• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You know usually they that for headlines with a question mark the answer at the end is always no. But I guess there’s an exception to every rule huh?

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Alito and Thomas have been biding their time on the Court, waiting for the 50 year conservative project to come to fruition, and now that it is they’re no longer willing to play pretend as objective neutral jurists. Their argument is simple “we won, we can do whatever we want”.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      They’d be willing to pretend if they had to, but now there’s no need.

      Unless a super majority were to get elected to congress, that could either impeach them or at least pass laws governing their emoluments and conflicts of interest.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes. Coup plotter sympathizers, too. Don’t forget the coup plot. The insurrection was more exciting to cover; the coup plot was (and is) the real danger to our country.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    We have no room for rhetorical questions here. Please move along.

    This is like asking if they lied about roe v wade during conf hearings.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Well, to be an insurrectionist, I think you have to actually be there during the insurrection

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        1 year ago

        Do you think that they aren’t participating in the insurrection? The presidential immunity question should be enough to answer this for you, before even considering that Thomas’ wife was actively helping coordinate J6.

        There’s a coup still underway and SCOTUS is right at the front of it.

        • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          Right. Insurrection is a violent revolt. You think some old fuckers sitting on a bench is a “violent revolt”?

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            1 year ago

            Are you serious? You didn’t think that you’re splitting hairs a bit?

            “Yup. We have to let them go. Sure, they overthrew the government, but some pedantic arse said they need to be directly involved in violence, not just undermine democracy from the bench, in order for it to count.”

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Have you been lost in the wilderness these past 3 years? Its pretty much taken over the media for both sides