Take Back the Court

"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.

RNC Asks SCOTUS To Take Up Appeal To Restrict Provisional Voting in Pennsylvania Read more here.

NEW: Using the radical independent state legislature theory, the RNC asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allows voters to cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots were rejected.

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How Is Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Being Used? Here’s What We Know. Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.

Here's me on what Trump 2.0 means for trans people, a group of 2 million Americans being targeted by a President who just declared us deceitful by nature

The Supreme Court Could Gut Access to Birth Control This Year Opinion | With Trump back in the Oval Office, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore.

Wrote about a Supreme Court case that could start a nationwide rollback on birth control rights. Braidwood v. Becerra is nominally about insurance coverage, but as we witnessed with abortion, making reproductive healthcare less accessible is a stepping stone to bans. My first in @democracydocket.com

Well, here we are. Historically, Comstock enforcement never targeted legal abortion, which Anthony Comstock himself insisted upon. So this kind of enforcement is using the Act in a way that is new. They are making it up.

SCOTUS Declines to Hear GOP Request in Montana Voter Suppression Lawsuit Read more.

BREAKING: In a victory for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court denies an appeal from Montana officials seeking to reinstate two voter suppression laws. The state wanted SCOTUS to use the radical independent state legislature theory to overturn a decision from the Montana Supreme Court.

I am sure it’s all just small talk …

A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it harder to get screened for cancer Becerra v. Braidwood Management threatens to make your health insurance worse.

ICYMI: The right-wing Supreme Court took up a case that could threaten countless people's access to cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds, and other lifesaving health care services.

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The Resistance We Need From Senate Democrats Under Trump 2.0 Opinion | Of the harms Trump can and will do over his next four years in office, the judges he appoints will have the most lasting effect.

"Imagine a Supreme Court with a full majority of Trump-appointed justices....not a single Supreme Court precedent would be safe...Every Senate Democrat must stand ready to protect our courts and the very notion of 'equal justice under law.'"

Here's a 74 year old Supreme Court Justice weighing in on an internet case

Supreme Court to review Obamacare’s no-cost coverage of cancer screenings, heart statins and HIV drugs | CNN Politics The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s no-cost coverage mandates for certain preventive care services, putting the landmark health care law in ...

New: The right-wing Supreme Court majority is now looking to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act’s policy that makes cancer screenings, heart statins, and HIV prevention free.

And the standards here are so simple! All we’re talking about is disclosures! The law does not stop justices from accepting gifts; it just says that they have to disclose those gifts to the public, and Clarence Thomas wouldn’t even do that. Now the Judicial Conference has said it doesn’t think it has the power to make a referral to the Justice Department over his lapse, even though Congress explicitly gave it this power in the statute. Conrad wrote that “any effort to grant the Conference such authority would raise serious constitutional questions.” This strikes me as the Judicial Conference doing a lot of what the Supreme Court did in the Trump immunity case—to say, “well these guys are so powerful and so important that their conduct must be assumed to be unpunishable and above the law.”

Clarence Thomas repeatedly broke the law and no institution with enforcement authority is going to do a damn thing about it. A long sigh with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

People sometimes ask me when it was that I lost it my confidence in the integrity of the Supreme Court; was there a tipping point? Indeed, there was.

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Project 2025: what is it and how is it connected to Trump? President-elect Donald Trump has named several high-profile conservatives associated with "Project 2025" to his administration despite repeatedly distancing himself from the hard-right initiative on the campaign trail.

Donald Trump's cabinet is being stacked with architects of Project 2025—a far-right plan to gut civil service protections, erase environmental safeguards, and expand his power over law enforcement.

He didn’t write the 900-page blueprint, but he’s ready to use it.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether states can kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid even for non-abortion services like birth control and STI testing / treatment

The South Carolina case is called Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
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Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito During Flag Flap An investigation concluded that it was an ethics violation to question the ethics of a Supreme Court justice.

So... just to clarify... it's fine for Supreme Court justices to act unethically, but calling them out for that ethical misconduct is against the rules?