I am looking (desperately) for a silver lining

[question everything]

Both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh surprised us by joining our side. On different decisions, don't remember which.

This led us to conclude that Thomas and Alitos are the real rabid ones.

So... I am hoping that even if Barrett will join these two, that we may still be able to eke, on occasions, 5-4 ruling.

Maybe..

[orwell]

1. This court will bend over backwards...

...to hand corporations, voter suppression groups, and big money donors whatever they want.

Everything else is a crap shoot.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I've always maintained that Thomas and Alito are the worst of the bunch.

And Rehnquist was the absolute worst since Taney. Judges can be unpredictable, so we'll have to wait and see. Once in awhile Constitutional originalism will work in our favor.

[wryter2000]

5. You left out Scalia

He has to be in the top three or four worst.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Scalia occasionally left the right-wing bubble and was a pretty strong defender

of the First Amendment. He was bad, but not in the same league of bad as Thomas and Alito, and definitely not Rehnquist.

[katracey]

3. well

Well, a I think a silver lining might be the fact that John Roberts did say the Supreme Court will not re-write election law. So.... I guess you can take that with a grain of salt, but with 5 days left, we can hope......GO JOE

[wryter2000]

4. Roberts wrote one of the decisions that saved the ACA

He's clearly not overly eager to get rid of it.

If we expand the court, we might end up winning 6-5 decisions if we get Roberts.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. The silver lining is, starting Jan 20, we push to expand SCOTUS

It’s a silver lining you must ACT upon, not waiting passively for something good to happen.

Put your legislators on speed dial.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Anything is possible.

[question everything]

10. Yes, historic legacy

and effects on family members.

Let's hope that they, some of them, do not want it to be: they filled the expectations.