Just calling balls and strikes: anything that helps trump is legal, anything that would hurt trump is illegal - ThreadSky

bartenderhemry.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Just calling balls and strikes: anything that helps trump is legal, anything that would hurt trump is illegal

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts issues a temporary, administrative stay blocking orders that DOGE comply with FOIA and start turning over documents to CREW.

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chicagotodd.bsky.social•4 days ago

And respecting stare decisis. Lied through his entire confirmation

joshfrai.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'd heard they changed the strike zone this year.

lynn101.bsky.social•4 days ago

#SCOTUS is corrupt & totally broken.

gupah.bsky.social•4 days ago

Balls are outside and strikes are a little high, but whatever ump

cdpositive.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sounds familiar: Lesson from 34-felon, "Anything bad is Biden's fault. Anything good is my fault."

warrenterra.bsky.social•4 days ago

Originalism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the courts protect but do not bind, alongside out-groups whom the courts bind but do not protect.

foodstooge.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://act.pfaw.org/sign/oppose-trump-judicial-nominees/?utm_source=aa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=opposetrumpjudnoms&t=2&akid=49054%2E2291355%2E_rWupF

gupah.bsky.social•4 days ago

Qualifications?

luful.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don’t understand the temporary stay part!
Isn’t it clear that the people should have access to the information that doge used to fire people and close agencies!

poppins1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Good call!

robertomitchelli.bsky.social•3 days ago

krisweinschenker.bsky.social•4 days ago

Forgot I made this already....I hope my memeory is getting like Joe Biden's

tmcgee57.bsky.social•4 days ago

He has a very consistent strike zone.

concurrentpaul.bsky.social•4 days ago

Time for that automated balls and strikes technology.

runningoutwest.bsky.social•4 days ago

It all goes back to bush v gore. The law is fake and all that. Incredible shit.

irish-norgie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Roberts. Again. Justice Wishywashy.

ulrichw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ok - but this is currently an administrative stay - i.e., a stay pending further decision by the Supreme Court. It's the next step that really counts, and there's still a chance for the "right result" to happen.

tmcgee57.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or they could delay acting for months, as they did with the immunity case, until it is meaningless.

Roberts is on the way to having a worse legacy than Roger Taney. All he needs is a decision that reads something like, Democrats have no rights that a Republican is bound to respect .

gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social•4 days ago

But no good reason for *this result* to happen.

ulrichw.bsky.social•4 days ago

You may know more about this than I do, but basically I see it as preserving the status quo pending a decision. My understanding is that this is a general practice and as a general practice it makes sense to me given that a decision will be made soon.

gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social•4 days ago

SCOTUS does not routinely decide FOIA request details, so this is not like "general practice" at all. The intervention is a signal they intend to allow secrecy. The law already requires disclosure, so if that's their preference, they cd just let the lower court enforce it.

drloveless.bsky.social•4 days ago

It is protecting the status quo, pending instructions from the obscenely wealthy.

midnight-ninja.bsky.social•4 days ago

I hope all the identifying information that DOGE has stolen from various agencies is never used against them. We will never know what exactly they’ve been up to.

lousassole.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absolutely insane why wtf hell does DOGE not have to comply with FOIA!? This blatant scam on the American people is a disgrace. DOGE has done nothing but hurt our country and WASTE money not save it. Roberts and Thomas are TRAITORS to America and belong in prison for the rest of their lives!

petestphil.bsky.social•3 days ago

What are they hiding? Congress has a DOGE committee with members like Pat Fallon. Why are they silent? #TrumpCorruption

bcarreiro.bsky.social•4 days ago

Vibe-rulings. Just vibing maaaaaannn

tydypurple.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gotta give credit to the Republicans and Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers, among others: they have been planning and scheming this for decades! Now we are here. They have put their allies in place. We need the smart people to figure out a way to fight back and enforce consequences.

welshrarebit.bsky.social•4 days ago

Has Trump promised Roberts that he’ll convert America to Catholicism? One can’t help wondering.

prhomberg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sure would be nice if the ranking member of the Sen Judiciary committee was someone other than an 80-year-old who has neither interest nor seeming ability to act like the Supreme Court is a corrupted, rankly partisan institution.

