Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

For an extended, excellent of analysis of 32 U.S. Code, Section 502, see https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/presidents-power-call-out-national-guard-not-blank-check.

Bottom line, I, along with many other lawyers and legal scholars, know that Trump's use of his ordered "specialized units" is unlawful. But that makes no difference, because by the time any challenges to their deployments happens, the military will already be in U.S. streets. ... 5/
Robert Link
@phaedral@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@heidilifeldman Maybe someone can tell #scotus ?
RealJournalism
@RealJournalism@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

U.S. Supreme Court gives go-ahead for #Trump to cancel $783M in NIH research grants. More proof that the GOP hates #Science and that the #SCOTUS has become nothing more than a rubber stamp. https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/22/repub/u-s-supreme-court-gives-go-ahead-for-trump-to-cancel-783m-in-nih-research-grants/
52 Fighters
@52fighters@rcsocial.net replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@lauren Once approved, #scotus should scrap both CA and TX plans. Back to where we started. #gerrymandering
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Glyn Moody
@glynmoody@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless #SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/trump-confesses-he-will-bankrupt-the-country-unless-scotus-lets-him-break-the-law/ "the Roberts Court won’t dare uphold the law, for fear of being held accountable for the financial ruin Trump is rushing us towards." just insane stuff
Glyn Moody
@glynmoody@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless #SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/trump-confesses-he-will-bankrupt-the-country-unless-scotus-lets-him-break-the-law/ "the Roberts Court won’t dare uphold the law, for fear of being held accountable for the financial ruin Trump is rushing us towards." just insane stuff
Yehuda TurtleIsland.social
@Yehuda@turtleisland.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.

[Super Asshole] Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing...

#LGBTQ#SCOTUS#CorruptSCOTUS
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302
Yehuda TurtleIsland.social
@Yehuda@turtleisland.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.

[Super Asshole] Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing...

#LGBTQ#SCOTUS#CorruptSCOTUS
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Trump issued a directive that would require #colleges & #universities to submit reams of new data on #students to check whether they are complying with a #SCOTUS decision that ended race-based #AffirmativeAction. The White House also intensified its campaign against #UCLA which it stripped of hundreds of millions in research funds over a list of issues.

#extortion #education #law#Constitution#AcademicFreedom
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Trump issued a directive that would require #colleges & #universities to submit reams of new data on #students to check whether they are complying with a #SCOTUS decision that ended race-based #AffirmativeAction. The White House also intensified its campaign against #UCLA which it stripped of hundreds of millions in research funds over a list of issues.

#extortion #education #law#Constitution#AcademicFreedom
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

Brilliant

A federal judge on Friday blocked #Trump from ending #BirthrightCitizenship for #children of parents who are in the #US illegally, issuing the 3rd court ruling blocking the #ExecutiveOrder nationwide since a #SCOTUS decision.

US Dist Judge Sorokin, joining another court as well as an appellate panel of judges, found that a #NationwideInjunction granted to more than a dozen states remains in force under an exception to the SCOTUS ruling.

#law#AbuseOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-birthright-citizenship-trump-3d94d355e1892baab810c9efddd1fd92?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-25-Breaking+News
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

Brilliant

A federal judge on Friday blocked #Trump from ending #BirthrightCitizenship for #children of parents who are in the #US illegally, issuing the 3rd court ruling blocking the #ExecutiveOrder nationwide since a #SCOTUS decision.

US Dist Judge Sorokin, joining another court as well as an appellate panel of judges, found that a #NationwideInjunction granted to more than a dozen states remains in force under an exception to the SCOTUS ruling.

#law#AbuseOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-birthright-citizenship-trump-3d94d355e1892baab810c9efddd1fd92?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-25-Breaking+News
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

“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
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

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
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

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