This isn’t the point of SCOTUS at all. It never has been. Dred Scott. Plessy. The Insular Cases. Korematsu. The idea that SCOTUS is some kind of force for good is historical fiction. - ThreadSky

knilirabaj.bsky.social • 615 days ago

This isn’t the point of SCOTUS at all. It never has been. Dred Scott. Plessy. The Insular Cases. Korematsu. The idea that SCOTUS is some kind of force for good is historical fiction.

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The entire fucking point of the Supreme Court is to protect rights. Instead they continue to strip away rights under the guise of protecting other people's pretend right to not be bothered by people exercising rights they don't like.

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greatchumpion.bsky.social•614 days ago

People with takes like that REALLY need to brush up on the basics of Common Law (the system of law on the federal level and in almost all US states)

Congress passes laws, anything not clear is decided (and established) into law, the Supreme Court is the top of all of that. *That's* their purpose.

hongpong.bsky.social•614 days ago

their purpose is to further the interests of property owners and bond holders etc

hongpong.bsky.social•614 days ago

they are making up new doctrines like "major questions doctrine" while pretending Congress doesn't understand words like "modify"

adrew.dadguy.online•615 days ago

ahistorical nonsense abounds again today

bobbylewis.bsky.social•615 days ago

it's (generally) a force for good if you make a lot of money in ways ranging from unseemly to evil

hammancheez.bsky.social•91 days ago

SCOTUS over the history of the country has been a net evil

anarchofoodie.bsky.social•614 days ago

Lincoln eventually started ignoring the Supreme Court once enough people accepted it was a runaway dumpster fire. That same energy would be nice today, even tho modern fascism would probably make it backfire

nome.bsky.social•615 days ago

The broad history of the court is defined by "Terrible, with the occasional voice of decency in a dissenting opinion."

The folks who came up in the 90s/00s existed in a period where the court wasn't actively hostile to decency MOST of the time, and haven't read history.

nome.bsky.social•615 days ago

[Tone indication: agreement and frustration]

fightontwist.bsky.social•614 days ago

Damn. Well stated. I could do was do the Alonzo Mourning thing.

electrichead.bsky.social•614 days ago

Until people start to realize that nothing is broken, the system is working perfectly as intended, there will be go changes made. People out here saying we just need to polish the giant meat grinder we put poor people and minorities into, like that's gonna fix it.

fightontwist.bsky.social•614 days ago

Forgive them, they’re tweeting while white, I assume.

kevincarson1.bsky.social•614 days ago

"America is already great." "This is not who we are."

fightontwist.bsky.social•612 days ago

This country has never been “great” for many, and it’s time we recognize that.

kwh561.bsky.social•614 days ago

This as fuck.

Bear in mind that Dred Scott was a 7-2 decision and only one dissenter (Curtis) brought up the fact that there were in fact black citizens recognized by law at the time of the framing, and he resigned 6 months later

kwh561.bsky.social•614 days ago

Yes “everyone” claims in retrospect that it was a bad decision but unlike Roe it was never reversed, just superseded.

There has always been a small minority of decent fucking people in power

baeddel.meangirls.online•614 days ago

i believe dred was repealed as part of the Reconstruction amendments, though i'd have to doublecheck Foner to be sure, and not sure if that's what you mean by "superseded"

kwh561.bsky.social•614 days ago

The ruling was not contradicted and overturned by the court as Roe was in Dobbs. It is legal “fact” (as determined by SCOTUS) that black people were not citizens under the constitution until the civil rights act and 14th amendment. It’s bullshit but the court never said “what we said was bullshit.”

baeddel.meangirls.online•614 days ago

so many reasons for "fuck the supreme court"

baeddel.meangirls.online•614 days ago

so many reasons for "fuck the supreme court"

kwh561.bsky.social•614 days ago

In fact conservatives cite Dred as a “bad ruling” because of its reliance on substantive due process in ruling for the slaver, because it’s necessary to destroy substantive due process to rollback the progressive era. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/10/why-bush-opposes-dred-scott.html

valkyrie.hacker.gf•614 days ago

Some people desperately need to read Raich v. Gonzales or Herrera v. Collins; it's been a spectacular force for evil even in last couple decades

rincewind.run•615 days ago

yeah there was one aberrant period in the court's history where it did some good things and that is conveniently the formative period for all the people scolding us about this shit now

meanwhile these people want to send us back to fucking lochner

kassassassin.bsky.social•91 days ago

one of the most concise summaries of the role of SCOTUS I've ever seen

derek.bsky.social•614 days ago

We’re back in lochner. The Roberts court will be synonymous with lochner.

adgwatches.bsky.social•615 days ago

People often confuse the government with the government’s PR campaign about the government. It’s an oppression machine with a profit motive

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