Glad Durbin's retiring, but the best time to retire was 6 years ago.

tydypurple.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is standing better than Schumer, imo..

whatsejstandfor.bsky.social•4 days ago

someone needs to strike his balls

jmgreene28.bsky.social•4 days ago

John Roberts is going to place a crown on Trump's brow and a scepter in his hand, and tut-tut at citizens who dare questions the nation's long tradition of British monarchy.

tapandrollgames.bsky.social•4 days ago

The harm done by giving permission to these "agencies" to destroy evidence as quickly as possible is the biggest crime of all. This is the kind of thing that causes a people to overthrow its highest court and frog march its members through the streets.

maxdurobespierre.bsky.social•4 days ago

Peaceful protest and complaining about Trump and his wealthy syncophants doesn't cut it anymore, but Madame Guillotine does and will!

umbrarchist.bsky.social•4 days ago

I wonder what would happen if we bombarded the Pentagon with emails asking a question:

At what point does the US military doing nothing about a "Domestic Enemy" constitute:
"Dereliction of Duty"?

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umbrarchist.bsky.social•4 days ago

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dennydorko.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dude needs to pick a lane already.

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•4 days ago

John Roberts....fluffing Sissy SpaceX like a true independent judge.

factsoverfallacy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Roberts uses a very unusual decision method. He looks at his desired end result, and then he creates (fabricates?) some half assed reason why.

It’s very popular. Read the Presidential Immunity decision.

drloveless.bsky.social•4 days ago

You mean like the President can eliminate any independent agency he wants, just not the Federal Reserve? After all, he has billionaires to protect.

factsoverfallacy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly. You see Justices have money at risk, so the Fed is special.

lemurdreamer87.bsky.social•4 days ago

Unless rulings that explicitly help Trump also weaken the SCOTUS' own power, then it becomes more of a 50/50.

chrish2122.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s cause Trump is what they have always wanted an empty vessel who only care of himself so they are free to push their agenda.

drloveless.bsky.social•4 days ago

Utter criminal complicity.

juan24g.bsky.social•4 days ago

medianvoters.bsky.social•4 days ago

Law schools could push back on this shit. Start explicitly teaching that this SCOTUS is a Republican operation and not a court of law. Tell every student for the next 30 years. See how strong the Gang of Six are when 1st years laugh at them when they come to campus.

suzannedspain.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why do you bother JR?

bostonmikeoo7.bsky.social•4 days ago

How much crypto did ol' Robbie boy get???

prettyhatmachine.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why are people still foolish enough to believe the Law will stop Trump? 😞

seegras.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, of course.

Here's the Handbook:
https://worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/germany/mussolini.htm

weshlovrcm.bsky.social•4 days ago

The far-right fascist cabal, once again enabling the theofascist-takeover of our government.

kimberleelynn.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is no way to run a country....

joebauernotsure.bsky.social•4 days ago

SCOTUS to Trump: "Fuck everything up, except the Fed. We like money."

madhominem.bsky.social•4 days ago

Roberts out there like the Angel Hernandez of courts

opinionatedlab.bsky.social•4 days ago

dreadfulpenny.bsky.social•4 days ago

I haz found my people!

dianebhere.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://thecommoncoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TheCommonCoalitionReport_5.14_NM.pdf

wooble.geoffreyspear.com•4 days ago

Is "DOGE is some bullshit with no statutory basis and not an actual federal agency" the likely final decision here?

shellwe.bsky.social•4 days ago

He will go down as a traitor.

pk0042.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/murshedz.bsky.social/post/3lprzjxcn6k2q

thebestwords.bsky.social•4 days ago

He failed to follow up his statement: Mission Accomplished.

clothos.bsky.social•4 days ago

John is always right on time.🙄

plabonga.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just watched the Last of the Mohicans and this line rings true,

"If they set aside their law as and when they wish, their law no longer has rightful authority over us. All they have over us is tyranny."

g23white.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed

jacobaugust.bsky.social•4 days ago

drloveless.bsky.social•4 days ago

One day he will "outlive his usefulness" as the Bond villains say. Watch him whine about it.

benkannenberg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Justices are just like umpires. They call balls and strikes, they're actually fairly bad it, they're completely unaccountable, and they're a vesitigial organ of a once great country. And also they're a bunch of insecure, vain, power hungry babies who nobody actually likes.

benkannenberg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ideally by 2030 SCOTUS justices will not be the final decision makers on any substantial political issue, and MLB umpires will no longer be the final authority on balls and strikes.

drloveless.bsky.social•4 days ago

No, it will be the Yam-titted monkey, or his successor.

benkannenberg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Listen, I know he acts all powerful, but Donald Trump straight up does not have the knees to be an umpire. Smh, you sound ridiculous even suggesting it.

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