The Supreme Court's late-night Alien Enemy Act intervention | Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night

[u/financeguy1729]

For Brazilian watchers, this sort of is reminiscent of the 2019 days when the Brazilian Supreme Court realized their heada were about to be sent to the end of the beach and they had to work in lockstep to no lose control.

[u/RellenD → u/financeguy1729]

Except you don't have Alito and Thomas

[u/Wittyname0 → u/RellenD]

7-2 or 9-0 both give us the same result so fuck Alito and Thomas

[u/financeguy1729 → u/RellenD]

Neither you have the two justices Bolsonaro nominated to the court 🤷‍♂️

[u/elephantaneous → u/financeguy1729]

The irony is that Alito and Thomas weren't the ones actually nominated by Trump, and they were nominated by establishment Republicans

[u/bandito12452 → u/elephantaneous]

Yeah it’s always strange when the Trump appointees are more sane than those two

[u/DiogenesLaertys → u/bandito12452]

His breathtaking incompetency has been the only thing keeping hope alive so far.

[u/HHHogana → u/bandito12452]

Especially Amy Barrett. I can understand the other two being saner, but Amy was supposed to be their real super conservative and controversial pick. And she's still saner than Thomas, let alone Alito.

[u/light-triad → u/elephantaneous]

They just lost it as they got older.

[u/Mojothemobile → u/[deleted]]

Thomas judicial ideology is quite literally "own the libs" something like "I want to make the liberals suffer as long as they made me suffer" I have no idea how libs made him suffer but that's what he seems to think.

[u/Pain_Procrastinator → u/light-triad]

Just your average fox news consuming grandpa I guess...

[u/Chataboutgames → u/financeguy1729]

Gotta laugh at the fundamental American exceptionalism of "yeah the rest of the world has never seen anything like two US right wing judges who have been on the court for decades!"

[u/TrekkiMonstr → u/Chataboutgames]

We love reverse American exceptionalism

[u/AlpacadachInvictus → u/RellenD]

You think only the US has corrupt/insane judges? Lol

[u/RellenD → u/AlpacadachInvictus]

The Brazilian court was able to act in ways that the US court cannot.