• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Look, I’m hating the conservative bent in this Court, and they seem wildly biased, but y’all are off base in many ways.

    Not all their judgements are conservative. They told Alabama to fuck themselves over voting districts. They refused to hear a “pray away the gay” case yesterday, deferring to a lower court’s opinion. Been a couple more that surprised me, but the cases escape me ATM. Didn’t they refuse to hear a Trump related case recently? This might be what I’m thinking of.

    The other weird thing I see all over lemmy, not your post!, is the idea that because Trump appointed them, they’re somehow beholden to him. Nope. That’s the whole idea behind lifetime appointments. A Justice can tell anyone and everyone to fuck themselves without fear of reprisal, current or future.

    tl;dr: The current Court is conservative, not partisan. For this very particular job, that’s a real difference.