We have a new legislative body

[Robert]

If you ever wanted to prove our legal system up to and including the supreme court is corrupt this would be an easy test to see. Since the bias is self admitted. Yes we are a nation of laws but Lady Justice is no longer blind.


Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberals in the majority. Kavanaugh cast the pivotal vote, saying he was letting the ban stay in effect even though he thought the CDC had exceeded its power.

“Because the CDC plans to end the moratorium in only a few weeks, on July 31, and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution of the congressionally appropriated rental assistance funds, I vote at this time to deny the application,” Kavanaugh wrote.

The other eight justices gave no explanation. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett said they would have blocked the moratorium. The liberals, of course, were all for letting squatters live rent free in perpetuity.

[f6john]

Picking your battles? With a target on the backs of the Supreme Court maybe they saw this as an opportunity to side with liberals. Just thinking out loud.

[Jess from VA]

When a court uses it's ordinary procedure to decide not to hear a case, it is not a decision and has no precidential value.  

A decision that a claimant lacks standing is a decision of sorts, but still not on the merits of the case.

But there have been a lot of cases decided not to be heard at the SCOTUS lately.  (though they always decline many more than they ever hear).

Courts (and particularly the SCOTUS) have always been acutely aware that they have no power to enforce any ruling they may make (that falls to the Executive).  There is a long judicial history of avoiding and sidestepping controversial political questions.  And they have never forgotten FDR's  attempts to pack the Court.  So some of this is a good thing (and well established), but too much of it is not a good thing, esp. when they are the court of last resort.

But some of Alito's and Thomas' dissents from a majority vote not to hear cases lately are interesting reading.  

Chief Justice Roberts siding with the liberals to find Obamacare a tax was wrong headed, wrong legally, and cowardice of the worst sort.

But as bad as this may seem, imagine if there were a court full of D appointments with a perpetual rubber stamp, for the next 25-30 years.  That would be the end of the Republic.