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As I've said elsewhere, this is the most judicially activist #SCOTUS in history. It has outright voided part of Art2§4 already, and neutered part of the 14th Amendment.
Everyone has this idea that they are textualists or originalists. But no originalist would have ignored #AlexanderHamilton's Federalist 69.
They're judicial activists, happy to be erroneously viewed by everyone as entirely the opposite.
“Three times in the past week, and six since #Trump took office a little more than two months ago, the #JusticeDepartment has asked the #conservative-majority high court to step into cases much earlier than usual.” apnews.com/article/supr... #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt
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Trump keeps asking Supreme Court to overrule judges blocking his agenda
President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders.Mark Sherman (AP News)
Not good
The United States Court of Appeals for DC has cleared the way for #Trump to fire members of the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, essentially granting Trump authority over formerly "independent" parts of the executive branch.
Judge Millet dissented saying the decision overturned #SCOTUS precedent & disabled the boards from functioning while the case proceeds.
#law #watchdog #whistleblower #USpol
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Of course.
"The #Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings across several agencies.
In an emergency appeal filed Monday, the administration argued the ruling should be put on hold because the judge didn’t have the authority to order some 16,000 probationary employees be hired back"
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order to rehire probationary federal workers
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings across several agencies.Lindsay Whitehurst (AP News)
#DOJ lawyers urged an appeals court Wed to overturn a judge’s block on #Trump’s #deportation of #Venezuelans under the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The filing is the latest volley in an escalating legal battle over Trump's priority of strengthening #immigration enforcement. Trump has called for Chief US District Judge James #Boasberg's #impeachment …[&] #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts rebuked Trump over the impeachment threat.
#law #DueProcess #Judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis
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Trump administration asks appeals court to reverse block on deportation of Venezuelans
Attorney General Pam Bondi told an appeals court a judge had no power to block Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
Just hours after #Trump called for the #impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his #deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, & after Trump's comments targeting Judge #Boasburg spurred a rare public rebuke from #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, #HouseRepublicans led by Rep #BrandonGill introduced articles of impeachment against Boasberg.
#law #Constitution #JudicialBranch #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower
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NEW STATEMENT FROM #SCOTUS CHIEF JUSTICE #JohnRoberts:
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."
#law #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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SCOTUS may be the best ally in preventing things from getting a lot worse.
“Chief Justice John Roberts said the impeachment of federal judges is “not an appropriate response” to disagreement with their rulings.
The extraordinary statement from the leader of #SCOTUS comes hours after #Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who tried to pause the deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members”
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**Why the Supreme Court Might Grant Trump More Power. WSJ**
WSJ explains the “unitary executive theory” and why the Supreme Court may allow Trump to expand the reach and scope of executive power.
#Video length: seven minutes and one second.
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#WSJ #Trump #SCOTUS #Law #Constitution #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
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SCOTUS will hear case threatening no-cost preventive care | Association of Health Care Journalists
If SCOTUS rules the ACA’s no-cost preventive care provision as unconstitutional, Americans would need to pay for such care or forgo it.Joseph Burns and Liz Seegert (Association of Health Care Journalists)
Trump’s DOJ knows it can’t win the birthright citizenship cases on the merits, so it’s trying to use a procedural issue (that #SCOTUS has repeatedly dodged) to put the policy into effect across much of the country. Today’s “One First” looks at the cynical ploy: www.stevevladeck.com/p/133-birthr...
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133. Birthright Citizenship (Sort of) Reaches the Court
The Trump administration's emergency applications in three birthright citizenship cases are a cynical effort to mitigate the effects of an inevitable loss on the merits. The justices shouldn't bite.Steve Vladeck (One First)
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Supreme Court Takes a BIG SHIT on You ...Literally!
#EmilyMiller an atty with #FoodAndWaterWatch about the #SCOTUS recent shitty ruling that weakens regulations and requirements for cities in relation to discharging raw sewage ...like poop... into waterways.
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Via #TheContrarian, Mar 11, 2025
A battle is brewing between the president and one of his hand-picked justices.
Aaron Rupar
"The Court has lurched so far rightward that Barrett’s views are sometimes moderate in comparison, but that doesn’t mean she’s liberal or will consistently work to stop Trump’s worst excesses. It likely does mean, though, that she represents the best possibility for liberal outcomes at the Court."
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Why Trumpers are turning on Amy Coney Barrett
MAGA cultists won't tolerate anything short of total fealty.Lisa Needham (Public Notice)
"Vance went on to advise Trump what he should do were the supreme court to try and stop him from turning the US government into a Maga redoubt. He invoked a probably apocryphal quote from Andrew Jackson relating to a conflict in 1832 between the then president and the justices.
'Stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did,' Vance urged Trump, 'and say the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'
For Toobin, this marks the ultimate crunch. As he points out, the supreme court is but nine men and women, supported by a staff of fewer than 500.
They are minnows confronted by a shark. And the only weapon they have at their disposal is an etherial one: the consent of the governed upon which this whole teetering edifice stands."
‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law | US news - UAI NEWS
Untitled Artwork 459 Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian When the chief justice of the US supreme court, John Roberts, delivered his bombshell ruling last July granting Donald Trump absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, he la…gost (uai news)
BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Republican states' bid to kill Democrat climate change accountability cases
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#news #science #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #scotus #politics
BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Republican states' bid to kill Democrat climate change accountability cases
A group of 19 Republican attorneys general had asked the high court to block Democratic states like California from suing oil companies for climate change damages.Clark Mindock (Landmark)
Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #slavery #amistad #cinque #mutiny #SCOTUS #abolition #johnquincyadams #BlackMastodon
#SCOTUS precedent Trump doesn't like because it hinders his quest to be king:
Humphrey’s Executor - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
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Humphrey’s Executor
Who is Humphrey’s Executor and why should you care?Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
Think things are shitty?
They're gonna get a lot shittier soon, thanks to a lawsuit by liberal San Francisco and the right wing SCOTUS, making it harder to regulate and limit the pollution and raw sewage dumped into our bays and oceans.
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#SCOTUS #sanfrancisco #epa #cleanwater
Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges
The Supreme Court has made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.Mark Sherman (AP News)
San Francisco handed #SCOTUS the chance to weaken the #CleanWaterAct -- and they took it.
This ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute, and harder for regulators to protect the health of people and the environment. Really shameful.
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#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #pollution #waterpollution #waterislife
Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean… Because of course they did. #SCOTUS #environment
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Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean
Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
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...there still are the, often gerontrocrats, in #Congress and #SCOTUS that are #Transatlanticists. They still believe in all the international institutions like #NATO, the #UN, etc. that led the #USA to become the single remaining superpower after #WWII.
Their day will come.
Alas, they will, IMO, rely on the sound legalities of the Budapest Memorandum. Then, it will matter once again.
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Judge says #Trump cannot fire head of #independent #watchdog agency
The federal judge’s decision blocks Trump from removing #HamptonDellinger as head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel & sets up a likely #SCOTUS battle over the president’s powers.
#law #NationalSecurity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #SeparationOfPowers
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