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minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up84·edit-23 months agoShe seems to have been advised by Clarence Thomas on this, so the idea to do this came from the supreme court. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thomas-opinion-jack-smith-appointed-special-counsel-rcna161975 Thomas did not definitively answer the question, but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon echoed his approach to Trump’s election interference case
minus-squareMagicShel@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·3 months agoI don’t think anyone on the Court is as far right or as nakedly corrupt as Thomas. Just because he’s advising her, I wouldn’t take that as an endorsement from the full Court. He frequently writes concurring opinions that go way beyond anyone else.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·3 months agoMaybe, but for sure she is starting off with an active voice on the supreme court in her favor. That’s a good start.
minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoI was gonna say Alito, but even for him I had to pause because Thomas is just so bad.
minus-squaredudinax@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoIt’s real interesting that they thought dismissal for a transparently bad reason has a better shot than dismissal for lack of evidence.
She seems to have been advised by Clarence Thomas on this, so the idea to do this came from the supreme court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thomas-opinion-jack-smith-appointed-special-counsel-rcna161975
I don’t think anyone on the Court is as far right or as nakedly corrupt as Thomas. Just because he’s advising her, I wouldn’t take that as an endorsement from the full Court. He frequently writes concurring opinions that go way beyond anyone else.
Maybe, but for sure she is starting off with an active voice on the supreme court in her favor. That’s a good start.
I was gonna say Alito, but even for him I had to pause because Thomas is just so bad.
It’s real interesting that they thought dismissal for a transparently bad reason has a better shot than dismissal for lack of evidence.