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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 07:57 PM Jul 2020

Sotomayor Slams Supreme Court's Conservatives for Increasingly Granting Stays to Like-Minded Petitio

Source: Law & Crime

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out her conservative colleagues on the bench for increasingly issuing stays which favor their ideological fellows.

“Yet again, this Court intervenes to grant a stay pending appeal, in this case less than two weeks before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is poised to hear an expedited appeal on a preliminary injunction entered by the District Court,” Sotomayor’s dissent–joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg–begins.

The underlying case concerns a dispute between Idaho Governor Brad Little, a Republican, and a non-partisan group promoting a ballot petition to increase K-12 public school funding.

Such measures need a certain number of valid signatures to be placed on a state’s general election ballot, and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made in-person signature-gathering a dangerous proposition. A district court allowed the group to accept petitions online, but Gem State Republicans were keen to stop that and appealed directly to the Supreme Court–bypassing the appeals court procedure and gifting a win to the measure’s opponents without discussing the actual merits of the case whatsoever.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sotomayor-slams-supreme-courts-conservatives-for-increasingly-granting-stays-to-like-minded-petitioners/ar-BB17o3QU?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

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Sotomayor Slams Supreme Court's Conservatives for Increasingly Granting Stays to Like-Minded Petitio (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
Also, the Idaho legislature is punishing its citizens for expanded Medicaid bluedye33139 Jul 2020 #1
Ironic that they are called 'justices' eh? Justice should be blind and obviously it isn't. A shame SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #2
Justice is definitely not blind... stillcool Jul 2020 #3
That's because these aren't judges. They're polititians. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2020 #4
Maybe when Joe takes over in Jan. with a Dem. House & Senate....... KS Toronado Jul 2020 #5
Lifetime appointments means we're stuck with them. BarbD Jul 2020 #6
That needs to be changed. atreides1 Jul 2020 #9
Let's put your great ideas on the lengthening "to do" list. BarbD Jul 2020 #10
it almost feels like a knee is on my kneck figuratively speaking. BootinUp Jul 2020 #7
Expand the court to 13. ouija Jul 2020 #8

bluedye33139

(1,474 posts)
1. Also, the Idaho legislature is punishing its citizens for expanded Medicaid
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 08:00 PM
Jul 2020

Idaho voters voted to expand Medicaid 2 years ago, and those legislature responded by creating barriers so high that it is virtually impossible to get anything on the ballot in Idaho.

People living there refer to it as the punish the voters program.

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
2. Ironic that they are called 'justices' eh? Justice should be blind and obviously it isn't. A shame
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 08:03 PM
Jul 2020

and mockery of the entire system of justice, but as our black friends can testify, justice is often blind.

KS Toronado

(16,911 posts)
5. Maybe when Joe takes over in Jan. with a Dem. House & Senate.......
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 10:51 PM
Jul 2020

They could come up with a plan/law/removal for justices who vote for ideological reasons
instead of the rule of law.

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
9. That needs to be changed.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 06:34 AM
Jul 2020

Federal judges need to have term limits:

20 years:SCOTUS
15 years:Courts of Appeals
10 years istrict Courts

Section 2 also gives Congress the power to strip the Supreme Court of appellate jurisdiction, and establishes that all federal crimes must be tried before a jury. Section 2 does not expressly grant the federal judiciary the power of judicial review, but the courts have exercised this power since the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison.

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