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[Diablos]

Wtf Thomas

Unreal

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Nope. Thomas even had the opinion assignment and gave it to Kagan.

Then I am truly perplexed by this ruling

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Woke Thomas

 

[Stinkles]

Then I am truly perplexed by this ruling

Maybe he owed a blood debt to Roger Ailes.

 

[Pandora012]

Woke Thomas

Wonder how long that will last.

 

[Teggy]

Will new maps be in place in NC for 2018? Saw that they have 80% R reps for state that is basically toss up.

 

[Emerson]

Will new maps be in place in NC for 2018? Saw that they have 80% R reps for state that is basically toss up.

As far as I understand the ruling only affected 2 districts, and they were already forced to redraw them. This was the state trying to appeal being forced to do so.

 

[RustyNails]

Thomas was in the sunken place the whole time.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Thomas was in the sunken place the whole time.

A dark magic bond between Ailes, Scalia and himself. Once the others fell, Thomas was freed.

 

[dramatis]

Expected that to go 4-4, or 5-3 with Kennedy with Dems.

That is one weird split.

Thomas wrote a 2 page concurring opinion starting at page 44:

As to District 1, I think North Carolina's concession that it created the district as a majority-black district is by itself sufficient to trigger strict scrutiny.

This is...weird.


Edit: I remember from an earlier SCOTUSBlog post last week that Kagan noted the 4-4 business meant they had to be better debaters/persuaders among themselves.

With the eight-member Supreme Court now a thing of the past, Kagan – who is no longer the junior justice and quite happy about that, Ginsburg surmised – took a walk down memory lane at the Seventh Circuit Bar Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on May 1. She stated that one result of working on a short-handed bench was that justices had to dig deeper and refine their reasoning, listening and persuasion skills in order to break 4-4 ties and reach consensus. According to The Indiana Lawyer, Kagan believes the Supreme Court did ”pretty darn well" given the circumstances. She sees the court's experience as applicable to politics in general:

I think the courts do model behavior. They teach people about reasoned decision-making and they teach people about collegiality. And when they're working at their best, they also teach people about bridging differences and reaching agreement in places where you might not expect to find it.​

Maybe somehow they got in Thomas's head?

 

[greatgeek]

A billionaire trust fund baby is president and nothing surprises me anymore.

Thomas wrote a 2 page concurring opinion starting at page 44:

This is...weird.

He appparently finds any consideration of race, even to assure meaningful representation for minority groups, to be suspect.

 

[jmdajr]

Melania smacks away Donald's hand when he tries to hold hands with her as they walk out of the plane in Israel:

https://twitter.com/ALT_DOJ/status/866629749292007425

LOL!

 

[Nazgul_Hunter]

This is what I look like when I'm dragged to church. lol

 

[DonShula]

Thomas wrote a 2 page concurring opinion starting at page 44:

This is...weird.

Maybe this is like the time Tom Benson's wife started doing crazy financial stuff while assuring everyone Tom was coherent and signing off on the deals when in reality he was basically incapacitated.

Has anyone actually seen Clarence Thomas in person lately?

 

[sazzy]

This is what I look like when I'm dragged to church. lol

is he using his hand to keep himself from humping the wall

 

[Lucky Forward]

Hey, look! Trump is exercising!

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

This is what I look like when I'm dragged to church. lol

Looks like he is taking a piss lol

 

[kess]

Turkey doing what every leader will be doing to spite Trump. After licking his balls, just wait until he's in another country to show how shitty our position is.

 

[Ernest]

Wait, are they seriously trying to say that Erdogan's goons were the wronged party here?

Holy shit!

Yeah, and earlier post said, our cops should've shot them in the fucking face for laying hands on American citizens on American soil, and now they want an apology? The fucking balls on these assholes!

 

[Slacker]

Wait, are they seriously trying to say that Erdogan's goons were the wronged party here?

Holy shit!

Yeah, and earlier post said, our cops should've shot them in the fucking face for laying hands on American citizens on American soil, and now they want an apology? The fucking balls on these assholes!

Easy to be brave in this situation when you know the American president has your back.

 

[Zolo]

Easy to be brave in this situation when you know the American president has your back.

And likes you better than protesters.

 

[BlastProcessing]

This is what I look like when I'm dragged to church. lol

It looks like he is trying to find the secret entrance to the Batcave.

 

[rokkerkory]

SCOTUS strikes down North Carolina congressional district maps

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/north-carolina-gerrymander/index.html

The Supreme Court struck down two congressional district maps in North Carolina Monday, holding that the state had engaged in an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

The ruling is a victory for the black North Carolina voters who had argued the plans packed African-Americans in districts that already had a high percentage of African-Americans, thus diluting their presence in other districts.

So dirty these politicians.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

It looks like he is trying to find the secret entrance to the ((((((((Soros(((Lair)))))))))).

Fixed

 

[cartoon_soldier]

The bad part about the SCOTUS ruling is they are saying that partisan gerrymandering is fine.

So Dems are still screwed.

 

[Slacker]

It looks like he is trying to find the secret entrance to the Batcave.

