of research on her. Hound her from office. Say anything and everything about her to force the Ds to walk away from her. Her rulings have no basis in law, just politics. Destroy her if she won't resign. She has no business being on the court.

Do something you twink Rs.
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Ask Collins and Mitt and Mitch what they admired about this bint' as well.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TN0g+)

84 'If she had said, “Bacon is amazing,” it would have made sense'

PJ Media
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No, the segment is for "hot takes". That's not a hot take, it would be beyond fucking retarded. Even more retarded than the one she said. Why do we have retards writing about other retards??? Can America do any better than this? Is this really life now?

Is this why I don't click on websites? I thought it was because of viruses or because I'm getting old. But no - it's this.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (E0p3T)

85 If she continues down this path, measures can be taken:

https://is.gd/d8hROH

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

86 23 and me = KJB and her IQ.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (2sMLA)

87 Jumanji the sequel movies > Jumanji the original movie >>>> Supreme Court Justice Jumanji

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (t0Rmr)

88 *prepares hair ignition torch*
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)
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think it's wise to flaunt your hair privilege among all of these 29 year olds?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (tT6L1)

89 Is KBJ really this dumb or she trolling.

I'm starting to think she's trolling.

Posted by: Shenanigans at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (QfJZM)

90 ‘ Trump should have first obtained authorization from Congress before attempting to reorganize federal agencies.’

‘Reorganize federal agencies’ … a new NPC programming buzzword is launched. You heard it here first.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (aeiyZ)

91

Can this country survive the leadership of black women?

Not even Condi Rice I'm afraid.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (et1vG)

92 Bacon is meat. Don't overthink it.
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (fV+MH)

Ari Shaffir has a hilarious bit about how, if you're making soup, and some goy comes by and tosses a slab of bacon in the soup, the question of whether you can still eat the soup is based on the ratio of soup to bacon.

I'm no expert on this topic, but apparently he wasn't just making this up, that it's in the Talmud.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (dGCAG)

93 23 and me = KJB and her IQ.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM

This cried out for a Carnac the Magnificent nic.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

94 Then we see them years later, in charge of things.

It's scary.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (dGCAG

Brennan is a great example. I had a Belgian Malinois named Buck who was noticeably more intelligent than Brennan.

But, he proved willing to break any law and tell any lie, so George Tenet shepherded him all the way to the top.

Government looooves evil 'tards likes Brennan and KBJ. They're perfect.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (BI5O2)

95 It won't be serious until we start making giant paper mache heads.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (Umrme)

96 Being called a dummy by Sotomayor would be like having your hot girlfriend stolen by David Hogg.

Suicide would be an option.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

97 The left doesn't care about traditional notions of competence, so you should expect they'll appoint idiotic judges. In her case she's black, reads what is written for her, and judges things by a far left standard and that's all they want.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (t0Rmr)

98 It won't be serious until we starting running in circles while screaming.

it is hoverounds for half the horde

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (yQPGQ)

99 76 Yeah, yeah. Getting tired of this thing. Start digging up dirt on the sow. Release every nasty bit of research on her. Hound her from office. Say anything and everything about her to force the Ds to walk away from her. Her rulings have no basis in law, just politics. Destroy her if she won't resign. She has no business being on the court."

I found out some Real Dirt on her - she's related, by marriage, to that arch-criminal Paul Ryan. It's true!

ok that really just tells all of us how incestuous that entire system really is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK8)

100 >>>Sotomayor rebuked her for once again refusing to apply the actual laws and rules of jurisprudence and ignore the fact that no cuts have yet even happened.

I have seen the future, and it is KBJ type judges ruling in cases based on vibes.

That's my prediction. The court will find that laws and blah blah blah are stupid and gay.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uCjyK)

101 I was Told that there would be no Legalese here!

Posted by: Ketanji shaft Jackson at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (Rvxb7)

102 wasn't just making this up, that it's in the Talmud.

That talmuddies the waters.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (Umrme)

103 I found out some Real Dirt on her - she's related, by marriage, to that arch-criminal Paul Ryan. It's true!

ok that really just tells all of us how incestuous that entire system really is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK

It's a big club, and you ain't in it - George Carlin

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uCjyK)

104 It won't be serious until we start making giant paper mache heads.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Who's the fellow with the big head?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

105 Somewhere I saw a photo of the judge from social media -- holy cow she had a set of gums like a horse and no upper lip at all.

It was traumatizing to see, so I am surprised Ace did not include it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (jLcCX)

106 When you live by the sword, you must DEI by the sword.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (wzQvI)

107
it is hoverounds for half the horde
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (yQPGQ)

Get off my lawn

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (VE6XX)

108 She probably thinks that the executive branch has something to do with a tree.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Oy/m2)

109 KJB, the Biden era gift that keeps on giving. Truly amazing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (tT6L1)

110 We're back to talking about this morning's art?
Posted by: Bulg

Nah. This is between her ears.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (DNyHT)

111 You cannot rule that a plan is illegal
---
Correction: Planning to plan is illegal.

Which was also the basis for the injunctions against the birthright citizenship EO--the EO merely directed the agencies to develop plans to end it.

And 3 different judges and the relevant appeals courts agreed:
It is illegal to even review the statues, laws and regulations to determine a way to end it.

As I said, it really gives the game away on the actual Constitutionality of BRC--if it was such sound and settled law, there'd be no fear at all in merely reviewing its basis.

But, they know it's flimsy, made-up bullshit that--once examined in full light--with wither and fade into the stupid pit of lies it was born from.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (T/tp/)

112 Jumanji may not be the worst Supreme Court justice ever (Roger B. Taney and Earl Warren will forever tussle for that crown), but she's undoubtedly the dumbest.
Posted by: MrUNIVAC at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (3CxhS)
——

She’s the best SC justice ever. She is doing exactly what she was chosen to do: advance her constituents’ interests no matter what. No. Matter. What.

I wish we had conservative justices like this.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (aeiyZ)

113 Legalese

Those cute little dogs on old ladies laps?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Umrme)

114 Ask Collins and Mitt and Mitch what they admired about this bint' as well.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TN0g+)

The crease in her pantsuits?

The Three Stooges are responsible for her.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0eaVi)

115 Following Ban on Migrants, Subscriptions at Swiss Swimming Pool Surge

-
Now, if they could just do something about the mosquitoes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

116 Is KBJ really this dumb or she trolling.

I'm starting to think she's trolling.
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I'm going with the "she's that dumb" choice.

I think a great attempt at trolling for a Supreme Court judge would be to include into a dissent some sort of George Will quote from one the articles he wrote on baseball.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

117 Somewhere I saw a photo of the judge from social media -- holy cow she had a set of gums like a horse and no upper lip at all.

