Public sentiment regarding the Supreme Court's decision is notably mixed. Some express cautious optimism and satisfaction with progress towards digital inclusivity and accessibility for disabled individuals. However, there's significant skepticism and frustration over deeper systemic issues within the U.S. judicial system, such as qualified immunity and perceived political biases among justices. There is also angst over broader implications tied to U.S. politics, which distracts from the primary topic of digital inclusivity for disabled individuals.

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The “leave it up to the states!” crowd really hates it when that doesn’t mean gerrymandered GOP state legislatures

Cambro88

Why does Thomas and Alito even bother showing up.  Just give them a rubber stamp.

Parkyguy

Damn. The SCOTUS has actually been kinda killing it recently, probably by the broken clock principle, but still

tyuiopguyt

Trump giving SCOTUS the middle finger on the only 9-0 decision they handed against him seems to have shaken Barret and Roberts out of whatever delusions they were in before. Let's just hope they stay like this and this isn't just them trying to salvage their PR

LordArgonite

And Ohio will do exactly the same thing they did when abortion was a ballot measure: ignore a 70% landslide and overturn the will of the people.

Jenetyk

Usual gang of dissenters. Still, it’s good that they are in the minority

Mistletokes

Good shit. Thomas and Alito as expected. Kavanaugh is always a bit strange.

Luck1492

AbaloneDifferent5282

Ah as per usual, Thomas and Alito dissent.  Joined at the hip, they don’t care what they put their names to, as long as it’s MAGA friendly

SmellyFbuttface

Wow! A first amendment auditor’s wet dream. Will be very interesting to see how policing is affected if it passes although I imagine the legislature will try to undermine it somehow

frozenflameinthewind

I think Trump (and maybe the GOP in general) has squarely pissed off Roberts and Barrett. They are not voting as they would have a year ago. This is gonna get interesting.

siromega37

For those of you not from Ohio, in recent years the Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, has egregiously, and I do mean egregiously, been playing fuck around with summaries that are on proposed ballot measures.  The ballot summary for the 2023 measure legalizing abortion here at 20 weeks read like MAGA talking points.  Then, this past year we had a ballot measure that was to create a citizen commission to draw congressional maps with the purpose of ending gerrymanding and this guy comes up with a summary that was so bad that you would drive down the road and literally signs would say "End Gerrymandering, vote NO! on Issue 1" and the next house would say "End Gerrymanding in Ohio, vote YES! on Issue 1".  Not even kidding.

bonecheck12

Wild how with almost every single case/opinion/whatever, Thomas and Alito are on the side of what most reasonable people agree is bad:

  
\- "Should Presidents be kings?" - For it

\- "Should voting rights be restricted?" - For it

\_ "Should it be legal to discriminate against people if you can claim 'religious freedom'?" - For it

\- "Should cops be immune from consequences for their actions, when they regularly make life and death decisions?" - For it

No actual beliefs, just contrarianism and a seeming desire to inflict as much misery as possible.

  
Shameful.

Caniuss

I mean, we voted for weed and abortion, and the state just kind of ignored us. I doubt this will do much better.

jgzman

Ohio is going to have a hard time finding cops willing to handle this.  They will have to pay more to get better qualified police!

ReRead that last sentence and you can see why I think this may be good for them.

greywar777

I’ve been thinking of a doctrine we could call qualified responsibility. That could mean that in a position of privilege and power the abuse of those privileges and responsibilities would come with increased culpability in the case of abuse. I don’t think it has to contradict qualified immunity, it would just kick in where guilt was determined in a court of law

benmillstein

anduinblue

The politicians in th4 Capitol will just change the law if the voters didn't make the roght choice

Calqless

Wish we could get rid of qualified immunity nationwide.

Comfortable_One7986

Qualified immunity is a license for deprivation of rights under color of law. Common sense tells us that eliminating it will make LEO’s think twice before they lay hands on anyone making everyone safer

VTX1800Riders

No qualified immunity for state officers is going to be brutal if it actually goes through. Officers will have to get malpractice insurance and that added burden is ultimately going to be carried by the taxpayer as the city will have to pay higher wages to compensate or pay for their officer’s malpractice insurance. 

Qualified immunity should be expanded to all employees not just public ones. I’m a software engineer and if there’s a bug in my code that causes damage, i’m technically liable, it’s only because i don’t have any money that they go after my company and not me. It should only be my company that’s liable.

