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Republicans have turned the Supreme Court into an unelected legislature to impose the toxic policies republicans can’t win at the ballot box.
Congress must #expandtheCourt to balance decades of Republican court-packing.
Read my @PressHerald column bit.ly/3B6J8jg
Congress must #expandtheCourt to balance decades of Republican court-packing.
Read my @PressHerald column bit.ly/3B6J8jg
Five of the six members of the court’s conservative bloc were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote.
Application (22A902) granted by the Court. The application for stay presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is granted. The April 7, 2023 order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, case No. 2:22-cv-223, is stayed pending 1/x
disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is 2/3
granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. Justice Thomas would deny the application for stay. Justice Alito dissents. (Detached Opinion) 3/3
#appellatetwitter #lawtwitter #lawfare
#appellatetwitter #lawtwitter #lawfare
BREAKING: Theocratic cult masquerading as SCOTUS fails to expose itself by admitting what everyone already knows — which is that Sam Alito leaked it himself.
This Federalist POS is not a “Justice” of anything. He’s there to destroy the last 200 years of progress.
Alito did this play already. He’s a theocratic fascist operative who should not be on any bench except in a cell. Impeach him. #ExpandTheCourt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Alito did this play already. He’s a theocratic fascist operative who should not be on any bench except in a cell. Impeach him. #ExpandTheCourt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
This SCOTUS is straight up illegitimate and they’re about to go much further than women’s rights.
The Senate needs to investigate Ginni Thomas’s husband, Alito and all three Trump picks. Fuck this.
jimstewartson.substack.com/p/supremacist-…
The Senate needs to investigate Ginni Thomas’s husband, Alito and all three Trump picks. Fuck this.
jimstewartson.substack.com/p/supremacist-…
Chris Kang: Glacial Northwest's contract with the @Teamsters expired. The contract had a no-strike clause but the contract expired, & the company was put on notice of a strike.
@cdkang76 @WeDemandJustice #ExpandTheCourt
@cdkang76 @WeDemandJustice #ExpandTheCourt
Chris Kang: The workers who were on jobs brought the cement trucks back & left them running so they didn't damage the equipment. The company didn't know what to do--no one knows how to run, drive, or empty them. They lost a day's worth of concrete.
@cdkang76 @WeDemandJustice
@cdkang76 @WeDemandJustice
Chris Kang: That's what strikes do--show the value of employees. The company decided to sue the union, & now the case is being heard by the Supreme Court.
@cdkang76 @WeDemandJustice #ExpandTheCourt
@cdkang76 @WeDemandJustice #ExpandTheCourt
Alito hates democracy, so does Roberts, Mitch McConnell
et al
2010 Citizen's United
set our course counter to democracy.
The only safeguard in the ruling was supposed to be transparency. We were to feel safe in the knowledge that we would know where all the money was coming from
et al
2010 Citizen's United
set our course counter to democracy.
The only safeguard in the ruling was supposed to be transparency. We were to feel safe in the knowledge that we would know where all the money was coming from
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Funny thing is the law surrounding campaign finance was prevented from transparency b/c of Mitch McConnell
Immediately after Shelby County
North Carolina targeted African Americans with surgical precision
Of course, Roberts had dismissed all of Breyers concerns regarding that
Funny thing is the law surrounding campaign finance was prevented from transparency b/c of Mitch McConnell
Immediately after Shelby County
North Carolina targeted African Americans with surgical precision
Of course, Roberts had dismissed all of Breyers concerns regarding that
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later Brnovich allowed Alito to rewrite the preclearance in the voting rights act
Roberts signed off on that.
They don't want a diverse pluralistic democracy.
They despise our thoughts being part of our country's future.
#ExpandTheCourt
later Brnovich allowed Alito to rewrite the preclearance in the voting rights act
Roberts signed off on that.
They don't want a diverse pluralistic democracy.
They despise our thoughts being part of our country's future.
#ExpandTheCourt
Right now, the House Judiciary Committee is having a hearing on "the Threat to Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World." Our liberties are at stake. Watch and listen here: judiciary.house.gov/calendar/event…
Chairman Nadler makes it clear: conservative judicial activists on the Supreme Court are threatening our arc towards progress and collective freedom. Under the reasoning of the Dobbs decision, other individual freedoms are under attack.
Of course Rep. Jordan (1) cites the Court's opinion cabining the impact to the right to abortion as though they didn't pull the same bait and switch with the ACA birth control cases, (2) mischaracterizes WHPA, and (3) cries about people being upset with the Justices.
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When a Republican says "The US is a republic, not a democracy" they are just trying to avoid having to answer for their abandonment of the lawful democratic practices that used to be valued and agreed to by both sides.
Here's how the brainwashing works:
When a Republican says "The US is a republic, not a democracy" they are just trying to avoid having to answer for their abandonment of the lawful democratic practices that used to be valued and agreed to by both sides.
