Take Back the Court

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February 20, 2026 Today, the Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless tariff scheme. In response, Take Back The Court Action Fund released the following statement: “We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, president of Take Back the Court Action Fund.

TBTCAF’s @liptonlubet.bsky.social on today’s SCOTUS tariff decision:

“We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme.”

“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
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The ethics scandals could explain some of Roberts' and his colleagues recent decisions, like how they've consistently torn down public corruption law on the premise that bribery is just a part of politics. "The eager embrace and encouragement that you've seen from the Roberts court for Trump's lawlessness is just marinating in the right-wing justices' belief that rules don't apply to them either," Lipton-Lubet says. "Justices who are comfortable taking essentially undisclosed bribes from fellow ideologues end up deciding that the president they support is above the law. They've created this culture for themselves of accountability-free corruption, and that extends, I think, to the way that they view the administration." She adds, "You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain."

TBTC President @liptonlubet.bsky.social notes the Roberts Court’s own corruption plays a role in its willingness to embrace Donald Trump’s corruption: “You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The ethics scandals could explain some of Roberts' and his colleagues recent decisions, like how they've consistently torn down public corruption law on the premise that bribery is just a part of politics. "The eager embrace and encouragement that you've seen from the Roberts court for Trump's lawlessness is just marinating in the right-wing justices' belief that rules don't apply to them either," Lipton-Lubet says. "Justices who are comfortable taking essentially undisclosed bribes from fellow ideologues end up deciding that the president they support is above the law. They've created this culture for themselves of accountability-free corruption, and that extends, I think, to the way that they view the administration." She adds, "You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain."

TBTC President @liptonlubet.bsky.social notes the Roberts Court’s own corruption plays a role in its willingness to embrace Donald Trump’s corruption: “You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is all John Roberts’ fault Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

“Long before Roberts and his colleagues assented to Trump’s lawless second term, they helped him get one. Not since 2000, when the justices put George W. Bush in the White House, has the court done so much to pick a president.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is all John Roberts’ fault Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them.

Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...

Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Mister Trump Asks For It Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about.

Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish

The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence

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SCOTUS tells ICE it can target people based on race ICE gets the go-ahead for indiscriminate immigration stops in LA.

The Trump administration’s racist terror campaign against Black and Brown communities has been given the greenlight by a compromised, out of control Supreme Court.

There can be no second-class citizens in a free America.

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay in L.A. Raids Case Decision lifts temporary order barring DHS from unlawful stop practices

“Today’s SCOTUS ruling puts farm workers — and every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant — in greater danger,” said @ufw.bsky.social President Teresa Romero.
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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.

Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Shorter Brett Kavanaugh: "Papers, please"

Just listened, via Morning Edition, as a woman with learning disabilities broke down crying while recounting how ICE agents racially profiled her in Washington, D.C.

Even brief questioning — especially by unidentified agents with sidearms and mask — can be traumatic, Brett.

Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

"So you're saying if you don't like [kids reading picture books about inclusivity], you gotta get involved in politics and change it that way, is that what you're saying?!" Alito snears disparagingly.

Also Alito, this time justifying Dobbs: "Women are not without electoral or political power."

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We’re sorry* the government secreted you away to a foreign torture prison, but you used the wrong heading on your paperwork, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Best of luck not being renditioned before you can file a new complaint!

*Alito, writing separately to note that he is in no way sorry.

Unconscionable injustice dressed up as "law."

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The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case Several federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s congressional maps.

In 2023, John Roberts' #SCOTUS shocked all of us by not making the worst possible decision in a voting rights case. On Monday, it will hear arguments in a "nearly identical" case — with potentially major consequences.

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So Elon Musk has the same ethics rules as the Supreme Court: none.