Via Scott MacFarlane:
There are now 19 co-sponsors for the pair of US House resolutions calling for the impeachment of #SCOTUS Justice Sam #Alito and Justice #ClarenceThomas
Both were initially sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY
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“#JackSmith asked for additional time to settle how to proceed w #Trump’s #Jan6 prosecution, asking to bump back deadlines ignited when case returned to lower court..
👉🏼By requesting 3-wk delay in filing, Smith is likely to disappoint those who have called for him to ask for an evidentiary hearing with live witness testimony ahead of the election.
It also shows that Smith’s team is still grappling with the best path forward after #SCOTUS ruled Trump is immune..” #legal
https://trib.al/dggF5SI
Bill Barr says that enforcing a code of ethics on the Supreme Court would purge conservative justices.
Let that argument sink in for a minute…
🚨🚨 #SCOTUS rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide 🚨🚨
The #SupremeCourt on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #SameSexMarriage nationwide.
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to #SameSex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
#law #LGBTQ #HumanRights #love
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.
#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown-c633d646f08f395e7d157d1145eaf727?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
🤦🏻♀️ “ #SCOTUS on Thursday revived part of an #Arizona voter law requiring documented proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, in response to a request from the Republican National Committee and Arizona Republicans.
The justices agreed to reinstate a provision of the law after a federal judge blocked it in response to legal challenges by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration and advocacy groups.”
https://apple.news/AcR51UxUQSK-oJxOXSuB-ew
Via Katie Phang:
If you're disheartened at today's delay in #Trump's sentencing, let's be clear at whose doorstep lies the blame:
The conservative majority of the #SCOTUS and its terrible decision on presidential immunity.
➡️Consider the possibility of at least TWO new SCOTUS appointments for the next President of the United States.
When you go to vote in November, think about who you want to be making those appointments.
In overturning #Roe, #SCOTUS has ushered in a new period of "Jane Crow," says Michele Goodwin. "When you take people’s ability away to be able to care for themselves, you affect every aspect of their life." #Velshi
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/the-jane-crow-era-why-the-abandonment-of-morality-by-scotus-is-a-matter-of-democracy-217923141536
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Re Judge Merchan: people need to realize that by putting the sentencing off (for now) Merchan has kept the S CT’s hands off the verdict pre election.
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#SCOTUS allows #HHS to divert funds over #abortion referrals
The #SupremeCourt Tues cleared the way for the #Biden admin to strip millions of #HealthCare dollars from #Oklahoma over its refusal to direct patients to info about #abortions — a federal req that the state says would be at odds w/its strict #AbortionBan.
Last yr, the Biden admin diverted $4.5M from OK’s #FamilyPlanning prgm, which primarily serves #LowIncome or #uninsured patients.
#law #ReproductiveRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/03/oklahoma-abortion-funding-supreme-court-title-x/
#SCOTUS on Wednesday rebuffed a #Biden administration plea seeking to revive the latest plan to tackle federal student loan debt.
The court in a brief order denied an emergency request filed by the administration seeking to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by an appeals court. There were no noted dissents.”
👀 #SCOTUS refused for now to halt a #Biden administration crackdown on planet-warming methane emissions from oil wells, tanks and pipelines—Bloomberg #ClimateCrisis
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Via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:
I don't know if this is just my own biases but this does not seem to be going well for the DOJ.
Paraphrasing...
Kagan: Assume this is completely illegal EO. How do the courts actually stop it?
Govt: Certify a class action.
Kagan: You'll argue there's no class to certify under FRCP.
Govt: Yeah true.
Kagan: So how else?
Govt: Have every individual affected sue.
Barrett: Seriously?
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#SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship case
One of #Trump's most contentious policies - his attempt to restrict automatic #birthright #citizenship - arrives at the #SupremeCourt this week with a predictable twist: The justices may focus on something else entirely.
Federal judges in #Washington state, #Massachusetts & #Maryland issued orders blocking Trump's January #ExecutiveOrder nationwide, finding it violated language in the #Constitution.
#immigration #law #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/birthright-citizenship-case-us-supreme-court-gets-two-controversies-one-2025-05-13/
🚨The US Supreme Court let #Virginia carry out a purge of an estimated 1,600 residents from its voter rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 election —Bloomberg #SCOTUS
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A rare SCOTUS #WompWomp…
#SCOTUS declined to hear an appeal from Elon #Musk’s #X Corp. claiming special counsel #JackSmith violated the First Amendment when he obtained a search warrant for former President #Trump’s Twitter messages & then barred the company from disclosing it.
https://cnn.com/2024/10/07/politics/elon-musk-trump-twitter-records/index.html
👉🏼👉🏼”#SCOTUS announced Monday that it will let stand a state top court ruling allowing patients to sue #IVF providers for wrongfully destroying embryos.
#Alabama Supreme Court’s February decision that human life begins at fertilization and that unborn children are people for purposes of the state’s wrongful death law, regardless of viability, was greeted with jeers and cheers when it first announced. Reproductive rights advocates called it an extreme ruling” http://blawgo.com/Jb6MzPF
Via @Brandi_Buchman :
NEW: #JackSmith files his response to #Trump's demand that at least two of his charges be dropped in the #Jan6 case in light of #SCOTUS ruling in Fischer (obstruction statute impacting J6 rioters). It won't surprise you to learn, Smith isn't convinced.
Smith: Trump totally ignores evidence against him that alleges how he sought to create & use false evidence-fake elector certificates-as means to obstruct proceeding on J6. Fischer covers that specifically
Via Eric Columbus:
This filing (which Judge Chutkan will not grant) is a prelude to Trump seeking relief from #SCOTUS. Look for more filings today, maybe an intermediate stop at the DC Circuit (where he won’t win).
Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: On the day #Chutkan plans to release a large cache of #JackSmith’s evidence, #Trump asks her to delay until Nov. 14 #legal
#SCOTUS seems poised to uphold a major #GunRegulation imposed by the #Biden admin that requires #BackgroundChecks, #SerialNumbers & sales #records for the nearly untraceable #firearms known as #GhostGuns.
A majority of the justices seemed skeptical during oral argument on Tues of the position taken by gun owners, parts makers & #2A groups: that the govt exceeded its authority in 2022 when it imposed new rules for the weapons.
#law #GunControl #guns #GunViolence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/supreme-court-ghost-guns-biden-rules/
“In the year and a half following the #SCOTUS Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an #abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/health/infant-deaths-increase-post-dobbs-abortion-bans?cid=ios_app
#WompWomp… & #SCOTUS #Wompage is a rarity!
“The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let #RFKJr. withdraw his name from ballots in #Michigan and #Wisconsin, battleground states where votes for his now suspended campaign could cut into support for #Trump”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/politics/rfk-jr-supreme-court-wisconsin-michigan?cid=ios_app
#WompWomp Yes, another rare #SCOTUS #Wompage moment.
“Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday rejected a request from Cornel West to direct #Pennsylvania election officials to post notices informing voters at polling locations statewide on Election Day that West is a presidential candidate and his name can be written in on ballots.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cornel-west-pennsylvania-ballot-access-dispute-samuel-alito/
The #SCOTUS ruling that rejected the doctrine of Chevron deference has already been cited in cases on abortion, overtime pay, airline fees, protections against health care discrimination, background checks for guns and more: https://propub.li/3UPWJpq
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
The Supreme Court's first decision of the day is NRC v. Texas. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Texas and a private company cannot, under the Hobbs Act, sue to block the creation of off-site storage for nuclear waste. 5th Circuit REVERSED yet again.
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