#also scotus???

[cometrose]

trump may be a lying felon and biden a foot away from death but my fellow americans don’t forget to vote for your senators and representatives they’re important!!!

[qqueenofhades]

Petition to replace Samuel Alito and/or Clarence Thomas on SCOTUS with literally any one of the average New Yorkers who voted to convict Trump today.

[reasonsforhope]

"The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh aligned with the court’s liberals in affirming a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in an Alabama congressional map with one majority Black seat out of seven districts in a state where more than one in four residents is Black. The state now will have to draw a new map for next year’s elections.

The decision was keenly anticipated for its potential effect on control of the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives. Because of the ruling, new maps are likely in Alabama and Louisiana that could allow Democratic-leaning Black voters to elect their preferred candidates in two more congressional districts.

The outcome was unexpected in that the court had allowed the challenged Alabama map to be used for the 2022 elections, and in arguments last October the justices appeared willing to make it harder to challenge redistricting plans as racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

The case stems from challenges to Alabama’s seven-district congressional map, which included one district in which Black voters form a large enough majority that they have the power to elect their preferred candidate. The challengers said that one district is not enough, pointing out that overall, Alabama’s population is more than 25% Black.

A three-judge court, with two appointees of former President Donald Trump, had little trouble concluding that the plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of Black Alabamians. That “likely” violation was the standard under which the preliminary injunction was issued by the three-judge panel, which ordered a new map drawn.

But the state quickly appealed to the Supreme Court, where five conservative justices prevented the lower-court ruling from going forward. At the same time, the court decided to hear the Alabama case.

Louisiana’s congressional map had separately been identified as probably discriminatory by a lower court. That map, too, remained in effect last year and now will have to be redrawn.

The National Redistricting Foundation said in a statement that its pending lawsuits over congressional districts in Georgia and Texas also could be affected."

-via AP, June 8, 2023

[leohttbriar]

jackson’s tone is on the brink of adding “you transparent shitheads” throughout this entire dissent. (snyder vs. u.s.)

[crossingpointscout]

It’s easy guys. The president is immune for all official acts. The Constitution is explicit that the President is officially the Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces. An order to the military is an Official Act of the Presidency. Official Acts of the Presidency are now FULLY IMMUNE not only from prosecution but even from review to determine motive. No questions.

So Joe Biden should order the immediate assassination of every Supreme Court justice.

I bet the new Supreme Court would have a very different opinion on immunity.

[shinyvibrava]

Ah yes, I shat the bed on the 2000 presidential election by being 6 years old

[mutopians]

supreme court could literally just say they want trans kids to die, then. the sex discrimination rules are protections for trans students.

[s1utspeare]

Potentially the only good thing about the SCOTUS affirmative action decision is that now whenever white moms are being delusional and accusing us of not admitting her kid because we’re “discriminating against him for being a straight white male,” I get to say “actually due to the scotus decision (that you’ve been so excited about for years) all racial and ethnic identifiers are blocked out from applications so we literally are physically incapable of seeing them when evaluating so this was based on your child’s academic skills which I gotta say. Not great”

[liskantope]

I'm in the weird position at the moment of being horrified in general by the current Supreme Court, perpetually angry at how its current make-up came about, and wanting badly to do something about our mechanism for getting and retaining its members, but not being at all sure that I oppose either of its decisions that came out today. (I really mean the "not being at all sure" in a pretty literal manner: I have a good bit more research I should do, especially on the refusal-of-service-to-LGBT decision, before feeling confident in my stances.)

[drbtinglecannon]

Biden could do the funniest thing in american history by legally killing trump on 4th of July before the election

[tomorrowusa]

Justice Samuel Alito is a far right fanatic and makes no secret of that. But he apparently also has a conflict of interest.

In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posed for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming: Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire who has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in high-stakes business disputes. Singer was more than a fellow angler. He flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet. If the justice chartered the plane himself, the cost could have exceeded $100,000 one way. In the years that followed, Singer’s hedge fund came before the court at least 10 times in cases where his role was often covered by the legal press and mainstream media. In 2014, the court agreed to resolve a key issue in a decade-long battle between Singer’s hedge fund and the nation of Argentina. Alito did not recuse himself from the case and voted with the 7-1 majority in Singer’s favor. The hedge fund was ultimately paid $2.4 billion. Alito did not report the 2008 fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures. By failing to disclose the private jet flight Singer provided, Alito appears to have violated a federal law that requires justices to disclose most gifts, according to ethics law experts.

