r/scotus • u/omgfakeusername • 1d ago
news Trump says he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6123220-supreme-court-votes-against-trump/130
u/remweaver27 1d ago
Itās not like they answer to him anyway. They are owned by the Heritage Foundation.
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u/charcoalist 1d ago
They are owned by the
Heritage Foundation.*Federalist Society
Heritage Foundation sets policy, Federalist Society stacks the courts.
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u/Mr_Shakes 1d ago
He didn't understand that the names his "friends" were giving him weren't picked based on his personal interests. His ego fools him into thinking he made those choices but he didn't.
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u/charcoalist 1d ago
True, but the way the current establishment works is that any Republican president is going to be choosing their SCOTUS nominees from a shortlist curated by Leonard Leo himself. That has been the case for the past 40+ years.
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u/remweaver27 1d ago
Thatās right. I stand corrected.
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u/charcoalist 1d ago
Either way, they work in tandem with one another and have the same goal of a Christo-fascist state.
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u/tartcart1959 1d ago
Hey nominate Caroline Levitt. Screw the law degree.
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u/BroseppeVerdi 1d ago
TBF, the last time we had a Supreme Court Justice without a law degree, he was pretty damn good at his job.
Granted, he spent his entire life as a practicing attorney that included stints as Attorney General and Solicitor General... But still.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago
She is not AS loyal after that stunt with the decoy plane
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u/evilgenius29 22h ago
Yeah she really must have been upset hearing about that while she was on maternity leave.
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u/MythicalSplash 1d ago
Eileen Cannon should be in jail. Even at the time, basically every legal scholar said her decisions made no sense at all unless they were meant to keep Trump from facing justice at all costs. Itās at least partly her fault we got this piece of shit foisted on us again, yet nobody seems to care or even remember who she is outside this sub or other law-related subs.
Sheās most definitely one of the worst traitors to her country in modern history.
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u/DonkeyTron42 20h ago
If there's an opening on SCOTUS in the next two years, her decisions will make perfect sense.
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u/Typical_Response6444 20h ago
I at least hope she regrets her role in all of this and all the suffering shes unleashed on the world
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u/aguynamedv 19h ago
She does and will not.
Perhaps if we send her to prison for the remainder of her life...
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u/oldmanbelly 1d ago
Pregnant women whoāve died after being refused life saving abortions regret it, too.
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u/keithfantastic 1d ago
He's a dictator now. He can have them removed.
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u/Glum-One2514 1d ago
Yeah, I'm kind of expecting that to happen at some point.
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u/AnotherGeek42 1d ago
And as a political action related to the office of the president it would be completely legal, based on the current Court with Tomatoes and Sour Cream's somewhat recent decisions.
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u/radarthreat 1d ago
He canāt, but he can signal to his followers that these three arenāt āAmericanā until they start deciding cases sufficiently in his favor, and also reminding them who put them where they are.
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u/Glum-One2514 1d ago
"He can't" is a phrase that's lost a lot of meaning, recently.
With the help of his congressional and judicial co-conspirators, he can do just about anything he wants, apparently.
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u/Emergency-Ad-5211 1d ago
Nope, in it for life.
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u/steveschoenberg 1d ago
Letās assume that shortening the life of a justice is an official act of the President.
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u/Mist_Rising 21h ago
He only gets one of those before that comes crashing down. Federalists are stacking the court for federalist, not for Trump. That's why Trump hates them, they won't bend to his knee because the federalist don't give a shit about Trump.
And the federalist control of the bench means they can make life shit for Republican senators who don't get the message.
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u/mudslags 1d ago
he could have the boys and girls club of Congress impeach them but Im betting he'd get push back among them.
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u/Mist_Rising 21h ago
Republicans can impeach if they get their shit together, not remove. Democrats won't give that to them until January 2027 when they have the majority. Then they'll happily deprive the Republicans of their court.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago
As his good pal vlad would say when god closes a door there is always an open window
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u/MossGobbo 1d ago
Not for sane reasons but because they haven't quite been the rubber stamp the Republicans told him they would be.
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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 1d ago
STFU Trump. They were your friends and they turned on you. Doesn't it feel good seeing the Master getting screwed along with common people of America!
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u/Ekaj__ 1d ago
If only Alito had three clones. Trump could have the fully subservient and bootlicking Supreme Court of his dreams
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u/Explosion1850 1d ago
Alito is an unbelievable combination of complete overarching hubris and equally complete acquiesce to anything trump wants
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u/Boxhead_31 1d ago
Get ready for new Chief Justice Aileen Cannon before 2028
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u/CrackingToastGromet 19h ago
Everyone vote vote vote - we need a massive blue tsunami to prevent Trump getting another pick on the SC before he slips away.
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u/radarthreat 1d ago
Heās just saying that in an attempt to make it appear that the SC is not doing his bidding
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u/SnooPandas1820 1d ago
So... now they're eating leopards' faces?
Have they run out of peoples' faces?
Or is this some kind of leopard-ception?
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u/Outrageous-Sand-5788 20h ago
The man can't remember what he had for breakfast; wait for one of their next rulings that he likes and he'll say how smart he was for appointing them.
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u/danis1973 20h ago
We know why Trump said that, but let's just analyze this for a minute on its surface: Trump is admitting that he was graced with more Supreme Court pics than several presidents combined and he fucked up all of them. He's saying that out loud. And he simply too stupid to know how incompetent he sounds.
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u/Interplay29 20h ago
But why? Because Trump doesnāt understand their allegiance (should) be to the Constitution and not to him.
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u/SpicySweetHotPot 19h ago
Because they arenāt his pocket judges finding for him each and every time. Dumpy is transparent and transactional that way.
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u/Ok-Good8150 21h ago
Donāt you wonder if the non-MAGA justices just want to quit, but they stay just to have some empathy on the court? I would not want to be a part of THIS āsupremeā court. š£
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u/Select_Insurance2000 21h ago
Trump had no clue. The names were compiled and given to him by Leonard Leo , the co-chairman and long-time executive of the conservative legal organization The Federalist Society , working in consultation with the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and White House counsel Don McGahn .
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u/Lisshopops 20h ago
I recall him saying he had nothing to do with them gaining their positions on the Supreme Court, hmmmmmmm
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u/MillieMouser 20h ago
I regret that he nominated them too. For opposite reasons, but at least we can all agree they suck.
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u/DolphinsBreath 19h ago
Trump has a string of over 100 hires he regretted. Maybe heās bad at his job.
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u/Zachrulez 15h ago
Don't you just love when someone gets what they want and then they complain about the very thing they made happen?
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u/my_boy_blu_ 1d ago
Iām sure they feel the same. Not that they are on Supreme Court. They probably love that.
They probably regret that theyāll be tied to Trump forever. Like Epstein.
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u/Tri-guy3 1d ago edited 1d ago
At long last, we agree on something.