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Comment by psunavy03 | Hacker News Reader

Supreme Court clickbait: take a quote from the two most right-wing Justices and imply it's the view of the entire Court, despite there being seven other Justices not named Thomas or Alito.

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One of them disagreeing with the general principle of separation of church and state is newsworthy. Unless you're in agreement with them, or unless you're someone who just gets dragged around by the Overton window no matter where it goes.

Glad you agree their views are extreme.

What's worrying is that the court is being influenced by these views and could vote along those lines. Or do you think what they're doing and saying is fine?

Unless they can whistle up three more votes on anything, they can shout into the void all they want and it means nothing. This is why there are nine Justices.

I sincerely hope your optimism counteracts my pessimism. It seems SCotUS is ruling more often with Alito and Thomas than against.

The majority have wiped their ass with the constitution to aid a fascist coup they were appointed to facilitate. Not holding my breath.

Where does it imply that it's the view of all nine justices on the bench?

Are you intentionally trying to undermine the gravity of this by straw-manning?

Do you intend to wait until it's 5 of 9 justices being openly Christian Nationalist to raise the alarm? AFAIC even one supreme court justice blatantly contradicting the constitution in order to establish his demographic as a privileged class is cause for concern.

Hot take: judges are supposed to be impartial. No judge in the highest court should hold such views. Saying them out loud is shocking.

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