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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 20h

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21h

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them.

Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 10d

Exactly this - a “precondition for any other promise to be credible.”

Whole 🧵 is an important read.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10d

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29d

the press release writes itself:

"I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 29d

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 29d

Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29d

SCOTUS says racial profiling is constitutional, at least when Trump admin does it during roving, aggressive, astonishing immigration enforcement in LA -- where a district court found fed officers were arresting Brown people for ... speaking Spanish.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

25A169 Order

www.documentcloud.org

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Barrett offers a misreading of King Solomon as a strategic foil for her idealized American judge, who evidently never needs to worry about facts."

Amy Coney Barrett Somehow Managed to Get the Law and the Bible Wrong in Her New Book

Even Scripture is not sacrosanct when she wants to make a point.

slate.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Aug 7

this this this.

it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!)

not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Media’s Unfortunate Greater Interest in the Texas Redistricting Car Wreck than the Supreme Court’s Slow Poisoning of the Voting Rights Act electionlawblog.org?p=151440

The Media's Unfortunate Greater Interest in the Texas Redistricting Car Wreck than the Supreme Court's Slow Poisoning of the Voting Rights Act #ELB

I’ve written about two big election stories this week, the newly ignited redistricting wars starting in Texas and the Supreme Court’s strong signal that it could kill off the Voting Rights Act Section...

electionlawblog.org

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Aug 6

"There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years."

@pemalevy.bsky.social on SCOTUS's election rigging.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them

And justices don’t want you to notice.

www.motherjones.com

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Aug 5

Vergogna

Samuel Alito will release new book next year, publisher says | CNN Politics

Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the Supreme Court, will publish a book next year, joining several of his colleagues who have inked deals in recent months to publish.

www.cnn.com

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National Council of Jewish Women @ncjw.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Congressional budget is a moral failure. Congress must fix this harm.

We will not stand by while millions go hungry or without health care. Today, we come together as a Jewish community to demand a federal budget that invests in women, children & families. #JewishDayofAction

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Jul 14

For the zillionth time, the S Ct makes the best case for expanding the court and enacting term limits. It is hopeless as currently constituted

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jul 11

Mazel to Tad and Annie!

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jun 30

Penciled in axing that last tiny sliver of democratic accountability for October -- now they can finally go on summer break unburdened. Such hard work burning down democracy...

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 30

NEW: The Supreme Court will review one of the last standing pillars of campaign finance regulations, which limits the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. The court will almost certainly strike down this restriction. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

NRSC, ET AL. V. FEC, ET AL.
The motion of Democratic National Committee, et al. for
leave to intervene is granted. The petition for a writ of
certiorari is granted.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Jun 27

Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jun 27

"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty [not to summarily execute Supreme Court justices]. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 27

In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court held that President Trump can have the Supreme Court summarily executed if he really wants to.

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Amazing that he thinks including the illustrations *helps* his case...

Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Only Republicans Can Rule doctrine.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 27

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Jun 27

Any Democrat who is not committed to complete structural reform of this far right #SCOTUS - including its expansion - need GTFOH - period.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Jun 27

The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · Jun 27

The main upshot of today's birthright citizenship ruling (that I'm still making way through) seems to be that each person victimized by an unconstitutional Trump order has to pretty much sue individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 27

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Ah, but can relief ever really be fully granted to a TX plaintiff untill no woman anywhere has any health care?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 27

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The majority cannot deny that our Constitution was designed to split the powers of a monarch between the governing branches to protect the People. Nor is it debatable that
the role of the Judiciary in our constitutional scheme is to
ensure fidelity to law. But these core values are strangely
absent from today’s decision. Focusing on inapt comparisons to impotent English tribunals, the majority ignores the
Judiciary’s foundational duty to uphold the Constitution
and laws of the United States. The majority’s ruling thus
not only diverges from first principles, it is also profoundly
dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to
sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the
Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate. The very
institution our founding charter charges with the duty to
ensure universal adherence to the law now requires judges
to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness.
With deep disillusionment, I dissent.

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