6 Takeaways From A Consequential Supreme Court Term

[Chris]

The court to me is of the greatest interest these days as the executive and legislative branches are embroiled in too much squabbling.

6 Takeaways From A Consequential Supreme Court Term

...1. Chief Justice John Roberts is now the swing vote....

2. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh take different paths....

3. Thomas remained the court's most conservative justice....

4. Ginsburg continued to be a workhorse....

5. Handing off the liberal torch to Kagan?

The 86-year-old Ginsburg seemed to be handing the liberal torch off to Justice Elena Kagan, assigning her important majority and dissenting opinions. As the senior justice, Ginsburg assigns opinions when the chief justice, who normally assigns opinions, is not in the majority and she is. Her decision assignments seemed both strategic and generous — she gave important writing assignments not just to Kagan but to both Trump appointees, when they provided deciding votes in closely divided cases.

Kagan wrote perhaps the most impassioned dissent for the liberals in the partisan gerrymandering case. In the two cases of extreme partisan gerrymandering before the court, she said the politicians "beat democracy." Her voice trembling in an oral dissent from the bench, she added, "Of all times to abandon the court's duty" to correct constitutional wrongs that imperil our system of government, "this was not the one."

6. Watch out next term.

This term was tame compared with what's on the horizon next term. Already on the docket are cases testing gun rights, aid to parochial schools, employment discrimination against gay and transgender workers and the Trump administration's attempt to end deportation protection for DREAMers, as well as a case involving the Affordable Care Act and likely an abortion case.

Buckle up. It's going to be a wild ride.

[rcfieldz]

Who will be the next replacement is what I look forward to. And will America really change much?

[DGUtley]

If Trump wins, I think Thomas will retire. Ginsburg only if she has to (and she may).
If a Democrat wins, I think Ginsburg retires.

[Chris]

If Trump wins, I think Thomas will retire. Ginsburg only if she has to (and she may).
If a Democrat wins, I think Ginsburg retires.

Either scenario will be a big knock down fight, especially if Kavanaugh's hearing was any example.

[MisterVeritis]

It doesn't matter. The Democrats, through immigration jihad have the nation in the bag.

[MMC]

Thomas has come out and stated he wont be retiring anytime soon.


Roberts for many is a disappointment. But then people shouldn't be surprised why he is turning into Kennedy. Bush Neo Con appointee. Neo Con/ Demo lite/ Liberal Repub.


Still the Supreme Court needs to come down on lower court judges that legislate from the bench and all their Nationwide Injunctions. Start laying some $#@!slaps on those leftists Judges. Rather than say nothing.

[Sergeant Gleed]

The most important takeaways:

1) Ginsberg can't die soon enough. We need something g tk offset tge new Kennedy.

2 ) The Rodents are going to steal the next election and then Thomas is going to be pillowed.

[MMC]

Supreme Court with Roberts in charge: Conservative, but not always predictable.....
Los Angeles Times.


The Supreme Court, despite the emergence of a new conservative majority, ended its annual term last week signaling an inclination to go slow, but spring a few surprises.


The court did not move aggressively to the right, as many Democrats and liberal activists feared and many abortion foes had fervently hoped.



Instead, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts firmly holding the ideological center — a position once held by retired Justice Anthony Kennedy — the court took a cautious path, reflecting Roberts’ determination to avoid the appearance of a court that is predictably conservative.


Even President Trump’s two appointees — Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — did not march in lockstep to advance the conservative legal agenda, taking different paths in several important cases.


Roberts knows the court “risks being seen as an entirely partisan institution if every ideologically divisive case breaks 5-to-4 conservative-to-liberal. So I think we can expect to see him voting against ideological type — at least occasionally,” Hemel continued. “There will still be lots of 5-to-4 conservative-to-liberal decisions, but I think Roberts understands the damage to the institution if every high-profile case breaks that way.”


First, Roberts dashed the hopes of liberal reformers with a 5-4 ruling that closed the federal courts to claims of partisan gerrymandering.


Gorsuch, for example, is a strict libertarian who is skeptical of government power, whether in hands of federal regulators or police and prosecutors. This unusual combination aligns him with the conservatives on many cases but with the liberals on some.



For his part, Kavanaugh is a more traditional conservative, but he spoke for a 5-4 liberal majority in a case that clears the way for Apple to be sued in an antitrust suit, alleging it wields monopoly power over apps on the iPhone.


Kavanaugh also wrote this year’s most important opinion on racial bias, overturning the murder conviction of a Mississippi man who was tried six times by nearly all white juries.....snip~


https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-...629-story.html









There you have it.....and now the left looks like fools with Gorsuch being a Libertarian.

[Admiral Ackbar]

If Trump wins, I think Thomas will retire. Ginsburg only if she has to (and she may).
If a Democrat wins, I think Ginsburg retires.

I think Ginsburg is shovel ready

[DGUtley]

I think Ginsburg is shovel ready

She may be dead already....

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