EVOSexyBeast

why am I not shocked a 5-0 ruling for it.  Just sadly we have 4 joke judges who dont care and are stacked on the court.....  yes I know it was a 6-3 ruling but those same 4 I toss all their rulings no matter how they rule.

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Definitely should happen, but hard to imagine either the Supreme Court or Congress stepping up to the plate (especially Congress because they're all afraid that they'll end up like Liz Cheney if they break with MAGA)... most of them owe their jobs to Trump and are basically willing to allow him to do anything.

Pretty scary stuff.

Tdluxon

Then he’ll just defy contempt. Is nobody realizing that he’s literally just going to keep breaking the law and committing unconstitutional acts because nobody with any actual, real authority to stop/remove him (congress) will do so? And even if *they* tried and, on the slimmest of chances, succeeded, it’s doubtful he’d leave without a fight; either by just not leaving or by invoking martial law/siccing his militias on his enemies and taking down the entire country with him. We are screwed no matter what.

BugOperator

Best Roberts will do is a stern talking. Not a warning, just a talking.

SmoothConfection1115

floofnstuff

This all started because the justice system was too scared to send him to prison even though there is overwhelming evidence he committed multiple crimes. He should have been immediately sent to prison after he was found guilty for 34 felon counts of fraud. If it was anybody else, they would have been in prison. It wasn't biased at all they changed the jury to get a favorable outcome, and they still found him guilty.

Jan 6th should have put him away as well. Leading an insurrection against the United States and then not sending troops to contain the threat. And then having the audacity to call it a day of love.

Coldkiller17

This is why the voters need to value a good character as part of the qualifications for office.  Does the candidate respect the law, respect the needs and interests of others?  If yes, might be worth considering them, if no, then don't consider the candidate and don't support them.

Trump has a life long history of completely disregarding the needs and interests of other people if he can get away with it.  His behavior today is in line with his established character over those decades, it's just been amped up by his age and his own pending mortatlity (He's in the "I'm old, I do what I want" phase on top of everything else) and the level of power he's achieved.  

I would say that if you never saw the movie Caligula you should.  That's Trump's dream in a nut shell, all except the very end of course.  While it is an adult movie (with a legit epic hollywood feel and legit top shelf actors) it illustrates the depths to which a person with bad character can sink when given power.

rygelicus

Does SCOTUS even HAVE the power or criminal contempt?  Have they ever used it before?  Technically they don't make Original rulings, they just pass or fail lower courts rulings.  

Who would even enforce this?  Even the Courts at various levels Marshals all report to the Executive Branch.  Courts have no innate authority to enforce anything.  

Ideally Congress would step in, but they're firmly on the side of encouraging the President to break the constitution.  

I suppose SCOTUS could just order the courts to stop accepting the Federal Government as a legal party until they comply.  If the President can "ban" lawyers from practicing, then the Courts can ban the DOJ from prosecution anyone... just start throwing out cases with prejudice because the Government Lawyers are in contempt and not allowed to show up. That's probably never been done, but this calls for extreme measures. 

mabhatter

Trump defied the SC, note my look of total non-fucking-surprise

ArchonFett

He is above the law, the SC ruled this way to avoid him jail time, there is nothing that can be done now, the actions had to be taken earlier.

The US walked into this willingly and knowingly.

grathad

Well Mike Johnson just said they want to shut down the courts now. Which also means their own people. So to Roberts and others on the SC. They just admitted they don’t need you anymore.

BoosterRead78

'we risk eroding the checks and balances..' 
Risk? It happened already. And it is not eroding, it is landsliding. Laws and rights are tossed out the window and ignored. The constitution is trampled upon. 
Don't use downplaying language.

klaagmeaan

Huge win for common sense. Lol, what, UK did that? Surprised.

Emotional-Tie-7628

Marybone

IGiveUp_tm

Spacefolk1

Insane that "women born as female" is a statement anyone has to clarify.

RevengeRevisited

A huge win for women here. Hope stuff like this continues because everything is becoming unbearable!

Correct-Style-9194

HA you Americans all laughed at us for our freedom of speech but look at us now!

No but seriously it’s still quite bad here plz send help.

YouFoolWarrenIsDead

saucissontine

The *UK* did that?  Well damn, that was not on my list of expectations for today.

