‘People ain’t just one thing’ is alive and working here….
Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and whole lot of Republicans and Conservative ‘s thought they had ‘ringers’ for the court in those they picked and gave the job to over the last four years…
Turns out things are going their way all the time…
The ‘political’ wrestling to get the court to rule to ‘Right’ all the time isn’t working so much so far….
Oh, this isn’t a ‘progressive’ court and if my memory serves me right the justice WILL track back to right on some upcoming decisions ….
But things change when people actually get on the court with ‘job for life’ contract….
In a little-noticed 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court just lodged a blow to large corporations. The rare, unanimous outcome marked a distinctly progressive pivot on a thorny jurisdictional question that has bedeviled plaintiffs in corporate liability cases for decades.
But the most significant effect of the decision might be the message it sends that the court, with its decisive 6-3 conservative majority, is not condemned to predictably partisan splits….
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate, as the case was argued before she came on the court, but former President Donald Trump’s other Supreme Court picks—Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh—sided with the court’s progressives and the plaintiffs. Kavanaugh fully joined Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion. To the extent that it shores up the legitimacy of an embattled Supreme Court, the 8-0 vote is also a win for Chief Justice John Roberts because the Court’s reputation for impartiality matters to him. Justices Gorsuch and Alito each wrote separate concurring opinions, with Justice Clarence Thomas joining Gorsuch. Had any one of this trio instead penned a dissent, the court could have, yet again, appeared more partisan than judicial on a legal question that warranted resolution without controversy…
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It’s too soon to tell whether conservatives on the court will follow the neutral trajectory of Ford Motor Co. by eschewing political stereotypes when making hard decisions on especially controversial subjects. Personal jurisdiction law hardly garners the public’s attention—or ire—like voting rights, abortion, LGBTQ rights, and the like. But for progressives, there may now be some measure of relief—if not cold comfort—in knowing that partisanship will not always carry the day with this Supreme Court….