In the 3rd part of this 3-part series on the #SupremeCourt, I talk about the recent reports of ethical violations by four of the Justices, & three actions you can do to help fix this situation.
Another day, another #SupremeCourt decision I have now read with care and will try to shed some light on. This time it is #303CreativevElenis, available at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf. By a 6-3 majority, the Court holds that a business that holds itself open to the public may deny its services to LGBTQ people if the business’s activities are “expressive”. A thread. 1/ #LawFedi
#NeilGorsuch, for the majority, writes “It is difficult to read the dissent and conclude [the majority and the dissent] are looking at the same case.” Gorsuch attributes this reaction to the dissent wildly misreading the facts and the law. I also have the reaction, though not because I agree #SoniaSotomayor, author of the dissent, is misguided, confused, or wrong about anything. 2/ #303CreativevElenis#LawFedi
Clarence Thomas' opinion in Sackett is one of the most nihilistic opinions written by any federal judge in the last nine decades. This opinion is particularly notable, moreover, because it is joined by another justice, Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch, who was appointed to the Court in 2017, had not previously revealed just how far he is willing to go in sabotaging the United States government. Now we know.
As part of her sworn testimony in that case, Jane [Roberts, wife of Chief Justice Roberts] summed up the modus operandi of the Supreme Court and its circle with a line that could have come straight from the Godfather’s lips: “Successful people have successful friends.”
Mob Justice
What do plutocrats and Supreme Court members get from being friends?
A Miami-based development firm founded by a Russian-born billionaire paid $76.25 million this week for nearly 1 acre of land at the base of Aspen Mountain where the sellers had planned to build a slope-side hotel called the Gorsuch Haus.
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
The head of a law firm that practices before the court bought property from the conservative justice nine days after he was confirmed, Politico reports