#extremistcourt — Public Fediverse posts
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Once in a while there is a court ruling on the #FourthAmendment that just makes my jaw drop. [The #ExtremistCourt] The #FifthCircuit had such a ruling last Friday, United States v. Jamarr Smith.…
The new case is about the Fourth Amendment limits of #geofence #warrants, which are warrants to access #location #information for users who have opted into having Internet providers retain location history.
- Orin Kerr
@lawfare
#law #InfoSec #privacy
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[ oh & that’s to say nothing of the fact that a #SupremeCourt *Justice* literally just threatened the sitting #President of the #UnitedStates of America. ]
[ “Be careful” indeed. Mother F⁕⚠︎er. ]
listen to the clip of #Gorsuch’s interview on #FauxNews: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6359892007112
#SCOTUS #law #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform
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Justice #ClarenceThomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says
Sen #RonWyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor #HarlanCrow’s lawyer after records showed [more] undisclosed flights between Hawaii & New Zealand w/the #SCOTUS justice in 2010.
#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform #FarRight #Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb -
Reform, then, is less an effort to restrain the #independence of the #SupremeCourt than it is the beginning of a long battle to restore the independence that was lost when #conservatives seized this branch of our government for their own ends.
by @jbouie
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #FarRight #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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The #Constitution means whatever the #JohnRoberts court says it means, even when that meaning conflicts w/the basic principles of American #democracy.
It is against this backdrop of institutional #dysfunction & #judicial arrogance that President #Biden, fresh from his decision to leave the campaign trail in favor of his vice president, introduced his three-point package of #SupremeCourt reforms.
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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#Trump’s claim was absurd on its face: namely, that former presidents are immune to prosecution for any #crime committed under color of #law unless impeached & convicted. The kernel of logic in that argument, that the powers of the president confer some level of #immunity for certain acts, has been expanded beyond recognition to immunize Trump from prosecution.
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform #RightWing #MAGA #Republicans #Jan6
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“Distinguishing the President’s official actions from his unofficial ones can be difficult,” #JohnRoberts writes. Then he makes it more difficult, writing that “in dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.”
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #immunity #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Jan6
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In her dissent, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor puts it plainly. Regarding the question of “whether a former President enjoys immunity from federal #criminal prosecution,” Sotomayor writes, “The majority thinks he should, & so it invents an atextual, ahistorical, & unjustifiable #immunity that puts the President above the #law.” That is the long & the short of it.
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The Court’s opinion presents an absurd paradox that defeats the purpose of a constitutional #democracy governed by the rule of #law. It has little basis in the #Constitution or in the words of the #Founders. It is the outcome that most benefits the Court’s preferred presidential candidate, while allowing the justices to live w/themselves for defacing beyond recognition the Constitution & the concept of democratic self-determination.
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Although the pro-#Trump justices attempt to nest the breadth of their opinion in legalese, their finding that the president cannot be prosecuted for “official acts,” & that much of Trump’s efforts to seize #power fall under that rubric, means that the justices have essentially legalized a losing president refusing to step down, as Trump tried to do after the 2020 election.
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ExtremistCourt #DarkMoney #RightWing #MAGA #Republicans #Jan6
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#SCOTUS Puts #Trump #AboveTheLaw
And gives him permission for a despotic second term.
By Adam Serwer
Near the top of their sweeping, #lawless opinion in Trump v. #UnitedStates, Donald Trump’s defenders on the #SupremeCourt repeat one of the most basic principles of American constitutional government: “The president is not above the law.” They then proceed to obliterate it.
#law #PartisanCourt #ExtremistCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA #Jan6
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity-decision/678859/ -
No #SCOTUS decision on #Trump’s absolute #immunity claim.
Chief *Justice* #JohnRoberts announced that Monday is the final day of the term.
Monday will mark the first time since 2020 that the Supreme Court term runs into July. The court extended the session that year because of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Before that, it had not happened since 1996.
#lawlessness #law #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson, concurring w/ the 6-3 majority, suggested that the #Jan6 #obstruction charge could still be brought against #Trump, specifically #crimes involving the actual or attempted “impairment … of the availability or integrity of things used during the #January6 proceeding.” Trump is charged w/ corruptly interfering w/ electoral vote certificates to be counted by VP #MikePence.
#law #SCOTUS #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
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It is not clear how much weight Jackson’s view would carry in the lower courts, but it is an important one. Jackson’s point was that while #SCOTUS limited the #statute to #crimes involving the impairment of #evidence, Congress’s #Jan6 certification of the #2020election itself “plainly used certain records, documents or objects — including, among others, those relating to the electoral votes themselves.”