Here's how the brainwashing works:
Until relatively recently, the Republican party's position was that the US is a democratic country, as opposed to one ruled by a military junta, absolute monarchy, or an actual communist party.
Direct democracy means that all decisions are made by voters. That's unworkable...
Direct democracy means that all decisions are made by voters. That's unworkable...
Most of the industrialized countries of the world are representative democracies.
That means that voters elect representatives to represent their general views when decisions need to be made.
A version of the democratic process is used to elect those representatives.
That means that voters elect representatives to represent their general views when decisions need to be made.
A version of the democratic process is used to elect those representatives.
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
🚨Let's understand what's happening. Republicans have gamed our democracy to move a radical right-wing agenda. They couldn't do it by winning elections, so installed a Supreme Court to do—or rather undo—everything—civil rights, separation of church & state, regulation by experts.
Democracy's on life support. Next year cld see the fatal blow: the Supreme Court allowing the GOP to so warp elections, "free & fair" will be a joke.
We must grasp what's happening, end denials & paralysis & ACT—while we still can. #ExpandTheCourt or doom democracy & the planet.
We must grasp what's happening, end denials & paralysis & ACT—while we still can. #ExpandTheCourt or doom democracy & the planet.
💯🚨 This Supreme Court could make Eastman's unconstitutional coup a legal reality next year! 4 are already open to the fringe GOP "independent state legislature” theory, which gives UNCHECKED power over federal elections to state legislatures—limiting even state courts to check.
I hesitate to try to wrap up this term, when so many of its devastating effects are just starting to be felt. But here it goes.
The Supreme Court is now about the raw exercise of right-wing power. 1/?
The Supreme Court is now about the raw exercise of right-wing power. 1/?
Republicans are using the court to unleash a revolution. They’re taking a sledgehammer to every principle & precedent of the last century that had been moving us slowly toward a society where women, POC, LGBTQ+, religious minorities & others had a shot at equality.
They want to tear it *all* down. And they’re doing it at breakneck speed. Abortion rights. Voting rights. Climate justice. Separation of church and state. Gun violence prevention. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow
“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Just 3 minutes after President* Trump’s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking “courage,” a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
LAST WEEK: Thomas writes for 6-3 #SCOTUS majority holding that you can't sue #CBP for violations of individual rights.
TODAY: Alito writes for 6-3 majority holding that ICE/CBP detainees can't sue as a class to challenge systemic violations of their rights.
#ExpandTheCourt
TODAY: Alito writes for 6-3 majority holding that ICE/CBP detainees can't sue as a class to challenge systemic violations of their rights.
#ExpandTheCourt
Although specifically reviewing class actions by detainees, this decision would appear to bar most injunctive class actions against immigration authorities. Pls read Sotomayor's summary in her dissent of the enormous burden #SCOTUS has just placed on immigrants & advocates
the Biden admin pushed for MUCH WORSE
"[T]he Court rightly does not embrace the Govt's 11th-hour suggestion... to hold that [the INA] bars even classwide declaratory relief, [which] would leave many noncitizens with no practical remedy whatsoever against clear violations..."
"[T]he Court rightly does not embrace the Govt's 11th-hour suggestion... to hold that [the INA] bars even classwide declaratory relief, [which] would leave many noncitizens with no practical remedy whatsoever against clear violations..."
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
Adding 4 Justices to SCOTUS is neither “extreme” nor “court packing.” The current 6-3 conservative majority that is going to overturn women’s right to bodily autonomy is extreme and the result of GOP court packing. 70% of Americans cannot be represented by 30% of the court.
You want to restore legitimacy to SCOTUS? Then #ExpandTheCourt and #ImpeachClarenceThomas
Letting 6 illegitimate abominations who were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote and confirmed by a GOP senate majority that represents less than 1/3 of the country overturn fundamental rights for over half the women and girls in America will be fucking catastrophic
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
JUST NOW: We gathered outside @SenSchumer’s bldg with @VoteMamaUS @BKForgeAhead @Britt4Congress & fellow Brooklynites to tell Chuck this is an emergency & he needs to act like it. #EndTheFilibuster #SaveRoe #ExpandTheCourt
Thanks @News12BK for covering our rally today: brooklyn.news12.com/rally-outside-…
And thanks to @PIX11News! Here it is pix11.com/news/local-new…
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
Ginni and Clarence Thomas, y'all. She writes a piece praising cop killers and he's the lone vote against holding 45 accountable. Trust him with a decision?
I DO NOT
I DO NOT
Brett Kavanaugh had 4500 tips that went unaddressed and he's there.
Gorsuch goes on FOX and doesn't believe in science.
Gorsuch goes on FOX and doesn't believe in science.
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
“The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote… If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.” @JoeBiden
“[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did — ‘look at all of the people fighting for me’ — hitting rewind, watching it again…”
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
“We must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” @JoeBiden
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
