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In a Volatile Term, a Fractured Supreme Court Remade America
The New York Times ^ | Jul 02, 2024 03:38 PM | Adam Liptak, Alicia Parlapiano

Posted on 07/02/2024 11:00:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Former President Donald J. Trump had a very good year at the Supreme Court. On Monday, the court ruled that he is substantially immune from prosecution on charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election. On Friday, the court cast doubt on two of the four charges against him in what remains of that prosecution. And in March, the justices allowed him to seek another term despite a constitutional provision barring insurrectionists from holding office.

Administrative agencies had a horrible term. In three 6-to-3 rulings along ideological lines, the court’s conservative supermajority erased a foundational precedent that had required courts to defer to agency expertise, dramatically lengthened the time available to challenge agencies’ actions and torpedoed the administrative tribunals in which the Securities and Exchange Commission brings enforcement actions.

The court itself had a volatile term, taking on a stunning array of major disputes and assuming a commanding role in shaping American society and democracy. If the justices felt chastened by the backlash over their 2022 abortion decision, the persistent questions about their ethical standards and the drop in their public approval, there were only glimmers of restraint, notably in ducking two abortion cases in an election year.

The court was divided 6 to 3 along partisan lines not only in Monday’s decision on Mr. Trump’s immunity and the three cases on agency power, but also in a run of major cases on homelessness, voting rights, guns and public corruption.

An unusually high proportion of divided decisions in argued cases — more than two-thirds — were decided by 6-to-3 votes. But only half of those decisions featured the most common split, with the six Republican appointees in the majority and the...


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 07/02/2024 11:00:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Article presented for entertainment purposes only.


2 posted on 07/02/2024 11:00:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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The dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court’s three stooges leads off with a picket sign slogan. “No one is above the law.”...Other than, of course. themselves as judges, DAs, governors performing official duties, congress folks free to defame from the well, etc, all of whom enjoy the same immunity the Supreme Court reiterated the President has in performance of official duties. Apparently, led by the wise latina freshly back from crying in her chambers, they shepardized this case precedent from stacks of picket signs rather than stacks of case law and the actual Constitution.


3 posted on 07/02/2024 11:02:59 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As my dad said, NYT “all the news fit to tint”.


4 posted on 07/02/2024 11:03:23 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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"In a Volatile Term, a Fractured Majority Supreme Court Remade RESTORED America"

Editing the editors.

5 posted on 07/02/2024 11:04:22 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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Supreme Court has only very slightly “nudged” the status-quo of 60 years of judicial activism and deference to leftist and statist trends in America.


6 posted on 07/02/2024 11:06:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I suspect that the three Obama justices will become huge proponents of the immunity decision come Jan 21, 2025.


7 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:15 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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And in March, the justices allowed him to seek another term despite a constitutional provision barring insurrectionists from holding office.

Only people on the "far-left" (we need to use this term more often) held this view.

Everyone else, including all the independent voters viewed the events of 1/6 as a protest.

According to the First Amendment, the American people have the right to assemble.

8 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:39 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Fractured?

Volatile?

WTF!


9 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:53 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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total hyperbolic BS

The FACT is, a president could ALWAYS pardon himself and anyone he wished for any and all federal crimes they even might have committed during his administration.

And there is NOTHING anyone could have done about it.

But they ALWAYS had that power. Even if the court had ruled the way Democrats wanted. After Trump won, he could have pardoned himself, the J6 protestors, and anyone else in his old administration. Trump could also (in hindsite) have pre emptively pardoned everyone including himself before leaving office. He just never imagined, the Democrats would attack him, the J6 protestors and members of his administration with lawfare they way they have.

But going forward, all presidents will almost certainly preemptively pardon everyone before leaving office.


10 posted on 07/02/2024 11:09:02 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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In three 6-to-3 rulings along ideological Constitutional lines--

I'm sure the distorter, er, reporter's choice of words was an innocent failure of . . . education.

11 posted on 07/02/2024 11:11:17 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: DallasBiff; E. Pluribus Unum; lightman

NYT: “All the news we fit to print”!

The Supreme Court returned America to being America!!


12 posted on 07/02/2024 11:11:22 AM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The nyt is full of lies. Just in the first two excerpted paragraphs:

“despite a constitutional provision barring insurrectionists from holding office.”

“conservative supermajority”

“a foundational precedent”

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.

But, it has long been recognized:

The week in whoppers: NY Times’ Master of Misinformation

Lies of the NY Times

Behind The Curtain: How The New York Times Manufactures Lies For Democrats To Attack Their Opponents

13 posted on 07/02/2024 11:13:27 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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They use “landmark” when they win. It’s “bitterly divided” and “fractured” when the NYT scum lose.


14 posted on 07/02/2024 11:14:40 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bat crap crazy.


15 posted on 07/02/2024 11:20:52 AM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT have appointed themselves as Supreme?

How cute.


16 posted on 07/02/2024 11:24:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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“...the three Obama justices...”

Are you kidding?

Traitor Roberts has found, by declaration, that there are NO 0bama judges....


17 posted on 07/02/2024 11:27:21 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DallasBiff

I say, “NY Slimes: all the news print to fit” (their leftist agenda).


18 posted on 07/02/2024 11:35:22 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
When Obama said he wanted to "fundamentally change America," the New York Times was 100% behind it.

When Trump actually fundamentally changes America, the New York Times calls it "fractured."

Go figure...

-PJ

19 posted on 07/02/2024 11:37:21 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Adam Liptak, Alicia Parlapiano

Oh shut up!


20 posted on 07/02/2024 12:01:31 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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