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  1. #SCOTUS#BirthrightCitizenship opinion is looong.

    Mostly the #dissent by Justice #ClarenceThomas & joined by #Gorsuch. The majority opinion is 26 pages long, Thomas’s dissent runs to 91 pages.

    Imagine being that freaking #racist.

    #law #immigration #ImmigrationLaw

  2. Good

    #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
    apnews.com/live/trump-administ

  3. Justice Brett #Kavanaugh & Chief Justice #JohnRoberts broke from their #conservative colleagues in siding with Pitchford.

    Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel A. #Alito Jr. & #AmyConeyBarrett.
    
“Put simply, Mr. Pitchford’s account of a muzzled defense team is hard to square with the record. But even if it were a plausible account, that still would not be enough,” Gorsuch wrote.

    #law #racism #SCOTUS #DeathRow #RacialBias #JurySelection

  4. Justice #ClarenceThomas, writing for the 5 conservative justices, said the federal #law that generally shields the #PostalService from lawsuits over missing, lost & undelivered #mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”

    In dissent, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor wrote that while the protection against lawsuits is broad, it does not extend to situations when the decision not to deliver mail “was driven by #malicious reasons.” Justice Neil #Gorsuch joined his 3 liberal colleagues in dissent.

  5. #Trump thanked Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Brett #Kavanaugh by name “for their strength & wisdom & love of our country” for dissenting from the majority.

    Of the other conservatives justices who voted to knock down his tariffs — Chief Justice #JohnRoberts & Justices #AmyConeyBarrett & Neil #Gorsuch — Trump said, “they’re just being fools & lapdogs for the RINOs & radical left Democrats.”

    Trump said they were “very unpatriotic & disloyal to our Constitution.”

    #law #tariffs #SCOTUS

  6. “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.

    And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.

    #Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

  7. Justices #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch said they were eager to go further. The 1935 precedent, Justice Thomas wrote, “poses a direct threat to our constitutional structure &, as a result, the liberty of the American people.”

    In its recent emergency orders, #SCOTUS has also signaled that it is now poised to give the president more direct #power over the multimember commissions as well.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

  8. For the first time in the hearing, Justice #ClarenceThomas speaks. He had no questions for Trump’s Solicitor General John Sauer.

    Thomas with the help of #Gorsuch asks whether #Congress can create commissions of multimember agencies with presidential secretaries at their top, with differing firing powers.

    Pretty sure Congress just let out a collective groan at that prospect.

    This would be asking them to restructure government.

    #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

  9. I missed this Friday.

    MSNBC's #AlexWagner reported on the collapse of 3 big #ConspiracyTheory media outlets, #AlexJones' #InfoWars, Dinesh D'Souza's #SalemMedia Group, and #China's #EpochTimes all crashing & burning (just watching Jones far apart in a blubbering mental breakdown is worth watching.)

    Followed by #SCotUS #ClarenceThomas being forced to admit to accepting millions in bribes. 🤔 #NotYourFathersGOP #VoteBlue msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/watch-al

  10. #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 abovethelaw.com/2024/06/claren #democracy #courts #SupremeCourt #financialdisclosures #ethics #legalresearch

  11. #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