The US Supreme Court

[Svartalf]

The Supreme Court can kiss my ass, they have authority by force alone, the worst kind of authority—bleh.

meaning that if it should come to that, it's much more likely they'll make you kiss THEIR bum rather than brownnose to you.

[Svartalf]

it's not so much he's married to a man than his love of stuffing it to people up where the sun doesn't shine.

[Sean Hayden]

Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say

A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.

Supreme Court justices take two oaths. The first, required of all federal officials, is a promise to support the Constitution. The second, a judicial oath, is more specific. It requires them, among other things, to “do equal right to the poor and to the rich.”

A new study being released on Monday from economists at Yale and Columbia contends that the Supreme Court has in recent decades fallen short of that vow.

The study, called “Ruling for the Rich,” concludes that the wealthy have the wind at their backs before the justices and that a good way to guess the outcome of a case is to follow the money.

The study adds to what Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a dissent in June, called “the unfortunate perception that moneyed interests enjoy an easier road to relief in this court than ordinary citizens.”

…continued https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/p ... -poor.html

[Brian Peacock]

Ah, but you have to factor in that richer people are just better, and moreso.