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When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. Two lower courts rose to the occasion, preliminarily enjoining the mass firings while the litigation remains ongoing. Rather than maintain the status quo, however, this Court now intervenes, lifting the injunction and permitting the Government to proceed with dismantling the Department. That decision is indefensible. It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave. Unable to join in this misuse of our emergency docket, I respectfully dissent.

More from Sotomayor's dissent:

"When the Executive publicly announces its intent to
break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the
Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. ... The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive."

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.

President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

#NoKings #50501movement #RESIST #FiftyFiftyOne #Trump #Musk

#NoKings #5051Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #RESIST #Trump #Musk

This is EXACTLY — literally — what I've been saying since the start of this godforsaken evil fascist treasonous administration.

What they're doing is not "making America great"... it's national suicide, right in front of our eyes.

Yeah, very little evidence available to disprove my theory that it's not a court anymore, it's a theocratic super-legislature. And that we share a system of government with Iran.

The exact converse can be easily documented: the Trump presidency is about nothing other than hate. The more irrational and race-based, the better.

The NYT editors really don't know how to correctly report legal developments. In this case, the action of the administration is obviously illegal and will be reversed by courts. It should therefore report that the administrated has "purported to" take these steps.

Don’t rope Biden into this. He’s fought to expand healthcare for all, not take it away.

Democratic members of Congress should probably be made to understand that unless they throw everything they have at this, they are next.

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

"Normie-style politics"? Like normalizing Trump's lies and fear-mongering around the border? 🙄🙄🙄

Give me a break.

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Received a message from a friend in Europe today: "Where are Americans? Why are they not in the streets??? The world needs a sign that the other half of America still exists!"

On that note, worth reading from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

No one would ever use these bullshit euphemisms in covering Hungary or Venezuela or the early days of Putin's Russia

Absolutely stunning. Trump to Chief Justice Roberts: "Thank you again. Thank you again. I won't forget."

SHAME on MSNBC for doing so..bc we all know that surrendering in advance doesn't pacify wannabe tyrants — it just teaches them what they can get away with.

I'm confident @joyannreid.bsky.social will land on her feet & she'll have a loyal viewer in me wherever she ends up. But damn. Do better MSNBC!

...so of course, Joy's been in MAGA's crosshairs for a long time. It's hard not to see MSNBC's baffling decision to cancel her show as a disgraceful capitulation and an attempt to appease the forces of fascism.

...which just makes this decision that much more baffling. (Nothing against Symone & Alicia Menendez, who I love.)

Nothing makes MAGA quite as spitting mad as a brilliant, fierce, fabulous Black woman frustrating fascists, speaking truth to power, and pointing out the Emperor's lack of clothes...

MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid’s Show in Major Shake-Up (Gift Article) Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.

MSNBC cancelling The ReidOut is a terrible, terrible decision. Joy's show is one of the only things I & many others still watch on that network. Her bold, courageous, unsparing voice for democracy, justice & equality is sorely lacking among her broadcast colleagues...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

Holy shit this is disgraceful

What? Truly and profoundly unsmart.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

And now comes my “favorite” annual Super Bowl ritual: White People Complaining About the Halftime Show. 🙄

#NotEverythingIsForYou 😘

Hey old friend! I’m hanging in there, how are you?