SCOTUS Decisions

[jaF0]

A general thread for miscellaneous cases that don't fall under other topics.

 

[jaF0]

We begin with Chief Bobby saving Native Americans from the extremists.



"WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to hold the government responsible for covering more health care costs for Native American tribes.

The Indian Health Service is in charge of overseeing tribal health care, but several tribes have contracts with the agency to carry out those duties themselves. Under these contracts, tribes get funds for overhead and administrative costs — but they do not get paid to collect program income from Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers."


"Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. “When the tribes do so and incur administrative costs, ISDA requires IHS to pay those support costs.”"


"In dissent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the court’s ruling upended a long-settled understanding of tribal health care contracts.

“As I see it, the relevant statutory provisions do not support the court’s decision,” the Donald Trump appointee wrote. “And the extra federal money that the court today green-lights does not come free.”


Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett joined Kavanaugh’s dissent.

Kavanagh said the price tag for the court’s decision could be up to $2 billion annually, and Congress will have to divert funding from poorer to richer tribes to come up with the money. "



https://www.courthousenews.com/tribal-health-care-gets-boost-from-supreme-court/



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[schism666]

 

[HisArpy]

Kavanaugh's dissenting opinion is crap. Basically it runs on about how the FedGov has been discriminating against Native American's for so long it's unthinkable to actually treat them fairly.

His performance as a SCOTUS justice makes me almost regret that he made it through the confirmation process.

 

[Bray123]

All the Trump-appointed Crow-funded justices agree with each other. Well I'm surprised.

 

[SmokingFap]

We begin with Chief Bobby saving Native Americans from the extremists.



"WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to hold the government responsible for covering more health care costs for Native American tribes.

The Indian Health Service is in charge of overseeing tribal health care, but several tribes have contracts with the agency to carry out those duties themselves. Under these contracts, tribes get funds for overhead and administrative costs — but they do not get paid to collect program income from Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers."


"Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. “When the tribes do so and incur administrative costs, ISDA requires IHS to pay those support costs.”"


"In dissent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the court’s ruling upended a long-settled understanding of tribal health care contracts.

“As I see it, the relevant statutory provisions do not support the court’s decision,” the Donald Trump appointee wrote. “And the extra federal money that the court today green-lights does not come free.”


Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett joined Kavanaugh’s dissent.

Kavanagh said the price tag for the court’s decision could be up to $2 billion annually, and Congress will have to divert funding from poorer to richer tribes to come up with the money. "



https://www.courthousenews.com/tribal-health-care-gets-boost-from-supreme-court/



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If those four douchenozzles voted against the decision, it must be a good one.

 

[Lazaran]

All the Trump-appointed Crow-funded justices agree with each other. Well I'm surprised.

Apparently Gorsuch didn’t…



Although, I honestly think each of the orange MAGAt’s nominees take turns going against the grain in fairly non-controversial cases just to give the appearance of impartiality.



The way to judge their complicity is when the decisions on bigly controversial cases come down. They ALL vote in lockstep on the big cases.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Apparently Gorsuch didn’t…

Gorsuch seems to be singularly obsessed with "legislating from the bench" on one issue: Native American Sovereignty. He is very much a loose cannon on the issue, almost as if he is single-handedly correcting previous Supreme Court wrongs against tribes.

 

[Lazaran]

Gorsuch seems to be singularly obsessed with "legislating from the bench" on one issue: Native American Sovereignty. He is very much a loose cannon on the issue, almost as if he is single-handedly correcting previous Supreme Court wrongs against tribes.

Gorsuch’s “One thing”???



Curly is smiling down…

 

[colddiesel]

Kavanaugh's dissenting opinion is crap. Basically it runs on about how the FedGov has been discriminating against Native American's for so long it's unthinkable to actually treat them fairly.

His performance as a SCOTUS justice makes me almost regret that he made it through the confirmation process.

The shortcomings of recent appointments illustrate very clearly how much the Court misses Scalia. I disagreed with Scalia more often than not, but at least when he wrote a decision, it was intellectually sound, well argued, and difficult to refute. And that in turn produced high quality counter argument. The quality of the court's work post Scalia is dismal.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The shortcomings of recent appointments illustrate very clearly how much the Court misses Scalia. I disagreed with Scalia more often than not, but at least when he wrote a decision, it was intellectually sound, well argued, and difficult to refute. And that in turn produced high quality counter argument. The quality of the court's work post Scalia is dismal.

