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@theleftistlawyer thomas? racists & liars practicing law abound lying their way to power w one hand on the bible. #expandscotus weans our truth-challenged justices from #leachingoffbillionaires because buying one justice or even six remains off-the-books affordable but constantly forking over several millions to hundreds of supreme court justices is a real expense eventually affecting the bottom line. wearing price tags displaying bribery rates during confirmation? truth-in-advertising measure
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@EthicalProfessor @petergleick.bsky.social to actually move forward as a functional democratic republic why not we stop the rampant shadow docket abuse & dilute the power structure adding divergent viewpoints #expandscotus end #leachingoffbillionaires
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@petersuber sure, supreme justice is rushing to restore your dei climatology grant or whatever. just wait for it wait... wait... wait
c'mon you scientists educators and scholastic curve-breakers well-known for taunting the slower kids wise up they're in power now laughing like hell over payback being a bitch while pulling your chains. is what happens when the scotus solomn oath before their higher power is a bad joke on the rest of us #expandscotus end #leachingoffbillionaires #restoredemocracy -
@Nonilex scotus lies, democracy dies #expandscotus end #leachingoffbillionaires
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@ralfmaximus @ShiitakeToast @jeffjarvis
good thoughts i agree we're getting shat upon nonstop maybe we force publication of all their social media before the next 'lie my ass off' hearing letting their thoughts pre-testify truthfully; add real ethics' rules with enforcement of actual penalties; add term limits; provide mandatory periodic public mental examinations & make several scotus judgeships only available to non-politicians
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@jeffjarvis yes its much too late for goodbyes. lifetime appt, no ethics combine to seal our fate 'cause our esteemed scotus members lied to the gullible or complicit members of congress playing the rest of us for fools before fucking over the country. remember them taking an oath on the trump bible or whatnot to tell the truth immediately lying like a rug to congress in public about how fucking evil they were, all without consequence? seems like ytd. #expandscotus end #leachingoffbillionaires
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@randahl hope ur correct & they're not merely toying with our futures
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@codinghorror
you nail it, its foolishly easy to game the needy as there is no right to food in the constitution because apparently after the natives bailed out the hungry mayflower bunch etal the founders' forgot all about how important it is not to starve. doc desperately needs a re-write so make the wakeup call for six am please, thanks.
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maybe to get around that pesky constitution they plan on getting the scotus to re-define personhood to exclude shitheads
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time2
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A Really Well Insulated Attic
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
A Really Well Insulated Attic
By Joyce Vance, Sep 04, 2025
“If the entire foundation falls out from under your house, it does no good to have a really well-insulated attic,” the judge said. “It sure would be nice if someone had our backs.” An anonymous federal judge made that comment to NBC News in a remarkable piece that published this morning.
The attic they are referring to is the U.S. Supreme Court. A Court that is increasingly viewed in some corners as having abandoned the role Article III of the Constitution assigns to it, to act as a check and balance on the executive branch. But the concerns the judges expressed were about the process the Supreme Court is using to make decisions. The reporting was not an inquiry into either the substance of the high court’s rulings or the politics behind it all.
It’s all about the shadow docket, a term you’re familiar with if you read Civil Discourse. It’s a slightly snarky term coined by legal academics to refer to the Court’s emergency docket, which is used for time-sensitive issues, like last-minute requests to stay executions in death penalty cases. The Court also hears appeals involving emergency civil relief on this docket. That means that cases where pro-democracy lawyers seek injunctions to block some of the most egregious steps this administration is taking land, with increasing frequency, on the shadow docket, and that’s where they get decided.
But these cases aren’t like the cases on the Supreme Court’s regular docket, the ones that get fully briefed, orally argued, and then decided on the merits in carefully crafted, lengthy opinions that fully set out the decision and the legal basis for it. This kind of shadow docket ruling happens early in a case, and the decision, as in the birthright citizenship cases where the Court rejected the use of nationwide injunctions to obtain relief but didn’t weigh in on whether Trump could erase birthright citizenship from the Constitution, are on procedural issues, not the substantive merits of a case. The decisions are typically unexplained and unsigned. There’s usually no opinion. Maybe you get a couple of paragraphs. Sometimes a stinging dissent. But there is very little basis for understanding why the court ruled the way it did and applying it in the lower courts.
This is frustrating for us. We’ve had this experience in a number of cases. It happened when the Supreme Court signed off on letting the Trump administration deport noncitizens to third countries (countries other than their country of origin), desperately unsafe places like South Sudan. It happened when the Court okayed DOGE’s foray into Americans’ confidential data held by Social Security. The Court let Trump fire members of independent agencies.
