this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
193 points (95.7% liked)

politics

19238 readers
2538 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
all 19 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] SophismaCognoscente 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a good op ed and one with which any supporter of enlightened democracy should agree. The Supreme Court are playing fast and loose with public trust at a time when partisanship has crippled the other branches of government and polarization is dividing the country.

How can anyone respect a court that explicitly has no ethical standard?

[–] Speculater 36 points 1 year ago

What?! Are you saying judges shouldn't be accepting lavish gifts from billionaires simply due to optics? That's crazy talk. Money is speech because the... Oh wait.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Doing gods work, clicked through hoping someone had posted an archive link—thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm really impressed all the embedded links (at least the nyt ones) to other related articles are also archive links.

[–] stanleytweedle 27 points 1 year ago

It's about lack of consequences. Ethics only constrain people that don't have the power to not give a fuck about what other people think is ethical.

[–] PantsOnHead 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The better question is: do they care?

It's pretty obvious they don't

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately, that’s how it is. The last time I served on a jury we all got free donuts, because a juror on another case earlier in the day had brought in donuts for the court, and the judge and bailiffs weren’t allowed to accept them.

[–] popemichael 20 points 1 year ago

Why would they care? They are, consequence free, rewriting the laws to more fit their needs.

They don't need to justify their existence when there is no consequence for any action that they take…

[–] dhork 6 points 1 year ago

In defense, the justices invoked the "Whoever smelt it, dealt it" defense, and replied "no, u"

[–] TokenBoomer 6 points 1 year ago

The Coke masks the smell of the pubic hair.

[–] hark 6 points 1 year ago

The highest court in the land has lower ethical standards than pretty much any job out there. I have to report a gift of maybe $15 but these clowns who make decisions affecting hundreds of millions of people can do whatever they want. How can we even pretend we live in a democracy?

[–] o0joshua0o 3 points 1 year ago

They are unelected, lifelong tyrants. They don't care what we think.