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Justice Samuel Alito has slammed the Supreme Court for acting “literally in the middle of the night”
Which is an appropriate response when the Trump administration also illegally deports immigrants in the middle of the night.
Yeah, the court rushed their decision specifically because they expected Alito to drag his feet and stall as long as possible. Alito was going to stall through the Easter weekend, which would give the jackboots time to rush the deportations. And the court has learned that Trump is using the deportations as a way to circumvent the law; If the deportees out of the ICE’s hands, then ICE can just shrug and go “talk to Venezuela about it” when ordered to give the deportees due process. So the SCOTUS 100% expected a massive surge of deportations over the weekend while Alito was stalling with writing his dissent.
In emergency orders, the justices don’t even need to say which way they voted. But Alito did anyways, specifically because he expected them to wait for his dissent before they announced the ruling. The fact that they didn’t wait (and Alito had to hurriedly shove the first draft of his dissent in) means that all seven justices who pushed it through were tired of putting up with his shit. To be clear, the rush was a giant “fuck you. We see what you’re doing; you’re not slick” to Alito specifically.
What kind of Supreme Court justice doesn’t believe in due process?
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, for damn sure
Clarence Thomas would rather show porn to his colleagues and joke about people putting pubes on his Coke can. Anyone who has a problem with that is a woke leftist.
The one they pay not to.
He didn't at all slam anything. He came up with a weak defense that had nothing. He had 24 hours to do it, and he knows how to do a defense. This was show, nothing more
Alito doesn't write defenses or arguments. He writes justifications for the outcomes that his neo-pharisee dominionist buddies would most prefer.
*his clerks know how to do a defense.
Old nazi is angry the law is obeyed and respected over his desire to punish non-white people like they should be.
“Justice” Alito can fuck off and die. Slowly, painfully.
I'd rather is was quickly and painfully. But not too quickly. I'd hate for Trump to just replace him with another sycophant.
He’d let the Federalist Society pick whoever is the most willing to serve the Christian right cabal.
I hope he chokes on a hamburger and dies. These people didn't do jackshit to be treated like this, and he just wants to capitulate to fucking fascists. Fuck this guy.
It's not capitulation if you are one.
Translation:
Noooo! We're supposed to be doing fascism and enabling a Trump dictatorship. We have the majority guys! Why????
May Alito’s skin begin spontaneously peeling away from his flesh.
slam
Slam is really having a moment in news headlines
It drives me nuts so I've been commenting slam on every post I happen to come across, its like 4-5 per day. I'm trying to spread awareness of slam fatigue. On the bright side I saw the word "blasts" used today which I don't actually mind! its a bit more interesting. Theres just something about the word slam and how often its used that grinds my gears I can't explain it! I wish they'd be more creative like "throws a haymaker!" or "RKO'd" or "falcon punches".
Slam? Should have gone for the single leg. Amateure!
I’m ready for one of our reps to drop The DDT in the main House chamber. Slams are so Bruno Sammartino.
Why would anyone need due process? Might as well shut down judicial system and just start hanging folks or put them up on the wall handmaid style.
fuckin collaborator, trying to rot the judiciary branch from the inside out
As one Lord Kelvin once said: K.
Sounds like there's nothing to dissent, here. They already ruled that detainees should be given a chance to dispute their deportation, in court. This ruling just makes sure that Trump gives them that chance.
Im waiting for the article were clarence thomas slams the supreme court for blocking trumps eventual order to ban mixed race marriages if they did block it in that case.
Slam!
What he said wasn’t against the middle of the night judgment, he wasn’t “slamming” the court. He was angry at the administration for making it necessary. He said he opposed having to get up and work in the middle of the night because the admin was refusing to do their job. He didn’t disagree with the judgment, he was objecting to the fact that they are taking extraordinary effort now in order to weigh in on things that shouldn’t need their attention at all.
And honestly, Sammy, same. This clown show has demanded too much of my attention and it’s not theirs to demand. But it’s your job to make sure we don’t get to the point where this shit happens. That was your fuck up. Sometimes when I fuck up, I have to work extra to fix it.
So fix your shit, Sambo.
What are you talking about? Is this some alternative facts bullshit?
He dissented. He is slamming the court, he voted against the court's ruling.
I agree with the second half of what you said, but your interpretation of what he's saying is far too charitable. He absolutely disagreed with the court's judgement.
I think you're reading it wrong. He definitely is pissed that the court has to make an emergency ruling in the middle of the night, but I think he would prefer that the court keep kicking the can down the road, and only ruling against the administration on narrow procedural grounds.
He knows he can't get the rest of the court to sign on to making Trump a King, but if the court never makes a ruling that directly prevents that, he will still have done the job that his sponsors pay him for.
Totally, he fucked up, it's just normal that he should fix it, urgently if it's a matter of lufe and death - which it is!