#law #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CourtReform
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In a 6-3 court split, Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson wrote a separate concurring opinion w/the majority, stating that in her view, *some* #Jan6 #insurrectionist prosecutions involving the #obstruction of an official proceeding statute could survive.
#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #law #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform -
In #dissent, Justice #AmyConeyBarrett noted that there is no mandatory minimum punishment. “Given the breadth of its terms, [the #law] naturally encompasses actions that range in severity,” she wrote. “Congress presumably #trusted District #Courts to impose sentences #commensurate with the defendant’s particular #conduct.”
#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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ONLY ONE #J6 defendant received a punishment that severe— #ProudBoys ldr #EnriqueTarrio, who was ALSO convicted of a #SeditiousConspiracy to keep #Trump in power. He was sentenced to 22yrs in prison. The avg sentence for a rioter w/no criminal history & convicted of no felonies other than obstruction is ~2yrs.
#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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In his opinion striking down the govt’s use of an “#obstruction of Congress” charge against #Jan6 defendants, Chief *Justice* #JohnRoberts repeatedly mentioned the law has a 20-yr max penalty—“one of the more severe potential punishments” for govt interference #crime.
#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform -
Writing for the majority, Chief *Justice* #JohnRoberts said the government must establish that a defendant “impaired the availability or integrity” of records, documents or other objects used in an official proceeding. The decision returns the case to the lower courts for additional proceedings.
Justices #AmyConeyBarrett, Sonia #Sotomayor & Elena #Kagan dissented.#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CourtReform
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After the #Jan6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged >350 participants in #Trump’s #insurrectionist mob w/ #obstructing or impeding an official proceeding. The charge carries a 20-yr maximum penalty & is part of a #law enacted after the exposure of massive #fraud & shredding of documents during the collapse of the energy giant Enron.
#lawlessness #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CourtReform
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#SCOTUS says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #Jan6 #insurrectionists
Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #J6 defendants w/ #obstruction, the #SupremeCourt ruled on Fri, upending many cases against #insurgents who #invaded, #vandalized & #terrorized the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-obstruction-jan-6-trump/ -
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#SCOTUS says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #Jan6 #insurrectionists
Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #J6 defendants w/ #obstruction, the #SupremeCourt ruled on Fri, upending many cases against #insurgents who #invaded, #vandalized & #terrorized the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-obstruction-jan-6-trump/ -
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#SCOTUS says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #Jan6 #insurrectionists
Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #J6 defendants w/ #obstruction, the #SupremeCourt ruled on Fri, upending many cases against #insurgents who #invaded, #vandalized & #terrorized the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-obstruction-jan-6-trump/ -
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#SCOTUS says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #Jan6 #insurrectionists
Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #J6 defendants w/ #obstruction, the #SupremeCourt ruled on Fri, upending many cases against #insurgents who #invaded, #vandalized & #terrorized the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-obstruction-jan-6-trump/ -
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#SCOTUS says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #Jan6 #insurrectionists
Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #J6 defendants w/ #obstruction, the #SupremeCourt ruled on Fri, upending many cases against #insurgents who #invaded, #vandalized & #terrorized the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-obstruction-jan-6-trump/ -
Supporters of #Chevron, including #environmental groups, #labor & #CivilRights organizations, & the Biden admin, told the court that #Congress often writes broad statutes to give government #experts the leeway to address emerging complex problems. Overturning or scaling back the #legal #precedent, they said, will hamstring & weaken #FederalAgencies & shift #power to the courts & Congress [that’s the plan].
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While lower courts have relied on the #Chevron in tens of thousands of cases evaluating #FederalRules, #regulations & orders, #conservatives have balked at the legal #precedent, & the approach has fallen out of favor since #SCOTUS moved to the #FarRight. The court’s #conservative #supermajority includes 3 justices nominated by the #criminal #Trump, whose admin put a premium on judges skeptical of federal government power & the so-called “administrative state.”
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The court’s 3 liberal [sane] justices — Sonia #Sotomayor, Elena #Kagan & #KetanjiBrownJackson — dissented.
The #precedent, established in 1984, gave #FederalAgencies flexibility to determine how to implement #legislation ALREADY PASSED by #Congress. The framework has been used extensively by the U.S. #government to defend #regulations designed to protect the #environment, #FinancialMarkets, #consumers, the #workplace, & more. -
The unpopularity of #SCOTUS’ decision even in some #conservative states made it a political liability for #Republicans during mid-term elections in 2022.
#Abortion #access is now almost non-existent in Southern states, forcing tens of thousands of #women to cross state lines for #abortions, & sparking a rise in #MedicationAbortion.
#law #Dobbs #ReproductiveRights #Contraception #miscarriage #IVF #fertility #ReproductiveHealthcare #WomensHealth #MaleSupremacy #ExtremistCourt #BidenHarris2024