#samuel-alito — Public Fediverse posts

Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/alito-stock-conflicts-senate-investigation #SamuelAlito #UsSupremeCourt #UsNews #ClimateCrisis #Environment #OilAndGasCompanies #Oil

Supreme Court Breaks Another Election To Make Sure Black Voters Are Disenfranchised

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/12/supreme-court-breaks-another-election-to-make-sure-black-voters-are-disenfranchised/

The supreme court’s takedown of American democracy is complete | Austin Sarat https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/12/supreme-court-citizens-united-voting #UsVotingRights #UsSupremeCourt #UsNews #UsCongress #JohnRoberts #SamuelAlito

John Oliver on Trump’s use of supreme court shadow dockets: ‘his go-to method to get his way’ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/11/john-oliver-trump-supreme-court-shadow-docket #JohnOliver #LatenightTvRoundup #Culture #UsTelevision #Television #TvComedy #Comedy #DonaldTrump #BrettKavanaugh #TelevisionRadio #UsNews #AmyConeyBarrett #SamuelAlito #UsSupremeCourt #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #LawUs

John Roberts Wants You To Stop Believing Your Own Eyes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/07/john-roberts-wants-you-to-stop-believing-your-own-eyes/

"These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country." ~ Olivia Troye #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy mastoreader.io?url=https%3A...

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"These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country."

~ Olivia Troye

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy

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"These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country."

~ Olivia Troye

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
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US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/supreme-court-expedites-voting-rights-act-ruling #UsSupremeCourt #Louisiana #UsMidtermElections2026 #Race #KetanjiBrownJackson #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #NeilGorsuch #UsPolitics #UsNews

"This week’s ruling was not a one-off. It’s the logical endpoint of a decades-long effort to disenfranchise minority voters and keep minority representation to an absolute minimum.

The three longest-serving conservative justices on the court right now have a combined 75 years on the bench. This is their pet project. They own it."

~ Bryan Tyler Cohen

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
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https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/scotus-just-gutted-the-voting-rights

"A multiracial democracy cannot be defended by a narrow constituency. It requires a broader, deeper coalition that spans race, gender, class, geography, religion, and identity."

~ Bryan Fair

The purist games that play minority community against minority community — games to which progressives all too easily coalesce: these play the game right-wingers want to see played.

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
/11

"The content of the majority opinion was devastating, but so was the timing. I knew that the decision would be bad, but I had hoped that the Roberts Court would at least have the decency to wait until the end of the term in June — not drop this bombshell in the middle of primary season."

~ Norman Eisen

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/15-ways-to-fight-callais

(continued from /8)

"—and we should make him wear it as a badge of shame for the rest of his days. ... It is important to recognize the profound constitutional injury inflicted by Callais. It is nothing less than the resurrection of the Jim Crow Era."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
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"Whatever we call it—Jim Crow 2.0, the John Roberts Jim Crow Era, or the John Crow Era—no person in America is more responsible for the return to the Jim Crow Era than John Roberts. The resurrection of the post-Civil War Jim Crow brand of racism is the crowning achievement of John Roberts’ life work" (continued in /9)

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
/8

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-john-crow-era

"This court has been a shameful court ... I used to argue before the Supreme Court and I read the opinion. It's shit. I mean, it's just bullshit. The whole thing is bullshit. …It is all politics and it is all — this notion of neutral justice is now,
for everybody to see, absolute bullshit."

~ Robert Reich

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
/7

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-this-the-shittiest-supreme-court

"Much of this court’s corruption involves judges accepting favors and gifts from wealthy benefactors with matters that did — or might — come before them. This is a court that, it would seem, can be bought."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"In effect this is the first time that a Supreme Court — the ultimate authority on what constitutes proper, legal, ethical conduct — required a nanny to police their own selves. Primly, deferentially, the code was declared 'voluntary' and 'non-binding.'"

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
/5

"It has ushered in a nearly constant descent into our darker past. ...

No Supreme Court in history has been so blatantly morally compromised — this is the first ones whose actions were stinky enough to lead to Congress creating a code of conduct for them."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
/4

Gene Weingarten notes that historians consider the Taney court the worst Supreme Court in US history. But:

"Now consider the John Roberts court. It is politically fractured. It has dispensed hell from day one, almost unfailingly enforcing a right-wing activist political agenda. It is absurdly partisan and morally corrupt."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/is-this-the-worst-supreme-court-ever

"The Court’s abuses of power now extend to any laws that would limit their goal of remaking the country by corrupt means.

So it all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Noting "Sam Alito’s corruption-drenched decision gutting the remains of the Voting Rights Act," Josh Marshall says,

"The corrupt majority has now doubled down not simply on the non-reviewability of gerrymandering but gerrymandering as a critical and fundamental right of states."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-courts-corruption-seeps-into-every-tissue-of-american-life

The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Is Results-Driven Cynicism, Not Law

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/01/the-supreme-courts-voting-rights-ruling-is-results-driven-cynicism-not-law/

The supreme court’s voting rights decision wasn’t about law – it was about politics | David Daley and Eric J Segall https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/01/supreme-courts-voting-rights-decision-law-politics #UsVotingRights #UsNews #UsSupremeCourt #Race #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito

"I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #SamuelAlito #WhiteSupremacy #Callais
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"We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself."

~ Ida Bae Wells

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #SamuelAlito #WhiteSupremacy #Callais
/6

https://bsky.app/profile/nhannahjones.bsky.social

"Racism has to be a thing of the past for the right wing because the unreality they have carefully crafted over this past quarter century would collapse under the weight of the truth: That racism in the third decade of the 21st century is alive and well and maybe even more virulent than it was a half century ago, thanks to billionaire-owned blackbox social media algorithms that function as little more than fascism creation machines."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #SamuelAlito #WhiteSupremacy
/5

(continued from /3)

"that has allowed Roberts and Alito and Thomas and Gorsuch and Coney-Barrett and Kavanaugh to pretend racism is over, or that it is actually quite racist to draw voting districts that ensure fair representation based on race."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #SamuelAlito #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow
/4

"This week’s ruling, allowing Republican state legislatures to go ahead and legally create racist voting districts, was just the final step. …

Roberts and company have done this primarily with weaponized bad faith jurisprudence, a deeply dishonest and ultimately destructive philosophy" (continued in /4)

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #SamuelAlito #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow
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