BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Education Dep't to halt payment of grants.
A district court issued a TRO blocking the cancelation of the grants in a suit brought by eight states. The appeals court refused a stay pending appeal.
Today, SCOTUS stayed the TRO—blocking payments.
A district court issued a TRO blocking the cancelation of the grants in a suit brought by eight states. The appeals court refused a stay pending appeal.
Today, SCOTUS stayed the TRO—blocking payments.
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People in the streets, peacefully.
https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=thirdact
Fuckers.
The question I have is, why? It seems odd for this to pop out of nowhere. Is there some advantage to the Trump administration in doing so?
It's another way they're really awful.
But screw the rules, SCOTUS can apparently write all new ones at any time, I guess. 😔
Hoping I’m wrong and they rule on a case by case…
Roberts wrote nothing but noted he would have denied the application.
Kagan and Jackson wrote dissents. Sotomayor joined Jackson's dissent, which does not hold back:
Biden could have impeached who now?
Under what goddamned authority?
😂 that’s a hot take: blame Biden for Drumpf’s SCOTUS.
#revisionisthistory
#thanksobama
#itsalwaystheDemsfault
Somehow, it's an emergency when someone tries to stop you from destroying the government, but it's NOT an emergency when you are fighting to save the government, instead?
Why does any serious commentator accept the pretense that the majority are “judges” interpreting the “law”?
I'm pissed off too but the system is set up so that they're the ultimate arbiters for interpreting what the law means and how it's to be followed.
The only recourse for abuse being impeachment which is politically impossible so... Sucks to be us?
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Should always be in quotes.
This is deeply disappointing but Steve Vladeck says wait and see.
I have such admiration for educators. I was a hospice nurse which people think is "so hard" but man, I could not be a teacher.
Here is the First Circuit opinion denying DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca1.52604/gov.uscourts.ca1.52604.00108262266.0_1.pdf