"In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda.:

~ Jeet Heer

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
/2

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-speech-precedent/

"It turns out, they don’t actually care about precedent (no matter how many times they lied and claimed to care during their Senate confirmation hearings). They don’t actually care about the text. They don’t actually care about judicial restraint. They want the political outcomes they want and they have the votes to do it."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
/5

"If Thomas were the only justice who thought like this, it would be a containable problem. But the entire Republican cabal on the Supreme Court rules exactly in the way Thomas is talking about, with no respect for precedent or stare decisis. …

The entire Trump administration has been a 'mask off' moment for the Supreme Court’s conservatives."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
/4

"Thomas is saying that if he doesn’t like where the 'train' of stare decisis is leading him, he can just get off and go in a different direction. Remember, Thomas’s war against the 20th century can’t achieve victory if old Supreme Court opinions have weight."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
/3

"In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda.:

~ Jeet Heer

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
/2

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-speech-precedent/

"The polite norms around the Supreme Court have been obliterated. This should be apparent to everyone; every one of these shadow docket rulings where the majority semi-anonymously grants a would-be dictator more power to overthrow the Constitution only reinforces the fact that the high court’s age of respectability is over."

~ Jason Linkins

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #Constitution
/1

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=a4666cd9e1ab0e4abf05a0fb232f4ad3.2249&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"Does it ever feel like the Supreme Court is going out of its way to favor all the cases that undermine democracy, while hampering cases that would lift democracy?

Not just on the merits of cases, but in the way the Court goes about hearing cases and making its decisions in the first place."

~ David Pepper

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
/4

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/justice-delayed-justice-denied-5d6

"As of this writing, the Trump Justice Department has filed 20 emergency applications with the court in its brief tenure, compared with a 16-year total of eight such applications from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, or one every other year.

This year, the court granted 18 of Trump’s requests to stay adverse lower court orders, usually over fierce dissents from liberal justices."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
/5

"A number of prominent liberal court-watchers, such as law professors Lawrence Tribe and Leah Litman, pundit and author Ian Milhiser, and, at times, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson, have ascribed the conservative majority’s receptivity to Trump shadow docket requests to rank partisanship. Much evidence lends credibility to that charge."

~ Simon Lazarus

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
/4

https://newrepublic.com/article/200614/roberts-court-shadow-docket-blowback

"The order is a resounding win for Trump, further proof that the right-wing majority will find a way to expand his power no matter how flimsy the argument. The administration, in turn, is acting with the hubris of a White House that just crossed a major boundary and was congratulated for it."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
/3

"With one weird timing trick, the administration claimed, it could request that the money not be spent close enough to the end of the fiscal year that the funds would simply freeze indefinitely. The theory — called a 'pocket rescission' — is at near comical odds with the text of the Impoundment Control Act, specifically passed to restrict this exact presidential infringement upon Congress’ spending powers."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
/2

"President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme Court gave an early stamp of approval to a legal theory so outlandish that experts at one point predicted to TPM it wouldn’t 'get a single vote.'

The Court blessed, at the preliminary stage, Trump’s gambit to zero out money Congress already appropriated."

~ Kate Riga

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
/1

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-supreme-court-pocket-rescissions-birthright-citizenship

"The conservative judicial revolution has achieved something remarkable: they’ve used the Constitution to destroy constitutional governance, employed originalism to justify unlimited presidential authority, and transformed legal scholarship into systematic rationalization for the very tyranny the Founders designed our system to prevent."

~ Mike Brock

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
/6

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-conservative-legal-revolutions

"Get ready for another rightward lurch in the new Supreme Court term. If things stay true to form, President Trump will benefit from the Roberts court’s generous takes on executive power. The rest of us may not be so lucky. …

From the cases already set to be heard, the court’s conservative majority has shown the direction in which it will most likely take the country over the next nine months."

~ Matt Ford

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
/5

https://newrepublic.com/article/200905/new-supreme-court-term-trump

"Does it ever feel like the Supreme Court is going out of its way to favor all the cases that undermine democracy, while hampering cases that would lift democracy?

Not just on the merits of cases, but in the way the Court goes about hearing cases and making its decisions in the first place."

~ David Pepper

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
/4

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/justice-delayed-justice-denied-5d6

"You would think that at some point, cooler heads might prevail, and things could go back to something approaching political normalcy.

And then you look at the current cast of characters on the Supreme Court and the political party that put them there and the ruling they made that presidents are beyond the law, and all the crap they’re doing with the 'shadow docket,' and you think…

Not."

~ Lucian Truscott

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
/3

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-and-comey-and-the-whirlpool

"The Supreme Court has simply abandoned the Constitution."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #corruption #JohnRoberts
/2

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/into-the-breach-once-again

As Chris Geidner notes, on Friday, the issued another unsigned shadow-docket ruling, this one blocking blocked a lower court’s order that would have required the Trump administration to spend 4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress by September 30, when that funding expires.

#SupremeCourt #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #corruption #JohnRoberts
/1

https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-impoundment-is-ok-when-trump-does-it

"There's one main person responsible for Donald Trump not being held accountable in the same way Bolsonaro is & that man is John Roberts. It's really important that people assign the blame for Trump not standing trial to John Roberts because it's literally John Roberts." @emptywheel

Listen to her live 3pm ET to 4ish on the @nicolesandler show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQU_P10hFAE

#Bolsonaro#JohnRoberts#SCOTUS#Trump #uspol

"There's one main person responsible for Donald Trump not being held accountable in the same way Bolsonaro is & that man is John Roberts. It's really important that people assign the blame for Trump not standing trial to John Roberts because it's literally John Roberts." @emptywheel

Listen to her live 3pm ET to 4ish on the @nicolesandler show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQU_P10hFAE

#Bolsonaro#JohnRoberts#SCOTUS#Trump #uspol