The Courts (not specific to either party)

Danny Bateman said:
I think they’re absolutely related in that these kind of terrible rulings, not recusing from blatant conflict of interest cases (since his wife is an election denier), etc. will continue until there’s accountability for SCOTUS.

The dog and pony show that is the confirmation hearings doesn’t count.

From that point on, zero accountability. Some would argue that’s by design, but how long will people be OK with that if rulings continue to stray further from mainstream opininon?
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First of all, SCOTUS isn't there to rule in favor of mainstream opinion.  They are there to legally rule according to the constitution.  Sometimes that goes against mainstream opinion.

Second, term limits don't hold anyone accountable.  It just limits the time they are on the court so there is turnover.  And, term limits takes away a lot of the game that's played where a judge with certain political leanings schedules their retirement based on what party is in charge of the Presidency and congress.

I'm saying there needs to be accountability somehow where, if a judge goes against how they should be conducting themselves in the position, they can be held accountable, no matter if they have been there 6 months or 20 years.

 
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according to Schenck, it is not the first time a decision has been leaked.

Schenck had "worked for years" to gain access to the court by trading favors and using his faith, he told the Times. And in 2014, two of Schenck's "star donors," Donald and Gayle Wright, ate a meal with Justice Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann.

The next day, the Times reported, one of the Wrights called Schenck and told him Alito had written the majority opinion, and that the case would be decided in favor of Hobby Lobby. Less than a month later, that exact decision was announced to the public.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/11/19/former-anti-abortion-leader-alleges-supreme-court-leaked-another-landmark-case-report-says.html

Hmmm....Alito

 
Archy1221 said:
Both Alito and Wright are denying the story.  
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https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/completely-false-alito-denies-leaking-hobby-lobby-ruling-while-dining-with-christian-friends-weeks-before-official-2014-decision/amp/

“The evidence for Mr. Schenck’s account of the breach has gaps,” the Times admitted
 


Any “allegation that the Wrights were told the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobbycase, or the authorship of the opinion of the Court, by me or my wife, is completely false,” Alito said in the statement.
 

Gayle Wright, in an interview with the Times, said that a justice doesn’t “ever tell you about cases.”

“They aren’t allowed to,” she reportedly continued. “Nor would I ask. There has never been a time in all my years that a justice or a justice’s spouse told me anything about a decision.”
 


Hobby Lobby founder David Green declined to comment, according to the Times, and Barbara Green, his mother, said she “had no idea which way” the Supreme Court decision “was going to go” before it was announced, the Timesreported.

 
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