But then, Kavanaugh voted to overturn Roe Vs. Wade. So there’s that.
Every justice has a mixed voting record. You are not going to find any justice, or any politician for that matter, who votes the conservative way 100% of the time. So there’s that.
we pay these people to rationally review each case and come up with a just and independent opinion which is sometimes right and sometime proves to be wrong.
even the unwise latina has been right once and a while.
“the judge let constipation go to his head in his wife’s aggravation you soon end up dead... its the same old story same old song and dance my friend”
according to Aerosmith that is.
Every justice has a mixed voting record. You are not going to find any justice, or any politician for that matter, who votes the conservative way 100% of the time. So there’s that.
However most tend to drift left over time, with a few staying anchored.
So far as I know, Thomas is probably the only one who has arguably drifted right in my lifetime, or my parent’s life time.
I think he was worth the fight if only to do in Roe, but expect that from here on out he will largely amount to an empty Suiter, if you know what I mean.
That is a natural trajectory for someone who went from Catholic to quasi-Jesuit to Episcopalian.
I think Alito and Thomas put that statement to rest!!>
What this guarantees is that Alabama will always now have 5 GOP vs. 2 DEM. The DEMs like Jones who won the Senate race in Alabama a few years ago will not have a chance to win in 1 of those non-minority congressional districts.
So in a district with say 25%-30% Black vote, a DEM like the Jones, or go back to the 80’s the late Senator Heflin of Alabama or Sam Nunn of Georgia could win in Southern States.
So while you are giving the Black voters and Black congressional caucus another member, you are guaranteeing 5 GOP seats in Alabama going forward.
The old southern yellow dawg democrat who were strong on Defense, believed in government programs that helped working people (not welfare), believed in supporting small business and family business vs. the Corporate interest which in my grandfathers time were associated with the New England GOP types like the Bush family, etc.
Which in the end actually helped democrats in 2022. They should have waited a year before taking that case.
True. Thomas and Scalia often find themselves siding with the police state. I simply do not understand the deference they are willing to give.
Only D justices vote consistently.