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Three theories on what he's actually doing: install compliant replacements, create strategic chaos, or force the SAVE Act. All three may be true.
None require a mad man. All require someone who knows the guardrails are thin.
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#Corporatocracy #ElectionIntegrity #EAC #V64OTD #Democracy #SCOTUS
They Fired the Election Commission. Here's What They Actually Want It to Do Next. | v64otd.com
Trump gutted the only federal election security agency months before midterms. No stated reason. Three theories about what comes next — none of them reassuring.v64otd.com
"What is more important: human rights or property rights?"
This made me think of #CitizensUnited and that even more egregious recent #SCOTUS ruling that both declared that spending money = free speech (which would only work if EVERYONE had the SAME amount of money to spend).
It seems like another version of property rights vs. human rights, where SCOTUS supports property rights over #HumanRights.
#EndCitizensUnited #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Inequality #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich
#SupremeCourt allows #Texas to require #AgeVerification for mobile apps
“The corporation is an externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is a killing machine. There isn’t any question of malevolence or of will. The enterprise has within it, and the shark has within it, those characteristics that enable it to do that for which it was designed.”
— Robert Monks
#USPol #Corporations #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #Laws #Congress #Socialism
RE: zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/116874…
Considering what #MitchMcConnell did to prevent #BarackObama from putting #MerrickGarland on the #SCOTUS after Antonio Scalia died, it wouldn’t surprise me if the cretin from #Kentucky told his staff to keep his death secret until the #midterms decided his Senate replacement!
Governor #AndyBeshear should name his replacement effective immediately, unless McConnell proves that he is alive.
(((Cindy Weinstein))) (@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us)
The stench of mendacity from the #Kentucky Senator's office is wafting throughout the country. You smell it, #media? Find the source. https://www.thedailybeast.(((Cindy Weinstein))) (zirkus)
Obnoxious reminder that passing the ERA would render the recent West Virginia-Idaho SCOTUS decision moot ✌️
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex"
Recent rulings on birthright citizenship and mail-in voting suggest #SCOTUS isn't simply siding with the White House.
A former federal judge looks at the scorecard:
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‘In the end the court did its job’ – a former federal judge reviews a Supreme Court term full of momentous decisions
A former federal judge analyzes key Supreme Court decisions this term, reflects on growing judicial invective evident in its opinions, and judiciously gives praise for some great writing.The Conversation
Strike III for EU-US data transfers
The US Supreme Court has just ruled the FTC isn't independent of the President - and our entire data deal with America was built on the promise that it was.
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#gdpr #adequacy #ftc #schrems #law #surveillance #dataprivacyframework #dpf #scotus #adequacy #compliance
Bayer, the maker of Roundup, has been shielded from lawsuits alleging the weed killer causes cancer. This decision is sign... instagr.am/p/DaTYU1HFaG7/
voteinorout on Instagram: "The Supreme Court's decision to block lawsuits against Roundup's manufacturer, Bayer, raises concerns in Iowa, where cancer rates are rapidly increasing. The ruling highlights the ongoing need for leadership prioritizing public
140 likes, 24 comments - voteinorout on July 2, 2026: "The Supreme Court's decision to block lawsuits against Roundup's manufacturer, Bayer, raises concerns in Iowa, where cancer rates are rapidly increasing.Instagram
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #scotus
Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes From “Shadow Docket” — ProPublica
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.Ken B. Morales (ProPublica)
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‘In the end the court did its job’ – a former federal judge reviews a Supreme Court term full of momentous decisions
A former federal judge analyzes key Supreme Court decisions this term, reflects on growing judicial invective evident in its opinions, and judiciously gives praise for some great writing.The Conversation
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against 16-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, who had been fighting for five years to compete on her school's girls' track team as a transgender athlete. James Dale lost at the same court 26 years ago, after he had been expelled from the Boy Scouts for being gay. Here's an open letter from Dale to Pepper-Jackson, showing his support and admiration for her.
A president cannot edit the Constitution with a Sharpie. #BirthrightCitizenship #SCOTUS #14thAmendment #Politics #News #LGBTQ #Resist
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What Survives the Morning: What Burns Us Now, Always Has
Any Child In the US Born to Any Parent is a Citizen of The US, Now and AlwaysWendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
#SCOTUS Ruled In Favour of #MailInVoting, but...
#USPS #postalservice #SAVEActIsBullshit
#Elections #Midterms
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Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked…Democracy Now!
GOP Rep Wants To Throw A 'Bedsheet' Over The Statue Of Liberty Following SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling
#ConservativeViews #SCOTUS #USPolitics #GOP #TexasPolitics
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GOP Rep Wants To Throw A ‘Bedsheet’ Over The Statue Of Liberty Following SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling
In response to the SCOTUS decision, Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas said the Statue of Liberty needs to go into hiding for about the next decade.Zack Linly (NewsOne)
NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
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Amazing that this #SCOTUS ruling wasn't an email. It's the literal text of the 14th Amendment yet it's striking this was up for debate.
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Examining the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship, campaign finance rulings
The Supreme Court wrapped up its term issuing major rulings in cases centered on some of the nation’s biggest political fights.Geoff Bennett (PBS News)
Bans on #transgender athletes hurt us all.
In the cover story to our May/June 2026 issue, Jessica Luther explains why we must rethink #gender in sports altogether, based on four important books: texasobserver.org/trans-athlet…
#SCOTUS #books #sports #law #Pride
Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All
Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.Jessica Luther (The Texas Observer)
AYFKM? If I hear one more #Republican talk about how #dangerous #Chicago is, 🤯🤬
GET RID OF THE #GUNS EEJITS!!
