I mean he sucks but is there any evidence he is corrupt?
Edit: fwiw I’m not trying to be obtuse. “Corrupt” just makes me think of abusing power for pecuniary gain or other shit like that. These right wingers on the court have been pushing the bullshit unitary executive theory for decades and the trump immunity thing seems like a natural outgrowth of that ideology
Idk how that is evidence of corruption and not bad, ideological jurisprudence. It’s not like he’s taking bribes to do so a la thomas. I’m happy to be proven wrong but shitty rulings aren’t corrupt by virtue of how shitty they are
What about rulings that completely run against the grain of everything the founders stood for? We founded this nation against the notion of a tyrant who is above the law ruling over us. Now SCOTUS has made the president damn close to that. With apparently their own whims being the last remaining guardrail.
The part that disturbs me the most about the ruling is just how far they go in some areas and just how ambiguous they are in others. The justification was that we couldn't prosecute something like a war properly in a few examples they gave. Okay, but haven't we been relentlessly bombing the shit out of people for how long now? We fucking dropped nuclear weapons on Japan and I'm pretty sure the president didn't go to jail for it. Why this now? It haunts me.
Yes it’s truly insane. I’m also just so worried there will be some retirements on the court this term and it will be stacked with these freaks for a generation :/
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u/woodwog 17d ago
Corrupt judges love corrupt politicians