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Active judges risk firing, Many retired judges have already come forward, Doesn't work on Roberts et al.

The ABA meets next week in Chicago. I expect them to condemn the decision.

There is a procedure within 30 days to ask for a rehearing and during that period motions in the nature of exceptions can be filed. Probably would just prolong the agony.

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Maybe they should risk firing? I can't say because I'm not one of them. But why be a judge if you can't enforce the law? Are the majority of our judges willing to act like the judges in Moscow? I was naive enough to believe that the courts were supposed to protect us from criminals, and not protect the criminals. But, maybe that just applies to Black people.

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@Old: I am only a nurse, but I risked being fired and was fired several times over 35 years because I had to do what I and the Nurse Practice Act believed was the right way to treat patients and families. I tried to keep a low profile and keep my jobs because I needed to care for my family. But when push came to shove, I had to go along with the golden rule. As a nurse, my priorities were my conscience, my license, then my job. Judges should do the same. I survived and they would to.

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The Supreme Court also has the dubious distinction of being free of the rules of judicial ethics that bind state court judges and Article III judges from lower courts.

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Plenty of judges are continually reversed, and some are regularly inspected, dissected and rejected under peer review or the Judicial Code.

Suicide is not a good option.

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But who can do that to a corrupt SCOTUS? Only the Congress. And probably the DOJ but they donтАЩt have the nerve.

Anyway, itтАЩs the 4th of July and IтАЩm going to the beach with my grandchildren while IтАЩm still healthy and free. I hope to be able to feel free to express myself next year.

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I still believe in criminal law. Make me AG and Lennie Leo, Harlan Crow, and dozens of other witnesses would appear under grand jury subpoena re bribery, perjury and statutory financial allegations.

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Thanks Daniel, you have validated my opinion that the problem is Merrick Garland. and Biden let the fox inside to guard the henhouse.

I have always distrusted Biden's judgement and his bipartisan friends across the aisle attitude, he is a creature of the beltway and the beltway is out of touch with middle America.

They didn't call him the Senator from Wall Street for no reason.

Having said that I have no choice but vote as I did last time and that is cast my ballot against Trump by voting for Biden., there is no other choice. A third party vote is, by default, a vote for Trump, that is why Andrew Mellon has given 50 million dollars to the Trump Campaign and 25 million to the RFK jr campaign.

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So do I. This week really haunts me.

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If I understand correctly, motion for reconsideration would open door to more amicus briefs: at least opportunity to pile on the scorn and outrage and neon-light the intellectual vacuity!

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