In court cases where judges have a personal connection, judges are expected to recuse themselves. Another option, chosen by Alito, is to pretend that you're ignorant.

ProPublica sent Alito a list of detailed questions last week, and on Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s head spokeswoman told ProPublica that Alito would not be commenting. Several hours later, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Alito responding to ProPublica’s questions about the trip. Alito said that when Singer’s companies came before the court, the justice was unaware of the billionaire’s connection to the cases. He said he recalled speaking to Singer on “no more than a handful of occasions,” and they never discussed Singer’s business or issues before the court.

A reminder of the connection between Justice Clarence Thomas and Nazi art collector Harlan Crow.

This spring, ProPublica reported that Justice Clarence Thomas received decades of luxury travel from another Republican megadonor, Dallas real estate magnate Harlan Crow. In a statement, Thomas defended the undisclosed trips, saying unnamed colleagues advised him that he didn’t need to report such gifts to the public. Crow also gave Thomas money in an undisclosed real estate deal and paid private school tuition for his grandnephew, who Thomas was raising as a son. Thomas reported neither transaction on his disclosure forms.

The Republican Supreme Court shows growing signs of corruption in addition its decision making which is based more on ideology than the law.

It's interesting that the two most far right SCOTUS justices are also the most corrupt.

When you vote for president you are voting for the person who appoints Supreme Court justices. When you vote for US senator you are voting for one of the people who confirms those justices. People considering casting "protest votes" for unelectable third party candidates should be reminded of the long term effects of their acts of futility.

[biggest-bara-tiddies]

If I had to listen to my colleagues who all graduated law school tell me that the president has absolute immunity for criminal conduct as long as it's official and that the constitution supported their position, I would simply become the joker

[imacaprisun]

Imagine seeing years of progress, fighting, screaming, rioting, begging to be seen, all of that ripped before your very eyes in a matter of seconds. Imagine knowing all that progress will take even longer to get back, that you won’t be able to get back the little pieces of change you had for years to come. Imagine knowing that you will most likely be dead, 6 feet in the ground, before that small bit of change you had is brought back. Imagine the realization that you and thousands of other people had that all of you will have to suffer now because of the decision made by old assholes who only make these terrible rulings because they know it won’t effect them. Time and time again, I see it happen, but no matter how much I cry, no matter how much I scream, no matter how much I curse, it will happen again. They will keep coming after what little of freedom and happiness we have. They always do. All anyone can do now is hold onto the little bits of hope we have left that maybe, just maybe, there will be better things to come. All I can do is hope there is.

[leohttbriar]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily revived the Biden administration’s regulation of “ghost guns” — kits that can be bought online and assembled into untraceable homemade firearms. [...] The regulation, issued in 2022 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, broadened the bureau’s interpretation of the definition of “firearm” in the Gun Control Act of 1968. [...] The new regulation did not ban the sale or possession of kits and components that can be assembled to make guns, she wrote, but it did require manufacturers and sellers to obtain licenses, mark their products with serial numbers and conduct background checks. [...] Judge Reed O’Connor, of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas, sided with the challengers and struck down the regulation in July, saying that “a weapon parts kit is not a firearm” and “that which may become or may be converted to a functional receiver is not itself a receiver.” [...] In the government’s emergency application, Ms. Prelogar asked the justices to consider an analogy. “Every speaker of English would recognize that a tax on sales of ‘bookshelves’ applies to Ikea when it sells boxes of parts and the tools and instructions for assembling them into bookshelves,” she wrote.

[theheartgoeslast]

it's been obvious for years now that what internet leftists want more than anything else is for democrats to lose elections, but "harris should support burning the american flag" sure drives it home.

[cleoselene]

hey losers out there saying tomatoes are fruit not a vegetable: I'm an American and the US Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY decided tomatoes are actually a vegetable so legally in the United States this bitch

is a VEGETABLE

checkmate, losers. also temperature is in Fahrenheit