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‘King Trump’ is stronger than ever after US supreme court bolsters his agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/us-supreme-court-donald-trump-power-grab #UsSupremeCourt #DonaldTrump #UsNews #UsPolitics #Republicans #BrettKavanaugh #NeilGorsuch #AmyConeyBarrett #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #UsConstitutionAndCivilLiberties
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El Supremo rechaza el intento de Trump de acabar con el derecho a la ciudadanía por nacimiento en Estados Unidos
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The Supreme Court Blocked Trump on the Fed, Mail-In Ballots, and E. Jean Carroll in One Day #DonaldTrump #LisaCook #EJeanCarroll #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #FederalReserve #MailInBallots #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Watson #RNC #Election2026 #VotingRights #SexualAbuse #Defamation #FedIndependence #PresidentialPower #June29 #Hawk #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MAQ8mkJ_Q
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Alito Helped Normalize Unreasoned Shadow Docket Orders. Now He’s Mad About One.
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John Roberts Wants You To Stop Believing Your Own Eyes
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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“Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation” of the #Constitution.”
Professor Nelson is a former #ClarenceThomas law clerk and is often cited in opinions by the six conservative members of #SCOTUS. According to Nelson, reversing the landmark case #HumphreysExecutor would be an originalism mistake.
#originalism #ruleoflaw #legal #unitaryexecutivetheory
https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/10/the-emperors-new-clothes-originalism.html
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"#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "
#OligarchCamp
#BohemianGrove
#SCOTUS
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ChevronDoctrine
#NDRC
#KochIndustries
#Oligarchy
#CorruptSCOTUS
#SCOTUSIsCompromised
#Corporatocracy
#Oiligarchy
#EnvironmentalProtections
#BigOilAndGas
#CorporatePolluters
#HeritageFoundation
#ClimateDeniers
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#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDTExcerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.
"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.
"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.
"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.
"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.
"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.
"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."
#OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife
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#Corrupt #SupremeCourt #Justices #SamuelAlito and #ClarenceThomas Show #Contradictory #Stances This Term
In under a week, Justices Alito and Thomas have demonstrated how their #ideology and ties to their #benefactors shape their #legal #judgments—often in #hypocritical and #contradictory ways.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #Corruption #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/alito-thomas-supreme-court-term-hypocrisy.html
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First He Went After #AnitaHill. Now He’s Coming for #ClarenceThomas. As a young #conservative, #DavidBrock smeared Hill, who accused the #SupremeCourt #justice of #sexualharassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past. #MAGA #LeoLeonard #corruption Constitution #SCOTUS #federalistsociety #GOP #judiciary #courts #legalresearch #politics https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/books/review/david-brock-stench-clarence-thomas-anita-hill-media-matters.html
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"Remember when John Kerry was Swiftboated by Chris LaCivita who is doing it to Tim Walz now? Guess who funded it? Harlan Crow, the billionaire who has been lavishing freebies on Clarence Thomas."
~ Jane Mayer as quoted by David Kurtz
#JDVance #TimWalz #swiftboating #media #HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #ChrisLaCivita
/12https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/jack-smith-wants-more-time-to-figure
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#SupremeCourt #Justice #ClarenceThomas accepted a #free #yacht #trip to #Russia and got #flown out on a #complimentary #helicopter #ride to #Putin's #hometown.
There is "serious possibility of #tax #fraud," the letter accused Thomas of having "secretly #accepting #gifts and #income potentially worth millions of dollars."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Courts #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePewshttps://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-accepted-free-yacht-trip-to-putins-hometown-2024-7
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'#Resign #Immediately': #ClarenceThomas Took Even More #Secret #Trips on #Billionaire's #Jets than he reported on updated ethics disclosures.
"The next trip Justice Thomas takes should be into retirement. Resign," wrote one Democratic lawmaker.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Courts #SupremeCourts #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Corruption #Ethics #Hyprocricy #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.commondreams.org/news/clarence-thomas-resignation
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#ClarenceThomas's #Corruption Finally Has A #PriceTag - he got just under $6M in gifts while on #SCOTUS. It’s easy to miss the details of the lavish gifts and splashy #luxe travel accommodations and not grasp the scope of the gifts #SCOTUS has been getting. Well, the good folks at Fix the Court (FTC) have compiled the gifts bestowed upon the justices over the last 20 years https://abovethelaw.com/2024/06/clarence-thomas-corruption-finally-has-a-price-tag/ #democracy #courts #SupremeCourt #financialdisclosures #ethics #legalresearch
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Moira Donegan: Republicans want to use an 1873 law to ban #abortion. Congress must repeal it
"They don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and under a bizarre legal theory, they don’t think they even need congressional approval to do it. That’s because anti-choice radicals have begun to argue that an 1873 anti-obscenity law, the #Comstock Act, effectively bans the mailing, sale, advertisement or distribution of any drug or implement that can be used to cause an abortion.
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It’s not a solid legal theory, but like a lot of flimsily reasoned, violently sexist and once-fringe arguments, it is now getting a respectful hearing at the supreme court. At last month’s oral arguments in a case regarding the legality of the abortion drug #mifepristone Justices Samuel #Alito and Clarence Thomas both mentioned Comstock, …"
#FDA #clarencethomas
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/08/republicans-abortion-comstock-congress -
A serious offer of $1-million/year, and a $2.5-mil motor coach from Host John Oliver. Think Clarence Thomas will take it?
#clarencethomas #SupremeCourts #JohnOliver
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-oliver-million-dollars-clarence-thomas-scotus-resign-2024-2 -
During the event, the group announced a new initiative focused on getting #conservatives on the #SupremeCourt & the #FederalBench. The #Koch network, which had already given millions of dollars to #LeonardLeo’s #FederalistSociety, planned to mobilize its activists & buy advertisements to push senators to vote for #Trump’s #judicial nominees. They appointed a fmr employee of #GinniThomas, Justice #ClarenceThomas’s wife, to lead the effort.
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What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement https://politi.co/3ExpGO9 via @politico #scotus #clarencethomas #ginnithomas #leoleonard #citizensunited
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Democrats Unimpressed With Clarence Thomas's Feeble Attempt At Transparency
#AboveTheLaw #ClarenceThomas #Transparency #Democrats #Unimpressed #FeebleAttempt #Politics #News
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The Onion: Justices Expand Supreme Court To 40 Right-Wing Buddies https://www.theonion.com/justices-expand-supreme-court-to-40-right-wing-buddies-1850596173 #termpercuriamopinionsofthesupremecourtoftheunitedstates #blackconservatismintheunitedstates #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #heritagefoundation #amyconeybarrett #clarencethomas #brettkavanaugh #samuelalito #theheritage #johnroberts #neilgorsuch #lawcrime #gullah #biden #ginni
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#ClarenceThomas: "In very simple terms, if you are a public servant you can't take #FreeStuff, it is as simple as that. If you want free stuff don't be a public servant. But guess what? When you are not a #PublicServant, people don't want give you free stuff" - @BarbMcQuade w/ @NicolleDWallace #SCOTUS #corruption #FinancialDisclosure #EthicsRules #Judiciary #LegalResearch #FinancialSystem
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#SenateJudiciary Cmte Held Hearing 3/2/23 On #EthicsCode For #SupremeCourt Amidst #ClarenceThomas #scandal #SCOTUS #EthicsReforms #ethics #testimony #checksandbalances #corruption #recusal #statusquo #HarlanCrow #publicservice #judicialpower #federaljudiciary Enforce the #CodeofConduct #crisis #public #confidence #JudicialActivism #PartisanJudiciary #OathofOffice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4kKO73q1w