A U.S. Air Force serviceman has appealed to the Supreme Court against a high court ruling upholding a five-year sentence for abducting and sexually assaulting a young girl in Okinawa Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/okinawa-assault-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #okinawa #supremecourt #japanesecourts #sexcrimes
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#Nepali coordinating #revolution on #Discord, almost 10,000 on one conference call
They're calling it the "#GenZ" #protests. It was sparked by a crackdown on #SocialMedia but the base frustration is #corruption, #nepotism, #unemployment, and #inequality. 19 protesters were killed on Monday, I'll spare you a viewing of that video, and Tuesday #Parliament and the #SupremeCourt were set on fire. The prime minister has resigned. The government has fled.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/09/nx-s1-5535887/nepal-protests-gen-z-explained
The U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are legal, agreeing to quickly review his signature economic policy in a case with worldwide implications. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/economy/us-supreme-court-trump-tariffs-fast-track/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #donaldtrump #supremecourt #tariffs #globaleconomy #trade
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to quickly uphold his tariffs, seeking a review in a case that could affect trillions of dollars in trade and give him broad new leverage over the world economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/05/markets/trump-supreme-court-global-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #supremecourt
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"Go to hell, John Roberts. You did this to us and history will remember you as every bit the villain as Trump. With the notable exceptions of Brown-Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan, the Roberts Court will live in infamy like the one that delivered the Plessy ruling. Believe that."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump#Republicans#LawandOrder #democracy #fascism#SupremeCourt
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"Go to hell, John Roberts. You did this to us and history will remember you as every bit the villain as Trump. With the notable exceptions of Brown-Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan, the Roberts Court will live in infamy like the one that delivered the Plessy ruling. Believe that."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump#Republicans#LawandOrder #democracy #fascism#SupremeCourt
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"Nothing about this is real law."
~ Liz Dye
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-flag-burning-executive-order-explained
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"Chief Justice John Roberts created the monster that is Trump 2.0 with the ludicrous criminal immunity decision in Trump v. US.
But John Roberts is also behind Trump's effort to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve, as noted in an editorial by the NY Times on Tuesday .... John Roberts is now officially the worst Chief Justice in our nation’s history."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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Kate Riga notes that "the standoff the Supreme Court left the door open for is here" with Trump's determination to seize control of the Federal Reserve:
"The Court’s right-wing majority has been largely gleeful to cosign Trump’s rampage through the federal government, the weakening of executive branch agencies being a special hobbyhorse for Chief Justice John Roberts in particular."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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"And these are the six of the nine who went even further beyond than what I thought they would do in the United States versus Trump last year."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#LeonardLeo#FederalistSociety
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"The problem is, is that Republicans have a backstop. That backstop is the Supreme Court. That Supreme Court currently has six individuals who are, I'm going to use the word, have been groomed for years by the Federalist Society, by these billions of dollars from right-wing donors, by people like Leonard Leo, the good soldiers who were then handpicked by Donald Trump."
~ Wajhat Ali
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-is-trying-to-fire-lisa-cook
"Chief Justice John Roberts created the monster that is Trump 2.0 with the ludicrous criminal immunity decision in Trump v. US.
But John Roberts is also behind Trump's effort to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve, as noted in an editorial by the NY Times on Tuesday .... John Roberts is now officially the worst Chief Justice in our nation’s history."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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"One could say that Trump has blown through the nation’s constitutional and political guardrails, but a more accurate assessment is that both Congress and the Supreme Court — who have, as I wrote earlier this spring, effectively rolled over and played dead when it comes to their constitutional duty to exert checks and balances — removed those guardrails helpfully in advance."
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#SupremeCourt#Congress
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"One could say that Trump has blown through the nation’s constitutional and political guardrails, but a more accurate assessment is that both Congress and the Supreme Court — who have, as I wrote earlier this spring, effectively rolled over and played dead when it comes to their constitutional duty to exert checks and balances — removed those guardrails helpfully in advance."
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#SupremeCourt#Congress
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America's partisan gerrymandering mess dates back to a 2019 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Rucho v. Common Cause, "the five Republican judges held that court challenges to partisan gerrymanders could not go forward in federal courts because such cases present a 'political question,'" Jay Willis writes for Balls and Strikes. "What is happening in Texas and California and elsewhere right now demonstrates just how vapid and hollow the reasoning in 'Rucho' always was. You do not have to have a law degree to understand that a Texas map that transforms a 56-42 advantage into a 79-21 blowout is not, in any meaningful sense, fair. You do not need to be a Supreme Court justice to understand that a California map that would turn Kamala Harris’s 58 percent vote share in 2024 into 94 percent of power in the House does not allow for equal participation in the political process.
But this is the price that 'Rucho' is forcing millions of voters to pay."
#USLaw#USSupremeCourt#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#RuchoVCommonCause#Rucho
America's partisan gerrymandering mess dates back to a 2019 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Rucho v. Common Cause, "the five Republican judges held that court challenges to partisan gerrymanders could not go forward in federal courts because such cases present a 'political question,'" Jay Willis writes for Balls and Strikes. "What is happening in Texas and California and elsewhere right now demonstrates just how vapid and hollow the reasoning in 'Rucho' always was. You do not have to have a law degree to understand that a Texas map that transforms a 56-42 advantage into a 79-21 blowout is not, in any meaningful sense, fair. You do not need to be a Supreme Court justice to understand that a California map that would turn Kamala Harris’s 58 percent vote share in 2024 into 94 percent of power in the House does not allow for equal participation in the political process.
But this is the price that 'Rucho' is forcing millions of voters to pay."
#USLaw#USSupremeCourt#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#RuchoVCommonCause#Rucho
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and the many authoritarian (and, let's face it, racist even when they pretended to be otherwise) Catholics outside the South who were enraged when the federal government recognized reproductive rights for women.
From that history to where we are now with Trump and MAGA is a straight line. These folks have been and are the driving force of the Republican party for years now.
#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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This was the genesis of the Religious Right, with Catholic activists then seizing the opportunity to build on the rage of white segregationist Christians in the South by introducing the issue of abortion, about which evangelicals had never cared, to cement an alliance between white Southern evangelicals (continued in /7)
#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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This cabal has shown great sympathy with the argument that "Christians" are being "oppressed" when minority groups receive rights that "Christians" do not want to accept.
Though many of us want to forget this or haven't chosen to learn it in the first place, this all began with huge white evangelical hostility to civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s recognizing basic rights of African Americans.
#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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This is the core of the argument that Republicans want to drive to the Supreme Court, because they know that if the case makes it to the Supreme docket, the right-wing cabal controlling the court will likely side with them.
That cabal is made up entirely of right-wing Catholics (except Gorsuch, raised Catholic but now Episcopalian), many affiliated with the secretive theocratic Catholic cult Opus Dei.
#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis
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