👀 Oh... that makes it so much worse.
He can't really, deep down, believe that his fellow justices (nor even anybody liable to read the full text of a Supreme Court decision) don't understand the US government on a 4th grade level. I refuse to believe that.
I can believe he's a pompous ass that...
My take away from that is not so much the message... it's the audience he's writing for. Striking to see a Supreame Court justice write his opinion as if his job is a 4th teacher teaching remedial civics and not actually, you know, a Supreame Court justice. He's writing like he has to sell this...
Each and every reply to a certain class of poster is a WIN for them and their cause, regardless of the content of that reply.
It's not like we need any more data on whether facts, proof, and reason will sway them one bit.
Before you type out our reply to them, you and they both know with 100%...
Yeah, Trump already floated a tariff's dividend check himself. There's a path here to doing the refunds to the American people thought that type of payment because it would give Trump something to pretend was a win "Look I'm sending you a check!". Arguably (maybe?) better than a straight refund...
Just writes itself
We all have or first amendment rights, as long as we have the courage to not cede them without a fight. Don’t threaten anyone and you’re fine, these frivolous charges be damned. We all face a stark binary choice here; exercise our rights or lose them for good.
Oh, and...
Literally nauseating how this highlights that corporate interests are worth protecting, but it's still OK to ignore victims of child sex crimes as long as the perpetrators are powerful men.
I haven't seen it posted on here explicitly, but as I understand it the charges against Andrew are for passing sensitive information to Epstein and not (as far as I'm aware) anything to do with sexual impropriety (including anything to do with Virginia Guiffre). I suspect this was a very...