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CORRUPT SCOTUS Trying to Kill Constitution For TRUMP + Upside Down US Flag
CORRUPT Supreme Court Trying to Kill The Constitution For TRUMP
Partisan Insurrectionist: Calls Mount For Alitos’ Ouster Amid Scandal of How His Wife Flew The MAGA Symbol -An Upside-Down American Flag, Outside Their Home
MSRAW 18 MAY 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seems intent on strangling the life out of the Constitution to give Donald Trump authoritarian powers, according to a state Supreme Court justice.
Hawaii Supreme Court justice Todd Eddins has been an outspoken critic of the nation's top court, which he said had abandoned legal precedent to impose their personal preferences and political theories to decide cases, and he told Slate columnists Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern that these decisions put democracy at risk.
"You know, when precedent is for suckers and we don’t know whether settled law will become unsettled every June, it’s really hard for the judiciary to function," Eddins said. "It’s hard for judges to operate when there’s a lack of stability. And it’s not just judges; it’s the litigants, the lawyers, the law professors who have to tear up their syllabuses.
I mean, it’s fundamental to our American system of justice that law works incrementally, that cases build upon cases, and that we rely on precedent. That’s the stability of the law. And when you have a group of people who come in and disregard precedent, it really unsettles things; it causes chaos. People don’t know how to operate."
The right-wing majority shaped by Trump purportedly bases their decisions on the originalist legal philosophy that considers the founders' intentions, but Eddins said their reasoning frequently landed on outdated judgments from a racist, misogynistic, homophobic society and limited the judgments of contemporary judges.
"I think it’s also a lack of humility, a lack of respect for all the law that’s been out there for centuries of the American judicial system," Eddins said. "Who gave these originalists the right to kill the Constitution? And when the Constitution is killed, where do we stand? It makes it so difficult for courts throughout the land."
Conservatives have fought for years to restrict states in their authority to protect voting rights and elevating one individual above all others in the eyes of the law, Eddins said.
"The U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions are really destroying democracy," Eddins said. "It’s just race to the extreme in case after case. It tears at the fabric of our nation and what I view our federal Constitution to be. And now, over the last few weeks, it seems like it’s not just personal values and preferences that they’re injecting into their jurisprudence; they also give preference to specific individuals, and that’s where the court is truly eroding confidence in the judicial system."
The justice was asked whether the specific individual he was thinking of was Trump in his presidential immunity case.
"I am," Eddins replied.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught in Bombshell Scandal - ‘The American Flag Is Sacred’: Reports Of Upside-Down Flag At Justice Alito’s House
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito
The conservative justice had told the New York Times, which revealed the flag and published a photo of it, that his wife flew the MAGA symbol "in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs," but Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream says Alito told her that his wife had been verbally harassed by the man.
"I spoke directly with Justice Alito about the flag story in the NYT," Bream posted on X. "In addition to what's in the story, he told me a neighbor on their street had a 'F--- Trump' sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus. Mrs. Alito brought this up with the neighbor."
The photo published by the Times was taken on Jan. 17, 2021, which was 11 days after the violent U.S. Capitol riot
SCOTUS Justice CAUGHT With An Upside-Down American Flag Displayed Outside His Home, Blames Wife
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