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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Supreme Court Has Planned for a June So Awful It Will Be Impossible to Keep Up [View all]
(Slate) The Supreme Court is about to drown us in a deluge of explosive and massively consequential decisions involving some of the most controversial issues of the day. Right now, the justices are scrambling to complete blockbusters involving abortion, guns, homelessness, unions, social media, online disinformation, pollution, the administrative stateand, oh yes, hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions, including Donald Trumps. Yet at the moment, theres a logjam: The court, which likes to wrap up decisions by the end of June, is way behind schedule, releasing just a trickle of minor cases several weeks in a row. Even if it stretches into early July this year, SCOTUS has teed up a chaotic finale to the term. As soon as the current logjam breaks, the court will dump everything on us all at once.
This approach to judgingto ruling, really, in the monarchical senseis both disgraceful and unnecessary. Its disgraceful because regular people cannot possibly absorb the enormous amount of material that is poised to gush out of the court, as the justices surely know, much of it dressed up in legalese to obscure its meaning for nonlawyers. The overwhelming majority of Americans will have no hope of keeping up with the sweeping and complex decisions to come, even if those decisions have direct and negative impacts on their lives. And this inundation is unnecessary because the justices pick their own arbitrary deadline, then fail to manage the docket in a way that allows them to meet that deadline without cutting corners and overwhelming the news cycle with a glut of last-minute bombshells. The conservative supermajority has a checklist to clear, and it wont temper its agenda to accommodate for a (gratuitously) tight timeline. Its smash-and-grab attitude toward the law requires aggressive, immediate intervention in cases that the court has no good reason to hear. And so this June, and maybe July, is shaping up to be an unprecedented season of ceaseless SCOTUS mayhem.
A glimpse at the terms remaining cases shows what a nightmare were in for. The justices are preparing to hand down roughly 14 extraordinarily high-profile opinions, triple or quadruple the number of an ordinary term. A decade ago, Junes biggest decision was Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, allowing corporations to limit contraceptive coverage for employees; this year, there are at least a half-dozen cases that stand to eclipse Hobby Lobby in terms of impact and controversy. (Maybe a lot more, depending on how far the supermajority swings right.) ................(more)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/supreme-court-june-docket-disaster-alito-roberts.html
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The Supreme Court Has Planned for a June So Awful It Will Be Impossible to Keep Up [View all]
marmar
Jun 2024
OP
Anybody who is not in favor of expanding this court beyond these corrupt partisan activists is pretty obtuse.
Goodheart
Jun 2024
#4
I wish we would have a house and senate with COURAGE to start impeaching the republican appointed justices for
BComplex
Jun 2024
#6
oops! I meant put the voting rights act back to it's original form, not the way the court has
BComplex
Jun 2024
#20
Guess I'm just obtuse, because I don't support packing the Court. I do support voting for Democrats
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#7
You keep telling yourself that until they take women's voting rights away. Then they have a permanent majority.
onecaliberal
Jun 2024
#9
Packing the Court ain't gonna stop that, sorry. We lost the most important election in our lifetime by not showing
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#12
Making the court representative of america is not packing the court. If they don't have the votes, it's stops
onecaliberal
Jun 2024
#13
Hey, I understand the anger. But packing the Court is a pipe dream. If you somehow suceed, I'll celebrate.
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#18
Please let me know when someone in an official capacity proposes that. Until then, I'll continue skeptical.
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#59
Umm...Hilary won the popular vote by a huge majority. It was just a few states where not enough people
BComplex
Jun 2024
#21
Unfortunately, we have the Electoral College. Popular vote doesn't elect our Prez. Doubt that is going to change either.
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#24
Agree, but there is no chance of it changing within the next 4 decades or so.
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#34
We have nine justices because there were once nine circuit courts. There are now 12 circuit courts; ergo ...
OMGWTF
Jun 2024
#29
Slave labor might be correct, they been saying "The South shall rise again"
KS Toronado
Jun 2024
#48
The GOP strategy to take over the court was successful. And the court is wasting no time in
Martin68
Jun 2024
#27
I think any justice who was installed by a convicted felon and traitor should be booted out
Bayard
Jun 2024
#35
Logjam you say. Sounds like a good reason to add six or more justices to the court.
Jakes Progress
Jun 2024
#53
Every Democrat or person on the Left who didn't vote for Hillary in the battleground states in '16,
elocs
Jun 2024
#56
An encapsulated version of how and where SCOTUS is today; explained by Jamie Raskin
Good Dog
Jun 2024
#61