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DominusTitus

GnomeBoyo

What is going on in the UK???
 Rare W almost feels like a fever dream 

357-Magnum-CCW

Hopefully the UK uses this [as an opportunity to provide housing for abused men](https://mankind.org.uk/help-for-victims/emergency-housing/), as rn it looks like one of the best options is sleeping on a train.

Moose_M

bussy_juice_consumer

In before the judges get arrested for being transphobic.

Fate_Weaver

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Crazy to think that something this obvious is controversial

Give_me_sedun

As long as there is equal support for men

xxxNothingxxx

I wonder if they're going to stop calling JK Rowling a transphobe now.

madstack

LimpFishing3062

My main problem is that they don't put effort into it. Like they are expecting if they take some drugs and change their pronouns people will see them differently. If you want to be treated as a woman, put some effort into your looks and behavior.

BigGez123

UK did this? *Looks around confused* THIS UK? Damn, did not expect this

Garrus-N7

BedOtherwise2289

Heh brave new world needed supreme court to define s woman, how long time did they use?

MixtureBackground612

Honestly this should be obvious to all. I am not one of these people who thinks transgender people are mentally ill. I think the very much should have rights. But the are definitely a third gender. Something beyond just the biological. That means separate new law and protections. Not the same laws as females nor the same as their natural gender.

Honestly for a species who thought of transhumanism of a remarkable variety in sci fi, and with AI implementation in human coming within a few decades, you would think human get more inventive.

Inspiredrationalism

UK is still fucked. But it makes since traditional gender separation might get a dub here and there given what’s happened

skepticalscribe

Wow there is some common sense left in the UK.

ZhaneBadguy

Well it's about bloody time that someone actually did something to stop the insanity. Somewhere in Scotland J K Rowling is day drunk

Axel_Raden

UK Supreme Court has been arrested. The reason for the arrest was blatant transphobia, an inability to properly understand the spectrum of sexuality, and hate speech deeply rooted in so-called common sense.

FinnBullWinter

rittersgold

Wait, are there people not indoctrinated left on the UK?

Farandrg

They boutta get raided for hate speech. Oi moite, got a loicense for that brain?

OSRS-ruined-my-life

It's a state of the times we live in that common sense has to be ruled in court.


I expect the next ruling will be "water is wet".

Fat_Sow

Don’t worry, this will change once the government is sued by people’s families once they get raped and murdered in jail.

Lanky-Appointment929

Well of course this was gonna happen. They're an islamic country, they don't tolerare that stuff over there

virusstarr

the country where speaking english is hate speech

HD_600

crewskater

It's good but is this just something to calm the heat from all the problems they started?

Bawldyy

From most places this isn't shocking but from the UK I pretty surprising

trophy_Hunter69420

I literally can’t believe my eyes this is a very very rare uk W

NewfieGamEr2001

Immediate_Item_5462

Why in the fuck is the UK one of the spearheading countries for common sense trans law? 

I figured they’d be the last country to do this stuff because they’re so cucked.

But no, they banned gender affirming care for minors and made biological sex legally defined at birth.

Simply based and I want every nation to follow suit.

Educational-Year3146

Crimson__Thunder

TranquilEuphoria

Recent_Blacksmith282

The fact that it even needs to be clarified, smh

Tiny-General-3700

World is healing

And no, this is not transphobia

Baron_Blackfox

Ok, UK, you solved one issue in a larger problem.
Now, also start making the UK save for british people again.

Particular-Image1556

Nezothowa

If only they could uphold free speech and the country’s borders also.

AlyxDaSlayer

Crazy that this is something women need to fight for.

chum_is-fum

So women get women stuff and men don't. Seems good

zenethics

xandorai

helooksfederal

Still waiting for mandatary burkas and public stonings

Amokmorg

Orock77

IntergalacticAlien8

plot twist, its all so men cant claim to be females to get out of the harsher punishments they want to give males.

ostmustis

I just got banned from vaushv for saying I wouldn't like to be compelled to state my pronouns at work, but like a true centrist I'll say this is kinda bullshit too, celebratinv islamic backwardness just because you hate the woke is petty as fuk

Heavy_Intention6323

matchomatcho

Breaking news!  
UK supreme court was just banned on Reddit!

Jumpy_Flamingo958

Ok-Objective1289

Question for the wokies here. Do you consider TERFs to be right-wing radicals and Nazis now? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.

Edit: I interpret this dislike as a yes :D

SirDanielFortesque98

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