Trollminator wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
Everyone talking about the death of RBG and the eventual Trump appointee like it's some sort of tilling point. You are all idiots.
RvW isn't going to change regardless of the court makeup.
Guess what? Kavanaugh and Roberts are moderates. The current court with RBG is like 4 liberal, 3 moderates, 2 conservatives.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graph_of_Martin-Quinn_Scores_of_Supreme_Court_Justices_1937-Now.pngTake a look at recent court decisions. You don't see many meaningful 5-4 decisions that would be swung the opposite direction.
Alan
To that I would say it takes time. 3 trump appointees will over time tend to shift decisions to the right. There will be more situations with a split decision and you will
consistently have the same one or two trump appointees who are calling it... and that’s the best you can hope for.
Look at the graph. Look at recent SCOTUS decisions.
RvW is NEVER being overturned. Gay marriage will still be a thing. Unless he nominated Clarence Thomas 2.0 the court just moves more to the center.
Abortion:
In December 2018, as a swing vote, Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice Roberts and the court's four more liberal justices to decline hearing cases brought by the states of Louisiana and Kansas, which sought to block women from choosing to receive Medicaid-funded medical care from Planned Parenthood clinics.
LGBT
On June 15, 2020, in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the workplace nondiscrimination protections in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be interpreted as protecting people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Trump Taxes
In July 2020, the Supreme Court ruled, in two 7-2 decisions, that the Manhattan District Attorney could access President Trump's tax records, but that the issue of whether Congress could access the same records needed to be processed through the lower courts, and Kavanaugh ruled against Trump, joining Roberts, Gorsuch, and the court's four Democratic appointees in the majority.[222]
I am not worried. The court is very moderate.
Alan