Given the recent ethics questions about justices’ interactions with billionaires, it’s an interesting case to take on.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published in 2021, two of the Moores’ lawyers also declared unambiguously that the lawsuit “stands to slam shut the door on a federal wealth tax like the one Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to enact.” They made a direct pitch to “the courts” to hear the Moores’ case “now” to make it easier to block a wealth tax in the future.

  • Darnov@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They have to protect their fiscal interests. How else will they go on extravagant trips without owing a thing?
    I grow to hate my home country more every day.

  • rafoix@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Section 8: Powers of Congress
    The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes

    I’d love to hear their reasoning.

  • Xariphon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Where’s the whining about “overreach” now?

    Crickets?

    Crickets and hypocrisy?

    Thought so.

    • HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      What do you mean by this comment? The fact the court might hear a case on the premise that it would stymy future legislation is completely unorthodox and not within the purview of the court. That is overreach, by definition.

      • Xariphon@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I mean that it’s usually right-wingers whining about overreach, but when it’s their assholes doing it for their fascist agenda all of a sudden they go silent, which is (unsurprisingly) flagrant hypocrisy.

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        The SCOTUS has been a force resisting civil rights and good governance for pretty much all of American history.

        Too many middle-aged and older people these days grew up under the Warren court, but the Warren court was a fucking blip. An anomaly. An aberration.

        They looked at the clock of the court, saw the sun high in the sky, saw the hands pointed at noon, and thought to themselves “Ah, everything is working fine.” But the clock’s dead broken and has been for centuries.

          • admiralteal@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            Desegregation, right to a defense attorney & Miranda rights, ending mandatory school prayer.

            But also colloquially the era stretching a bit beyond where the court had a Liberal vision often including decisions in the 70s/80s decisions like roe v wade

    • Bipta@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      You have the right to choose who you do business with… unless you’re a university; then you’ll do as we tell you.

  • BurnTheRight@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    We need to re-seat this illegitimate court.

    Conservatism is a plague of oppression, deception and death. It always has been. There is no such thing as “good conservatism”.