Tsundoku, on 26 April 2023 - 08:20 PM, said:
Disney sues Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Walt Disney has made the unprecedented move of suing the man who may go up against Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president.
https://www.news.com...71579d724ad4b4d
Federal lawsuit---so it'll probably end up ultimately being decided by the Supreme Court (Trump's, not DeSantis's (state court)---but of course they did display some tiny amount of integrity in not letting Trump overturn the election, and he only appointed three of them (though two of the others are far right too, so 5/9 are Trump appointees either in fact or in spirit...).
Disney has better chances if one of the Republicans drops dead of course---Alito and Thomas being 73 and 74 respectively. Here's hoping that they get to Heaven soon....
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[...] In reality, it's just a monarchy tricked out as the least dangerous branch, with black robes instead of bejeweled crowns. Indeed, the implicit argument that justices are somehow entitled to live like kings is part of the current ethics problem. For their part, the justices insist that it must ever be thus, not realizing that the only question that matters is whether that willful blindness can be imposed upon the country by fiat. Chief Justice Roberts appears to believe it can.
Perhaps the most depressing part of Roberts' refusal to appear before the Senate is his claim that such appearances should be "exceedingly rare." [...] It seems the rule is that it's only ever the court that will determine when it has an ethics problem. [...] The fact that the chief justice thinks it's up to him to let us know when it thinks it's having a legitimacy crisis? That's why it's having a legitimacy crisis.
Supreme Court scandals: John Roberts' refusal to do anything is the move of a monarchist. (slate.com)
Hmm... maybe an airborne drone-guillotine?... or a swarm of them....
This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 26 April 2023 - 08:47 PM