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      I mean, these people haven’t even read the laws they’re supposed to be deciding cases on. You expect him to read his own website too? The privilege.

      /s

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        You used sarcasm. Samuel Alito might not have read actual law in years. He mostly writes about the current manufactured outrage from Fox News, and tries to shoehorn that into an opinion. He’s gone off-topic a few times in recent years, trying to shove culture war bullshit into cases where they’re only tangentially related.

        It’s called Fox News Brain. Your racist uncle and a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court both have it.

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      Pretty much all authority the Supreme Court has is power it has given itself. It’s long overdue being reigned in.

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        Indeed, I posted this on another thread about the court

        Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, September 11, 1804, “but the opinion [Marbury v Madison] which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature & executive also in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch.”

    • That had to do with size of the court.

      Constitution says it’s a lifetime appointment, though.

      Can have all the rules you want, which the justices are free to ignore because the Constitution says it’s a lifetime seat.