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Sep 24, 2020 29 tweets 5 min read Read on X
1) You know what, this deserves a proper thread. Because I do make a pretty wild claim, and it deserves scrutiny, so its put up or shut the fuck up time.

I’ll take a snapshot, 2014, so we have Scalia and the Wonder Twins on the court for the 5-4 balance.
2) I count 13 cases that directly involved the Federal Government (typically an agency like the DoJ or the EPA or what have you), I'm sorry, I don't feel up to seeing which cases the government filed briefs in for one side or the other, so I'm sticking to when they were party.
3) To note, Ginsburg sided with the majority opinion in all of these but one, Michigan v EPA. Note, this is just the majority opinion of the court, not which side they ruled on. I'm not going to spoil the fun by giving the answer away right at the start.
4) I ALSO haven't fully read all these yet, I may have in the past but this is me freshly digging through them for many, I just did a spot check to confirm the presence of the US Federal Government in all these cases.
5) Also, note, this is the 2014 term, so many cases were decided in 2015.

ANYWAYS.

Let's get this ball rolling.
6) The first court case, Henderson v United States; Henderson was a felon whose guns were confiscated by the US. He wanted the government to transfer them to the friend he was selling them to or to his wife to facilitate the sale. The government refused.
6.5) SCOTUS ruled AGAINST the government in a unanimous decision, stating that so long as the court was satisfied the felon wouldn't have control over the guns or direct their use, it was perfectly fine. Yeah, a gun case that Ginsburg sided against the government. Whoops.
(Addendum, shortening to 12 cases, the one, Kellogg etc v US and whoever the fuck involved a lot of contractor shit and it was more a court issue? Idk, something about defense contractors putting in shitty water purifiers or not installing them at all)
7) Michigan v EPA, getting this out of the way, some of you may remember it, it was the one that put Scalia officially on Obama's shit list; he wrote the opinion dictating the EPA must consider the costs of its regulations. This is the 1 US case Ginsburg broke w/ the majority on
7.5) A famous case, to be sure, and part of what cemented Ginsburg's reputation as a far leftist, somewhat undeserved.

It's also the court case, notably, that cemented my opinion of Kagan as writing horrific screeching nonsense in her dissents. See: her dissent in this case.
8) Whitfield v United States, this one's more funny than anything. Fleeing bank robber tried to argue he didn't 'force' an old lady who was scared out of her mind and died of a heart attack to accompany him. This was a no shit moment. I think they took up the case to laugh at him
9) Dept of Transportation v American Association of Railroads, this was another unanimous one where even Scalia was on the same side of, it dealt more with Amtrak having regulatory powers? This was another weird one, I almost didn't include it as Amtrak is party more than feds
(For the sake of argument, I am including it, and putting it on the 'ruled for government' column, but again I note both this and the whitfield one Scalia was on the side of the gov too)
10) Rodriguez v United States, this was the case about whether an officer could extend traffic stops to allow for a drug sniffing dog search unrelated to the original purpose of the stop. The court ruled they couldn't. Roberts, Alito, and Thomas sided with the gov on this.
10.5) Scalia and Ginsburg ruled against the government.

I'm going to throw in this was the one allegedly 'altered' by the Ferguson riots, as it also remanded the case back to a lower court to determine if reasonable suspicion justified the extension and didn't retake the case.
11) Now here's a funny one. Yates v United States. Commercial fisherman accidentally catches too many red groupers, which were protected by some regulation or another, and the federal agent that caught it ordered him to keep them separated. He threw them back into the sea instead
11.5) The government attempted to charge him for 'destroying records' using the SARBANES-OXLEY ACT. That's the big one that handles financial crimes and such. Used to charge a fisherman.

Classic overreach.

Scotus said 'yeah hell no'. Ginsburg sided with the majority.
12) Horne v Department of Agriculture, another interesting one. Horne was a raisin farmer who under orders from the Department of Agriculture had to hold back a certain portion of his raisin crop and couldn't sell it. He argued that the feds preventing him from selling it meant..
12.5) they were in effect violating the 'takings clause', the laws that make the government have to pay for shit they seize. By forcing farmers to hold onto raisins for a 'National Raisin Reserve' rather than buying them from the farmers and storing them, the Feds avoided this.
12.75) Ginsburg sided with the majority agreeing with Horne that this was unconstitutional, again going against the government.
13) McFadden v United States, a guy in Virginia or some shit was making bath salts and selling them. They weren't explicitly illegal, but they fell into an 'analogous controlled substances' clause; McFadden argued he had no idea they were 'analogous' to controlled substances.
13.5) Another unanimous decision, with Ginsburg and Scalia both siding against the government, the found that while ignorance of the law was not an excuse to break it, the government did have to prove that defendants knew they were producing things that were 'analogous'.
14) Elonis v United States, Elonis was going through a divorce, posted some quotes from a WKYK sketch or a rap or something, and the government prosecuted him for 'issuing a threat'. Ginsburg sided with the majority saying, no, no it's not, you idiots.
15) Department of Homeland Security v MacLean, the TSA wrote regulations saying that disclosing the reason behind security alerts was illegal. After a threat emerged about potential hijacking attempts, the TSA a few days later cancelled air marshal trips through Las Vegas.
15.5) Given there was a hijacking attempt threat, MacLean thought this was a shit decision, and disclosed it to the media; DHS then prosecuted him saying that he wasn't a whistleblower.

Ginsburg sided with the majority saying regulations can't prevent whistleblowing, only laws.
16) United States v Kwai Fun Wong was actually 2 cases in which court fuckery prevented people from filing tort cases by the deadlines; the federal government argued there were no excuses, even though the federal government in one case and the judiciary in another caused delays.
16.5) Once again, Ginsburg sided with the majority against the government.,
17) So, out of the 12 cases listed, in 9 of them Ginsburg joined the majority AGAINST the government, 2 of them were no shit sherlock style unanimous decisions where even Scalia was with the FEDs, and only 1 was ginsburg siding with the government in a split decision.
18) I don't know about you all, but to me... curbing Federal fuckery is generally a good thing. Such as when they try to apply financial laws to fishing regulations. Or the TSA acts retarded. Or when the Feds fuck with farmers.

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