You have to touch the orb at the exact right time, then the path will be illuminated.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

The bad part about the SCOTUS ruling is they are saying that partisan gerrymandering is fine.

So Dems are still screwed.

Where in this ruling did they mention partisan gerrymandering?

 

[Barzul]

Imagine if Clarence Thomas turns into a Souter lol.....that'd be the biggest switch up in recent American judicial history. I say this is a one off though. It always did grind my bones that he was that conservative on civil rights issues. I get everything else, but man you know the collective struggle it took to get us to the point where could even have black SC justices. Not gonna hold my breath.

 

[Nazgul_Hunter]

The bad part about the SCOTUS ruling is they are saying that partisan gerrymandering is fine.

So Dems are still screwed.

Too bad for Reps party lines are racial lines in a lot of these problematic districts anyways. At least for now.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

He appparently finds any consideration of race, even to assure meaningful representation for minority groups, to be suspect.

So Thomas is the embodiment of the Morgan Freeman "just stop talking about race" meme, for good AND for ill.

Edit: Partisan gerrymandering is disgusting, but I think it would be very difficult to make a strictly Constitutional/legal argument against it. That would be as close to "Activist judges writing new laws" as it gets.

 

[nature boy]

Hallie Jackson‏Verified account
@HallieJackson

The president stops press pool from leaving room to emphasize he never said word "Israel" (clear reference to Oval Office mtg w/Russians)

Maggie Haberman‏Verified account
@maggieNYT

"They're all saying I did, so you have another story wrong. Never mentioned the word Israel."- POTUS, per pooler @carolelee

DUMMY!!!

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

DUMMY!!!

Lmao

 

[Pandora012]

The bad part about the SCOTUS ruling is they are saying that partisan gerrymandering is fine.

So Dems are still screwed.

It shouldn't be too bad, at least in this case. As racial and partisan lines are basically the same.

 

[kess]

Trump missing Saudi Arabia already, I see.

 

[Nazgul_Hunter]

DUMMY!!!

What an idiot. Nobody reported he mentioned the name of the ally. Just that it would be easily back-engineered, and probably be told to Syria and Iran.

 

[Frank the Great]

Thomas is being consistent here. He thinks all racial gerrymandering, even for the benefit of minorities, is unconstitutional.

Therefore he should be a solid vote in all similar cases in the future. He'll agree with liberals overturning racial gerrymanders so long as there is some evidence that race motivated the lines one way or the other. He'll have completely different reasoning but the outcome should be the same.

 

[chadskin]

DUMMY!!!

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/866676207445835778

Netanyahu's face!!!

 

[Wag]

Here's a gif.

 

[Wilsongt]

Here's a gif.

Melania done with his shit?

 

[Plinko]

DUMMY!!!

I mean, come on. I can only imagine his staff's response to this.

 

[Vixdean]

Melania done with his shit?

I'm not sure if Melania was looking for an actual job, like FLOTUS, when she signed up for the whole marry rich old dude thing.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

It shouldn't be too bad, at least in this case. As racial and partisan lines are basically the same.

Not for Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, etc.

It is same for Southern states though.

 

[Tommy DJ]

DUMMY!!!

So in a roundabout way, did Donald Trump just admit to leaking Mossad info to the Russians lol. He'd probably be better at playing this game if he didn't consume so much Fox News.

 

[Wag]

I'm not sure if Melania was looking for an actual job, like FLOTUS, when she signed up for the whole marry rich old dude thing.

She's not- Ivanka does that.

 

[nature boy]

So in a roundabout way, did Donald Trump just admit to leaking Mossad info to the Russians lol. He'd probably be better at playing this game if he didn't consume so much Fox News.

Yes, Bibi straight away said "The intelligence cooperation is terrific"

1+1

 

[Slizeezyc]

I mean, come on. I can only imagine his staff's response to this.

Did he just literally create another controversy for himself out of a controversy he already created for himself? Why is he so dumb?

 

[Tommy DJ]

Did he just literally create another controversy for himself out of a controversy he already created for himself? Why is he so dumb?

I know right, Bibi's face tells the entire story. Literally "what the fuck are you doing dude?"

 

[Ernest]

Hallie Jackson‏Verified account
@HallieJackson

The president stops press pool from leaving room to emphasize he never said word "Israel" (clear reference to Oval Office mtg w/Russians)

Maggie Haberman‏Verified account
@maggieNYT

"They're all saying I did, so you have another story wrong. Never mentioned the word Israel."- POTUS, per pooler @carolelee

DUMMY!!!

While he's certainly stupid - I think this might be his subconscious trying to confess and/or get out of being president.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Melania done with his shit?

They don't even live in the same state.

I remember reading an article talking about the danger of the media normalizing Trump via puff pieces about his family and it mentioned Melania's shopping trips, dumb shit about Barron etc. But Trump has such a broken family that I think we've been able to avoid that. It's ironic and yet completely expected that Trump, a billionaire who ran on being a friend of the working class, has no interest in acting like anything other than a reclusive, elitist billionaire.

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

Where in this ruling did they mention partisan gerrymandering?

It was the core argument of Alito's dissent, but I think that may have been it