I recommend Mike Brock's valuable analysis of the primary project of the Roberts Court: to dismantle the New Deal (and, in the process, the Constitution), in service to the super-rich oligarchs who have bought and paid for this court over several decades, with precisely that goal.

#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Constitution #democracy#NewDeal
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-the-supreme-courts-constitutional

"They've turned constitutional law into a protection racket for inherited wealth while maintaining the fiction that they're engaged in neutral jurisprudential analysis."

Brock quotes Peter Shane:

"Trump's authoritarian presidency 'is not a distortion of the Roberts Court's theory of the presidency; it is the Court's theory of the presidency, come to life.'"

#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Constitution #democracy#NewDeal
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/supreme-court-roberts-trump-dictator/683576/

Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Robert J. Cindrich, who helped found the group, said the country is not yet in a #ConstitutionalCrisis [really?] but that the strain on the courts is immense. Citing the admin’s response to orders, as well as its attacks on judges & law firms, Cindrich said, “The judiciary is being put under siege.”

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Meanwhile, about 66,000 tons of #food #aid is in danger of rotting in warehouses, #AIDS cases are forecast to spike in #Africa & the government projected the cuts would result in 200,000 more cases of paralysis caused by #polio each year. Already, children are dying unnecessarily in #Sudan.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

“This is not the first time the court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last,” #Sotomayor wrote. “Yet each time this court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for #courts & for the rule of #law.”

#Trump#SCOTUS #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Justice #Sotomayor echoed that concern in a recent dissent when she accused #SCOTUS of “rewarding lawlessness” by allowing #Trump officials to deport immigrants to countries that are not their homelands. The conservative majority gave the green light, she noted, after Trump officials twice carried out deportations despite lower court orders blocking the moves.

#law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

The #SCOTUS June decision to scale back the ability of lower #courts to issue #NationwideInjunctions, & the administration’s success at persuading the justices to overturn about a dozen temporary blocks on its agenda in recent months, might only embolden #Trump officials to defy lower courts, several #legal experts said.

#law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Time that anti-constitutional lawless teacher is laid off.

#TrumpRegime#EnemiesOfTheLaw#EnemiesOfTheConstitution#EnemiesOfDemocracy#EnemiesOfTheState#Trump#HeritageFoundation#LootingAmerica#AttackingAmerica#DefraudingAmerica#Subversion#Insurrection#AmericaHasBetter#RuleOfLaw#Law#Justice#Constitution#Freedom#Democracy#USPol#USPolitics#UnseatTheTrumpRegime#RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity#StrongerTogether#WeThePeople#DeclarationOfIndependence

A federal judge blocked on Friday the enforcement of #Trump's #ExecutiveOrder targeting those who work with the #InternationalCriminalCourt.

The ruling follows an April lawsuit by 2 #HumanRights advocates challenging Trump's Feb 6 order authorizing potentially far-reaching economic & travel #sanctions on people who work on #ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies, such as Israel.

#law#Constitution#FirstAmendment
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-judge-blocks-enforcement-trumps-order-icc-2025-07-19/

In her ruling, US District Judge Nancy Torresen called the #ExecutiveOrder an #unconstitutional infringement on #FreeSpeech.
"The executive order appears to restrict substantially more speech than necessary to further that end," she wrote.
"The executive order broadly prohibits any speech-based services that benefit the prosecutor, regardless of whether those beneficial services relate to an #ICC investigation of the United States, Israel, or another US ally."

#law#Constitution#FirstAmendment

"On July 3, the Supreme Court handed down its final order vacating the lower court’s preliminary injunction and paving the way for their removal to South Sudan—due process, to determine whether this violates U.S. and international law barring torture, be damned."

#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
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Linda Chavez thinks that the decision of the "pro-life" Supreme Court's right-wing Catholic bloc to allow deportations to third-world countries should shock American consciences (the terms "pro-life" and "right-wing Catholic bloc" are my addition, not hers).

She writes,

#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-conservative-supreme-courts-decision

The media have focused largely on white evangelicals as the big force intent on replacing democracy with theocracy, but behind the scenes, the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have done everything they can to make it appear their hands are not dirty, have pulled the strings, using white evangelicals while avoiding media scrutiny.

#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
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The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.

#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#Trump #corruption #democracy#RuleofLaw#Constitution#Catholic#HeritageFoundation#LeonardLeo#OpusDei
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