@ktdoggett
A clear & present danger!
Threatening #scotus ?
"The media wasn't paying attention when Obama was attacking Harvard."
#Republicans on #CNBC #Squakbox this morning.
#premarket
#investing
#Obama did not have every move held up in the #SCOTUS.
Trying to recall how many times President #Biden complained to the #SCOTUS about anything.
#Process is like garlic to #Republicans.
#election2026
#2026election
Austin Sarat: A blow to our constitutional system: The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the firing of members of independent regulatory agencies rewards the president for assuming authority he does not have.
#scotus #Constitution #trump #regulation #autocracy #TheContrarian
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/a-blow-to-our-constitutional-system?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
@GossiTheDog tRump et all are #kneecapping as many crime-preventing agencies as they can, as quickly as they can. Is one or more #SCOTUS members in on the criming?
We live in a f*cked up world when #Republican #SCOTUS members are the only ones who do the right thing. WTF!
BREAKING! Supreme Court Refuses Plea to #ProtectOakFlat
#ApacheStronghold said it will continue the fight in the courts
#WendslerNosieSr. said, "While this decision is a heavy blow, our struggle is far from over. We urge Congress to take decisive action to stop this injustice while we press forward in the courts."
By Becket Law, Censored News, May 27, 2025
WASHINGTON – "The Supreme Court today refused to protect a Western Apache sacred site, #OakFlat, from destruction by a Chinese-owned mining giant. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a coalition of Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies will now continue to fight in court to
stop the government from transferring Oak Flat to #ResolutionCopper and turning the site into a massive mining
crater, ending Apache religious practices forever.
"#JusticeGorsuch, joined by #JusticeThomas, dissented from the Court’s refusal to hear the appeal,
saying that the Court’s 'decision to shuffle this case off our docket without a full airing is a grievous mistake—one with consequences that threaten to reverberate for generations.'
"Since time immemorial, Western Apaches and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day Superior, Arizona, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/supreme-court-refuses-plea-to-protect.html
Link to PDF (with Gorsuch's full dissention):
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-291_5i26.pdf
#Fight4OurExistence #SCOTUS #ProtectOakFlat #LandBack #sacredland #OakFlat
#SaveOakFlat #SanCarlosApache #Apache #ReligiousLiberty #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #CensoredNews #ReaderSupportedNews
#ProtectOakFlat #ProtectTheSacred #ApacheStronghold #NativeAmericanNews #NativeAmericans #RioTinto #CopperMining #Arizona #LeaveItInTheGround #ChichilBildagoteel #WesternApaches #BecketLaw
Yesterday's "One First" noted how far behind #SCOTUS is in adding cases to its merits docket for the October 2025 Term. Even with today's cert. grant in Fernandez, that's only *nine* total cases so far. And of those nine, five are modest criminal appeals (including four *federal* criminal appeals):
"The Order targets #NPR & #PBS expressly because, in the President's view, their news & other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased.'"
The “wolf”line was drawn from a 1988 dissent by the late #SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia.
The suit says the admin is usurping #Congress' right to direct how federal money will be spent & to pass laws. It names #Trump, OMB dir #RussVought, Treasury Secy #ScottBessent & #MariaRosarioJackson, the chair of the #NEA, as defendants.
#FBI reopens investigations on case of cocaine found in White House lobby and US Supreme Court Dodds case leak in January at end of Biden era has now escalated #scotus
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/27/fbi-white-house-cocaine-supreme-court-leak-investigations
While repeatedly losing in court has been an early theme of the Trump regime's project to install a fascist dictatorship in America, I don't think it's safe for anyone to assume the crux of the danger we're facing rests solely on to what degree the Swine Emperor and his cronies are willing to simply ignore court orders. Lost in the reality that so far the Supreme Court has held the line against the Trump administration on the question of due process for migrants the regime wants to deport, is the fact that this 6-3 fascist-high bench is the same body that granted president Trump virtual immunity from prosecution for "official acts" undertaken as president, without even bothering to define what an official act is.
That 6-3 fascist majority means the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Federalist Society appointees hand-picked by far right megadonor Leonard Leo, is very closely aligned ideologically with the Christian Zionist fundie fascist wing of the Trump cult, as exemplified by folks like Marco Rubio, and the Heritage Foundation. They might not agree with everything the more openly white nationalist and authoritarian elements in the Trump regime want to do, but guys like Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas are more or less in lockstep with the vast majority of reactionary right wing objectives Trump and his minions are trying to accomplish here. In practice that means that while the 'conservative" justices on the Supreme Court are prepared to align with the law and block some portions of the Trump regime's agenda, they are just as likely to piss on decades of legal precedent and make some bullshit up to advance that agenda; particularly when it aligns with the agenda of the Federalist Society and its donors.
A good example of what that looks like can be found in the recent unsigned shadow docket stay the Supreme Court issued allowing the Trump regime to effectively "fire" two executive branch officials working for consumer and labor protection agencies, while their formal cases against the government make their way through the courts. A ruling might I add that was issued despite the fact that the agencies involved operate independently of the US executive branch, and there is a clear SCOTUS precedent against removing members of independent boards "without good cause."
