On 5/14/2022 10:59 PM, super70s wrote:
> In article <t5ohri$58o$5@dont-email.me>,
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>> suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/14/2022 6:56 AM, moviePig wrote:
>>
>>>> GoogleNews is throwing me this WaPo headline:
>>
>>>>    "Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court leak has eroded trust in
>>>> institution."
>>
>>>> The great legal mind is right, of course, but not like he thinks...
>>
>>> What exactly does he discuss with his wife about cases the court is
>>> working on, eh?
>>
>> moviePig is being a moron. No one will be surprised by Thomas's eventual
>> opinion or concurrence in part.
>
> How is he being a moron, he inferred Thomas was being a grade A
> hypocrite with his "erosion of trust" statement which is what he is.

Adam often begins with his conclusion, ('moviePig is a moron'), and then
fabricates a tale to get him there. Don't look for more.

>> Alito is behaving as predicted. The only one who pretends he's changed
>> over time is Roberts, yet Roberts is the one who wrote all those
>> "gerrymandering is politics that federal courts must not interfere with"
>> deliberately intended to allow certain states to have legislatures with
>> Republican supermajorities that allowed extreme abortion restrictions to
>> be passed into law. One might say Roberts is having his cake and eating it
>> to for giving lip service to preserving the Supreme Court as an institution
>> whilst truly being an activist judge and hurting voters.
>
> Most of them are prima donnas who become more so as time passes,
> including Ginsberg who refused to retire in her late '80s and after
> umpteen cancer scares. She actually had hope today's Republican party
> wouldn't act in a hyper-partisan manner to fill her vacancy (then bend
> their own "rule" to appoint another Heritage Foundation-approved
> nominee).

It *used* to be that SCOTUS was thought of as an often ennobling
environment that honed wisdom and principles. Not no more...