#Supreme court justice

[djkerr]

We looked at Christmas Past, we looked at Christmas Present; now for Christmas Yet to Come.

Just let me know when you want me to stop it.

Would it be too ironic to ask you to shoot me?

Look, the problem is not with the court. The problem is with the campaign. The secession talk.

Yes.

Whatever your relationship is with McVeigh, I would advise that you put it on hold until you've been appointed.

Six months.

TGW 04x19 The Wheels of Justice

[whenweallvote]

Today retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has passed away at 93.

Justice O’Connor was the first woman on the Court, where she served for nearly a quarter-century. Thank you, Justice O’Connor, for helping to form a path for women in the law.

[32beesinatrenchcoat]

I'm... I'm just really tired. Tired of hateful bigots getting everything they want. Tired of fighting, of having to defend my existence at every turn. Tired of living like this. I've never had a girlfriend or been to pride. My conservative religious family doesn't even know yet. Even if I do all of those things tomorrow, what does it change? I'll still be living in a country designed to break me while anyone could harass me. I can't even say that voting would've helped cause the people who made these decisions weren't voted by us. They didn't even care if that's not what we wanted. So much for democracy. My goal was to finish undergrad, live in other states, and then settle down by the coast. But what's the point anymore? I don't want to keep living like this, and I don't know how much I can give before I break.

Fuck man, what else is there to say

[tempting-seduction]

Born on 29 August 1967 in Denver, Colorado, Neil McGill Gorsuch is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada's next Supreme Court justice will be Mary Moreau, a French-speaking judge from Alberta, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. 

"I am confident that her impressive judicial career and dedication to fairness and excellence will make Chief Justice Moreau an invaluable addition to our country's highest court," Trudeau said in a statement.

Her appointment keeps with the tradition that reserves at least two of the nine seats on the Supreme Court for judges from Western Canada. Trudeau has said he would maintain that tradition in replacing Brown, but that candidates must be bilingual.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[kilowogcore]

You Betrayed The Law!

I feel like, philosophically, the Supreme Court shattered the very idea a' law by sayin' it don't apply ta' official acts a' the President.

The US teaches kids from a young age that laws apply ta' everyone, from poor ta' rich, from felon ta' the President. Now we all know that ain't true, but that's how it's s'posed ta' be, right? We believe in the rule a' law in this country, or at least we say we do.

Ta' my mind, rulin' that the President is immune from prosecution fer any "official" act (meaning anything they say is official) means there ain't no philosophical or moral basis fer imposing the law on anyone. The reality, that we ain't a nation a' laws at all, has just become blatant an' undeniable.

Now, I ain't sayin' ta' commit crime, cuz they will come after ya' an' lock ya' up. But I'm sayin' that's an injustice.

Every police action is an injustice. Every imposition a' government power is an injustice. Any use a' force by an agent a' the government, directly or abstractly, is an injustice. There ain't no such thing as law fer Presidents, so there ain't no such thing as law. It's all just tyranny.

What we do about that is gonna be up ta' us. But we shouldn't be constrained by some idea of "legality" no more. Only by consequences.

[lady-griffin]

Are you fucking kidding me at this point? Really?

I just…

I’m not surprised there are those defending Thomas and calling this a “partisan attack” and I also know they don’t care how that makes them look.

But come on, this is beyond ridiculous.

This is corruption plain and simple and I’m honestly waiting for when we find out Crow paid for Thomas’s vet bills.

I also can’t wait for Alito to do another article or interview, talking about how people’s distrust of the court is what’s really eroding our “wonderful” democracy.

[dadsinsuits]

Arthur Goldberg

[covergirlnay]

Should I really be surprised by this? 🤦🏾‍♀️😑

Reposting this photo because it is STILL very fitting.

[elmacheteillustrated]

Affirmative Action

[uninterruptedafricans]

HASHTAG WEBEENKNEW

[bucksangel]

of fucking course they did

[whenweallvote]

This year marks the 56th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s confirmation as the first Black Supreme Court Justice in American history. 

During Black History Month and beyond, we celebrate the legacy of Justice Marshall and other civil rights giants who worked tirelessly to make equality a reality for all. 🙌🏾

[chrisaleenclara]

unsolicited advice for that guy who won Florida that one time

if I was the person who "invented the internet" I'd look around at our algorithmically generated hellscape and quite simply... change my name.

[shabdshilanews]

Supreme Court: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने दिल्ली में पीएम आयुष्मान भारत स्वास्थ्य इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर मिशन पर लगाई रोक

Supreme Court: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने हाल ही में दिल्ली में पीएम आयुष्मान भारत स्वास्थ्य इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर मिशन (PM-ABHIM) योजना को लागू करने पर रोक लगा दी है। यह निर्णय दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय के उस आदेश को चुनौती देने के संदर्भ में आया, जिसमें केंद्र सरकार और दिल्ली सरकार के बीच इस योजना को लागू करने के लिए समझौता करने का निर्देश दिया गया था। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने उच्च न्यायालय के आदेश पर रोक लगाते ह���ए केंद्र…

[whitesinhistory]

On August 21, 1959, Jim Johnson, an Arkansas supreme court justice, told a state-wide segregationist rally at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to “do what needs to be done” to fight the proposed integration of schools in the Dollarway School District. “When Dollarway falls,” Johnson exhorted the crowd, “Arkansas falls!” The crowd of over a thousand white Arkansas residents cheered.

On August 4, a federal judge ordered that three Black children be admitted to the Dollarway School District when schools reopened in September. The Dollarway School Board appealed the decision. Meanwhile, white residents in the Dollarway District put together a petition with over 1,200 signatures asking Governor Orval Faubus to preserve segregation in the district “with all the force at your command.”

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for years white residents across Arkansas relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. White residents fought court rulings and held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families and their children while politicians closed schools to avoid integration. By 1960, only 98 of Arkansas’s 104,000 Black students attended integrated schools.

Justice Jim Johnson was an outspoken segregationist who served as an Arkansas state senator and associate justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court in the 1950s and 1960s. After the Brown decision, Justice Johnson launched a campaign to ensure that defense of segregation remained a central political platform in Arkansas. Justice Johnson formed the White Citizens’ Council of Arkansas, which protested plans to integrate schools in the town of Hoxie, and proposed an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution that would authorize state officials to ignore federal law, which Arkansas voters passed. In 1956, Justice Johnson challenged incumbent Orval Faubus and ran for governor on a segregationist platform with the endorsement of the KKK. Although Justice Johnson lost the election, he leveraged his supporters to pressure Governor Faubus to embrace the segregationist cause. He was instrumental in persuading Governor Faubus to defy federal orders to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

The massive resistance to integration by the white community was largely successful in preventing integration of schools, especially in the South. In the five Deep South states, every single one of 1.4 million Black schoolchildren attended segregated schools until the fall of 1960. By the start of the 1964-65 school year, less than 3% of the South’s Black children attended school with white students, and in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina that number remained substantially below 1%. In 1967, 13 years after Brown v. Board of Education, a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights observed that white violence and intimidation against Black people “continues to be a deterrent to school desegregation.” Learn more about this history by reading EJI’s report, Segregation in America. You can also learn more about segregationist leaders like Justice Johnson, including his wife Virginia Johnson, here.