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One of these Supreme Court Justices is not like the other...
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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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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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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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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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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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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116489299784659411
Today the Roberts Court spits on graves of hundreds of thousands who died for the idea that black people are people.
The Civil War really was a thing.
But Uncle #ClarenceThomas won't be happy until he can't vote.
#JohnRoberts #RobertsCourt #SCOTUS #crowned #King #OurPutin #VotingRightsAct #VRA #GOP #KKK #DEI #fascist #USA #Constitution #Alito #Kavanaugh #ComeyBarrett #Gorsuch #SupremeCourt #voting #civil #rights -
In addition to #CivilRights, the court powered by #Trump’s picks — Justices Neil M. #Gorsuch, Brett M. #Kavanaugh & #AmyConeyBarrett — has pushed to the right of any modern court on #religious rights & #voting issues.
The court has also entered a new era of extreme #partisanship. None over the past 7 decades has been as starkly polarized.
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein, who performed the analysis with Andrew D. Martin & Michael J. Nelson. -
The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”
“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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#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.”
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#SupremeCourt 6-3 decision backed #DonaldTrump by allowing #federalagents to resume #aggressive #immigration #raids in #SouthernCalifornia, overturning lower court rulings that blocked #detentions now people can be #beaten #detained #deported #deportation #prison based on #race, #language, or #ethnicity sparking dissent over #racialprofiling #constitutional #violations #fourthamendment #law #justice #brazen #racism #race #scotus #clarencethomas #Kavanaugh #Gorsuch https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-stops-los-angeles-trump-57cc1f85ceafda0f11052b326c8b7173
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#Leonard #Leo, the conservative activist with an estimated
💥 $1 billion at his disposal,
is threatening to withhold money from the dozens of groups he supports 👉 unless they develop plans to "weaponize" their ideas.Why it matters:
Leo's call for conservative groups to get #more #aggressive will send shockwaves through the right-wing ecosystem he helped create.
Leo wants less conversation and more action
— fewer seminars and more campaigns
— as part of a plan to
♦️"crush liberal dominance at the choke points of influence and power in our society,"
he told the groups in a letter obtained by Axios.The goal should be to direct "funding🔸 to operationalize or weaponize the conservative vision," Leo wrote.
Zoom in:
Leo, 59, is telling organizations backed by his #85Fund that he's undertaking a
"comprehensive review" of his grant-making process.His letter doesn't mention any specific groups by name, but they know who they are.
Groups such as Teneo,
Honest Elections Project,
Consumers's Research and
Do No Harm
are examples of organizations that have adopted
the kind of #aggressive #tactics Leo encourages, according to a source close to the 85 Fund.Those groups have run campaigns that have achieved measurable results, such as
Consumers' Research's work on ESG investing,
which has been featured in congressional hearings.Decisions about future funding will be shared with the groups by the end of November, Leo's letter said.
Zoom out:
Leo helped build the #Federalist #Society, an organization for conservative law students,
into an incubator for lawyers and judges that reshape the federal judiciary and American society.He helped former President Trump select three conservative jurists for the Supreme Court
— Neil #Gorsuch, Brett #Kavanaugh and Amy Coney #Barrett.
They've transformed federal law on issues ranging from #abortion #rights (overturning Roe v. Wade) to #federal #rule-#making.In 2022, the New York Times revealedhow a nonprofit Leo controls,
the #Marble #Freedom #Trust, received a ⭐️$1.6 billion contribution from a conservative donor, #Barre #Seid,
who gifted the shares of the company he founded before they were sold.Leo has an estimated
⭐️$1 billion left to spend,
according to the Financial Times.Leo, who is credited with the initial $1.6 billion windfall to Marble Freedom Trust, has been responsible for raising donations and support for the 85 Fund.
Between the lines:
Behind Leo's new push is his admiration for what he views as successes of progressive nonprofit groups
such as The #Wyss #Foundation and the
#Berger #Action #Fund,
supported by #Hansjörg #Wyss.Leo is also convinced that liberal organizations and ideas have captured most influential institutions in government,
media, entertainment and academia."They invested in talent pipelines to populate the power centers inside government,
where policy would be implemented,"
Leo writes."They incubated litigation as a means of leveraging the law to produce change."
The other side:
As Leo's prominence and influence have increased,
his methods and his conservative network have drawn scrutiny
— and provoked outrage
— in progressive circles.https://www.axios.com/2024/09/12/leonard-leo-conservative-groups-funding
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As Chris Geidner says, Supreme justice Gorsuch dares to lecture the rest of us on how we deal with ethical issues when it comes out that his colleague Clarence Thomas has taken more expensive trips on Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow's tab, which he never disclosed, though he's required by law to do so.
Some ethics.
#SupremeCourt #ethics #corruption #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #Gorsuch
https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips
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From reproductive rights to marriage equality to trans lives, the fallout from the decision overruling Roe v. Wade is extreme, dangerous
— and expandingThe five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who overturned Roe v. Wade 20 months ago Saturday gave a green light to a new brand of Republican extremism in hyperdrive
— a hyperdrive that has been on full, frightening display this week.Many of the most extreme legal developments since late 2020 have been advanced by far-right Christian legal advocates or authoritarian Trump backers.
In turn, the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and other rulings since then have empowered those advocates to go further.Three of the biggest stories in the news this week are, more or less directly, the result of Justice Sam Alito’s Dobbs opinion for the court
— joined as it was by Justice Clarence #Thomas and Donald Trump’s three appointees, Justices Neil #Gorsuch, Brett #Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney #Barrett.Mix in Gorsuch’s 2023 opinion for those five justices and Chief Justice John #Roberts in the wedding website (that wasn’t) case that created a First Amendment exemption to public accommodations nondiscrimination laws, and we arrive at 2024.
The Alabama Supreme Court’s attack on in vitro fertilization ( @IVF ), a pair of attacks on @marriage #equality, and the attack on #Nex #Benedict in Oklahoma and their death the next day all emerge from the ideology of, devices employed by, and cases decided by this Supreme Court majority.
We ignore their connections and danger at the peril of all who do not want this to become our national reality
