Alito, 76, is one of six conservative justices on the nine-person Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative lean wouldn’t change if Alito retired and Trump nominated a new justice. But Alito’s retirement would allow Trump to appoint a fourth justice to the court. Alito was nominated by then-President George W. Bush in the fall of 2005 and took his seat on the bench in January 2006.
Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court for several rulings against him on controversial issues like his sweeping tariff policy and his challenge to birthright citizenship. Alito sided with Trump on those two issues.
The timing of a Supreme Court justice’s retirement is crucial because the party in power can change the court’s political leaning for decades.
Tracks for shitstain partisan judges like alito. “Not a political organization” then coordinates retirements with the party lol.
Could be worse. You could be a liberal justice and refuse to step down despite your age and health. Then decide to kill over when Trump is in office and allow a supreme court to destroy everything you represented or accomplished.
RBG was the ultimate boomer refusing to pass the torch and choosing to recognize their own mortality. She was 87 fucking years old.
Alito is being smart and not being stupid like RBG was. She should have stepped down as soon as Obama was elected the 2nd time.
Let’s just keep in mind that RBG was the deciding vote in handing the 2000 election to it’s loser, George Bush, and right after that the R party started their voter fraud allegations and laws.
You can draw a straight line from the 2000 election, to 2020, to now. RBG was a trecherous piece of shit.
Friendly correction in case it wasn’t an autocorrect screw up, it’s keel over
Definitely not a boomer.
Nope, she would have been “Silent Generation”, I believe.
Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
You missed the point by thi________________________s much.
Question if you asked a multi-millionaire boomer to give up there social security to someone who needs it. Say the family makes $400k a year which includes $40,000 in social security. Do you think they would willingly give that up? Do you think thats an easy political goal?
“hey social security is intended for people who depend on it financially and not a buffer to your large portfolio”
We could solve social security by capping the OUTFLOWs at $250k. Go poll some boomers on that lmao let me know if you still think they are working class.
The ONLY reason billionaires have the power they have is because of conservatives (including neo-liberals). Conservatives have always protected the wealthy. They worship the rich.
If not for conservatives, the normal people would be able to charge billionaires with crimes. If not for conservatives, billionaires would be required to pay fair taxes. As long as conservatives continue to breathe our air, billionaires will remain untouchable.
We cannot defeat the boss until his foot-soldiers are dead.
Boomers are not working class since most of them are actually taking money from the working class right now, and are incentivized to keep electing these god awful politicians. They were working class now they live off investments, and social security, both held up by the actual working people.
Not that it likely would matter, as Turtlefucker would have found a way to stall and kill his nominee for her spot anyway.
One failure of the Democratic party is not an excuse for another failure. Obama had the same power under the reading of the constitution to appoint a Judge without Congress if Congress refuses to hold a vote.
When the constitution was written they didn’t write down specifically about what happens if Congress refuses to do its job. That’s the exact reasoning that the Republicans were acting on.
The Democrats have lost so much for this country by standing by and “following the rules”. They get dunked on by a dog playing basketball while the Republicans say “nothing in the rules that says a dog can’t play basketball”.
You’d benefit from watching this nearly 8 year old video. It will give you a lot of perspective on how we have gotten to where we are today and why we continue to see the same thing.
https://youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A
They all did this though. RBG was certainly holding out until after Trump was out of office.
Woops for her I guess. Maybe the lesson there is retire when younger and skip the “holding out for better circumstances” bullshit because you never know what might happen. Sounds like alito got the memo.
I’m not disagreeing.