It was traumatizing to see, so I am surprised Ace did not include it.
Posted by: bob

See. If we could post pictures, you could do it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (DNyHT)

118 If BRC was a think, Congress wouldn't have had to give the American Indians citizenship in a separate effort...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (t0Rmr)

119 You have the initials wrong. They are not KJB they are DEI. And she is every bit as stupid and arrogant as she appears.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (wBaIH)

120 Those cute little dogs on old ladies laps?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM

Like little trolls.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (jc0TO)

121 We're back to talking about this morning's art?

Fat girl on an ottoman?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Umrme)

122 Pretty emblematic of the differences in disposition between you and your opponents when their supreme court justices' characterization of anything that prevents them from achieving their goal is "legalese."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (B9Prs)

123 At this rate we would have been a lot better of with The Supremes Court. I could've gone for Justice Mary Wilson.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

124 Disappointed in the lack of black clapping hands placed intermittently in her dissent.

Posted by: Cmonman at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (wgct4)

125 [KJB] received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996.

"With honors". She got good grades.
Interesting how we can't trust academic institutions anymore.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (pdGVg)

126 See. If we could post pictures, you'd see moar boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (Umrme)

127 95 It won't be serious until we start making giant paper mache heads.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (Umrme)

Those are the dumbest things ever. I wonder how many hours they put into their little art projects and what kind of weirdo takes the equivalent of an awkward carry on to a protest. I bet even the other protestors make fun of the giant head carrying people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (BvTfc)

128 George Will. What a fag.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (BI5O2)

129
Fat girl on an ottoman?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Umrme)
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Why bring Grand Viziers and harems into this?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (tT6L1)

130 ok that really just tells all of us how incestuous that entire system really is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK

Always the kinks with them, isn't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0eaVi)

131 "With honors". She got good grades.
Interesting how we can't trust academic institutions anymore.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (pdGVg)

In *1992*. We haven't been able to trust academic institutions for more than 30 years.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (B9Prs)

132 I think everyone who has gotten advanced degrees saw these people in school. The assumption was though, they were going to end up in some dead end of the profession, and would not really be in a position to hurt too many people.

Then we see them years later, in charge of things.

It's scary.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (dGCAG)

I know several KBJ-types in real life. I don't think the ones I knew were especially stupid, but they went to law school in order to "change the system".

That's what we're seeing here. KBJ may be a retard, but shes got clerks who are presumably pretty smart. She knows what she's doing. She's trying to set up a shift in the court, hoping the democrats take over and get to appoint enough people to dramatically shift the ideological make up of the court to more people who believe in "vibe law".

As in "this is illegal because I don't like it."

It's just another symptom in the complete collapse of competency and our institutions.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (uCjyK)

133 When she replaces ...wait for it.. with ...get this..., her legal journey will be complete.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (jc0TO)

134 Fat girl on an ottoman?

That would be magnificent.

Posted by: Suleiman at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (t0Rmr)

135 In another class we were given a book of short stories about life in the city. It was so awful. Who would live like that. Crime and squalor. Depression. Guess us whites needed to know.

I'm sure the author won an award for it.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (et1vG)
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In one of my grad school classes, we were assigned to read a book featuring Native Americans living in an urban environment today. All of the characters were awful. I didn't like any of them. Not one character had any redeeming qualities or experienced growth and development into a better person.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (7fElN)

136 123 At this rate we would have been a lot better of with The Supremes Court. I could've gone for Justice Mary Wilson.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

A burrito supreme is more intelligent than KBJ.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (BvTfc)

137 Disappointed in the lack of black clapping hands placed intermittently in her dissent.
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Yeah, I think all reports about Sotomayer should assert she "clapped back" at Kentanji's remarks.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

138 KBJ is Joe Biden's legacy.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (HFcKg)

139
Cue another six dozen news stories about how Judge Jumanji is "making her voice heard" and offering her the opportunity to expound on her judicial philosophy of opining on the way government should work.
Posted by: bonhomme

=============

"Workin' her Black girl magic" is the meme. Most effective when uttered by AWFL commentators whose eyes sparkle with awe.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (UmB+t)

140 ""Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented""

Of course she did. If brains were dynamite she couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss. She makes biden look like a NASA scientist.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (snZF9)

141 125 [KJB] received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996.

"With honors". She got good grades.
Interesting how we can't trust academic institutions anymore.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (pdGVg)

It's been longstanding practice among Ivies that once you're in you're getting good grades, without regard to putting in the work. ESPECIALLY if you're a minority.

Posted by: Truth is ugly. So is KBJ. at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

142 I like how the Liberal Bloc Justices were cheering the use of the emergency docket when it was used to stop Trump.

Cumulating with the Dreadful Midnight Order of Roberts.

Since then, as Trump won successive emergency appeals, the three Liberal Bloc were shrill and loud that this was not a proper use of the emergency docket.
And they really thought themselves clever throwing ACB's words back at her in their dissents.

Except.

Now they are down to one, lone loon, banging her old saucepan in the empty living room, demanding her cats come out and listen to her rantings.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (T/tp/)

143 I bet Ktanzy-Brown missed American History in GeadStart.

Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (jgmnb)

144 George Will. What a fag.
---------

Exactly, that's the beauty of the troll--you quote him on baseball, and not on his self-imagined role of political commentator.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

145 She’s the best SC justice ever. She is doing exactly what she was chosen to do: advance her constituents’ interests no matter what. No. Matter. What.

I wish we had conservative justices like this.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (aeiyZ)

Agreed. We have Thomas, and sort of had Scalia (assuming no drugs were involved in the case!), but that's about it in modern history.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

146 Dog walks into a bar with a wounded mouth, says
I'm looking for the man that shot my maw.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (Umrme)

147 That's what we're seeing here. KBJ may be a retard, but shes got clerks who are presumably pretty smart. She knows what she's doing. She's trying to set up a shift in the court, hoping the democrats take over and get to appoint enough people to dramatically shift the ideological make up of the court to more people who believe in "vibe law".

As in "this is illegal because I don't like it."

It's just another symptom in the complete collapse of competency and our institutions.
Posted by: H

yea, it is not so, nobody with any choices is clerking for this retarded ho

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (yQPGQ)

148 Can we at least diagnose Ketanji with Type 2 Copro-Cerebral-Retardo-Tourette's Disorder?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (qwx/I)

149 I'm going with the "she's that dumb" choice.

I think a great attempt at trolling for a Supreme Court judge would be to include into a dissent some sort of George Will quote from one the articles he wrote on baseball.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

The reason it has to be dumbidity is that with each ignorant opinion, she's talking herself out of a chance to *ever* write a majority opinion - usually someone new on the Court will be tossed one or two a year, just so they can show they can do something worthwhile. But she's turning herself into Prissy from GWTW - "I don' know nuthin' bout birthin' no babies, Mizz Scarlet!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (uWKK8)

150 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.

She's too stupid to realize that that is exactly what we want.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (0Htd1)

151 If I'm ever king, George Will, Jay Nordlinger, and many other ConInc scribblers will be placed in automated armatures attached to toilets, that subject them to perpetual swirlies.

We'll have to engineer cattle-rated ones for ones like Goldberg and Williamson, but I'll leave those details to the nerds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (BI5O2)

152
Of course she did. If brains were dynamite she couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss. She makes biden look like a NASA scientist.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (snZF9)
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Good to see you. Missed your rather pithy take on life.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (tT6L1)

153 Men have a penis and testes, women have a vulva and uterus.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (wzQvI)

154 "KBJ is Joe Biden's legacy.
Posted by: Ben Had a"

She's his parting fart walk.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (fV+MH)

155 George Will. What a fag.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

What did Mr. Bowtie Atheist say now?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

156 Can this country survive the leadership of black women?
......

I don't think so. I've watched MTV.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

157 it is the vids of her sailing with carnival now, waving a stack of food stamps and a fifth of hennesy as she twerks over mooch, showing her tats that is going to get her off the courts

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (yQPGQ)

158 I'll admit I got a little suspicious when her dissent started thusly:

There will be four parts to this dissent - number three will SHOCK you.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (E0p3T)

159 Come on, it must be illegal for the President to make plans I don't like, or even to plan at all. It's in the Constitution, Article 37, "The President shall make no plans..."

Posted by: Dave at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (sbsMc)

160 yea, it is not so, nobody with any choices is clerking for this retarded ho
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (yQPGQ)

I would have clerked for her given the opportunity. Any law student would. Do you know how huge that is on a resume to say you clerked for a supreme court justice? (even if she's retarded).

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (uCjyK)

161 I get the feeling that KBJ's senior thesis was as stupid and filled with grammatical errors like Big Mike's. They give off the same aura

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (JtH6i)

162 justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming "reasons"

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (yQPGQ)

163 Just In:

Kamala Harris claims trademark infringement by Jackson.

KBJ: Kamalas Blow Jobs flagship operation is due to open any day now.

With Wet Willie as the stores mascot.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:52 PM (2sMLA)

164 162 justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming "reasons"
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (yQPGQ)

Saying because ! and stamping her foot....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:52 PM (VE6XX)

165 I would have clerked for her given the opportunity. Any law student would. Do you know how huge that is on a resume to say you clerked for a supreme court justice? (even if she's retarded).
Posted by: Harry

it is not a thing to say you were clerking for a retard, nobody would respect that , ever

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:52 PM (yQPGQ)

166 OT
Has anyone in the history of the internet turned off their adblocker when a website informs you you're using one and asks you to disable it?

Rachel Jeantel's response in court fits this situation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:53 PM (BvTfc)

167 Agreed. We have Thomas, and sort of had Scalia (assuming no drugs were involved in the case!), but that's about it in modern history.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

The only way that could happen would be if Trump ever got enough of a lock on the Senate to appoint someone like Stephen Miller to the Court. Don't see that happening.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)

168 Dog walks into a bar with a wounded mouth, says
I'm looking for the man that shot my maw.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
.......

Bartender says: "Whatta you gonna do, pee on his leg?"

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (v0R5T)

169 She married a white surgeon. She has to be the most rapidly partisan wokester there can be. Or she will be called an oreo. Its simple. Colonized in the sheets, means she has to take to the streets.

Posted by: And he is a hyper nerdy white guy at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (+F98q)

170 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts. And, I would imagine her clerks who probably write most of this nonsense for her to "massage" with her own "thoughts" are also DEI dropouts from some inner city shit hole school system
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She is the first person to sit on the Supreme Court that was over-ruled 9-0 as a trial judge.

That's how poor of a legal mind she has.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (T/tp/)

171 @145 Alito is up there with Thomas

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (JtH6i)

172 I’m waiting for a Hawaiian judge to rule scotus can’t rule against potus.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (ImXfC)

173 The only way that could happen would be if Trump ever got enough of a lock on the Senate to appoint someone like Stephen Miller to the Court. Don't see that happening.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK

Collins and Murkowski are automatic nos if the nominee is actually conservative...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (VE6XX)

174 "And this is the problem with DEI!"
----------------

No. This is the purpose of DEI.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:55 PM (E0p3T)

175
Of course she did. If brains were dynamite she couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss. She makes biden look like a NASA scientist.
Posted by: Bers

1. nice having you here

2. why do you have a tsp of piss

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:55 PM (yQPGQ)

176 2. why do you have a tsp of piss

Good enough for Gandhi good enough for a moron

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

177 justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming "reasons"
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (yQPGQ)

Saying because ! and stamping her foot....
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I'm waiting for her to assert that she *strenuously* dissents!

Posted by: Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

178 Can we just offer the Alaskan Merkan a lifetime supply of coke to retire?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

179 2. why do you have a tsp of piss

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:55 PM (yQPGQ)

Because any more than that is too spicy.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (E0p3T)

180 why do you have a tsp of piss

Good enough for Gandhi good enough for a moron
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)
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Really glad that wasn't included in "Mary Poppins."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (XZ5S6)

181 I’m waiting for a Hawaiian judge to rule scotus can’t rule against potus.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (ImXfC)

That's a very long wait.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (Oy/m2)

182 If you still doubt her brilliance . . .

End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Rep. Jamsime Crockett:
"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

183 > Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.

Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)

184 This Jumanji chick is a bit of a twat, isn't she?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (VKuXR)

185 She's his parting fart walk.
Posted by: eleven

Joe hasn't been able to trust a fart since 1987.

Posted by: Doktor Dr. Jill, Harpy/Delaware at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (G5+As)

186 Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)
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Excuse me, I thought we were in America!

Posted by: Randy Marsh, under arrest at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (XZ5S6)

187 "I have seen the future, and it is KBJ type judges ruling in cases based on vibes."

You have described the WA state court system

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (AcTAo)

188 Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)

I"m sorry, I thought this was America!

Posted by: Judge Randy Kentanji Brown Marsh at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (B9Prs)

189 can the USSC rule that the USSC has only 8 members? they seem like they want to

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (Pv3Rg)

190 178 Can we just offer the Alaskan Merkan a lifetime supply of coke to retire?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

If you can tease a hook into that mouth and ground her, we would all appreciate it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (VKuXR)

191 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Dear Justice Dumb as a Stump:

You are a retarded bag of hammers. You serve no purpose and nothing you say will change that because you say stupid shit. You got to the SCOTUS because of the color of your skin. Not merit. Not intelligence. Just pigmentation.
You are the weakest link.
Goodbye.

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (2J/Lj)

192 Douglas Mackey, the guy who got ten years for a meme, just had his conviction thrown out by the 2nd court of appeals.

http://tiny.cc/qm0p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (lIio7)

193 This Jumanji chick is a bit of a twat, isn't she?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (VKuXR)

Dummy doesn't even know how to define a woman. So, yeah.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (HqoXD)

194 At first I was leaning towards the idea that KBJ was actually intelligent, but was consumed by ideology. Now I think she's a barely literate affirmative action beneficiary who has no clue what she's supposed to be doing there, and is too arrogant to accept any advice, even from her friend Sotomayer.

Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.
--
Like Temu Obama jabbering against the OBBB, it seems the more she talks, the more she convinces the rest of the Court she's wrong.

I imagine Thomas sits in the conference meeting, eyes closed, muttering below his breath "dis bitch again."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (T/tp/)

195 Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)

The burden of being a "suborn citizen"!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (D7oie)

196 OK, it was the other judge - the one who blocked not giving money to planned parenthood.

I cruelly present Indira Talwani and her extraordinary gums:

https://tinyurl.com/2dwcxfeu

Goes to Slaynews

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (jLcCX)

197 Justice Jackson. Enjoys white meat. Literally.

Posted by: And he is a hyper nerdy white guy at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (+F98q)

198 We need Boston Dynamics to build Swirliebots that just storm through newsrooms swirly-ing everything that moves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (BI5O2)

199 Affirmative Action Has Consequences

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (Bi+MU)

200 Kind of OT, but we go months at a time now without any notice of Mitt Romney.
It's quite delightful.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (n4GiU)

201 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts.

Can you imagine, as an attorney, applying for a job and having "clerked for Justice Jackson" on your resume?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

202 it is rumored somebody has audio of her screaming in conference " do not touch me, I am a femal you need a female officer and I want a supervisor!"

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (yQPGQ)

203
The realization that what's cosmically "fair" and "nice" is a completely different thing from what's Constitutional and legal is one of the Big Steps one takes in maturing intellectually, even morally and ethically imo.

Yes, it's somehow not "fair" that people who work hard digging ditches don't get paid as well as nasty, shitty actors. It's not "nice" that hard-working border crashers get kicked out of the country.

When I was a Catholic school girl, I though the US president should wave the magic wand they get when they assume office and declare universal peace and wealth. Then I grew up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (UmB+t)

204 can the USSC rule that the USSC has only 8 members? they seem like they want to
Posted by: BlackOrchid

The number of SC justices is determined by legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (77rzZ)

205 You realize that she is pretty much a dream come true for the left. She's black, and she's stupid, and she's loud about it, which fits every one of their stereotypes. They also have managed to keep her on the plantation, so they think she hung the moon.

Nobody told her that stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (VKuXR)

206 192 Douglas Mackey, the guy who got ten years for a meme, just had his conviction thrown out by the 2nd court of appeals.

http://tiny.cc/qm0p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (lIio7)

Saw that, it's great! Best part - the Appeals Court ruled unanimously that there was NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE on which the Trial Court could have based it's ruling. Definitively answers the questions - can jury trials ever be corrupt? YES, absolutely and completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)

207 Odds KJB finds a reason to step down?

Like we could be so lucky. She’ll probably double down on stupid.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (gdYMr)

208 I imagine Thomas sits in the conference meeting, eyes closed, muttering below his breath "dis bitch again."
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He may have been that way at first, but with how things are going he's probably sitting there hoping its not *too* obvious that he's laughing his ass off inside every time she speaks.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

209
Next on TikTok: Supreme Court justices blubbering in cars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (HZi96)

210 When I was a Catholic school girl, I though the US president should wave the magic wand they get when they assume office and declare universal peace and wealth. Then I grew up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (UmB+t)

To be fair, the Apostles thought Jesus should do that. He didn't. He knows us too well for that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (VKuXR)

211 Are you not entertained?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

212
When I was a Catholic school girl,
Posted by: Blonde

and

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (yQPGQ)

213 Until the Executive ignores the Judiciary, the Judiciary is superior to the Executive. No amount of clever parsing can change it.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (qFAFE)

214 further OT adblocking rant
Yesterday I learnt that some websites are blocking the best adblocking browser "Brave". Like "lobste.rs".
I needed that one because I was doing math research, one place I know KJB won't ever bother me.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (KAw7u)

215 Kind of OT, but we go months at a time now without any notice of Mitt Romney.
It's quite delightful.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (n4GiU)

Mitt Romney? He's a standup guy!

Posted by: Pierre Delicto at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (0eaVi)

216
Odds KJB finds a reason to step down?

________

Zero point zero. She will expect everyone else to step down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (HZi96)

217 sort of in the same topic:

newest EO from the White House

Ensuring Accountability and Prioritizing Public Safety in Federal Hiring

"the following policy shall govern the hiring of Federal civilian employees within the Executive Branch through October 15, 2025: no Federal civilian position that is presently vacant may be filled, and no new position may be created, except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or required by applicable law."

I am awaiting the TRO on this one.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (D7oie)

218 161 I get the feeling that KBJ's senior thesis was as stupid and filled with grammatical errors like Big Mike's. They give off the same aura
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I concur in part, and dissent in part.

I think KBJ is stupid, but not lazy. Which is the most dangerous combination.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

219 Justice Jackson. Enjoys white meat. Literally.
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Likely the only thing we agree on.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (+F98q)

220 No polls. Must be unbelievable figures. Or I just don't get enough fake news.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (zZJ+I)

221 The number of SC justices is determined by legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President.
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That's just "legalise".

Posted by: Supreme Who Can't Define...Anything at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (TN0g+)

222 When I was a Catholic school girl,
Posted by: Blonde

and
Posted by: n

Catholic schools have bands, no? And therefore attend band camps?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

223 The realization that what's cosmically "fair" and "nice" is a completely different thing from what's Constitutional and legal is one of the Big Steps one takes in maturing intellectually, even morally and ethically imo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (UmB+t)

More importantly for a supreme court justice is that every decision you write will be used by lawyers across the country in their legal briefs to courts, and is supposed to be treated with the utmost respect and precedence by trial judges.

Which is why typically SCOTUS is very careful about what they write, because, you know, unintended consequences.

I don't think KJB fully realizes that or what she could be setting in motion if some of her opinions were the majority opinion.

Because if precedence says that a President can't tell the executive branch what to do, there will likely be a point in time where R's rule congress and a D is pres, and that will bite the D's in the ass big time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

224 And then people wonder why Affirmative Action has such a bad rap.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (7fVLG)

225 201 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts."

Barking up the wrong tree there - I'll guarantee you she got straight A+ grades in every class she ever took. I'll guarantee you that she was given those A+ grades the day she signed up for the class, and the professor considered it a great honor that she actually showed up some of the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

226
The other justices make KJB sit at the little kids table during conferences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (HZi96)

227 The realization that what's cosmically "fair" and "nice"
Posted by: Blonde

in defense of the same guys, not do not get the moral / legal distinctions

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (yQPGQ)

228 "the following policy shall govern the hiring of Federal civilian employees within the Executive Branch through October 15, 2025: no Federal civilian position that is presently vacant may be filled, and no new position may be created, except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or required by applicable law."

I am awaiting the TRO on this one.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (D7oie)

USACE was already under that hiring freeze before the buy-out. I don't think this is new.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (VKuXR)

229 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (jLcCX)

Yes, she's "gummy" and not attractive, but then Boasberg is not exactly Mr. Universe either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (2GCMq)

230 "When I was a Catholic school girl"

Catholic school girls have thrown away their mascara. They chain themselves to the axles of big mac trucks.
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks

Posted by: Joan Crawford at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (KAi1n)

231 You know who's got a really nice ass? That's right. Mitt Rom- aaaah! Noooo! Not the Swirliebot!

Posted by: Pierre Delicto at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (BI5O2)

232 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam

Posted by: Halfhand at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (ohhLJ)

233 196 OK, it was the other judge - the one who blocked not giving money to planned parenthood.

I cruelly present Indira Talwani and her extraordinary gums:

https://tinyurl.com/2dwcxfeu

Goes to Slaynews
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (jLcCX
Somehow reminds me Harry Potter movies.

Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (jgmnb)

234 Saw that, it's great! Best part - the Appeals Court ruled unanimously that there was NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE on which the Trial Court could have based it's ruling. Definitively answers the questions - can jury trials ever be corrupt? YES, absolutely and completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK

I didn't follow that case closely, but was the appeal of a denied motion for a directed verdict?

How did the underlying facts of the case get before the circuit court?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (uCjyK)

235 232 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (ohhLJ)

I'm sure she had somebody take it for her.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (VKuXR)

236 Uh oh. Thunder here. Guess I'd better shut down the laptop.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

237 Which is why typically SCOTUS is very careful about what they write, because, you know, unintended consequences.

Have you heard of Earl Warren ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (qFAFE)

238 Because if precedence says that a President can't tell the executive branch what to do, there will likely be a point in time where R's rule congress and a D is pres, and that will bite the D's in the ass big time.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

Or even worse (and this has happened in South America and other places) the President will say "Ok, the Army still does what I tell them to do, and now my Army is going to tell the rest of you what to do."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (uWKK8)

239 235 232 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (ohhLJ)

I'm sure she had somebody take it for her.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (VKuXR)

Same as Kamala did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (uWKK8)

240 Barking up the wrong tree there - I'll guarantee you she got straight A+ grades in every class she ever took. I'll guarantee you that she was given those A+ grades the day she signed up for the class, and the professor considered it a great honor that she actually showed up some of the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK

Agreed. I want to see her LSAT scores.

Getting in to Harvard Law, we would expect her to be in the 99th percentile.

Right? (lol, I kid, I kid. I'm sure she scored nowhere near that)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

241 Can you imagine, as an attorney, applying for a job and having "clerked for Justice Jackson" on your resume?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)
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The scary thing is that is a resume enhancer, depending on a variety of factors....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (7fElN)

242 That Indira chick is likewise a bit of a twat, don't you think?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (VKuXR)

243 there will likely be a point in time where R's rule congress and a D is pres, and that will bite the D's in the ass big time
==
Objection, facts not in evidence. History shows that the rules only apply to us and not to them.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (+F98q)

244 Catholic school girls have thrown away their mascara. They chain themselves to the axles of big mac trucks.
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks
Posted by: Joan Crawford
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Does this have something to do with Big Harv's coffee?

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (TN0g+)

245 Somehow reminds me Harry Potter movies.
Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (jgmnb)

Nah, thats Nic Cage in a fatsuit, bruh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (BI5O2)

246 Oprah Winfrey Jurisprudence is too generous. More like The View Jurisprudence...

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I'm starting to be grateful that this DEI twat is a Supreme Court Justice. She's so dumb, Leftist, and self-righteous that she's normalizing conservative justices and lowering public interest in more liberal judges. I'm hopeful that's happening and she keeps this up for 50 years...

Posted by: bearski at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (Bhsk7)

247 Can you imagine how many KJB's are Air Traffic Controllers?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (7fVLG)

248 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

They let her draw pictures for her answers.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

249 Whose bitch this is?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (wzQvI)

250 That Indira chick is likewise a bit of a twat, don't you think?

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Don't even get me started--did you know she once turned me into a toad???

Posted by: Zombie Dick York at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (TN0g+)

251 Omg, I just saw pics of Action Jackson standing next to Justice Roberts. She is a midget! I met Roberts at the Supreme Court. He’s a little dude. A And he towered over Jackson … when she was wearing heels. I doubt she’s taller than 4-10.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

252 248 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

They let her draw pictures for her answers.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

I just assumed she paid someone to take it for her...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (tOcjL)

253 Have you heard of Earl Warren ?
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (qFAFE)

Yes, I can't think of any of his courts' rulings off the top of my head that weren't carefully crafted.

Yes, he used his power for promoting his political views, but they were / are usually seen as pretty tight opinions.

But whig would be the one to know that for sure, legal history is not my expertise.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)

254 That Indira chick is likewise a bit of a twat, don't you think?
Posted by: tcn in AK

My, someone is fond of the "tw-word" today.

You're not wrong, however.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)

255 Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida

This illegitimate SCOTUS continues to do Trump’s bidding, allowing him to take a wrecking ball to federal agencies and fire thousands of federal workers who provide the services our families rely on. We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (NpAcC)

256 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfh

running with a bag of merch

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (yQPGQ)

257 BREAKING: JFK Airport officials have issued a travel advisory warning after Islamists have surrounded the airport, calling for a “global intifada.”

Posted by: Ambulatory Mitch at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (/U5Yz)

258 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

You argued a case before the Supremes?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

259 BREAKING: JFK Airport officials have issued a travel advisory warning after Islamists have surrounded the airport, calling for a “global intifada.”

it is going to be a lot of jihadist to surround jfk

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (yQPGQ)

260 Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida
--------

Deport.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

261 I think that unless/until there are real, life changing consequences for these judges, nothing will happen ™. And it may only take a few of them to experience these life changing events to bring the others to heel.

You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (Q4IgG)

262 You know, Jackson's appointment really baffles me, when the position opened up I assumed Biden would nominate some law professor or someone else who could act as a sort of mastermind while the other two leftwing justices acted as rubber stamps, but instead they appointed a third affirmative action hire rubber stamp.

Posted by: Surfperch at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (YsSvh)

263
I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

=============

DC and Massachusetts. Someone who wants to bother can see how many times she had to take it before she passed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (UmB+t)

264 Can Congress just delete a particular inferior court?

The clown from yesterday who just said Congress has to pay PP would be a good test. No impeachment, trial etc. just Sorry your office is closed. Here's a cardboard box of your shit.

Posted by: DaveA at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (FhXTo)

265 Islamists have surrounded the airport,

GASSSSSSSSSSSS

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (+E2T+)

266 You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZbrush.

He was the defendant. Failed to stop in the name of love.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

267 262 You know, Jackson's appointment really baffles me, when the position opened up I assumed Biden would nominate some law professor or someone else who could act as a sort of mastermind while the other two leftwing justices acted as rubber stamps, but instead they appointed a third affirmative action hire rubber stamp.
Posted by: Surfperch at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (YsSvh)

How do I put this kindly?

Joe Biden severely limited his options when he pledged to appoint a black woman on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (uCjyK)

268 You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: B

they were even signing stop in the name of love

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (yQPGQ)

269 it is going to be a lot of jihadist to surround jfk
Posted by: n

It borders the ocean, right? I doubt there are jihadis in boats surrounding that part.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

270 Barking up the wrong tree there - I'll guarantee you she got straight A+ grades in every class she ever took. I'll guarantee you that she was given those A+ grades the day she signed up for the class, and the professor considered it a great honor that she actually showed up some of the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK

Agreed. I want to see her LSAT scores.

Getting in to Harvard Law, we would expect her to be in the 99th percentile.

Right? (lol, I kid, I kid. I'm sure she scored nowhere near that)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

A couple of general statements: Girls do better in school, pound for pound, than boys do. They're geared for it. Boys have to switch to another gear to adhere to the school setting.

Intelligence, of course, is not always measured by school performance, and some people do really well on tests, but can't think their way out of a revolving door.

In a way, some of these female students who do really well, they don't really put in much "work" to get the grades, and so it probably goes without saying, they don't really learn much. Of whatever there is to learn in school.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)

271 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

=============

DC and Massachusetts. Someone who wants to bother can see how many times she had to take it before she passed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (UmB+t)

I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (uCjyK)

272 You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: B

they were even signing stop in the name of love
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His defense was that you can't hurry love...

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

273 Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida

This illegitimate SCOTUS continues to do Trump’s bidding, allowing him to take a wrecking ball to federal agencies and fire thousands of federal workers who provide the services our families rely on. We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.
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Which services? Spell them out for us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (7fElN)

274 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (7
==4
While seemingly unlikely, it is possible. I have known a few lawyers who have done it after getting cert.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (+F98q)

275 You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You can with a good sponsor.

Posted by: DaveA at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (FhXTo)

276 Jackson has 3-4 law clerks.
These are the top of the very top of the top law school's class.
The most sought after job by larval lawyers.

And.

And all that back-up brainpower is over-taxed and red-lined attempting to guide her drafts into passable legal opinions.

This is the Cleveland Browns, with all top four draft picks, and the Head Coach Jackson is drawing hopscotch instructions in crayon and demanding they turn that into touchdowns.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (T/tp/)

277 . I doubt she’s taller than 4-10.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

My daughter is 4'10". I am 5'9". I tower over the girl. Her brother is 6'4". He towers over me. We look slightly ridiculous together.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (2J/Lj)

278 I think that unless/until there are real, life changing consequences for these judges, nothing will happen ™. And it may only take a few of them to experience these life changing events to bring the others to heel.

You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (Q4IgG)

I've long thought this. And the 'life changing consequences' won't - and don't need to - actually turn them into reasonable, thoughtful people. That would be naive. But it will scare them into not doing the wrong thing All. Of. The. Fucking. Time.

And that would be a good thing.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (7fVLG)

279 I didn't follow that case closely, but was the appeal of a denied motion for a directed verdict?

How did the underlying facts of the case get before the circuit court?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (uCjyK)

This is from the Appeals Court ruling today:
"Defendant-Appellant Douglass Mackey (“Mackey”

appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on October 25, 2023 after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Donnelly, J.). Mackey
was convicted of conspiring to injure citizens in thevexercise of their right to votevin violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 based on three memes he posted or reposted on
Twitter shortly before the 2016 presidential election. These memes falsely suggested that supporters of then-candidate Hillary Clinton could vote by text message. On appeal, Mackey argues, inter alia, that the evidence was insufficient to prove that he knowingly agreed to
join the charged conspiracy. We agree."

Short version - he was convicted of conspiracy, but no evidence was presented at trial that any conspiracy with anyone ever existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (uWKK8)

280 >>@RepRashida

This illegitimate SCOTUS continues to do Trump’s bidding, allowing him to take a wrecking ball to federal agencies and fire thousands of federal workers who provide the services our families rely on. We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.

"the services our families rely on" ... uh, speak for yourself there

Posted by: the dandy at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (8l8nW)

281 Have you heard of Earl Warren ?
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (qFAFE)

Yes, I can't think of any of his courts' rulings off the top of my head that weren't carefully crafted.

Yes, he used his power for promoting his political views, but they were / are usually seen as pretty tight opinions.

But whig would be the one to know that for sure, legal history is not my expertise.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)
——

Warren was a smart guy and a Republican. He hated FDR’s New Deal and was nominated for the SC by Ike. Many of his decisions were conservative, or at least considered that at the time. He did go off the rails in areas like criminal justice. But most of even those decisions were defensible at the time. It’s only later that they were corrupted and polluted into what we know today.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (aeiyZ)

282
You know, Jackson's appointment really baffles me, when the position opened up I assumed Biden would nominate some law professor or someone else who could act as a sort of mastermind while the other two leftwing justices acted as rubber stamps, but instead they appointed a third affirmative action hire rubber stamp.
Posted by: Surfperch

================

She was a fulfillment of Biden's promise to nominate a
[ ] Black
[ ] woman

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (UmB+t)

283 In a way, some of these female students who do really well, they don't really put in much "work" to get the grades, and so it probably goes without saying, they don't really learn much. Of whatever there is to learn in school.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)

I have a bachelors degree, a masters degree and a professional doctorate (JD).

I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.

Overall, I think as long as you go to class, have a pulse, do at least some work, and are marginally good at figuring out how to be a good test taker (which you should know by the time you're in law school), you can graduate pretty much any level of education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

284 A travel warning. Not we're going to remove these jihadi's by force if necessary. Enjoy your new mayor NYC.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

285 Nick Flor
@ProfessorF
Sadly, Justice Ketanji Brown not knowing the definition of "woman" poses an even greater existential threat to the rule of law, because if she can't define something as basic as that, can she be counted to have the reasoning ability to rule on anything?!?

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 05:18 PM (NpAcC)

286 My daughter is 4'10". I am 5'9". I tower over the girl. Her brother is 6'4". He towers over me. We look slightly ridiculous together.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (2J/Lj)
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My first sweetheart was 5'1" or 5'2". I'm 6'3". This was amusing to the sort of people who find that amusing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (XZ5S6)

287 I have a bachelors degree, a masters degree and a professional doctorate (JD).

I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.

Overall, I think as long as you go to class, have a pulse, do at least some work, and are marginally good at figuring out how to be a good test taker (which you should know by the time you're in law school), you can graduate pretty much any level of education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)

288
I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

==============

Good lord, and they're about to make it easier? That NextGen exam is supposed to make the existing one look like Candyland.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (UmB+t)

289 Douglas Mackey, the guy who got ten years for a meme, just had his conviction thrown out by the 2nd court of appeals.
Posted by: bonhomme

The article someone linked to at Not The Bee showed a meme of his saying one could vote for Hillary by text.

Is this the same guy who got busted for a meme saying Democrats vote on Wednesday? (Same as a Democrat's meme in a previous election)

Posted by: mindful webworker - dangerous funnies at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (JYGoS)

290 The judicial branch needs to be fixed, but there aren't enough veterinarians to do the job properly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (ynpvh)

291 Short version - he was convicted of conspiracy, but no evidence was presented at trial that any conspiracy with anyone ever existed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (uWKK

Wow, that's an even bigger smack down than I imagined. Very uncommon for a higher court to touch on the underlying facts on the case. For them to say, essentially "no reasonable jury could find that the prosecution proved its case on each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt" is very uncommon.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)

292 Warren was a smart guy and a Republican. He hated FDR’s New Deal and was nominated for the SC by Ike. Many of his decisions were conservative, or at least considered that at the time. He did go off the rails in areas like criminal justice. But most of even those decisions were defensible at the time. It’s only later that they were corrupted and polluted into what we know today.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

He was just a figurehead on his vaunted Commission. Dulles and Jerry Ford ran that shitshow.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

293 274 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (7
==4
While seemingly unlikely, it is possible. I have known a few lawyers who have done it after getting cert.
Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (+F98q)
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I’m a member of the SC bar but never got to argue a case there. I met Roberts at a ceremony for black members of the SC bar. I sponsored a girl I dated, a Haitian girl, for admission to the bar. So I went with her to the ceremony.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

294 >>>You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

>A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Posted by: Lord Comey at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (wzQvI)

295 I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

You mean like Hillary?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (Riz8t)

296 I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)

Yes, that is a fair assumption, and I probably should have carved out "hard sciences" in my broad statement about education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

297 I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.
==
Agree, except I also learned some statistics and economics in undergrad. Useful in understanding a lot of stuff.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (+F98q)

298 [i}]BREAKING: JFK Airport officials have issued a travel advisory warning after Islamists have surrounded the airport, calling for a “global intifada.”
Posted by: Ambulatory Mitc

Arrest them all and deport them to wherever they came from.

Be a terrible shame if one happened to explode in flight and take the plane down.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (a+4eV)

299 I’m a member of the SC bar but never got to argue a case there. I met Roberts at a ceremony for black members of the SC bar. I sponsored a girl I dated, a Haitian girl, for admission to the bar. So I went with her to the ceremony.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

And she was hot, right?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

300 In fact, Sotomayor rebuked her for once again refusing to apply the actual laws and rules of jurisprudence and ignore the fact that no cuts have yet even happened. You cannot rule that a plan is illegal, Sotomayor lectured Ketanji Brown Jackson, until that plan actually exists.

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"I do what's right and wait for the law to catch up with me."

-- OG Anti-American and -Constitution Commie DEI Hire Justice Thurgood Marshall

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (aGVRo)

301 Short version - he was convicted of conspiracy, but no evidence was presented at trial that any conspiracy with anyone ever existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (uWKK

It still amazes me that he was unable to avail himself of the first amendment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (i24o9)

302 You mean like Hillary?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (Riz8t)

Yes, I would wager she was the only Yale Law Student to fail the bar that year. Or one of like two.

The fail rate for the T14 schools is very low. Shit, the fail rate for my-non T14 rate is very low. Passage rate for my school is always above 90%.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (uCjyK)

303 Wow, that's an even bigger smack down than I imagined. Very uncommon for a higher court to touch on the underlying facts on the case. For them to say, essentially "no reasonable jury could find that the prosecution proved its case on each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt" is very uncommon.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)

And even better, the Appeals Court ruling was unanimous.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (uWKK8)

304 286 My daughter is 4'10". I am 5'9". I tower over the girl. Her brother is 6'4". He towers over me. We look slightly ridiculous together.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (2J/Lj)
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My first sweetheart was 5'1" or 5'2". I'm 6'3". This was amusing to the sort of people who find that amusing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (XZ5S6)
——

‘Amateurs’

— Shaq

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (aeiyZ)

305 Jackson's opinion shows where she'll be on free speech as well - "Bring back prior restraint! We don't need to wait and see what people we don't like are going to say!"

Posted by: Wally at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (bFYac)

306 I have a bachelors degree, a masters degree and a professional doctorate (JD).

I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.

Overall, I think as long as you go to class, have a pulse, do at least some work, and are marginally good at figuring out how to be a good test taker (which you should know by the time you're in law school), you can graduate pretty much any level of education.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

My grad school was almost no tests. It was writing. Digging up research, plugging in citations, formatting the paper, and having a logical framework for it.

The perfessers would poke holes in it, and sometimes, you'd be writing the same damn paper the whole semester.

What I got out of class was the give and take with the other students and the perfessers, but you'd see these lumps who would be doing damn near anything other than getting into the discussion.

Those people end up being department heads and chiefs of little Indians running around doing nothing.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (dGCAG)

307 31 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

Megyn Kelly and guest Mark Halperin just finished having a big haw-haw over the fact that Kamala was too dumb to make the case for bacon.

And neither one of those dummies was aware that the interviewer was Muslim.

This is what happens when journalists don't do journalism. Really surprised at Megyn being that stupid. Halperin is TDS affected and overrated but et tu Megyn? Watch the damn clip before making asses of yourself, "journalists."

Posted by: nobody at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (NhiOW)

308
I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)
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A.B....M.A....Ph.D. - Abmaphid! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Posted by: George at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (XZ5S6)

309 Yes, that is a fair assumption, and I probably should have carved out "hard sciences" in my broad statement about education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

Not intended as a slight at all. It's just a noteworthy distinction.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (i24o9)

310 OMG.

KBJ sez: "I think I’m aware that people are watching. They want to know how I’m going to perform in this job and in this environment. I’m doing my best work, as well as I can do because I want people to see and know that I can do anything just like anyone else."

http://tiny.cc/ao0p001

This is the kind of thing a disabled person says. They want to do their best to be as capable as people who aren't disabled. She aspires to be considered normal.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (lIio7)

311 He was just a figurehead on his vaunted Commission. Dulles and Jerry Ford ran that shitshow.
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

lol. We were talking about him as a SCOTUS justice, not him in his role on the Warren Commission.

But I'm always down for some JFK talk.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (uCjyK)

312 I said previously. KJB has never had to argue a point because she's been in the left woke stew. So there's never been any pushback on her "opinion."

And that's what it's really about. "Opinion." There's a snippet of her from 2022. Forget what- but her and host both in red.

