#partisancourt — Public Fediverse posts
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The National Republican Congressional Committee & National Republican Senatorial Committee then asked the #SCOTUS to intervene. They argued that the appeals court had acted too soon & broadcasters were already charging them higher rates & upending their planned budgets.
The high court’s decision halts the appeals court ruling while the #Republican committees appeal it.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
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Candidates pay discounted rates for TV time around an #election under federal #law, & in March the #FCC’s Media Bureau said certain party-coordinated ads are entitled to those prices as well.
Four #Democrats, including Sen #JonOssoff of Georgia & former Sen #SherrodBrown of Ohio, challenged the finding in court. They won a victory from a divided panel of the US 4th Circuit Court of appeals.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
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They aren’t even in session yet they found time for this BS
#SCOTUS grants #Republicans’ emergency appeal on TV ad rates before #midterms clearing a legal roadblock to political parties getting cheaper ad time ahead of #elections.
SCOTUS halted a lower-court ruling in favor of Democratic candidates who argued cheaper ads should be limited to candidates. One justice publicly dissented from the unsigned order.
#law #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-midterms-republicans-a7a1cfc0c208d3949467756a64857cc2?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
#Trump admin urges #SCOTUS to allow #ExecutiveOrder targeting #mail-in #voting before #midterms
The “emergency” appeal comes after an appeals #court upheld a ruling from a lower court blocking Trump’s order in nearly half the country ahead of November’s midterm #elections.
But the #DOJ [aka Trump’s personal attys] asked SCOTUS to allow his proposed changes to move ahead anyway.
#law #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-appeal-executive-order-supreme-court-5482700c21f4945d6991dff24776b525 -
#SCOTUS went on a full blown #murder spree today
That is what happened
That is the current state of the state
Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em
#TheNewColossus
Short version—Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!#law #democracy #Trump #racism #WhiteSupremacy #immigration #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #WhiteChristianNationalism
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#SCOTUS Expands Trump’s #ExecutivePower Over #Immigration
The court handed #Trump victories in his push to rescind #deportation & for hundreds of thousands of people & turn away #immigrants at the southern border.
#law #immigration #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #judiciary #legislation #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-temporary-protected-status.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.fkE6.E-jXQRTpMCY6&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The policy requires #immigration #judges to get prior approval before any "official" speech. Such speaking engagements are those in which a judge "is invited to participate in an event because of their official position, is expected to discuss agency policies, programs or a subject matter that directly relates to their official duties or otherwise appear on behalf of the agency," according to court records.
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A group representing the #immigration #judges had also appealed the lower court's determination that the challenge to the #speech restraint belongs before the agencies - so long as they are functional - instead of in court. That appeal was denied Tuesday.
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#SCOTUS [shockingly /s] sides with #Trump in fight tied to #speech curbs on #immigration judges
SCOTUS sided on Tuesday with Trump's admin in a dispute involving a #FreeSpeech challenge by federal #ImmigrationJudges to a #US government policy restricting what they can publicly say about immigration.
The justices, in an unsigned ruling, reversed a lower court's decision & returned the case to that court for further proceedings.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.reuters.com/world/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-fight-tied-speech-curbs-immigration-judges-2026-05-26/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Anticipating a court reversal, #Alabama officials recently enacted a law allowing it to void the results of a May 19 #primary for some congressional districts & instead hold a new primary under the revised district boundaries. It’s up to #Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to set a date for a special primary #election, though it must occur by August.
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #CorruptCourt #RiggedElection #RepresentationMatters #Vote
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#SCOTUS set the stage for #Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 largely #Black congressional districts before this year’s #midterms, creating an opening for #Republicans to gain an additional #US #House seat in a closely divided chamber.
The decision follows a SCOTUS ruling that struck down a majority-Black US House district in #Louisiana as an “unconstitutional” #RacialGerrymander, significantly weakening the federal #VotingRights Act.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-supreme-court-congress-ba371351585b79c2965f9efb0332f33d -
A manufacturer of the #AbortionMedication #mifepristone asked #SCOTUS Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of #abortion back before the justices in an #election year.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-abortion-pill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Left as probable casualties are longstanding principles of fair representation—along w/ #US voters, who are likelier now to be shunted into hyperpartisan districts drawn in each state to benefit the party in #power. A great carving could effectively dilute the power of millions, especially minority voters, & make partisan primaries more important than general elections when it comes to choosing leaders.