Apparently, it’s frustrating for judges in lower courts as well. After all, they are being called upon to apply the Supreme Court’s decisions. Shadow docket rulings are precedent that lower courts must follow. But how do you apply something when there is no explanation for why it happened? That’s the position the lower courts are in and it’s what led 12 federal judges to take the unprecedented step of speaking anonymously to an NBC reporter about what’s going on at the Supreme Court.
The reporting characterized it like this:
“Lower court judges are handed contentious cases involving the Trump administration. They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings. When they go against Trump, administration officials and allies criticize the judges in harsh terms. The government appeals to the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.
And then the Supreme Court, in emergency rulings, swiftly rejects the judges’ decisions with little to no explanation.”
The judges had a deeper criticism too. One that is unique to the time of the Trump administration, where the president and his cronies have attacked judges who rule against the president’s policies or against him on personal matters, often placing those judges in the crosshairs of his supporters. As one judge put it, “A short rebuttal from the Supreme Court, they argue, makes it seem like they did shoddy work and are biased against Trump.” Trump cronies like Stephen Miller have accused judges who rule against the administration of engaging in a judicial coup and there have been calls for their impeachment. One judge said that the Supreme Court “is effectively endorsing Miller’s claims that the judiciary is trying to subvert the presidency.”
This unique criticism of the Supreme Court from lower court judges comes as the Court has granted 17 of 23 emergency requests made by the administration, asking it to undo lower court decisions on an emergency basis. The NBC report concluded that five of the 17 cases were decided without any substantive reasoning to back them up and seven of the others had less than three pages of explanation. And we’re talking here about highly important decisions about the scope of presidential power. Supreme Court decisions routinely exceed 100 pages.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-really-well-insulated-attic
#12Members #2025 #America #AuthoritarianRulings #BadDecisions #BalancedCourt #Books #DonaldTrump #Education #ExpandSCOTUS #History #ImmunityForTRUMP #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #RightWing #RightWingJustices #Science #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCourt #UnitedStates
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5wkrn99qpo
#ExpandSCOTUS #StopMassDeportations #AbolishICE #ICEGestapo #OpposeTrumpsAmerika #GOPFourthReich #NoNazis #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy
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Yuck.
I create a corrupt-Trump action classification called #MonkeyWrenchTheSystem and then ideas of how to do it bigly start gathering;
#MartialLaw
#ConstitutionalConvention
#ExpandSCOTUSOthers?
Thing is - the #Project2025 folk will have been gathering all these together for years I think. If so they've got a book full of them. And with action pathways attached.
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That's set the scene.
Trump might;
1. Obey the order,
2. Deport and ignore the order,
3. Violate and invoke the Insurrection Act, declare some form of martial law,
4. Expand SCOTUS then get a redo, or,
5. Other?My money would be on 1.
But I've lost a lot of money.
#MartialLaw #ExpandSCOTUS #UpholdTheConstitution #Coup #414Day
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Supreme Court to Weigh Whether States Can Defund Planned Parenthood - Jezebel
#SavrPlannedParenthood #ExpandSCOTUS #ImpeachSCOTUS6 #LegalizeAbortion #ReproductiveFreedom #ProChoice
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens - The Onion
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-2/
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'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison: 4 killed, 5 hurt - ABC News
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What It Would Take to Charge Donald Trump with Inciting Insurrection - emptywheel
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Proud Boy Closure or John Roberts' Get Out of Jail Free Card? - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/31/proud-boy-closure-or-john-roberts-get-out-of-jail-free-card/
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Legal attacks are slowing SEC rulemaking in crucial election year | Reuters
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Supreme Court's conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations
#ExpandSCOTUS #GOPChicanery #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
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The new Supreme Court case that could change the winner of the presidential election | Vox
https://www.vox.com/scotus/380170/supreme-court-pennsylvania-election-republican-genser
#ExpandSCOTUS #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
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“Friends Of The Court” Urge SCOTUS To Slash Consumer Rights
https://www.levernews.com/friends-of-the-court-urge-scotus-to-slash-consumer-rights/
#ExpandSCOTUS #RegulateCorporations #PeopleBeforeCorporations
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Trump’s Big Lie Attorneys Are Back
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/trump-lawyers-election-fraud-lawsuits-strategy/
In lawsuits filed across the country, attorneys who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat are alleging rampant voting fraud
#ArrestCletaMitchell #ExpandSCOTUS #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025