Lisa Graves
@thelisagraves.bsky.social
Lover of earth, music, laughter, & facts. Co-host @ LegalAF/ MeidasTouch & the Five 8 1/2. Writer @ Grave Injustice @ Courier News. Author: Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
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Judge Luttig Issues Dire Warning to Supreme Court Over Trump
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November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Legal expert @thelisagraves.bsky.social says John Roberts, the Supreme Court chief justice, has been pushing a radical right-wing agenda for decades, despite portraying himself as a neutral "umpire" calling "balls and strikes."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/tariffs_scotus
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/tariffs_scotus
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Legal expert @thelisagraves.bsky.social says John Roberts, the Supreme Court chief justice, has been pushing a radical right-wing agenda for decades, despite portraying himself as a neutral "umpire" calling "balls and strikes."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/tariffs_scotus
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/tariffs_scotus
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@thelisagraves.bsky.social of @legalafmtn.bsky.social interviewed Fed Circuit Court Judge (ret) Michael Luttig, who has spoken out about Donald Trump's claims of unlimited power & his analysis of the Roberts Supreme Court's illegitimate rulings expanding Trump's powers. youtu.be/fLalHU1SXIE?...
Judge Luttig Issues DIRE WARNING to Supreme Court over Trump
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November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
@thelisagraves.bsky.social of @legalafmtn.bsky.social interviewed Fed Circuit Court Judge (ret) Michael Luttig, who has spoken out about Donald Trump's claims of unlimited power & his analysis of the Roberts Supreme Court's illegitimate rulings expanding Trump's powers. youtu.be/fLalHU1SXIE?...
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Abigail Spanberger just lit up Virginia and lit a fire for democracy! 🔥
Voters rejected chaos and chose competence, compassion, and courage. Tonight, Virginia proved that when we show up for democracy, democracy shows up for us. The Commonwealth is leading the comeback!🤩
Voters rejected chaos and chose competence, compassion, and courage. Tonight, Virginia proved that when we show up for democracy, democracy shows up for us. The Commonwealth is leading the comeback!🤩
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Abigail Spanberger just lit up Virginia and lit a fire for democracy! 🔥
Voters rejected chaos and chose competence, compassion, and courage. Tonight, Virginia proved that when we show up for democracy, democracy shows up for us. The Commonwealth is leading the comeback!🤩
Voters rejected chaos and chose competence, compassion, and courage. Tonight, Virginia proved that when we show up for democracy, democracy shows up for us. The Commonwealth is leading the comeback!🤩
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Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
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Lisa Graves did excellent explainer of John Roberts & who he's been for decades on Court of History
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Chief Justice Roberts Gets RUDE AWAKENING as SCHEME Gets EXPOSED
YouTube video by Legal AF
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November 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Lisa Graves did excellent explainer of John Roberts & who he's been for decades on Court of History
youtu.be/5Vkm6sO27o8?...
youtu.be/5Vkm6sO27o8?...
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Roberts is correct here on persistence, in this speech he gave to the private boarding school he attended.
John Roberts is following this advice. Let us do so too.
@brucebartlett.bsky.social has also written clearly on this topic. /10
John Roberts is following this advice. Let us do so too.
@brucebartlett.bsky.social has also written clearly on this topic. /10
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Roberts is correct here on persistence, in this speech he gave to the private boarding school he attended.
John Roberts is following this advice. Let us do so too.
@brucebartlett.bsky.social has also written clearly on this topic. /10
John Roberts is following this advice. Let us do so too.
@brucebartlett.bsky.social has also written clearly on this topic. /10
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(Emphasis mine on “orchestrated”)
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
(Emphasis mine on “orchestrated”)
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We are going to have to get dark money out of politics and that means overturning Citizens United and Buckley. We just cannot have the richest man in the world buying our presidential elections if we want the US to be a democracy.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We are going to have to get dark money out of politics and that means overturning Citizens United and Buckley. We just cannot have the richest man in the world buying our presidential elections if we want the US to be a democracy.
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“That tsunami of cash has been deployed to distort the ensuing elections, epitomized by the actions of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who spent $288M to procure the presidency for Donald Trump (and an unelected copresidency for a while) in 2024.”
That’s true. Musk bought this election.
That’s true. Musk bought this election.
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“That tsunami of cash has been deployed to distort the ensuing elections, epitomized by the actions of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who spent $288M to procure the presidency for Donald Trump (and an unelected copresidency for a while) in 2024.”
That’s true. Musk bought this election.
That’s true. Musk bought this election.
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Side note: while some legal watchers believe Cit U v FEC was correctly decided, I also think its arguments are erroneous. It is a somewhat new, very libertarian, laissez-faire view of the First Am that “free speech” means money is speech.
I’d say the Buckley-Cit U line of reasoning is incorrect.
I’d say the Buckley-Cit U line of reasoning is incorrect.
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Side note: while some legal watchers believe Cit U v FEC was correctly decided, I also think its arguments are erroneous. It is a somewhat new, very libertarian, laissez-faire view of the First Am that “free speech” means money is speech.
I’d say the Buckley-Cit U line of reasoning is incorrect.
I’d say the Buckley-Cit U line of reasoning is incorrect.