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
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#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights
The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.
#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/supreme-courts-voting-rights-gerrymandering.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.NAaT.LyRxcoyihmGB&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
It begins…
#Louisiana governor prepares to suspend #House primaries after #SCOTUS ruling
Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told #Republican House candidates he plans to suspend the May 16 primary #elections so lawmakers can redraw the congressional map.#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #Section2 #redistricting #RepresentationMatters #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Trump #coup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/29/louisiana-house-primaries-suspend-jeff-landry/ -
After years of allowing #religious schools in some settings to receive #state #funding alongside #secular schools, the 6-3 #conservative court will now decide what to do when school leaders assert that anti-#discrimination laws intended to protect #gay & #transgender people conflict with their religious beliefs. The appeal from the Catholic parishes will likely be heard in the fall & a decision is likely sometime next year.
#law #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
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#SCOTUS will decide if #preschools that decline #children of #SameSex couples may receive state #funding
The #SupremeCourt agreed Monday to review a #Colorado #law that requires preschools receiving taxpayer money to enroll children of same-sex couples — setting up an important #FirstAmendment showdown at the high court that pits “#religious” “rights” against #LGBTQ #families.
#heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-couples-preschool?cid=ios_app -
In the #Trump era, #JohnRoberts & the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their #ShadowDocket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block #Obama. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
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When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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In public, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. #Obama’s plan to address the global #ClimateCrisis.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names & signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances & plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a #blog post &, twice, a #television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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The NYT has obtained those papers & is now publishing them, bringing the origins of the Supreme Court’s #ShadowDocket into the light.
The 16 pages of memos, exchanged in a five-day dash, provide an extraordinarily rare window into the court, showing how the justices talk to one another outside of public view.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-papers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
At the time, the ruling seemed like a curious one-off. But that single paragraph turned out to be a sharp & lasting break. That night marks the birth, many legal experts believe, of the court’s modern “#ShadowDocket,” the secretive track that #SCOTUS6 has since used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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But this time, the justices were sprinting to block a major presidential initiative. By a 5-to-4 vote along #partisan lines, the order halted President Barack #Obama’s Clean Power Plan, his signature #environmental policy. They acted before any other court had addressed the plan’s lawfulness. The decision consisted of only legal boilerplate, without a word of reasoning.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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For two centuries, the court had generally handled major cases at a stately pace that encouraged care & deliberation, relying on written briefs, oral arguments & in-person discussions. The justices composed detailed opinions that explained their thinking to the public & rendered judgment only after other courts had weighed in.
#law #LegalEthics #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade #SCOTUS
Secret memos obtained by The NYT illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “#ShadowDocket” rulings on presidential power.
Just after 6PM on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both #climate policy & the court itself spinning in new directions.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.W0_1.54-PmsieNhyB&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
While designed to be short-term, those orders have largely allowed #Trump to move ahead — for now — with key parts of his sweeping agenda.
#KetanjiBrownJackson spoke for nearly an hour on Monday at Yale Law School, which posted a video of the event on Wednesday.
#law #LegalEthics #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #judiciary
https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale-law-school-videos/james-thomas-lecture-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson -
Meanwhile #Sotomayor apologized to #Kavanaugh today. Ridiculous.
#KetanjiBrownJackson seems to be the only liberal with real integrity.
Justice Jackson chides #SCOTUS conservatives over 'oblivious' pro-#Trump “emergency” orders
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #judiciary
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-jackson-criticism-conservatives-trump-rulings-976a16d91953f42426818add77c7e3f2 -
That said, there’s no guarantee here∶ #SCOTUS under Chief Justice #JohnRoberts has shown itself willing to create new & unprecedented legal immunities for #federal misconduct without a scintilla of historical support. It could always do so here too.
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Given the small number of #transgender athletes who want to compete in school sports, the issue is given ridiculously outsized attention by the #RightWing.
#law #ignorance #bigotry #LGBTQ #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #SCOTUS