Scalia did more to undermine the basic principles of American Democracy more than any other man not named Donald J. Trump. In DC v. Heller, he neutered the Second Amendment by redefining a "militia" as "an army of one" and paved the way for shitty little men like Ishmael, Wat Tyler and AJ to amass their arsenals of steel penis substitutes and ushered in the modern era of school shootings. He gave us The Age of White Guys With A Gun And A Grudge

And lets not forget the newly established legal bedrock principle of "One Dollar, One Vote". This created the entire "dark money" industry of campaign finance, allowing billionaires to purchase candidates (and Justices!) of their choice.

End stage capitalism is upon us. Scalia was of enormous help in bringing this cancer upon us.

 

[colddiesel]

Scalia did more to undermine the basic principles of American Democracy more than any other man not named Donald J. Trump. In DC v. Heller, he neutered the Second Amendment by redefining a "militia" as "an army of one" and paved the way for shitty little men like Ishmael, Wat Tyler and AJ to amass their arsenals of steel penis substitutes and ushered in the modern era of school shootings. He gave us The Age of White Guys With A Gun And A Grudge

And lets not forget the newly established legal bedrock principle of "One Dollar, One Vote". This created the entire "dark money" industry of campaign finance, allowing billionaires to purchase candidates (and Justices!) of their choice.

End stage capitalism is upon us. Scalia was of enormous help in bringing this cancer upon us.

I am not arguing with the point of view that you put here. My point is that Scalia, whatever his numerous faults, knew how to write very legally persuasive decisions. Intellectually he was so dominant of the conservative wing, that the public were barely aware of Alito and Thomas until Scalia died. It's not so long ago that Thomas never uttered a word or asked a question during cases before the court.

No-one knew Scalia better than Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Almost permanently opposing each others views they nevertheless had great professional respect for each other.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I am not arguing with the point of view that you put here. My point is that Scalia, whatever his numerous faults, knew how to write very legally persuasive decisions. Intellectually he was so dominant of the conservative wing, that the public were barely aware of Alito and Thomas until Scalia died. It's not so long ago that Thomas never uttered a word or asked a question during cases before the court.

No-one knew Scalia better than Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Almost permanently opposing each others views they nevertheless had great professional respect for each other.

I absolutely agree with you, I simply could not pass up an opportunity to remind folks of Scalia's intrinsic evil.

Scalia's genius was his ability to twist precedent to further his agenda.

Now that he has shuffled off the mortal coil, the Supreme Court, most notably Justices Thomas and Alito, have given up even the most specious pretense of respecting precedent. They "legislate from the bench" with zero respect for the institution they serve.

 

[HisArpy]

The shortcomings of recent appointments illustrate very clearly how much the Court misses Scalia. I disagreed with Scalia more often than not, but at least when he wrote a decision, it was intellectually sound, well argued, and difficult to refute. And that in turn produced high quality counter argument. The quality of the court's work post Scalia is dismal.

Not even close to being true. The recent NRA decision being a good example of how well the court works when the justices drop the phony pretenses and actually BE the legal intellectuals they're supposed to be.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Not even close to being true. The recent NRA decision being a good example of how well the court works when the justices drop the phony pretenses and actually BE the legal intellectuals they're supposed to be.

The Vullo decision? The Supremes overturned the Court of Appeals, and guess what? They were correct to do so.

Despite their looney-tunes re-interpretation of the First Amendment over the past 20 years or so, this one was cut-and-dried: NY state clearly overreached when they shut down via law the NRA's ability to state their shitty propaganda.

Very seldom does a clear-cut case of Constitutional overreach get to the level of the Supreme Court. God knows the NRA hates America, as do all of their members, but they have a Constitutional right to spew their hatred without government regulation.

So you have one anecdotal point. Well done. Treat yourself to a Happy Meal tonight. What the hell, Super-Size it if you budget permits!

 

[HisArpy]

The Vullo decision? The Supremes overturned the Court of Appeals, and guess what? They were correct to do so.

Despite their looney-tunes re-interpretation of the First Amendment over the past 20 years or so, this one was cut-and-dried: NY state clearly overreached when they shut down via law the NRA's ability to state their shitty propaganda.

