With this Supreme Court everything is about politics.

  • kirklennon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m not willing to give Thomas credit for even this. Eastman’s appeal was never going anywhere, with or without Thomas. He recused himself on what is fundamentally an uncontroversial case. He gets a little political reprieve for pretending to have suddenly discovered ethics, but nothing was on the line. There’s not a chance he’d recuse himself if his vote had any chance of undermining democracy or human rights.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My thoughts exactly. This is the same as the Supreme Court making two small sane rulings before tossing out decades of precedent based on “they weren’t conservative enough to count” and claiming that this makes them centrist.