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We should take it away from them, in my opinion.

submitted 20 hours ago • 43 comments

In addition to the pettiness, Barrett's response to Jackson is embarrassingly thin and built on rhetorical flourishes, as if this is the first universal injunction ever and it's about a minor technical point of law rather than the President violating the Constitution to kidnap and expel citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

This line….everyone had a story. People who knew Melissa and Mark, people who appreciated their work, and a whole lot of ordinary Minnesotans who just felt like they had to be there to honor them.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We laughed so hard at this.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Remarkably strong correlation between pundits who told me the Supreme Court upholding Texas’s abortion bounty hunter law was technical and not a sign it would overturn Roe, and pundits assuring me birthright citizenship is fine because people can “just file a class action” or whatever

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Just watched it and it’s great! We laughed so hard the kids came in the room.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

submitted 1 day ago • 668 comments

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT birthright citizenship. The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship. That way led to war once. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

The official position of the Roberts Court is that Republican presidents are allowed to ignore parts of the Constitution they don't like, and that it would be extremely inappropriate for federal judges to do anything about it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Biden tries to forgive student loans SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. Trump revokes part of the constitution SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

submitted 1 day ago • 448 comments

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

I think we’ve gotten to the point where the endless footage of fascists attacking people and invading their homes has started to become normalized and holy hell stuff like this is so far beyond okay or tolerable. These people need to go to jail. Abolish, yes, but call for them to be put away.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

The assassination of a sitting congressperson and her husband should be headline news every day for the rest of this presidency. Every single fucking day.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This is human trafficking.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office

submitted 1 day ago • 514 comments

I really do think this might be the worst Supreme Court of all time, which is saying something for an institution that coexisted with slavery These motherfuckers are even worse imo bc they are also out here using antebellum reasoning and pursuing antebellum goals but well post bellum!

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 1 day ago • 241 comments

We're only six months into this, folks.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

So when do Blue states start banning firearms? And then start making every gun owner file an individual lawsuit seeking an individual injunction? Or they can go through the class certification process which, let me tell you having done it myself in litigation, takes forever. Let’s do this.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 1 day ago • 457 comments

The courts are only legitimate if the public accords them legitimacy. They can't enforce their orders etc...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The sooner you catch up w Jamelle on this stuff, the better. If you're still doing "they can't do that it's unconstitutional" in 2025, come on

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

The law has a lot of procedural and technical complications that can produce unfortunate and conflicting results but this is not one of those situations. This was a choice by SCOTUS to break the Constitution itself, to transform it from the law of the land into a piecemeal promise.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

OK cool where do I file the papers to run against Samuel Alito

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The Supreme Court has made this repulsive racist monster the King of America.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.

submitted 1 day ago • 318 comments

Thinking again about how brazenly the Trump justices lied in their Senate confirmations. "We call balls and strikes. The Court will honor precedent." They realized: once they're confirmed there's no recourse, no one to stop them. Honor systems are so easily hacked by the dishonorable.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

All public schools are religious schools now, according to Alito

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

This Christian theocratic project—of which SCOTUS is a crucial part—depends on kids growing up to be bigots. Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.

submitted 1 day ago • 517 comments

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

Everyone who said we needed to pack the court was right. We’ve arrived at constitutional amendments in the constitution are not constitutional

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

submitted 1 day ago • 1731 comments

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The Trump powered crime spree continues

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments