If you’re on the losing side of the case it’s like… yeah you’re gonna write a dissent the conservative judges on the court have wrote dissents too like who gives a shit it means you LOST
Their favorite position is standing off to the side saying, “I don’t think this is legal.”
What’s so obnoxious also is they will say stuff like “did u see the sotomayer dissent she wrote a BEAUTIFUL dissent it was like poetry”
And then you read it and it’s basically like “this is bad because now the government can detain people for arbitrary reasons” something a 4th grader could figure out; but they think it’s amazing because she used the word ‘irreconcilable’ oh great you know some words that will show em
These motherfuckers get to be in the same room as these ghouls and they are legally untouchable basically like do something else get creative!
What is stopping one of these lib justices from bringing a loud speaker to deliberations and playing banana phone at maximum volume? What is stopping Kagan or Jackson from pulling out their phones and walking up to Clarence Thomas and calling him an ugly bitch? Try to explain the concept of he/him lesbians or interrogate him on what his fursona is so the old bitch can get confused and have a heart attack early.
There’s a billion things they can do to stymie the process but they won’t do it because they are all american imperial pig dogs and they won’t do anything that could unravel precious American institutions.
I think that the justices are entirely too committed to the delusion that the SC is and has always been a non-partisan institution. They can’t do anything other than pen badly written dissents because it would shatter their entire perception of themselves and the world. The lib justices probably look back on ginsberg and scalia fucking on the sly as some kind of high water mark for neutral jurisprudence.
ginsberge and scalia fucking on the sly
[waves of nausea]
What is stopping one of these lib justices from bringing a loud speaker to deliberations and playing banana phone at maximum volume?
That would be the baliff
The marshall doesn’t go inside the conference room where they privately meet and I can’t find anything that outlines what authority they would have to do something that involved physically restraining a justice in general. Seems to me the impeachment procedure in the house is the only way to stop a justice that was going absolutely ham.
This is a pretty extreme scenario though so maybe they would intervene anyway if a judge brought a whole ass loudspeaker in especially since maybe that could be seen as a physical threat to the other justices so idk banana phone scenario is gray area probably
So bring some guns of your own
It gives them a fake “win” that they can discuss and feel morally superior about. And as at least one other Hexbear pointed out - libs love the “judged harshly by historians” crap.
Ninja edit. A related thought is liberals would rather win arguments than win elections.
Liberals are trained to expect nothing materially from their political class nembers so they embrace and sooth themselves with aesthetics and “clapbacks”.
it’s a coping mechanism to help them cling to the delusion that the rules are meant to be fair while avoiding the reality that they’re meant to be obstacles.
Because they think that Republicans will be “judged by history” for doing this stuff, and so they want to make sure they get their brave and heroic quote in the history books, not realising that you actually need to do something brave and heroic to stand up to villainy in order to get recognised historically, not just trying to come up with a soundbite or a zinger while comfortably doing nothing about the Fascists.
because that’s what it says on their RBG coffee cup
For a host of reasons they fell on the side of
the pen is mightier than the sword
Instead of
sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
If you draw 5 dissent cards you summon Exodia and win
You know how when you say expecto patranus in someone’s direction, you kill them? It’s kind of like that.
when voting rights were gutted a while ago, one of them had a nice line about throwing away your umbrella when it’s raining because you’re dry, but that line didn’t get anybody to do anything. this “i dissent” shit isn’t even pithy.
Being a supreme court justice is literally the easiest job in the world, no one can fire you, you get to choose which cases to hear out and it’s often months in advance. All you really need to know is precedent and the constitution. No democratic centralism so if you lose a case who gives a fuck that’s the way the wind blows.
No respect to any supreme court judge, they are the bottom-feeders of the legal profession.
