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  1. At a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to exert expansive executive powers, a liberal U.S. Supreme Court justice stresses the need for Americans to know the difference between a president and a king. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/ #worldnews #politics #ussupremecourt #soniasotomayor #us #donaldtrump #republicans

  2. US Supreme Court Affirms the Imperial Presidency
    consortiumnews.com/2025/07/03/
    Justices stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the U.S. when the president breaks the law, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout Continuing in their shameful deference to the president, Donald Trump’s lackeys on the U.S.…
    #Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AmyComerBarrett #BirthrightCitizenship #MarjorieCohn #NationalInjunction #SoniaSotomayor #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #UnitedStatesV.WongKimArk

  3. #SupremeCourt July 3 allowed #Trump #regime to deport 8 men who have spent more than 1 month held under guard on American #military base on #Djibouti to #SouthSudan granting their request. The order allows the government to immediately send the men, who hail from countries around the world, to war-torn South Sudan. Neither the United States nor South Sudan has said what will happen to the men on their arrival. Justices #SoniaSotomayor and #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd

  4. He added that Justice #SoniaSotomayor had made the same point in her dissent from the ruling, which Justices #ElenaKagan & #KetanjiBrownJackson joined. “The district court’s remedial orders are not properly before this court because the government has not appealed them,” she wrote.

    In Thursday’s ruling, the majority rejected that distinction, paused both sets of rulings & allowed the *#deportations* to #SouthSudan.

    #SCOTUS #law #rendition #HumanRights #Trump #immigration

  5. The order allows the #Trump admin to immediately send the men, who hail from countries around the world, to war-torn #SouthSudan. Neither the #US nor South Sudan has said what will happen to the men on their arrival.

    Justices #SoniaSotomayor & #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented.

    #SCOTUS last month paused a trial judge’s ruling that all immigrants whom the govt seeks to deport to countries other than their own must first be given a chance to show they would face risk of #torture.

    #law #rendition

  6. The court’s order was unsigned & provided no reasoning, which is typical of this #SCOTUS when ruling on emergency applications.

    Justices #KetanjiBrownJackson & #SoniaSotomayor, dissented, saying the majority had not given enough consideration to “the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives & livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”

    #Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ActivistCourt