Comments on: In re Toilet Flush

In re Toilet Flush

jedicus — Tue, 12 May 2020 07:44:38 -0800

In response to the pandemic the US Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments via conference call, and it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened. From Ashley Feinberg at Slate: Who Flushed? A Supreme Court Investigation.

By: star gentle uterus

star gentle uterus — Tue, 12 May 2020 07:49:23 -0800

This seems like a perfect illustration of why they've been so reluctant to broadcast or record oral arguments.

By: Automocar

Automocar — Tue, 12 May 2020 07:51:24 -0800

This is the investigative journalism we all need right now. Thank you, universe. I appreciate you.

By: GCU Sweet and Full of Grace

GCU Sweet and Full of Grace — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:00:18 -0800

so reluctant to broadcast or record oral arguments They've been recording, and making available, recordings of oral argument for like 60 or 70 years now.

By: aniola

aniola — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:16:32 -0800

Who gives a ... shit?

By: The Underpants Monster

The Underpants Monster — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:29:26 -0800

The flush heard 'round the world.

By: tonycpsu

tonycpsu — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:46:51 -0800

The Court's strict constructionist conservatives presumably have an alibi, since they surely use outhouses as the framers intended.

By: evidenceofabsence

evidenceofabsence — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:48:11 -0800

Oral arguments? More like fecal arguments!

By: cheapskatebay

cheapskatebay — Tue, 12 May 2020 09:02:34 -0800

I prefer to believe, now and forevermore, that this had to be Alito, IMHO the rudest and crankiest Justice of what has lately seemed to me to be a particularly dyspeptic Court. He just looks like the kind of miserable fussbudget who'd drop a deuce during oral argument, then flush and not wash his hands. Gorsuch looks like a sneaky shit, but that's a different story altogether...

By: sjswitzer

sjswitzer — Tue, 12 May 2020 09:13:36 -0800

That was worth it for the first image alone

By: tclark

tclark — Tue, 12 May 2020 09:51:45 -0800

"Have you boofed yet?" "Yes, on a live mic."

By: mandolin conspiracy

mandolin conspiracy — Tue, 12 May 2020 10:15:59 -0800

*sniffs* "Oh geez. WOW. I hope you left the fan on in there." "Sorry about that. Full docket."

By: dephlogisticated

dephlogisticated — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:26:09 -0800

"Sorry about that. Full docket." But now it's been vacated and remanded to a lower court.

By: Morpeth

Morpeth — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:20:01 -0800

As soon as I saw Ashley Feinberg's byline I knew I was going to be peeing my pants with laughter.

By: biffa

biffa — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:24:00 -0800

Alito, IMHO the rudest It would be ruder not to flush, so perhaps you need to look to the other end of the spectrum?

By: polecat

polecat — Tue, 12 May 2020 13:20:10 -0800

Breyer also seems to have established a willingness to multitask during arguments. As you can hear in the audio below, when Breyer unmuted at 11:57 a.m. to indicate that he had finished questioning Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart, he was accompanied by an audible clinking of what sounded very much like dishes. After years of listening to hyperbole about how there's nothing left for The Onion, we finally have a bullseye.

By: mhum

mhum — Tue, 12 May 2020 13:22:09 -0800

Brown v. Board of Defecation

By: symbioid

symbioid — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:05:59 -0800

"They've been recording, and making available, recordings of oral argument for like 60 or 70 years now." I believe this is in reference to the current pandemic... That said... Picturing them reluctant for the past 70 years because someone is shitting while literally on the bench made me think of "The Burgundy Loaf (SLYT)": RUDY WILL AWAIT YOUR FOUNDATION!

By: Ray Walston, Luck Dragon

Ray Walston, Luck Dragon — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:45:23 -0800

Fortunately nothing else important is happening in the Supreme Court

By: hwestiii

hwestiii — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:56:07 -0800

I am not above the same myself, but I am always extra, extra, extra careful to be on mute.

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Tue, 12 May 2020 16:58:30 -0800

They've been recording, and making available, recordings of oral argument for like 60 or 70 years now. And yet somehow the new format has solicited more activity from Justice Thomas than the past 30 years combined.

By: suelac

suelac — Tue, 12 May 2020 17:54:13 -0800

And yet somehow the new format has solicited more activity from Justice Thomas than the past 30 years combined. My guess is that he feels a lot more comfortable without the visible audience.

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Tue, 12 May 2020 18:14:50 -0800

he feels a lot more comfortable without the visible audience. He seemed pretty dang comfortable in the courthouse.

By: taquito sunrise

taquito sunrise — Tue, 12 May 2020 18:29:31 -0800

Please someone base a TV detective on Ashley Feinberg & have her solve cases exactly like this

By: jenfullmoon

jenfullmoon — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:03:40 -0800

Seconded. This is some very in depth arguments here.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:11:51 -0800

She makes a compelling case for Breyer as the culprit. It is so righteously appropriate that the Supreme Court's pompous, obnoxious, anti-democratic decades-long refusal to broadcast oral arguments live has now been capped by the sound of plopping shit turds and a toilet flush.

By: JackFlash

JackFlash — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:38:02 -0800

I'm still astounded at the hypocrisy of the five right-wing-nut judges who isolate to protect their own lives but just a couple weeks ago forced hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin voters to risk their lives in order to vote in person. It's the same hypocrisy as Trump ordering everyone in the White House to wear masks and have daily testing at the same time he says it isn't necessary for the general public. They are all sociopaths.