this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
97 points (100.0% liked)

Legal News

562 readers
93 users here now

International and local legal news.

Basic rules

1. English onlyTitle and associated content has to be in English.
2. Sensitive topics need NSFW flagSome cases involve sensitive topics. Use common sense and if you think that the content might trigger someone, post it under NSFW flag.
3. Instance rules applyAll lemmy.zip instance rules listed in the sidebar will be enforced.

Icon attribution | Banner attribution

If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @brikox@lemmy.zip.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
BrikoX@lemmy.zip
97
Brett Kavanaugh says he doesn’t owe the public an explanation (www.vox.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/legalnews@lemmy.zip
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 29 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is all just a steaming pile of bullshit.

The current US Supreme Court hands Trump victories without explaining them because the explanation is quite simply that the conservative majority is wholly and completely corrupt and compromised. There is no legitimate justification for their decisions - neither existing law, precedent nor the Constitution could possibly be successfully invoked to justify any of them, and trying would just call unwanted attention to that fact, so they don't even bother trying.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The justification is "What the fuck are you going to do about it?"

The normal process is born out of an awareness that people can bite back sometimes, and so "they" will take seriously trying to justify their actions. After a while, things get quiescent, and some of "they" start fooling themselves that it is impossible that the people not on top would ever bite back, and they stop bothering themselves with worrying about it.

For some reason (as with pretty much any other "what the fuck are you doing to do about it" situation), when people do do something about it, it's all of a sudden an outrageous betrayal, an offense against decency that no one could have seen coming.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 weeks ago

A court that strongly supports the second amendment should not drive the populous to believe it is their only option.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget that rapists stick together too, he has to support his fellow rapist.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

There will be no justice until all five of them are either in a maximum security prison, or executed in public

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He will have that position until he’s dead.

I didn’t make the rules. This is just a fact.

[–] Atom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

30-ish years to go given he's rich and has the best healthcare in the world.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s pessimistic. Be optimistic.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 weeks ago

I know, a ballistic rise like his has to stop suddenly eventually.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds like we found the solution.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and file this one under, "Reasons for the upcoming civil war".

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What makes you think there will be one, if there hasn't been one yet? Asking as a discouraged person.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We are always 5 days without food from a civil war.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

America is a long way from going hungry.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Everything has a breaking point.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait, is the civil war the better outcome here? I mean, you granted Trump control of all branches of the government and elected him president twice. How do you guys envision that playing out?

Ugh. Every time a US politics post gets through my blocklist I'm baffled at the surreal narratives in there. Americans are so weird.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I am not American and I am also disappointed some new horror gets through my blocklist. It affects all of us though.
I don't think civil war is the better outcome, I just think the better outcomes seem to have been handily sidestepped.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, a civil war is one of good options in the Openly Fascist America timeline.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

... so weird.

I genuinely believe history will struggle to explain American decay accurately, because who would ever stand in front of a classroom with a straight face to explain Americans were too lazy to not elect a fascist president twice into full control of the state's apparatus while actively fantasizing about a civil war to oppose him.

Like, you'd need to explain a century of main character syndrome fed by mass media and then degraded by social media, and even then it'd be a struggle. If anybody survives it's all going to be rationalizations about Citizens United and whatnot and history will do its best to forget how it all actually went down.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or someone that's actually read some history will find the inevitable decline of liberalism very, very familiar, and agree that a fascist nation having a civil war instead of invading their neighbors is the best outcome once the old order collapsed under the weight of its hubris.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, man, care to point me to all that history I haven't heard of? Would love to read more about all the liberal regimes that collapsed into fascism democratically but were liberated by a civil war and everything was just fine afterwards. Bonus points if it's either pre- or post- cold war and there isn't a bloc system where they can act as a proxy for a remote superpower. Would have been so useful to know when our country descended into decades of fascism by the exact opposite method. We didn't know we were doing it wrong.

But hey, at least I can recognize that as accelerationist nonsense. The weird part is when normie Americans seem to have the same set of assumptions out of nowhere. That's where the real weirdness happens.

Anyway, I've had enough yankee for a day. I'm out. You guys enjoy your barbecue or civil war or however you decide to spend the weekend.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Not the brightest bulb, huh? That's okay, I'm sure you're great at emotional intelligence or whatever else soothes the ego.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

...how many men on the Supreme Court have had ties with Epstein...I'm just asking quetions...

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

They’re longer scared of us and we let this happen

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Conservatives think legitimacy is an object you own.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

checks the news I mean, that's what they appear to be doing successfully.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Power is not the same thing. I need people to understand: conservatism does not believe power can be abused. When they have it, it's theirs. There is no right or wrong action, only right or wrong people. Things are right because right people do them. Their ingroup inherently possesses this unquestionable right to act - and in their minds, that's surely the only basis for your objections. We just want our guys acting, instead.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago

https://archive.is/Vf8UA/again?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fscotus%2F422035%2Fsupreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-shadow-docket

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Lead is the ultimate equalizer.