The Supreme Court Makes Sure the Law Does Not Get in the Way of Trump’s Takeover
"On Thursday night, the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices allowed President Donald Trump to remove two executive branch officials: Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board. In doing so, the court refused to enforce a major precedent. The decision indicated that, despite recent rebukes, the court is willing to disregard longstanding precedent for Trump to proceed with his overhaul of the federal government.
Before the court’s actions, a unanimous 1935 Supreme Court precedent called Humphrey’s Executor insulated both Wilcox and Harris, as members of independent boards, from removal without good cause. On Thursday, the GOP-appointees effectively cabined—or overturned—Humphrey’s Executor, in a glib order; they discarded the precedent that undergirds the modern executive branch in the same way they might toss out an old shirt they no longer feel like wearing.
The court offered a few justifications. First and foremost, it nodded at the Unitary Executive Theory. The theory rests on the idea that the Constitution vests all the executive authority in the president, and therefore it’s unconstitutional to place limits on how the president uses that authority. This theory was crafted by conservative lawyers in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Republicans seemed to have a lock on the presidency but couldn’t get control of Congress and therefore needed a justification for the president to act unilaterally. The Roberts court has spent the last 15 years embedding the theory into constitutional law—even though many academics argue it is an inaccurate and opportunistic reading of the Constitution and the nation’s history."
If the truth be told, the extraordinary lengths the Trump regime has undertaken to fire the National Labor Relations Board's Gwynne Wilcox in particular is an epic tale of authoritarian cracker fuckery in its own right, but we don't have the space to get into it here. The principle point to take away from this story is that a 6-3 fascist high SCOTUS isn't trying to thwart parts of Trump's agenda because they care about the law; they're doing it to retain legitimacy so they can play Calvinball for the American right whenever Trump's agenda aligns with Leonard Leo's, using the Unitary Executive Theory. This in turn means that Americans cannot count on SCOTUS to stop Trump's illegal fascist activities, even if the regime decides to obey a given court order.
Today in Labor History May 26, 1857: Dred Scott was freed from slavery. Scott is most well-known because of the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. He had sued for his family’s freedom, arguing that they had lived four years in the north, where slavery was illegal. The Court ruled 7-2 that people of African descent weren’t U.S. citizens and thus had no standing before the court. Scott’s lawsuit was funded by the children of Peter Blow, who had turned against slavery in the years since their father had sold the Scotts to John Emerson. After the ruling, Emerson’s wife and her new husband, who was an abolitionist, deeded the Scotts back to the Blow children. They manumitted the Scotts on May 26, 1857. However, Dred Scott died from tuberculosis fourteen months later.
#Trump, aided by the most right wing #SCOTUS in living memory, is erasing the US Constitution's separation of powers between the 3 branches of government. The Constitution is a risk of becoming dead letter. https://thehill.com/opinion/5316753-measuring-the-damage-of-trumps-assault-on-the-separation-of-powers/
@meidastouch.com
Ep 5/25/2025
PANICKED #SCOTUS makes SPECIAL RULE to STOP #Trump from firing Fed Chair "
https://youtu.be/bGOTnG6UD0g?feature=shared
(Ed: In not #FailedState like the United States of America you would be able to remove Supreme Court Justices with flagrant conflicts of interests. )
In #Nazi Germany, in the #USSR and in the current #Putin #Russia
the #judicial apparatus and the repressive forces as #Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) #KGB (today #FSB) was (and are in Russia) completely controlled by the #Dictatorship
#Trump is achieving the same result in #US with #Bondi #Patel (FBI) and #SCOTUS
the only obstacles are the #Judges who continue to respect the Laws and the US #Constitution
(which will be replaced wen the opportunity arise with corrupt compliant judges).
This week, #SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. We took one more step toward getting the pool up. Authors made mistakes with #GenerativeAI AI. And so it goes.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/this-week-scotus-punts-and-authors-fumble/
Under the cover of darkness House Republicans slipped a provision into their budget bill that would, at least temporarily, allow Donald Trump to be the dictator of his wildest dreams.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/22/nina-bytes-reconciliation-and-a-us-enabling-act/
Nina-Bytes: Reconciliation and a US Enabling Act
"In the past I’ve written about the many ways we can observe the Trump administration trying to create a patchwork “Enabling Act” out of emergency powers, novel interpretations of decades-old legislation, and even the resurrection of rarely-invoked war powers to fight a wholly fictitious “invasion” by gangs. With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in his pocket, the Swine Emperor might finally have the vehicle he needs to fully transform America into a fascist dictatorship. The plain truth here is that the Republican politicians who voted to ram this bill though Congress last night were already would-be thieves and murderers; this provision now makes them the willing architects of Trump’s Pork Reich."
SCOTUS Just Made Trump a King: They Just Killed a 90-Year Precedent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVqM1hTHO5c
#UnitaryExecutive aka #dictatorship #USPolitics #Law #POTUS #SCOTUS #Project2025
The Supreme Court Just Rewarded Trump for Brazenly Breaking the Law
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/supreme-court-trump-humphreys-executor.html
The conservative justices seem ready to give Trump near-total control over the executive branch—with one notable exception.