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“The result in Citizens United vs FEC was *orchestrated* by the Roberts Court, which ordered an out-of-season oral argument” in time to affect the 2010 midterms.
To close watchers like Ms Graves, it’s long been obvious Roberts and his co-partisans on the court are carrying out a political plan.
To close watchers like Ms Graves, it’s long been obvious Roberts and his co-partisans on the court are carrying out a political plan.
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“The result in Citizens United vs FEC was *orchestrated* by the Roberts Court, which ordered an out-of-season oral argument” in time to affect the 2010 midterms.
To close watchers like Ms Graves, it’s long been obvious Roberts and his co-partisans on the court are carrying out a political plan.
To close watchers like Ms Graves, it’s long been obvious Roberts and his co-partisans on the court are carrying out a political plan.
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Yes. The superficial way Roberts’ decisions have been described has hurt us — the reactions to decisions like Burwell have made it hard for those who are not immersed in politics or law to understand what Roberts is really doing.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Yes. The superficial way Roberts’ decisions have been described has hurt us — the reactions to decisions like Burwell have made it hard for those who are not immersed in politics or law to understand what Roberts is really doing.
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“Kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance could have caused the GOP even bigger losses in 2012, and embracing the dubious legal theories against Obamacare would have undermined power to enact tax policy that favors the rich.”
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November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“Kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance could have caused the GOP even bigger losses in 2012, and embracing the dubious legal theories against Obamacare would have undermined power to enact tax policy that favors the rich.”
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This is one of the most important and little-understood facts about Roberts: while he got credit for saving Obamacare, that looks like a longterm play to help his party: “his occasional nods at moderation allow him to more effectively realize his long-term agenda”
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is one of the most important and little-understood facts about Roberts: while he got credit for saving Obamacare, that looks like a longterm play to help his party: “his occasional nods at moderation allow him to more effectively realize his long-term agenda”
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I am reading a book on John Roberts and his Supreme Court’s decisions (😡), by @thelisagraves.bsky.social.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get through it without venting. So, taking an idea from @davekarpf.bsky.social, here is a live thread. 1/
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get through it without venting. So, taking an idea from @davekarpf.bsky.social, here is a live thread. 1/
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I am reading a book on John Roberts and his Supreme Court’s decisions (😡), by @thelisagraves.bsky.social.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get through it without venting. So, taking an idea from @davekarpf.bsky.social, here is a live thread. 1/
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get through it without venting. So, taking an idea from @davekarpf.bsky.social, here is a live thread. 1/
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That’s why you don’t have to read the Economist piece. There’s no creative lawyering to be done about this. There’s no “one weird trick we found in an old book”. None of it matters.
Sky is blue, bear shits in the woods, Trump can’t get elected president a third time.
Sky is blue, bear shits in the woods, Trump can’t get elected president a third time.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That’s why you don’t have to read the Economist piece. There’s no creative lawyering to be done about this. There’s no “one weird trick we found in an old book”. None of it matters.
Sky is blue, bear shits in the woods, Trump can’t get elected president a third time.
Sky is blue, bear shits in the woods, Trump can’t get elected president a third time.
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The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution says “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…”
There is no loophole.
Any lawyer who tells a court Trump is eligible for a third term should be disbarred.
Any judge who rules he’s eligible should be off the bench.
There is no loophole.
Any lawyer who tells a court Trump is eligible for a third term should be disbarred.
Any judge who rules he’s eligible should be off the bench.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution says “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…”
There is no loophole.
Any lawyer who tells a court Trump is eligible for a third term should be disbarred.
Any judge who rules he’s eligible should be off the bench.
There is no loophole.
Any lawyer who tells a court Trump is eligible for a third term should be disbarred.
Any judge who rules he’s eligible should be off the bench.
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The @karenhunter.bsky.social Show welcomes Lisa Graves - Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice; Author of Without Precedent
@thelisagraves.bsky.social #KarenRebels
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Without Precedent by Lisa Graves | Moon Palace Books
“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radicall...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The @karenhunter.bsky.social Show welcomes Lisa Graves - Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice; Author of Without Precedent
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If suggesting that the POTUS could “go around the Constitution” is not a violation of the oath of the office of a US Senator then what is? www.senate.gov/about/origin...
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If suggesting that the POTUS could “go around the Constitution” is not a violation of the oath of the office of a US Senator then what is? www.senate.gov/about/origin...
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Got to meet and talk w Sen Sheldon Whitehouse last night at @thelisagraves.bsky.social book launch. Politics & Prose said it was the biggest crowd theyd ever hosted for a book. DC legal & reporting royalty came out. Inspiring, entertaining first hand account of DC, Roberts & Leonard Leo corruption.
October 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Got to meet and talk w Sen Sheldon Whitehouse last night at @thelisagraves.bsky.social book launch. Politics & Prose said it was the biggest crowd theyd ever hosted for a book. DC legal & reporting royalty came out. Inspiring, entertaining first hand account of DC, Roberts & Leonard Leo corruption.
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In , “Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights,” Lisa Graves details how Roberts spent “hundreds of hours trying to block” Section 2 while working for the Reagan administration.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In , “Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights,” Lisa Graves details how Roberts spent “hundreds of hours trying to block” Section 2 while working for the Reagan administration.
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