Very seldom does a clear-cut case of Constitutional overreach get to the level of the Supreme Court. God knows the NRA hates America, as do all of their members, but they have a Constitutional right to spew their hatred without government regulation.

So you have one anecdotal point. Well done. Treat yourself to a Happy Meal tonight. What the hell, Super-Size it if you budget permits!

Tell it to Colddickweed, he's the one spouting off about how the SCOTUS can't get anything right.

And of course the UNANIMOUS decision (that means everyone on the court including liberal justices who hate guns in case you can't keep up) involved the "evil NRA."


So I'll take the win and smile gleefully as I watch you fuckwits squirm in the realization that EVERYTHING you believe in starts to come crashing down.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

So I'll take the win and smile gleefully as I watch you fuckwits squirm in the realization that EVERYTHING you believe in starts to come crashing down.

Do you smile gleefully as much as we do, when you post your Carbon water or Electrical theories???

 

[HisArpy]

Do you smile gleefully as much as we do, when you post your Carbon water or Electrical theories???

With my teeth showing. And I do it EVERY DAM TIME one of you dimwits reposts about it.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

With my teeth showing. And I do it EVERY DAM TIME one of you dimwits reposts about it.

excellent!!

 

[jaF0]

Supreme Court shoots down bump stock ban​

The high court’s ruling prevents the government from banning a device used in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
by Kelsey Reichmann

High court refuses to tighten requirements for migrant deportation hearings​

The high court’s ruling will allow the government to keep the time and place of migrants' removal hearing blank when sending out an initial deportation notice.
by Kelsey Reichmann



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[jaF0]

Government does not have to pay back unconstitutional bankruptcy fees, Supreme Court rules​

The high court resolved a dispute over unequal bankruptcy fees across the nation.
by Kelsey Reichmann

‘Trump too small’ trademark can't stand, SCOTUS rules​

The high court upheld decades of precedent prohibiting trademarks on other people’s names.
by Kelsey Reichmann

Siding with Starbucks, SCOTUS limits labor board​

The high court agreed with the coffee giant and made a stringent four-factor test required to grant preliminary injunctions the standard in labor disputes.
by Ryan Knappenberger

 

[RobDownSouth]

Court issues ruling in Mifepristone case. Ruled plaintiffs had NO standing to sue to permit states to override the FDA and ban abortion drug Mifepristone.

"Justice" Kavanaugh led the decision to throw the case out of court. It had been fast-tracked by big money conservative interest groups. The court said in essence "several doctors decided THEY didn't want to prescribe Mifeprestone, so they wanted NO doctors to be able to prescribe Mifeprestone, because the mere availability of the drug subjected them to the possibility that the mean old Biden administration might FORCE them to prescribe the drug"

You know you're on poor legal ground when Kavanaugh tells you you're full of shit.

This was yet another conservative case dealing with hypothetical situations. The court took a beating two years ago when they decided hypothetical cases in favor of conservative interest groups with no actual harm done to plaintiffs, and have scaled back their "legislating from the bench" as they realize the public has lost faith in the Supreme Court.

 

[Bray123]

 

[ll74]

Advisory Opinions - I'm sure I've suggested this podcast before, but I listen to a lot of SCOTUS podcasts and this one always seems the most objective to me. Sarah Isgur is a national treasure and I love The Dispatch overall....they have become my go-to source for so many things.

Anyway - this episode they analyze the bump stock decision and others.

https://pca.st/episode/4d474344-e41d-4200-b960-de43541ac6da

 

[domroger]

Court issues ruling in Mifepristone case. Ruled plaintiffs had NO standing to sue to permit states to override the FDA and ban abortion drug Mifepristone.

"Justice" Kavanaugh led the decision to throw the case out of court. It had been fast-tracked by big money conservative interest groups. The court said in essence "several doctors decided THEY didn't want to prescribe Mifeprestone, so they wanted NO doctors to be able to prescribe Mifeprestone, because the mere availability of the drug subjected them to the possibility that the mean old Biden administration might FORCE them to prescribe the drug"

You know you're on poor legal ground when Kavanaugh tells you you're full of shit.

This was yet another conservative case dealing with hypothetical situations. The court took a beating two years ago when they decided hypothetical cases in favor of conservative interest groups with no actual harm done to plaintiffs, and have scaled back their "legislating from the bench" as they realize the public has lost faith in the Supreme Court.

But it leaves it open for someone else to try to ban it.