Posts Tagged “Supreme Court”

Where is that, you ask? Why, dear reader(s), that would be the Supreme Court which, in what must be one of the strongest signs yet of impending apocalypse, is actually giving the time of day to this ridiculous piece of batshittery:

The US Supreme Court will consider whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s US citizenship on Friday, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama’s election.

No, I can’t believe it either.

True, all kinds of cases are brought to the court, and they only ever agree to hear a small minority of them…

Many petitioners seeking stays of pending events have their cases distributed to the full court, he said. Of those, Volokh found that 782 were denied in the last eight years while just 60 were heard, not all of those ultimately were successful.

…but still, I mean, come on, people. This shouldn’t have even gotten within light-years of the court. It’s not a legal proceeding; it’s the Tinfoil Hat Squadron on parade.

I am so sick and tired of the politically unhinged being treated as a constituency that matters that I’m about to plunge my head through the screen in front of me out of sheer frustration. There’s no winning with these people; when (not if) the Court tells them to go piss up a rope, they’re only going to take it as a sure sign that those dastardly judges are in on the conspiracy! After all, they’ve already decided that the State of Hawaii, which had the audacity to actually certify that the President-Elect was actually born there, is covering something up! Every bit of proof that they are wrong is only taken by them as further proof that they are right.

Gaaahh.

And many thanks to Clarence Thomas for doing what David Souter had too much sanity integrity to do, which is to formally bring this stinkbomb to his colleagues’ attention. I’m all for Thomas actually doing something to earn his salary once a decade or so, but this is carrying it a bit far.