When the US constitution was written, it was assumed they didn't have to spell out exactly how the judiciary would work because the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition was over a millennia old without getting written down (predating statute law) but apparently that assumption was wrong.
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I really need to make a version of this gif that has dollar signs on the glasses
I don't care what his bullshit reasons are
I do
Thomas, 77, compared his Supreme Court colleagues to passengers on a train, and said: ”We never go to the front to see who’s driving the train, where is it going. And you could go up there in the engine room, find it’s an orangutan driving the train, but you want to follow that just because it’s a train.”
What the fuck does that even mean? Does he not understand how trains work? Why are the supreme Court the passengers?
I have so many questions
Im sure in the rulings he won't give any explanation at all. Every time no explanation is given I assume the explanation is because fuck the people and the constitution that was built around the principle of power coming from it.
Cash in pocket doesn't seem to be a very bonkers reason to me.
Wrong? Sure. Foolish? Absolutely. Short-sighted? No doubt.
But bonkers? Who wouldn't sell their fellow man out for a few extra bucks? Hell, a nice new RV sure sounds nice, maybe a vacation to go along with it.
I really wish he would've taken the John Oliver deal for that sexy beast of an RV to retire... oh well. Here we are
What it must be like to be a reptile in a human skin.
Again... Personal limo plane with jacuzzi and pool but this time legal 21y pool ladies in bikini. The plane's name is probably the "bonkers"