The Supreme Court's conservatives are quaking over cancel culture

[Nevilledog]

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Ian Millhiser
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One of the biggest mistakes that I made about this SCOTUS is that I thought that most of the Republican justices were corporate Republicans who came up in corporate law firms and largely thought that way.

Turns out, they are Fox News culture warriors.

The Supreme Court’s conservatives are quaking over cancel culture
The Court’s right flank is afraid that the monster under their bed will cancel them.
vox.com
6:13 AM · Apr 27, 2021

https://www.vox.com/22404001/supreme-court-cancel-culture-americans-for-prosperity-bonta-california-alito-thomas-gorsuch

Here’s a quote from someone who, not that long ago, was widely considered to be on the cutting edge of conservative thinking about the law:

“Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed. For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court, campaigns anonymously ... and even exercises the direct democracy of initiative and referendum hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the Home of the Brave.”

Those are the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, in a 2010 opinion concerning whether the public should be allowed to learn who signed a petition seeking to call a referendum on a state law.

They form a stark contrast with the attitude of conservative justices on Monday, only a little more than a decade after Doe, when the Court heard another case asking whether disclosure laws can be applied to political actors.

The conservative justices who heard this new case, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, showed little of the confidence and “civic courage” that Scalia once celebrated. Many of them bristled with paranoia that angry mobs lurk in every alleyway, waiting to cancel conservative speakers.

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[soothsayer]

1. They can cry me a gay wedding cake

[StClone]

2. Yes they are Fox News culture warriors.

That is why they were at the front of the line for open SCOTUS slots. Next Up: A Constitutional Convention (to re-write the Constitution to sever the last threads of Democracy), going for all the marbles after nutz-a-fying the SCOTUS.

[WHITT]

3. This Is Why

The House needs to pass the legislation expanding the court to 13 justices. It would be a 'SHOT ACROSS THE BOW' warning to the RightWingers on the court, that we can take you down, if you try and hand down some extremist rulings on guns, healthcare, LGBTQ+, etc.

[JHB]

4. They are Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation culture warriors...

Those are the groups that gave names for The Howler Monkey to nominate and The Turtle to ensure they were confirmed.

It's not just Trump and FOX ranters. Those "conservative" groups are a lot more radical than they are usually given credit for.

[FBaggins]

5. The rest of the article hints that the case is already lost

It implies that there's a unanimous ruling possibility if they merely overturn the 9th circuit, but do so with an "as applied" ruling. The author seems to think there's no chance of a victory for CA.