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Trump v. United States: Revisiting the Presidential Immunity Ruling 1 Year Later The right-wing Supreme Court appears to have learned little from its decision to grant the president immunity for criminal acts—and the president is taking full advantage of the ruling.

How's that #SCOTUS #Trump immunity decision going? About as well as you'd expect...

www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

Checking in from Asheville NC. Nothing to see here. @hollyanderson.bsky.social

I did a thing

Trump Administration Live Updates: Attorney General Alerted Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

Curioser and curioser….
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your ...

#Trump and #DOGE are slashing $$$ to colleges and universities across the country, undermining American leadership in research and development and our local and national economies. See how bad your school got hit: www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...

That's an excellent point.

Tell the House: Vote No On the One Big Beautiful Bill Tell your representative to vote no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

🚨 ACTION ITEM: The health and well-being of Americans and the programs they rely on are at stake. Now is THE time to speak out and tell your lawmakers to vote against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. www.americanprogress.org/take-action/...

The Dangers of Obeying: 4 Risks for Organizations Bowing to the Trump Administration The Trump administration is demanding unprecedented power and punishing those who refuse to comply, but civil society acting peacefully with collective courage can build a stronger democracy.

An important article by one of my @americanprogress.bsky.social colleagues on the dangers of anticipatory obedience in backsliding democracy - www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Presidential Appeasement and the Supreme Court: The State of the Court in 2025 Please join the Center for American Progress for a virtual event on presidential appeasement and the Supreme Court in 2025.

It's not too late to sign up to attend the "Presidential Appeasement and the Supreme Court" discussion hosted by @americanprogress.bsky.social on July 9 at 11:00 a.m. Register through the link below:

www.americanprogress.org/events/presi...

Presidential Appeasement and the Supreme Court: The State of the Court in 2025 Please join the Center for American Progress for a virtual event on presidential appeasement and the Supreme Court in 2025.

Join CAP for a virtual event on Wednesday July 7 at 11:00 a.m. - Presidential Appeasement and the Supreme Court. Featuring @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, and @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

www.americanprogress.org/events/presi...

STATEMENT: Supreme Court Limit on Injunctions Upends the Rule of Law

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court placed new limits on the power of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions. This ruling from the far-right Supreme Court rubber-stamps President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine our nation’s rule of law.

Read CAP's statement from @doo-dc.bsky.social:

Let me know when they get to striking that down.

ACB said that courts can't enter universal injunctions, even against patently unconstitutional government acts. Birthright Citizenship is walking to the guillotine. Will we see ICE enforcement in maternity wards now? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This is chaos and playing right into Trump's hands. Will ICE be entering maternity wards now?

Trump threatens Iran's supreme leader, escalating his rhetoric about the conflict President Trump called Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" but said, "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."

Just so we're all on the same page, the end result of Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) is apparently the US going to war with Iran. 🤷🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...

Senate GOP Strips Provision From Tax Bill That Would Let Trump Rule As A King They removed jarring language from the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have limited the ability of courts to enforce contempt orders.

OK - Some more good news. Senate strips provision prohibiting the courts from enforcing #contempt. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

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As the nation burns, we turn our eyes to our only hope... Mel Brooks. May the Schwartz be with you all on #NoKings day. #Spaceballs2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-...

STATEMENT: Supreme Court Rubber Stamps DOGE Fishing Expedition

What this guy said 👇 www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

May God have mercy on us all.

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

3/ But at least we can rest assured that Donald, Trump, Peter Thiel and Palantir won't create a panopticon to control and rule over all of us to unsparingly crush dissent like communist China.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

2/ In the next breath, they held that Americans are not allowed to understand how DOGE is structured or operated, denying discovery in ongoing litigation. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

1/ John Roberts knows better but he doesn't seem to care. The six rightwing justices on SCOTUS just gave DOGE unencumbered access to the personal Social Security information of all Americans.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Rao just punched her ticket to a SCOTUS nomination.

If you know, you know.

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

This appears to be the prevailing ethos of the Roberts Court.

SCOTUS just making things up to pave the way for elective autoritaianism. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Leah Litman’s New Book Examines Today’s Supreme Court | University of Michigan Law School When pondering the concept of lawlessness and the Supreme Court, you don’t usually think of the problem as coming from within the court. But that’s the message of a new book by Michigan Law Professor ...

Congratulations to inimitable @leahlitman.bsky.social for Lawless debuting no. 4 on NYT Bestsellers. Can't wait to read it!
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/leah-li...

Every time Joe Negus takes Jordan to the shed, an angel gets its wings.