In my experience, the UChicago alleged lovers of disputation also fall back on their own authority and reputations for being “smart” any time they’re seriously challenged (see, e.g., the Epstein-Chotiner interview).

Anyway, an America in which immigrants are the enemy, McCarthyism is cool, the Alien and Sedition Acts were a great precedent, J6 was normal political behavior (for Republicans), MLK was a communist "race hustler," & Gerald LK Smith's "Christian Nationalism" is celebrated will be a very dark place.

was just reading about how duterte never explicitly told his allies to murder people but everyone got the message

SKsharonk.bsky.socialOct 11, 2024 11:31pm

this is some terrifying shit

So the abortion pill case SCOTUS kicked back to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk? Three Republican AGs just asked him to revoke telemedicine access to mifepristone on a nationwide basis, which I believe would shut down prescribers even in “shield law” states storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BCbigcases.bots.lawOct 11, 2024 9:37pm

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so what are the odds that this will get as much play as “deplorables?”

In Trump, SCOTUS's conservative wing worried about theoretical prosecutors bringing politically-motivated charges against the most powerful person on earth. In Glossip, they worry that prosecutors whose misconduct put a likely innocent man on death row . . . might suffer harm to their reputations.

Clarence Thomas Thinks the Real Victims Are Prosecutors Who Engage in Misconduct

Clarence Thomas is leaping through crazy hoops to try to kill Richard Glossip.

Better a hundred innocent men be lethally injected than two prosecutors be impugned

LHlawrencehurley.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 10:11pm

One striking moment in the argument was how animated Justice Thomas was -- not about the potential miscarriage of justice, but at the idea that prosecutors originally involved in the case didn't get a chance to defend their conduct, almost as if THEY somehow suffered a due process violation:

Astute readers of this bit of damage control, written by one of the Supreme Court's premier access journalists, will note that it does not actually say anything about how John Roberts has been "confounded" by Donald Trump www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/p...

When I was in law school about 15 years ago, there was a STRONG strain of right wing discourse about “intelligence” (or the lack thereof, witness the Sotomayor slander during her confirmation) and it almost always boiled down to LSAT and IQ-test scores. It’s insidious.

I smiled fakely and said, "oh yeah?" They're lucky I was feeling non-confrontational. :)