“The terms used by presidents & by members of their administration, Cabinet officers, other high-ranking officers in describing the Supreme Court & their decisions, & sometimes individual justices, is far different from what we saw 15 years ago,” #Alito said.
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… #Trump, for his part, has cheered #Alito as “one of the Greatest of All Time” even as he maligned justices whom he appointed as “unpatriotic” & “merely a shell of their original selves.” Alito said the harsh rhetoric from across the spectrum doesn’t affect how the justices rule but does play a role in the public’s declining trust in the court.
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Justice #Alito told AP in a rare interview that the rhetoric about the court from #Trump & his admin doesn’t sit well with him.
“I personally am not pleased with that,” he said. “Everybody in this country has the right to criticize what we do. The substance of their criticism can be quite harsh. If we deserve it, then that’s fine. But rhetoric is a different story.”
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The number of petitions asking the justices to intervene quickly has skyrocketed during #Trump’s 2nd admin, putting the court at the center of hotly debated issues such as Trump’s new #ballroom construction & his proposed restrictions on #MailBallots in the #midterms.
The number of emergency applications now rivals the annual tally of cases the justices consider with full briefing & oral arguments, #Alito wrote in a new book released Tuesday.
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Scorpion & the toad…, tiger by the tail…, don’t complain about the monster you created jackass.
#Alito says #SCOTUS can’t stem emergency appeals & voices concern over #Trump’s rhetoric.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the escalating volume of emergency appeals before the court isn’t a good thing, but he adds there’s little the court can do to change the trajectory.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/alito-supreme-court-trump-emergency-docket-book-6d9bee292b228c2624377f628eb38760?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
#SCOTUS lets quick #deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs #Trump policy
#law #immigration #ExtraordinaryRendition #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-third-countries-2219c35c065eab4b0690058d81bd787a?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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The National Republican Congressional Committee & National Republican Senatorial Committee then asked the #SCOTUS to intervene. They argued that the appeals court had acted too soon & broadcasters were already charging them higher rates & upending their planned budgets.
The high court’s decision halts the appeals court ruling while the #Republican committees appeal it.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
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Candidates pay discounted rates for TV time around an #election under federal #law, & in March the #FCC’s Media Bureau said certain party-coordinated ads are entitled to those prices as well.
Four #Democrats, including Sen #JonOssoff of Georgia & former Sen #SherrodBrown of Ohio, challenged the finding in court. They won a victory from a divided panel of the US 4th Circuit Court of appeals.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
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They aren’t even in session yet they found time for this BS
#SCOTUS grants #Republicans’ emergency appeal on TV ad rates before #midterms clearing a legal roadblock to political parties getting cheaper ad time ahead of #elections.
SCOTUS halted a lower-court ruling in favor of Democratic candidates who argued cheaper ads should be limited to candidates. One justice publicly dissented from the unsigned order.
#law #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-midterms-republicans-a7a1cfc0c208d3949467756a64857cc2?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
#Trump asked #SCOTUS Thursday to give the #USPS sweeping power to withhold delivery of #MailBallots, setting up an extraordinary showdown over #voting at the high court less than 2 months before the November #midterms.
#law #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #Federalism #ElectionLaw #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/politics/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-ok-sweeping-changes-for-mail-ballots -
#Trump admin appeals latest ruling blocking his #MailVoting order from taking effect
The Trump admin is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked limitations on mail voting before the midterm #elections, the latest twist in a court fight unfolding days before the first #states begin sending out #MailBallots.
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #Federalism #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-voting-mail-ballots-midterms-executive-order-8ef4a669a50f3406481ffb8387ccad3c?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
The ruling is a win for #Trump for the moment, but it doesn’t fully clear the way for his effort to limit #MailBallots to go into effect. There’s already a separate injunction against the executive order that’s not directly affected by today’s ruling, & as soon as tomorrow, a Massachusetts district court may block the underlying #USPS rule at issue—which is the real thing to watch heading into November.
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#SCOTUS’ decision did not address the legality of #Trump’s order, only the timing of its challenge.
“The court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the government to implement the order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell. But the order itself does not harm the #states, so the District Court lacked jurisdiction to bar the government from trying to implement it,” SCOTUS wrote.
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Mail balloting has long been a favorite target for #Trump, who has claimed that it breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary & his own use of the voting method.
The case could be one of multiple voting-related challenges before the justices. The #DOJ had filed an emergency appeal asking #SCOTUS to allow work on implementing the changes before the #midterms.
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‼️‼️‼️ #SCOTUS cleared the way for #Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting #MailVoting, though it remains unclear how much his admin can implement before the #midterm #elections.
