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  1. It’s atrocious, but it’s also predictable, and it’s also galvanizing. #maine #democrats should organize protest and legal action against #ice and #trump for the recent murder of a legally living and working Mainer.

    The activation and spotlight could propel someone in the #senate election, which they have to decide by July 27.

    In a war, have to know your enemy. We fight #ice . In a war, we need fighters. Nominate one of the fighters to beat #susancollins , mother of #kavanaugh stops.

    #uspol

  2. 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

  3. 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.

    #law #SCOTUS

  4. In the first part of oral arguments, John Sauer, the #Trump admin’s lawyer, faced skeptical questions from key justices, but it wasn’t a rout. In the second part, some of those same justices vigorously probed the position of the #ACLU lawyer, Cecillia Wang. #DoubleStandard

    #Kavanaugh asks the ACLU’s lawyer about possible ways of resolving the case & suggests it could be a short opinion if the justices were to uphold Wong Kim Ark & side with the ACLU. 🤞

    #law #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship

  5. Reposts of strips from my first-term collection, TRUMPBERT: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (Trumpbert.com) most weekdays. New strips every Sunday.

    Also by Freeman Ng: BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY, an Angel Island novel. AngelIslandNovel.com

    #dilbert #parody #trump #satire #comic #webcomic #Kavanaugh #BrettKavanaugh

  6. Reposts of strips from my first-term collection, TRUMPBERT: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (Trumpbert.com) most weekdays. New strips every Sunday.

    What America would look like if we put the worst of the worst in charge: AuthorFreeman.com/worst

    #dilbert #parody #trump #satire #comic #webcomic #Kavanaugh #BrettKavanaugh

  7. Kavanaugh was a sex-offending trendsetter before it became MAGA chic.

    Reposts of strips from my first-term collection, TRUMPBERT: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (Trumpbert.com) most weekdays. New strips every Sunday.

    Also by Freeman Ng: BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY, an Angel Island novel. AngelIslandNovel.com

    #dilbert #parody #trump #satire #comic #webcomic #Kavanaugh #BrettKavanaugh

  8. @samlitzinger

    The "I like beer" "racial profiling is harmless" judge comes up with another zinger...

    Paraphrasing... "Constitution be damned if the government has to give back all that money."

    The other two are just judicial turds, and should have been impeached years ago.

    #Kavanaugh #KavanaughStops #GivingBeerABadName #SCOTUS

  9. #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

  10. #Trump quoted Justice Brett #Kavanaugh's dissent, which said the decision might not substantially constrain a president's ability to order #tariffs in the future.

    "He's right. In fact, I can charge much more than I was charging," Trump said.

    The 3 dissenting justices in the 6-3 ruling were Kavanaugh, who was appointed by Trump to the court, & 2 other conservative justices, Samuel #Alito & #ClarenceThomas.

    #law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics #SCOTUS

  11. #SCOTUS’ decision was 6-3.
    Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Brett #Kavanaugh dissented.
    Writing for the majority, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts said the #statute does not authorize the president to impose #tariffs.

    “The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, & scope. In light of the breadth, history, & constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.”

    #law

  12. Vintage #kavanaugh burn by Bennett of #TheTimesChatanoogaFreePress.

    He re-qualified this week within the scope of #SCROTUS.

    tRump never should have been allowed a SINGLE nomination, never mind a confirmation.

  13. Kavanaugh, stop!

    The government cannot rely on "reasonable suspicion"
    to justify taking an individual into custody.

    But six conservative Supreme Court justices have sufficiently muddied the waters
    that most people won’t know DHS is lying when it claims that
    “the Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position.”

    That’s an apparent reference to a shadow docket ruling in a case called
    "Noem v. Vazquez Perdom",
    which overturned an injunction blocking DHS from making what are effectively Terry stops based on racial stereotypes.

    In its raids on Los Angeles,
    DHS raided car washes, factories, and places where immigrants tend to congregate,
    barring the door,
    and demanding proof of citizenship from every non-white person.

    This is clearly racial profiling,
    since the detentions weren’t based on reasonable suspicion that any individual present was undocumented
    — it was a pure demographic classification.

    But in 1975,
    the Supreme Court held that driving while Mexican near the border did NOT constitute reasonable suspicion to detain someone and inquire about their citizenship.

    So Judge Maame Frimpong barred the government from using a person’s race,
    language, job, or location
    “alone or in combination”
    as a basis for
    “detentive stops in this District
    unless the agent or officer has reasonable suspicion that the person to be stopped is within the United States in violation of US immigration law.”

    The Trump administration raced to the Supreme Court,
    as is its habit.

    And the six conservative justices bailed him out again, as is their habit.

    Five of those justices were smart enough to remain silent on their reasoning,
    since it’s better to be thought a racist than to open your mouth and confirm it.

    Only Justice #Kavanaugh was oblivious enough to shout to the world that the Supreme Court was legalizing racial profiling.

    He said it was merely “common sense” that non-white people who
    “work in certain kinds of jobs”
    are probably undocumented.

    Kavanaugh fantasized about a cheerful exchange where ICE agents
    “briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status.”

    “If the person is a US citizen
    or otherwise lawfully in the United States,
    that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter,”
    he blathered.

    “Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.”

    This was preposterous back in September,
    when the country had only witnessed DHS’s invasion of Los Angeles and Portland.

    But five months of ICE snatching random brown people off the street,
    including many US citizens,
    highlights the cruelty of Kavanaugh’s facile characterization.

    (2/3)
    publicnotice.co/p/dhs-violatin

  14. During the oral arguments, Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh pressed Trump’s representative, Solicitor General D. John #Sauer, over the idea that a victory for #Trump could allow future admins to try to dismiss #Fed officials “at will.” [because, it’s only okay if this admin does it 🤦🏼‍♀️]

    In the first hour, the justices sounded wary of siding with Trump’s view that he should have full discretion to decide what actions are grounds for removal.

    #law #FederalReserve #economy #independence #SCOTUS

  15. @P__X The tech bro that went to work for #Zuck after #CambridgeAnalytica and #Kavanaugh confirmation hearings revealed Zuck to be a Russia aligned fascist? He deserves to be stuck in the Nazi bar.