We never go to the front to see who’s driving the train, where is it going. And you could go up there in the engine room, find it’s an orangutan driving the train, but you want to follow that just because it’s a train.

What?

"Left wing activist judges! Activist judges! Activist judges! The left! The left wing activist judges!"

... fucking projection ass hypocrites. Always.

arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,”

This is correct, but not in the sense that he provides. Society changes, what was okay before may not be okay now. Weighing precedent and modern society is a careful process. Tossing off precedent should have justification for why it's being shrug and there needs to a preponderance that this is indeed the shift of society.

Walking in and saying, "well we should just outright critical" is absolutely not the way to do it. Overturning previous case law should happen, but that shouldn't be the fucking default. And when you do overturn previous case law, you really need to bring a fuck ton of support, not, "meh we changed our mind." Being a contrarian for sake of rocking the boat isn't how our highest court should operate.

"One of the good ones."

If everything falls to pure fascism, I hope I at least get to see the leopards eat Clarence's face.

He reasoned that some precedents were simply “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”

Is he admitting this is how he writes his opinions?

Sure. Why should the third car on the train follow the cars ahead? Break free from the track, accept the bribe, jump the rails and chart your own course.

The bible is something somebody dreamt up and others went along with. God doesn't write.

Ironically I don’t disagree with him but for completely different reasons. It’s pretty obvious he wants to use this as an excuse to do whatever he’s paid to do by the biggest bribe.

But Jefferson pushed for vast changes and “revolution” (not the violent type which honestly feels pretty naive) every generation. Because why should the rules and ideals and commitment of the dead hold back the present and future.

**Translation:**The law is whatever you pay me to make the law.

He needs to be removed.

Even the actual gospel isn't gospel to these demons.

Lmao orangutan is a particularly apt metaphor

These people are the real “Satanists”. They believe in a will to power and nothing else.

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Chewbacca defense

I wonder how much these public statements cost whoever paid him to make them.

If Clarence is sentenced at Nuremberg, I suggest that it should be a drawing and quartering by his motorcoach fleet.

What a stupid metaphor. Settled law is called "precedent." If there's an orangutan driving the train it's because YOU GUYS made that possible.

Is it a new motorhome?

“At some point we need to think about what we’re doing with stare decisis‚" Thomas said, referring to the legal principle of abiding by precedent. “And it’s not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say ‘stare decisis’ and not think, turn off the brain, right?”

....I have no idea. What the holy fuck did you just say? Was that English, Clarence?

Supreme court justices are not actually that great at reasoning, especially the conservatives. Everyone should listen to 5-4, they do a great job revealing just how stupid the supreme court can be.

Corrupt! Fuck this dude. He single handedly has been a main factor of why the US has gone to shit.

Why would we care what this money-hole thinks. Especially when this money-hole accepts bribes.

That sounds like the Living Constitution with extra steps.

When the US constitution was written, it was assumed they didn't have to spell out exactly how the judiciary would work because the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition was over a millennia old without getting written down (predating statute law) but apparently that assumption was wrong.

I really need to make a version of this gif that has dollar signs on the glasses

I don't care what his bullshit reasons are

Im sure in the rulings he won't give any explanation at all. Every time no explanation is given I assume the explanation is because fuck the people and the constitution that was built around the principle of power coming from it.

Cash in pocket doesn't seem to be a very bonkers reason to me.

Wrong? Sure. Foolish? Absolutely. Short-sighted? No doubt.

But bonkers? Who wouldn't sell their fellow man out for a few extra bucks? Hell, a nice new RV sure sounds nice, maybe a vacation to go along with it.

What it must be like to be a reptile in a human skin.

Again... Personal limo plane with jacuzzi and pool but this time legal 21y pool ladies in bikini. The plane's name is probably the "bonkers"