How’s this for a unifying message?
“The Supreme Court is completely out of control, making laws on their own, and has become a public opinion poll instead of a judicial body. If we want to save some money lets just get rid of the court.”
That’s what Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told the Baton Rouge Advocate in response to this week’s historic Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage, health care, and housing discrimination.
Over here on the left side of the aisle, we’ve been increasingly frustrated with the decision making of the Supreme Court, from Bush v. Gore to the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, but you don’t see any of our governors or presidential candidates calling for the abolishment of the entire Court. The conservative Justices are doing enough on their own to delegitimate the third branch of government, thank you very much.
We’ve been through this before with the Warren Court. Earl Warren, like John Roberts, was appointed by a Republican president. But conservatives found him unacceptable and used the decisions of his court on desegregation, school prayer, and other issues to provide rocket fuel for their anti-government crusade.
As Yogi Berra said, “it’s Deja Vu all over again.”
Bobby Jindal is an idiot, full stop.
The Supreme Court decisions this week have sent Republicans and Conservatives into absolute orbit. First the ACA and then gay marriage: it was too much for them to accept. They are completely apeshit.
And the hyperbole! Endtimes! Total disintegration of the Constitution! Dogs and cats sexing each other! Honestly, these idiots are showing their true colors as racists, homophobes, and haters.
So it comes down to “if decisions aren’t made my way, tear down the system”. As usual, when the Court makes calls in their favor, it’s Democracy in action. When the calls go the other way, scrap the rules.
Fuck ’em. These decisions are long overdue and make me proud. They elevate the nation and humanity: everything the Republicans despise.
“Honestly, these idiots are showing their true colors as racists, homophobes, and haters. “
You doubted?
Jindal’s comment is just a cruder form of Scalia’s dissent. Neither any crazier than Roberts:
His examples completely undermines the point he though he was making. (Doesn’t he or his clerks know how to use “the Google?”
How Thomas managed to claim that slaves had dignity and then invoke that to dissent from same-sex marriage is especially bizarre.
That is a crazy quote.
There are enough crazy comments in all four of the dissenting opinions to provide chuckles for generations of law students to come.
It makes me wonder what’s going on with these guys. Are they playing Canasta all week instead of attending to business? Don’t they have clerks to read and summarize the briefs for them, if they don’t have enough time and energy to read them all themselves? It’s just embarrassing to have Roberts talk about institutions that have existed for millenia when in fact they’ve only existed for four or five hundred years, and in pretty mutable form for most of that time. And then going on to talk about the bushmen and Han Chinese! And get them completely wrong! Don’t they even know how to use Google? OK, I might excuse Scalia, he’s a year older than me and probably didn’t have my advantages, but Roberts is younger, surely he learned to use a web browser in his youth. Embarrassing.
Or at least has a staffer that can google to fact check his opinions!
plus, slavery is an institution that’s been around a long time – is he going to argue that it shouldn’t be changed?
Scalia went off the deep end some time back. I think he goes around collecting speaking fees for his rants. and Thomas, well could be the same thing, but lots of his time must be taken up with his bitterness. Roberts is a puzzlement though
Anyone that learned how to use a research library needs no instruction on how to do on-line research. None of them including Scalia has no excuse. Plus, only a stupid boss doesn’t spot check and verify his/her subordinates’ work.
Ha! ha! I knew he wouldn’t say the Romans because “Roman Orgy” is a well-known term and you can see what that all entailed on the bathhouse frescoes that survive.
Human beings. Non-exceptional ordinary human beings.
Hey! caligula was a God and look at the stuff he did. With his sister too.
Nor Nero who married two men.
Was a more proper question to ask with Citizens United. In that case, they didn’t even rule on the case that had been submitted but one Roberts rewrote and didn’t bother with public opinion (because it wouldn’t have garnered even 50% public support).
Really? I thought that was Elagabalus.
Addendum: The Founding Fathers modeled their new government on the Romans and greeks that they admired. Sooooo…
“lets just get rid of the court.”
Yep, that’s the great thing about “constitutional conservatives”–they’re just so freakin’ flexible! :~)
Just trying to pump up his fundraising now that he’s in the pool?
Wait what?! Jinmdal is running for President of the United States. The Presidential Oath requires that the President swear to “support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That Constitution establishes the Supreme Court. Now Jindal says, “lets just get rid of the court.”
How can anyone take this clown as a serious candidate?
Or any of them, including Jeb!(tm), who would have his brother as chief foreign policy adviser. I certainly hope he makes it and the (D) nominee saturates the air waves with that quote.
He’ll take the oath to uphold the Roberts/Scalia/Thomas/Alito version of the Constitution. The one where white, “Christian” men of wealth are superior, women are breeders, slaves have dignity, and only corporations have guaranteed rights.
Certainly don’t make “constitutional conservatives” the way they used to, do they? The old-school kind used to know something about what was in the constitution.
I wonder if any of the media covering the campaign will ask Gov. Jindal about his extremist views, and how he thinks he might achieve this end. Not to mention how much money he thinks it will “save” not to have the constitutionally mandated Supreme Court?
Now that I look at that paragraph though, it seems like it might be too sophisticated for our average political journalist. Sure, they can follow Republican logic about how making birth control available to women through their health insurance means that the Catholic Church is funding abortion, but asking Gov. Jindal to explain his demented opinion is probably a bridge too far.
Mike Pence has got to be breathing easier since Bobby and his new wave of Stupid hit the news cycle. If he had any sense, he’d hide out until his current term is over.
seems like a combination of circumstances and strategies it’s like someone throwing sticks into a beehive. also to keep in mind the deadline coming up this week.
OMG! we’re all going to die! laughing! CNN “reporter” mistakes dildo flag for ISIS flag
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/28/1397317/-CNN-mistakes-dildo-flag-at-London-pride-parade-for
-flag-of-ISIS