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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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 28d

Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish

The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence

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Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Mister Trump Asks For It

Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about.

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 28d

The Trump administration’s racist terror campaign against Black and Brown communities has been given the greenlight by a compromised, out of control Supreme Court.

There can be no second-class citizens in a free America.

SCOTUS tells ICE it can target people based on race

ICE gets the go-ahead for indiscriminate immigration stops in LA.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 29d

“Today’s SCOTUS ruling puts farm workers — and every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant — in greater danger,” said @ufw.bsky.social President Teresa Romero.
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay in L.A. Raids Case

Decision lifts temporary order barring DHS from unlawful stop practices

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29d

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.

Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29d

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 29d

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29d

Shorter Brett Kavanaugh: "Papers, please"

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29d

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29d

Just listened, via Morning Edition, as a woman with learning disabilities broke down crying while recounting how ICE agents racially profiled her in Washington, D.C.

Even brief questioning — especially by unidentified agents with sidearms and mask — can be traumatic, Brett.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29d

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

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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

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Apr 22

"So you're saying if you don't like [kids reading picture books about inclusivity], you gotta get involved in politics and change it that way, is that what you're saying?!" Alito snears disparagingly.

Also Alito, this time justifying Dobbs: "Women are not without electoral or political power."

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Apr 8

We’re sorry* the government secreted you away to a foreign torture prison, but you used the wrong heading on your paperwork, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Best of luck not being renditioned before you can file a new complaint!

*Alito, writing separately to note that he is in no way sorry.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Apr 7

The majority writing that individuals need due process and notice and an opportunity to file a habeas petition is nice. But it reads to me as partially designed to take the sting off the majority’s brutal order - while not altering its horrifying substance all that much.

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · Apr 7

Unconscionable injustice dressed up as "law."

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Apr 7

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS Judge Boasberg's restraining order against the deportation of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. The majority holds that migrants must file habeas petitions where they're confined.

Liberals + BARRETT dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · Mar 28

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Mar 26

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Mar 26

We created a Starter Pack for climate and democracy organizations! 🌎 ⚖️

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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · Mar 21

In 2023, John Roberts' #SCOTUS shocked all of us by not making the worst possible decision in a voting rights case. On Monday, it will hear arguments in a "nearly identical" case — with potentially major consequences.

More from @imillhiser.bsky.social:

The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case

Several federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s congressional maps.

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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · Feb 27

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CREDO Mobile @credomobile.bsky.social · Feb 11

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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · Feb 11

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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · Feb 5

So Elon Musk has the same ethics rules as the Supreme Court: none.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Feb 4

NEW: Using the radical independent state legislature theory, the RNC asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allows voters to cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots were rejected.

RNC Asks SCOTUS To Take Up Appeal To Restrict Provisional Voting in Pennsylvania