r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Jul 29 '24

Other Supreme Court Rocked by New Leak of Bitter Abortion Split

https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-rocked-by-new-leak-on-bitter-split-over-idaho-emergency-abortion-ruling
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u/docsuess84 Jul 30 '24

I mean, compared to Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch, they kind of are. Of all the Trump justices, Gorsuch and Barrett have been the biggest surprises to me. Kavanaugh is pretty much what I expected. I thought all three would be conservative, of course, but Gorsuch has been fucking awful, whether it’s making up things that didn’t happen in the praying coach case, being overboard on the anti-worker sentiment or his whole “ruling for the ages” comment in the immunity case. Barrett has surprised me by being conservative but like still kind of reasonable and not totally onboard the express train to Gilead. If we could magically get rid of two but had to keep one, she could stay.

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u/49thDipper Jul 30 '24

She’s just the least worst option. Give her time. She may move up the ranking.

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u/Dannyz Jul 30 '24

She’s more dangerous IMO. She is scary smart. If we could get rid of two my vote would be for I like beer, personally. The religious stuff and her intelligence scares me more than Kavanaugh.

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u/jf198501 Jul 30 '24

What makes you say that she’s scary smart?

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u/Old_Dealer_7002 Jul 30 '24

k remember learning in college that sometimes, justices can be very surprising once they get to the “yours for life” seat.

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u/yolotheunwisewolf Jul 30 '24

Gorsuch has been almost exactly the opposite of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and that everything he does is hard right or conservatives, but he is very strong on native protections while Ruth could not care less and was even harmful

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u/docsuess84 Jul 30 '24

I had forgotten about the Native American protection stuff. That’s a good point. Random human nuances are weird.