{"id":36409,"date":"2022-06-28T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36409"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:26:39","slug":"word-of-the-day-801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/28\/word-of-the-day-801\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slip opinion<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Noted in “Sotomayor says Gorsuch flubbed prayer case facts (and she\u2019s right)<\/em><\/a>,” Steve Benen, Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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For those who\u2019ve never read a slip opinion from the Supreme Court, it\u2019s worth emphasizing that they almost never include images: Justices write their opinions, concurrences, and dissents \u2014 and that\u2019s it. There’s nothing but text.<\/p>\n

But in her dissent yesterday, Sotomayor took the highly unusual step of\u00a0including several photographs<\/a>\u00a0to prove her point: The images showed the high school coach engaged in public worship with public school student athletes \u2014 minors who were seeking their coach\u2019s approval, and who needed to stay on his good side if they intended to play \u2014 at public school events.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I actually did read small parts of that opinion, which is not<\/strong> a hobby of mine, and I recall shaking my head over Gorsuch’s description of the dispute. It didn’t accord with news reports, but, hey, I’m not a lawyer.<\/p>\n

It appears, though, that Sotomayor has caught Gorsuch with his pants down. Perhaps that’s an unfortunate metaphor.<\/p>\n

But, with all due respect to SCOTUS<\/strong>‘ conservative wing, it does appear that they are in the process of crashing and burning. There’s been a string of really doubtful opinions of late when it comes to religious issues, such as the egregious blunder in Carson v. Makin<\/em><\/a>, Dobbs<\/em><\/a> (aka the overturning of Roe v Wade<\/em>), and now this decision, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In addition, neither Alito, with a petulant side-note in Dobbs<\/em>, nor Thomas, who in a concurring opinion to Dobbs<\/em> scoots much further out on the right-wing tree limb than Alito or the other three who voted Yes<\/strong> on Dobbs<\/em>, comes out of Dobbs<\/em> with a shining halo. They had an agenda on their minds, used Dobbs<\/em> as their horse to fulfill it, and didn’t apologize for blowing up stare decisis<\/em><\/a> with bad history or bad reasoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now Justice Gorsuch, IJ, is shown to be a religious hack as well, falsifying facts when they don’t fit his narrative.<\/p>\n

This probably isn’t severe enough to warrant an impeachment, and the Republican Senators would never stand for it, but it’s worth noting that misrepresentation is not a mild offense at the SCOTUS<\/strong> level. Maybe Gorsuch doesn’t understand that. Or maybe he’s in such thrall to religious doctrine that he can’t help himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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