She says it's exciting to be on SCOTUS and even if she disagrees with the ruling, she gets to write an opinion. And the way she phrases it, she means opinion. Not legal opinion.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (JkCto)

313 308
I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)
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A.B....M.A....Ph.D. - Abmaphid! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Posted by: George at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (XZ5S6)

I thought frogs were abmaphids.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

314
It still amazes me that he was unable to avail himself of the first amendment.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (i24o9)

I suspect he was originally charged with Conspiracy as a way to get around a First Amendment Defense. They just forgot the part about proving that a conspiracy actually existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (uWKK8)

315 I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
________

I thought it was hard as shit, although the grading scale may be lax. On the multistate, I was absolutely sure on less than 20 of the 200 questions. But it only took 120 to pass the multistate in most states.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 05:25 PM (p16cu)

316 Not intended as a slight at all. It's just a noteworthy distinction.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (i24o9)

I didn't take it as a slight. I did my best to avoid hard classes in undergrad (like advanced science or math. Or foreign languages), and my masters did not involve anything I wasn't already good at.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:25 PM (uCjyK)

317 Yes, that is a fair assumption, and I probably should have carved out "hard sciences" in my broad statement about education.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

I just figure grad school for the "hard sciences" is sitting in the dirt, picking up little rocks and chipping the dirt off of them until they're all shiny or show the bones or fossils or whatever.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (dGCAG)

318
New One

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (3ek7K)

319 My first sweetheart was 5'1" or 5'2". I'm 6'3". This was amusing to the sort of people who find that amusing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM

I've been looking at that scenario for years.
My brother has been married to his high school sweetheart for over 25 years. She is 5'0". He is 6'3".

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (2J/Lj)

320 lol. We were talking about him as a SCOTUS justice, not him in his role on the Warren Commission.

But I'm always down for some JFK talk.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

I guess my point was that he wouldn't have been chairman of the commission had he not been CJOTUS.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

321
Warren was a smart guy (though Thomas Dewey privately called him "the big dummy"). It was William O. Douglas who really started the come up with the conclusion then find the law approach.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (HZi96)

322 I thought it was hard as shit, although the grading scale may be lax. On the multistate, I was absolutely sure on less than 20 of the 200 questions. But it only took 120 to pass the multistate in most states.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 05:25 PM (p16cu)

And yet you (presumably) passed?

I don't think I know anyone personally who did the full 10 weeks or whatever of bar prep and still failed the test.

I agree that the test is incredibly stressful (or at least was pre-covid when you had to take it in person), but it's designed to be very passable.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (uCjyK)

323 This blog used to call her "MeAgain Kelly". She's always been a lightweight at best.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (KAw7u)

324 Kagan and Sotomayor seen wearing I'm with Stupid robes.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (jPdyB)

325 KBJ is her own court. dominates questions and bases decisions on her own writings and how she feels. Constitution, not so much (if ever)

Posted by: gov'theretohelp at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (PfnFb)

326 I’m a member of the SC bar but never got to argue a case there. I met Roberts at a ceremony for black members of the SC bar. I sponsored a girl I dated, a Haitian girl, for admission to the bar. So I went with her to the ceremony.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

And she was hot, right?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)
—-

She was runner-up in the “Miss New York” city pageant. Had she won, she would have competed for Miss New York in the Miss America pageant. She still does pageant consulting.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (aeiyZ)

327 I suspect he was originally charged with Conspiracy as a way to get around a First Amendment Defense. They just forgot the part about proving that a conspiracy actually existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (uWKK

That makes sense, but then the conspiracy to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote by making dank memes in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 would still seem to implicate 1A, but, of course, I am no KBJ.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (i24o9)

328
Her Majesty married me because I'm 6'1" and she's 4'11". Not for my brains or looks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (HZi96)

329 People often wonder why in a free-for-all insurrection mayors and judges top the list of 'most popular'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (/lPRQ)

330 >> And the way she phrases it, she means opinion. Not legal opinion.

Based on the record I think it's highly possible she doesn't know the difference.

She also has that grating Kamala tic of cackling her way through sentences while no one else is laughing.

Posted by: the dandy at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (8l8nW)

331
Nood

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

332 This is the kind of thing a disabled person says. They want to do their best to be as capable as people who aren't disabled. She aspires to be considered normal.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (lIio7)

You pulled that quote from the script of "Riding the Bus With My Sister," didn't you.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (dGCAG)

333 >>>Those people end up being department heads and chiefs of little Indians running around doing nothing.

Posted by: BurtTC

>Hold on, um, I'm gonna get me a beer.

Posted by: Liz Warren at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (wzQvI)

334 New thread from El Jefe.

Posted by: Dad of Six at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (Moat+)

335 I have seen the future, and it is KBJ type judges ruling in cases based on vibes.

That's my prediction. The court will find that laws and blah blah blah are stupid and gay.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

If Haitian it would shaking a chicken in the middle of the street.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (/lPRQ)

336 …job and in this environment. I’m doing my best work, as well as I can do because I want people to see and know that I can do anything just like anyone else."

And why couldn’t she? She is not the only black justice, in case she isn’t aware. She is not the only female justice. What is her point here?

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (pRpzT)

337 I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (uCjyK)

I know someone who crammed for it and passed. Total slacker.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (i24o9)

338
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida...

We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.

By doing what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 05:31 PM (63Dwl)

339 Warren wrote the Miranda decision. A stupid and important decision

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (JtH6i)

340 Jackson is just part of the continues dumbing down of American institutions. The fruit of the activist teachers is now ripe.

Look at the total morons in Congress. This shit-talking kid Maxwell Frost whining about the suppression of the working class having worked only part time as an Uber driver.

Idiot Sam Bankman-Fraud gave him a million dollars to get elected.

This is the new breed. People completely lacking in merit being placed in leadership positions by people who just don't know anybetter.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (ri7hX)

341 When Sotomayor tells you you're stupid, you are really, REALLY stupid.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:38 PM (D1vbu)

342 This is the new breed. People completely lacking in merit being placed in leadership positions by people who just don't know anybetter. Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (ri7hX)

Isn't that the truth - the old breed, well, at least they had some sort of street smarts. You know, not stick a fork in the light socket to see if the power is one kinda smarts. This new group - let's just say AI can't be developed fast enough.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:41 PM (D1vbu)

343 At what point do they start putting a cork on the end of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's fork in the Supreme court lunch room?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (D1vbu)

344 Funniest thing about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is she is the dumbest person on the court, but during hearings she just...won't...shut....up. She has spoken more words during the hearings than all the other justices combined. She talks and talks. And what she says betrays the fact she is ...shockingly stupid. She hasn't done any homework. Has no knowledge of the law.

That is what is driving the other justices up a wall. I think she is actually embarrassing Sotomayor and Kagan.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (D1vbu)

345 At this rate we would have been a lot better of with The Supremes Court. I could've gone for Justice Mary Wilson.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

Set their opinions to music and have them performed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

346 Delay Trump from even making plans for two months. Then when they make the actual plans, they will delay again.

Posted by: MikeN at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (HVZOH)

347 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just issued the strongest Supreme Court opinion in favor of the non-delegation doctrine in the last 100 years or so. Brainless, yes, but nevertheless strong. Normally that's a position taken by the most extreme right wing of small government conservatism. This time it is from a full-throttle leftist. Brah. Va.

(Non-delegation doctrine: Congress cannot delegate its inherent powers under the Constitution to the executive. This has been a lost battle since the New Deal court of the 1930s.)

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at July 09, 2025 07:44 PM (bWR5k)

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