The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
That hateful cunt just won’t go away…
Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.
And never forget Joe Biden is the reason Clarence Thomas is even on the bench.
When Joe talked about how “we all used to get along” he means when Republicans pretended to like him so he’d be their useful idiot.
Here’s the thing I never understood about Thomas. You know they wouldn’t stop with same-sex marriage and eventually go for interracial marriage. Is he just playing the long game of wanting an annulment or does he not think that’ll happen?
It’s not just him, lots of minorities think they won’t be subject to the consequences because “they’re one of the good ones”.
Hell, Biden isn’t a minority but he’s a Dem, and he was constantly surprised from 2008 to today that republicans stopped treating him different than other Dems the second they no longer needed him.
Republicans will drop Thomas just as fast as they dropped Biden when he’s not needed.
Like, none of this is new, it’s the same as the guy who wrote “first they came for” when the Nazis were in power.
Niemöller was initially an anti-Communist, anti-semite and supported Adolf Hitler. But when Hitler rose to power and insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler.
In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a cleric and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II.
Specifically for the marriage issues, it’s likely that any existing ones would remain intact and only the new ones would be subject to the ruling. Also, it would likely be a “give it to the states” kind of thing, and since Thomas lives in Virginia he probably wouldn’t have to worry about it anyways.
Biden is such a turd, his time in the senate always marked by making “deals” with Repugs to just give away the whole game. Even worse in the executive, removing the public option from ACA before they even started negotiating. And of course working to give us Trump instead of Bernie, twice.
9 Republican Senators voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, 5 voted for Elena Kagan, and 3 voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson, which was necessary to grant her a majority.
Apart from McConnell refusing to bring Garland up for a vote, parties have been confirming their opposition’s nominees for decades.
You can make specific arguments for why Thomas was unfit due to harassment accusations, but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.
You can push for someone less ideological than Bork, but don’t fault people for working together in the past to keep the government functional.
Did you read that link and your take away was that Biden just voted for Clarence?
It’s ok if you did t already know how involved Biden was, I mean, I guess it is, it’s come up a lot since his last election…
But the link’s right there bro.
If you read it, and that was seriously you’re take away tho…
I don’t know how I can explain it in a way that would be any different. Like, I can’t simplify it anymore than that article does, that’s why I linked it.
I think you just didn’t even click it, let alone read it, and that’s the most charitable interpretation of your comment.
But essentially:
but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.
Thomas was a serial sexual abuser, and Biden swept it under the rug.
Normalizing that behavior (and worse) for futer SC picks. Thomas was the begining of the end for the SC, and Biden is why he ever made it there.
That hateful cunt just won’t go away…
And never forget Joe Biden is the reason Clarence Thomas is even on the bench.
When Joe talked about how “we all used to get along” he means when Republicans pretended to like him so he’d be their useful idiot.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/441408-timeline-a-history-of-the-joe-biden-anita-hill-controversy/
Here’s the thing I never understood about Thomas. You know they wouldn’t stop with same-sex marriage and eventually go for interracial marriage. Is he just playing the long game of wanting an annulment or does he not think that’ll happen?
It’s not just him, lots of minorities think they won’t be subject to the consequences because “they’re one of the good ones”.
Hell, Biden isn’t a minority but he’s a Dem, and he was constantly surprised from 2008 to today that republicans stopped treating him different than other Dems the second they no longer needed him.
Republicans will drop Thomas just as fast as they dropped Biden when he’s not needed.
Like, none of this is new, it’s the same as the guy who wrote “first they came for” when the Nazis were in power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
Tgere’s a term for that: “pickme” girls and boys.
Specifically for the marriage issues, it’s likely that any existing ones would remain intact and only the new ones would be subject to the ruling. Also, it would likely be a “give it to the states” kind of thing, and since Thomas lives in Virginia he probably wouldn’t have to worry about it anyways.
The state of Virginia is literally the defendant in the interracial marriage supreme court case. Loving v Virginia
Biden is such a turd, his time in the senate always marked by making “deals” with Repugs to just give away the whole game. Even worse in the executive, removing the public option from ACA before they even started negotiating. And of course working to give us Trump instead of Bernie, twice.
9 Republican Senators voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, 5 voted for Elena Kagan, and 3 voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson, which was necessary to grant her a majority.
Apart from McConnell refusing to bring Garland up for a vote, parties have been confirming their opposition’s nominees for decades.
You can make specific arguments for why Thomas was unfit due to harassment accusations, but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.
You can push for someone less ideological than Bork, but don’t fault people for working together in the past to keep the government functional.
Ok…
Did you read that link and your take away was that Biden just voted for Clarence?
It’s ok if you did t already know how involved Biden was, I mean, I guess it is, it’s come up a lot since his last election…
But the link’s right there bro.
If you read it, and that was seriously you’re take away tho…
I don’t know how I can explain it in a way that would be any different. Like, I can’t simplify it anymore than that article does, that’s why I linked it.
I think you just didn’t even click it, let alone read it, and that’s the most charitable interpretation of your comment.
But essentially:
Thomas was a serial sexual abuser, and Biden swept it under the rug.
Normalizing that behavior (and worse) for futer SC picks. Thomas was the begining of the end for the SC, and Biden is why he ever made it there.