Raffi Melkonian: Just deny cert and be legends — Subium • Bluesky web client

Just deny cert and be legends

Amazingly, this could refer to (a) CO Supreme Court ruling Trump ineligible for primary ballot because he "engaged in" insurrection or (b) Judge Chutkan's ruling Trump doesn't have "Presidential immunity" for his actions after the 2020 Presidential election. SCOTUS will have cert petitions on both.

Clarence Thomas should recuse if certiorari granted.

Clarence Thomas should resign but here we are.

Whomst among us hasn't had a lavish lifestyle bankrolled off the books by a sketchy billionaire?

I have not, but if there's a waiting list, I would like to be on it.

more like Justin EAGER

Clarence Thomas should never have been confirmed, but here we are.

I wish Clarence Thomas a very happy hemorrhagic stroke

Clarence Thomas should confess

Clarence Thomas should drink drano

You’re just going after Thomas because he’s the only member of the court with a cool tour bus some rich guy bought him.

Still can’t get over the price of a US SC Justice was a fancy RV. Unreal. The bribes are always so much cheaper than you expect

We should all donate to Justice Thomas' GoFundMe because doing that job on his salary is so hard.

But we all know he won't.

You lost me at "Clarence Thomas should"

Omg that would truly be amazing

This would also have the added benefit of allowing Gorsuch to take his long-planned xmas Aspen ski vacation, which we all know is critically important. Hmmmm…. Suddenly feeling more possibility.

Have they agreed to hear any of Trump's election cases?

To do otherwise is hypocritical considering that they have already ruled that states control elections 100%. If a state wants to gerrymander, wants to close polling places with people still waiting in line, wants to give an entire city one polling place with no bus access and no sidewalks, they can.

From your lips to Harlan Crow’s ears.

Wow. You completely misspelled “summarily affirmed.”

"There's no current split. This would benefit from further development among the lower courts"

*insert brain exploding gif*

Raffi, I enjoy your posts so much that whenever you post something fascinating over on the other site, I get jealous because I want to be able to repost it here (I'm thinking of your Baude post and the Andrew Edison Xmas order)

Trump isn't ineligible because he broke the law. He's ineligible because he violated his oath to the Constitution. The president serves for 4 years. Trump lost and schemed to remain in office after losing. It's not complicated.

King

Seems splitless. Maybe let it percolate a few decades.

And I mean Purcell. To close to an election

ok I want to write an ironic Purcell amicus brief now.

Paging @matthewstiegler.bsky.social

I don’t see any circuit split, and this isn’t an issue that seems to come up much, so it would be a waste of the Court’s resources

Yuge vehicle problems

And if there’s anything people in Colorado love, it’s huge vehicles

I just laughed out loud in a high-class restaurant over this. 🤣

It won’t happen but my god can you imagine? Thomas’ head would explode like the dude in SCANNERS.

All the more reason to do it.

ok 😂

A+

Let the states decide!

Prediction: “Stop the votes! The way to enrich democracy is to quit counting when we say so. What? Voting hasn't begun? Stop counting the votes of state supreme court judges. That sounds like 2000? Who cares - we’ll get the result all true red blooded Americans want, just like last time.”

You say this uh... Trump guy.. put me in my position of effectively irrevocable lifetime power? Never heard of him. Anyway....

From your lips to God's ears, my friend.

"SCOTUS has an opportunity to do the funniest thing."

Thomas recuses and the decision is affirmed by an evenly divided court.

Serious question: why should conservative SC justices protect Trump? Protect Republicans and their policies, yes. But do big money R donors really care about Trump?

If Trump becomes dictator, there is no point in having a Supreme Court, and they are mostly smart enough to realize that. The Supreme Court is also pretty protective of their own power, historically

Exactly!!

Because they are bought and paid for.

The original poster was suggesting that they were bought and paid for by mega donors whose goals may not align with Trump's. Also, they are only valuable to the extent they have power. Why give away their power?

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