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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26d

Next month, voters will head to the polls for a contest that could have huge implications for the future of fair elections in the Keystone State — which means for the next presidential election, too. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/why...

Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26d

Thune is gambling on the idea that the median voter does not have even the most basic knowledge of the bill that Trump and the Republican Party just passed, which made reducing access to health care a core means to pay for tax cuts.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-trumps...

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jedi2023.bsky.social @jedi2023.bsky.social · Sep 23

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 23

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · Sep 23

SCOTUS, AKA the Kangaroo Court, has just overturned 90 years of precedence, further empowering the executive branch, which is meant to be the LEAST powerful branch of our govnt, to politicize and corrupt independent institutions.

🆘🇺🇸

www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire -- for now -- remaining Democrat on FTC

At issue is whether the president has the authority to dismiss the heads of those agencies that are protected by Congress.

www.npr.org

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 22

Brett Kavanaugh has a clear conflict in a school prayer case.

Will he recuse himself?

The conservative justice could be in a position to overturn a Supreme Court ruling in a case he lost as a private attorney.

Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 23

👇🎯 Wildly illegal and unconstitutional nonsense. When SCOTUS inevitably overturns these absolutely correct court rulings, it will be a national shame & complete collapse of the rule of law.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Sep 23

Federal contracts with our universities are our money, the American people’s money, mandated by our Congress.

They are not the plaything of any president, Liberal or Conservative, to ‘freeze’ based on his intestinal urges.

This entire, vast attack on our universities is an illegal rampage.

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Sep 23

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Sep 23

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

www.latimes.com

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · Sep 23

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner
The justices said they will consider whether to overrule a landmark Supreme Court precedent that has limited the president’s ability to fire top officials at the agency.

This kangaroo court gives Trump whatever he wants, regardless of precedent

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sdk3.bsky.social @sdk3.bsky.social · Sep 23

Completely illegitimate court that will bend, break, ignore and rewrite anything to get to their desired fascist outcome.

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mataliandy @mataliandy.com · Sep 23

John "Dry Powder" Roberts has waited decades to be able to dismantle our democracy in pursuit of his warped theocratic beliefs.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 23

NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it.

A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it

This is no way to run a court, let alone a country.

www.lawdork.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Sep 23

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.

The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.

Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.

It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.

This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

I have a longer piece in last December's issue of the Harvard Law Review on how a Court that used to insist it was one of "review, not first view" is, in fact, leapfrogging everyone in lots of cases, including through cert. before judgment:

harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.

It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.

This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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@Cali-Candace.bsky.social @cali-candace.bsky.social · Sep 23

In 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling LAST YEAR: “A government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech”
www.reddit.com/r/law/s/sz1c...

From the law community on Reddit: John Oliver Argues Disney Should Legally Fight FCC Over Kimmel, Citing Strong Precedent in 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling: “A government official cannot coerce a private pa...

Explore this post and more from the law community

www.reddit.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 23

So Trump and RFK Jr, who have never been pregnant, declare that pregnant women should just suffer if they have a high fever or are in pain because… why?

Wait for it: no data, no facts, nothing.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 23

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz.

people.com/what-is-leuc...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 23

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 22

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 22

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 23

the Tom Homan bribery scandal is the latest example of how a felon in the White House is making crime legal

A felon in the White House is making crime legal

Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.

www.publicnotice.co

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Sep 22

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Libby Justice @jellibean.bsky.social · Sep 23

Pam Bondi disbanded the DOJ’s public corruption division. Without prosecutors able to prosecute corruption, there is no corruption. Hence Holman having done “nothing illegal.” Besides, he said on Fox, he had to give up a lucrative business to “serve” in office. He thinks he deserves the $$$.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · Sep 23

By the way, when Ingraham asks Homan about the 50 K in a bag, and he doesn’t deny it but just says I did nothing illegal, it’s pretty obvious that it or something very much like it happened. And if it did, crazy to shut down investigation so soon. Pretty clear administration isn’t being straight.

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