{"id":34640,"date":"2026-07-06T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34640"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:44:15","slug":"hubris-at-the-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34640","title":{"rendered":"Hubris at the SC&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;are the conservative SC justices stupid or just full of hubris? The ruling they have handed down with no arguments or explanation have put them in the role of kings that none of them seem to see as a problem&#8230;but the country is pissed off with the gutting of the VRA, and their slavish devotion to the idiot trump&#8230;and they don&#8217;t seem to see that almost 70% of the country wants true reform of the court including term limits (that will be retroactive when they are imposed) but alito and thomas think they are protected and can continue to make a mockery of the constitution&#8230;just wait assholes&#8230;when we take the senate back this fall, even repubs will support the commonsense reforms that will force the justices to just rule on the law and stop the political bullshit and graft that has been a hallmark of the roberts court&#8230;but now the dems need to make sure they are ready for the shenanigans that are being telegraphed that alito and thomas may retire so the idiot trump can appoint unqualified losers to replace them&#8230;just like kavanaugh and barrett&#8230;.and they need to use every tool to keep that from happening&#8230;scorched earth is the only thing that will stop them&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;are the conservative SC justices stupid or just full of hubris? The ruling they have handed down with no arguments or explanation have put them in the role of kings that none of them seem to see as a problem&#8230;but the country is pissed off with the gutting of the VRA, and their slavish devotion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hubris at the SC&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4649,4648],"class_list":["post-34640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-graft-and-corruption","tag-sc-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34641,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34640\/revisions\/34641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}