Does anyone remember the Texas v. Johnson #SCOTUS case? If you don't, then you may wish to look it up. It decided that U.S. flag burning was covered as constitutionally protected speech. In 1989, the decision was made by a 5-4 SCOTUS majority. Flag burning constitutes symbolic speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
Guess what? The new Exec order wants the new SCOTUS pets to overturn this decision.
Uh oh.
BREAKING: #SCOTUS escalates Louisiana’s redistricting battle, ordering new briefs on whether creating a second majority-Black district is unconstitutional. The move signals the Court may be eyeing a sweeping ruling that could set back minority voting rights. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-could-be-set-to-end-key-protection-for-minority-voters/
Uh oh.
BREAKING: #SCOTUS escalates Louisiana’s redistricting battle, ordering new briefs on whether creating a second majority-Black district is unconstitutional. The move signals the Court may be eyeing a sweeping ruling that could set back minority voting rights. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-could-be-set-to-end-key-protection-for-minority-voters/
Want to learn about the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections to companies and people?
We’ve updated our database with the latest filings from eight justices, detailing millions in book income, almost 40 trips and one gift:
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-2024-filings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Want to learn about the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections to companies and people?
We’ve updated our database with the latest filings from eight justices, detailing millions in book income, almost 40 trips and one gift:
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-2024-filings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
What keeps you up at night?
“I would say…the state of our democracy.”
— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, today during a talk in Indiana
What keeps you up at night?
“I would say…the state of our democracy.”
— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, today during a talk in Indiana
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
“ #SCOTUS cleared the way on Tuesday for #Trump administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, elements of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government.”
- https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-lifts-order-that-blocked-trumps-mass-federal-layoffs-2025-07-08/
Keep 'em coming
(with an eye on #SCOTUS, of course)
Via Kyle Cheney:
BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the "big beautiful bill's" [sic] provision to defund Planned Parenthood.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.286600/gov.uscourts.mad.286600.18.0.pdf
Keep 'em coming
(with an eye on #SCOTUS, of course)
Via Kyle Cheney:
BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the "big beautiful bill's" [sic] provision to defund Planned Parenthood.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.286600/gov.uscourts.mad.286600.18.0.pdf
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1153_2co3.pdf
1/... #SCOTUS
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1153_2co3.pdf
1/... #SCOTUS
🤦🏻♀️ #SCOTUS#LGBTQ
Via Mark Joseph Stern: 1/...
NEW: The Supreme Court will decide next term whether states may lawfully prohibit transgender women and girls from participating in school sports on the women's team.
In light of Skrmetti, the answer will likely be "yes." https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/070325zr_bqmd.pdf
Oh gods! The US Supreme Court is going to hear a case on the Constitutionality of conversion therapy bans. Given the Court's proven track record of ingnoring the rights of minorities, especially LGBT minorities, this is a looming disaster.
I was sent to conversion therapy by my parents when I was 12 and they found out I was trans. I lied to get out of it and hid and repressed myself for years because of it
Oh gods! The US Supreme Court is going to hear a case on the Constitutionality of conversion therapy bans. Given the Court's proven track record of ingnoring the rights of minorities, especially LGBT minorities, this is a looming disaster.
I was sent to conversion therapy by my parents when I was 12 and they found out I was trans. I lied to get out of it and hid and repressed myself for years because of it
Stern:
The Supreme Court's fifth decision is Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. By a 6–3 vote, the court UPHOLDS age-verification laws for online porn, holding that they are only subject to intermediate scrutiny. All three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1122_3e04.pdf
Stern:
The Supreme Court's fifth decision is Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. By a 6–3 vote, the court UPHOLDS age-verification laws for online porn, holding that they are only subject to intermediate scrutiny. All three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1122_3e04.pdf
Fifth ruling from #SCOTUS is in the Texas porn age-verification case.
For a 6-3 majority (with the three Democratic appointees dissenting), Justice Thomas upholds Texas's age-verification scheme for porn websites against a First Amendment challenge:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf...
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf
SCOTUS conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide
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