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."
14.07.2025 19:23 — 👍 3263 🔁 883 💬 69 📌 88
SCOTUS when Biden administration seeks to reduce student loan debt: Major question where they have to jump in and block before any action takes place.
SCOTUS when Trump eliminates the entire Department of Education: Lets see how this plays out, no need to intervene right now.
14.07.2025 21:04 — 👍 694 🔁 208 💬 21 📌 7
Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words
Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words
13.06.2025 18:20 — 👍 14095 🔁 2715 💬 470 📌 191
Just to be clear, Governor Newsom hasn't broken any laws. If this line is crossed, and the President has a sitting governor arrested, then the choice for Democratic leaders, senior military officers and federal employees becomes one of accepting dictatorship or taking drastic action.
09.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 1831 🔁 489 💬 77 📌 28
Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."
01.06.2025 13:43 — 👍 25971 🔁 6719 💬 767 📌 329
Unless you're Lincoln, don't do it
So you're thinking about unilaterally suspending habeas corpus...
20.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 117 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 2
Robert Prevost and JB Pritzker
THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
08.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 18949 🔁 2524 💬 276 📌 191
Old enough to remember when the line from the right was providing more information to consumers was a better, more market friendly approach than regulating products.
07.05.2025 01:05 — 👍 510 🔁 122 💬 9 📌 2
AP: Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks
April 25, 2025
CNN: US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier
April 29, 2025
New York Post: Army Black Hawk helicopter causes 2 terrifying near-misses with airliners at Reagan airport after taking the 'scenic route
May 4, 2025
CNN: Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier
May 6, 2025
These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.
07.05.2025 01:40 — 👍 5782 🔁 2286 💬 292 📌 227
MR PRESIDENT HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
30.04.2025 01:57 — 👍 1015 🔁 144 💬 35 📌 4
Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.
30.04.2025 19:35 — 👍 23511 🔁 4268 💬 1788 📌 256
Just incredible
30.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 28711 🔁 9242 💬 1448 📌 1079
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
Dear god let this man cook.
29.04.2025 19:12 — 👍 83225 🔁 17689 💬 1125 📌 803
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
28.04.2025 20:53 — 👍 20652 🔁 5425 💬 489 📌 934
What this describes isn't deportation. It's imprisonment abroad at US taxpayer expense with no trial.
23.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 587 🔁 143 💬 17 📌 2
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.
sincerely,
a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination
24.04.2025 01:39 — 👍 31540 🔁 7440 💬 511 📌 261
If you ever get invited to meet them, RUN
21.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 2764 🔁 350 💬 69 📌 20
Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13.
I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.
21.04.2025 14:45 — 👍 17252 🔁 4490 💬 704 📌 228
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
18.04.2025 15:57 — 👍 27693 🔁 6082 💬 410 📌 216
16.04.2025 20:31 — 👍 5968 🔁 1322 💬 39 📌 23
As far as I can tell, the first person to ever accuse him of human trafficking is Leavitt herself (I'd love to know if someone else made the claim first).
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
15.04.2025 18:41 — 👍 6908 🔁 1493 💬 613 📌 114
Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
15.04.2025 23:52 — 👍 14345 🔁 3745 💬 267 📌 146
Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
15.04.2025 22:58 — 👍 36535 🔁 5431 💬 141 📌 192
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
14.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 42320 🔁 13979 💬 329 📌 417
I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.
14.04.2025 20:33 — 👍 4803 🔁 707 💬 216 📌 138
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
14.04.2025 17:54 — 👍 55067 🔁 14012 💬 1309 📌 600
One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
10.04.2025 22:39 — 👍 6092 🔁 1626 💬 56 📌 31
Don’t love that this got relegated to “the other side,” but I stand but what I said; this is utterly illegal and a violation of the basic principles of American rule of law.
10.04.2025 14:34 — 👍 976 🔁 289 💬 25 📌 19
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