#SCOTUS will consider striking down #AssaultWeapons #bans, in #Connecticut & the Chicago-area
A #SupremeCourt that has expanded #gun rights will consider whether bans on #SemiautomaticRifles, often called assault weapons, violate the #SecondAmendment.
#law #GunControl #GunLaws #WMDs #WeaponsOfWar
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The #DeepState didn’t take down #Nixon.
So why did #JDVance say it did?
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate.
Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — [especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS].
#Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal
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❝ Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a 49-page dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Today,” she wrote, “the Court discards” the “democratic regime” created by the Constitution “in favor of one that distorts the structure of Government to fit the majority’s theory of unitary, total executive control. The result,” she concluded, “is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before.”
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#SCOTUS #dictatorship #fascism #FTC
#SCOTUS upholds #trans #athlete bans
The ruling is another setback for #transgender people.
The court’s conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year, ruled that #state bans in #Idaho & #WestVirginia don’t violate the #Constitution or the federal #law known as #TitleIX, which prohibits #sex #discrimination in education.
>2 dozen other #Republican led states have adopted bans on female transgender athletes.
…other than at the #FederalReserve, with its role of setting #InterestRates, #SCOTUS held that presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite #federal #laws that require a #cause for such dismissals & a 91-year-old decision that had limited #executive authority.
With the 6 conservative justices in the majority, the court jettisoned its unanimous decision in #HumphreysExecutor that had limited when presidents can fire agencies’ board members….
There was already chaos in the concept of independ agencies. The SCOTUS ruling was about restoring order. The ruling talked extensively about this.
For decades they've grappled with the contradiction that supposedly independent agencies were still under the president, reliant on the office, pulling from his treasury, interfacing with his regulatory processes, etc. And yet, somehow independent?
There's the chaos we've seen, those unavoidable conflicts of interest.
As the Court wrote, the Fed doesn't function in the mold of the FTC and other agencies. It's not pseudo-independent but pseudo-governmental.
NOTE: Evidently the notion of an independent federal agency has been squashed
From NPR.org: Supreme Court cements Trump's power over agencies long considered independent
Oh boy… This is not good:
On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000 the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times. Max Schrems: “Given that there are no independent authorities in the US anymore, we call on the European Commission to orderly withdraw the adequacy decision on the US.”
Way to go, #SCOTUS, you've just #fucked over the handling of personal data between the US and EU.
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US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore - with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.noyb.eu
#SCOTUS rejected an emergency request by #RoyMoore, former #Alabama State Supreme Court justice who lost a #Senate race in 2017 after he was accused of #SexualMisconduct, blocking Moore from collecting an $8.2M #defamation verdict over a campaign ad run against him.
SCOTUS’ decision kept in place a unanimous ruling by a 3-judge panel on the #11thCircuit, which in April erased a jury’s verdict that Moore had been defamed by a Democratic group’s television ad.
Yes! Another win for the #people of the #UnitedStates!
#SCOTUS rules #states can count late-arriving mailed #ballots, rejecting #Trump-led challenge
#law #Constitution #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #Access
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The ruling is the most consequential case for the Fed’s future, for now fending off the politicization of an institution that’s responsible for being a technocratic steward of the #US #economy. In the end, the decision — which came months after the court struck down Trump’s sweeping emergency #tariffs — suggests that the longstanding principle of #independence for the #Fed was a line that not even #Trump could cross.
However apparently the #FTC is a different matter
#SCOTUS EXPANDS Trump’s power to fire officials, overturning nearly century-old precedent
SCOTUS Monday backed Trump’s firing of a member of the #FederalTradeCommission, a substantial win for the admin’s unprecedented effort to consolidate #power within the #ExecutiveBranch that will have sweeping implications for parts of the government #Congress intended to operate with #independence from presidential #politics.
#SCOTUS allows #LisaCook to remain at #Fed in another loss for #Trump
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Trump’s attempt to immediately fire #FederalReserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for a 5-4 majority.
#law #Independence #economy #democracy
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#SCOTUS rebuffs #AlanDershowitz $300 million suit against #CNN
The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the attorney’s #defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending #Trump during his 2020 #impeachment.
Justices Neil #Gorsuch & #ClarenceThomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress
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YES!!!!!!
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#SCOTUS Monday declined to take up an appeal from #Trump over a $5 million verdict & finding that he sexually abused & defamed #EJeanCarroll, a decision that means Trump will now HAVE TO PAY the magazine columnist.
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#RapistInChief #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #defamation
A contracts take on Landor: In short, if Spending Clause enactments give rise to only contractual obligations, then they come with a duty of good faith and fair dealing. States violate that duty through not training or overseeing agents.
#law #contracts #SCOTUS #Landor #ConstitutionalLaw
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There Ought To Be a Law . . . Review Article About Landor | ContractsProf Blog
I write about the intersection of contracts law and constitutional law. It is no surprise that I was drawn to Justice Gorsuch’s theory (which foundJeremy Telman (ContractsProf Blog)
"Many prominent figures in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement said they felt betrayed Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled that Bayer, the manufacturer of Roundup, did not need to warn consumers of a potential cancer risk associated with its weed killer.
The ruling is likely to prevent thousands of lawsuits from arguing in state courts that Roundup should come with a cancer warning."
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#PublicHealth #pesticides #glyphosate #MAHA #FDA #courts #SCOTUS
Supreme Court ruling on Roundup weed killer leaves MAHA leaders feeling betrayed
The Trump administration backed Bayer, the maker of Roundup, angering prominent voices in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.Aria Bendix (NBC News)