The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order. And with some states beginning to send #MailBallots to voters in just a few weeks, time is running short to impose major changes.
#law #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-supreme-court-157afc3c195ce0a62c522da5ce904b04?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link -
#Trump admin urges #SCOTUS to allow #ExecutiveOrder targeting #mail-in #voting before #midterms
The “emergency” appeal comes after an appeals #court upheld a ruling from a lower court blocking Trump’s order in nearly half the country ahead of November’s midterm #elections.
But the #DOJ [aka Trump’s personal attys] asked SCOTUS to allow his proposed changes to move ahead anyway.
#law #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-appeal-executive-order-supreme-court-5482700c21f4945d6991dff24776b525 -
#SCOTUS went on a full blown #murder spree today
That is what happened
That is the current state of the state
Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em
#TheNewColossus
Short version—Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!#law #democracy #Trump #racism #WhiteSupremacy #immigration #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #WhiteChristianNationalism
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#SCOTUS Expands Trump’s #ExecutivePower Over #Immigration
The court handed #Trump victories in his push to rescind #deportation & for hundreds of thousands of people & turn away #immigrants at the southern border.
#law #immigration #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #judiciary #legislation #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-temporary-protected-status.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.fkE6.E-jXQRTpMCY6&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Since #SCOTUS’ April ruling, largely #white #Republican-led legislatures across the #South have moved to dismantle #Black political #power at stunning speed, breaking apart voting blocs at the urging of a failing president desperate to keep control of #Congress in this fall’s midterm #elections.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans
by Mara Gay
The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.qSCM.vEpY9cDXlL3Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Over the course of several months, #SCOTUS has had a hand in congressional maps in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Virginia & California. Most of those decisions have benefited the #Republican Party.
The Alabama case is also the latest “emergency” order tied to the court’s April decision on the #VotingRightsAct, in which a 6-3 majority gutted the ability of groups to bring claims of racial #discrimination under that 1965 landmark #law.
#redistricting #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump #ActivistCourt
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#Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct last month.
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/louisiana-redistricting-map-majority-black-district.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The policy requires #immigration #judges to get prior approval before any "official" speech. Such speaking engagements are those in which a judge "is invited to participate in an event because of their official position, is expected to discuss agency policies, programs or a subject matter that directly relates to their official duties or otherwise appear on behalf of the agency," according to court records.
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A group representing the #immigration #judges had also appealed the lower court's determination that the challenge to the #speech restraint belongs before the agencies - so long as they are functional - instead of in court. That appeal was denied Tuesday.
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#SCOTUS [shockingly /s] sides with #Trump in fight tied to #speech curbs on #immigration judges
SCOTUS sided on Tuesday with Trump's admin in a dispute involving a #FreeSpeech challenge by federal #ImmigrationJudges to a #US government policy restricting what they can publicly say about immigration.
The justices, in an unsigned ruling, reversed a lower court's decision & returned the case to that court for further proceedings.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.reuters.com/world/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-fight-tied-speech-curbs-immigration-judges-2026-05-26/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
…So far, #Republicans think they could win as many as 14 additional seats in the November elections from new districts enacted in #Texas, #Missouri, #NorthCarolina, #Ohio, #Florida & #Tennessee. #Democrats think they could win up to 6 additional seats from new districts in #California & #Utah. But Democrats suffered a major setback when the #Virginia Supreme Cour t overturned a voter-approved #redistricting amendment that could have yielded 4 more seats for the party.
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Anticipating a court reversal, #Alabama officials recently enacted a law allowing it to void the results of a May 19 #primary for some congressional districts & instead hold a new primary under the revised district boundaries. It’s up to #Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to set a date for a special primary #election, though it must occur by August.
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #CorruptCourt #RiggedElection #RepresentationMatters #Vote
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#Alabama officials pointed to the #Louisiana case as reason for #SCOTUS to end a judicial order to use a court-imposed #House map until after the 2030 census. SCOTUS overturned that order & directed a lower court to reconsider the case in light of the Louisiana decision. That could free the state to instead use a map approved in 2023 by the #Republican-led legislature that includes only 1 district where #Black residents comprise a majority.
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#SCOTUS set the stage for #Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 largely #Black congressional districts before this year’s #midterms, creating an opening for #Republicans to gain an additional #US #House seat in a closely divided chamber.
The decision follows a SCOTUS ruling that struck down a majority-Black US House district in #Louisiana as an “unconstitutional” #RacialGerrymander, significantly weakening the federal #VotingRights Act.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-supreme-court-congress-ba371351585b79c2965f9efb0332f33d