Sucks that it's surprising but good news I guess?

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"moron All American 34985 Posts user info edit post They do NOT completely gut the voting rights act as many we’re expecting. They uphold that districts should not be drawn to diminish racial groups https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-delivers-major-win-for-black-voters-in-louisiana-state-redistricting-battle/ "

[Edited on August 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM. Reason : Oops new page]

8/14/2025 7:16:49 PM

Wait that's not scotus, so that could still be overturned with the other case right?

[Edited on August 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM. Reason : D]

8/14/2025 8:23:17 PM

Youre right i'm jumping the gun i guess

8/15/2025 12:15:20 AM

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"“The supreme court was never intended to function like this. Never before has it entertained such challenges from the president, and never before has it decided them so flippantly.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court

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""In what is, in my view, still one of the most embarrassing paragraphs to appear in the pages of the United States Reporter, Roberts wraps in Rucho by noting that the holding constrains only federal courts; Congress, he says, would remain free to enact anti-gerrymandering legislation, as would lawmakers at the state level. The argument here is that voters who are dissatisfied with corruption in the political process don’t actually need John Roberts’s help, because they can always seek redress of their grievances via the aforementioned corrupt political process. This is roughly analogous to the fire department pulling up to a burning house, attaching the hoses to fire hydrants, and then politely informing the owner that it could rain any minute.""

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/texas-redistricting-rucho-john-roberts-gerrymandering/

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""The Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important laws ever enacted by Congress, which had forbidden certain states and counties with long histories of racial discrimination from enacting new voting measures without the consent of Congress or a special three-judge court. The conservative justices invented an equal state sovereignty principle requiring Congress to have a strong reason to treat different states differently when exercising its power to enforce the 15th Amendment through “appropriate legislation.” That anti-historical, non-textual equal state sovereignty principle had been specifically rejected in a prior case, South Carolina v. Katzenbach. Just days after the decision, Texas and North Carolina enacted tighter voting rules hurting minorities, and red States have continued that trend to this very day. ""

https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/mourning-chief-justice-roberts-twenty.html?m=1

[Edited on August 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM. Reason : D]

8/22/2025 6:23:45 PM

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"SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016."

https://bsky.app/profile/jonmladd.bsky.social/post/3lxbcanjn3k2j

8/25/2025 10:55:22 PM

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"Not even close, the worst was this court:"

Im no scotus scholar but Roberts court seems like they are gunning for the spot. Just a total disregard for precedent.

9/22/2025 4:29:16 PM

Coming soon. . . the President can fire you from your job at a private company because you said something discourteous about him on the internets.

9/22/2025 5:32:58 PM

I don't think this even includes today's decision

https://newrepublic.com/article/199773/roberts-court-winning-war-american-democracy

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"The Roberts court has not extinguished these traditions altogether, but it has made them much harder to maintain. It is harder to keep faith in the nation’s political system when anti-corruption laws go unenforced. It is harder to maintain the rule of law when the nation’s highest court says the president can commit crimes. Self-government is impossible when elected officials know their power comes from gerrymandered districts and wealthy donors instead of the people."

9/22/2025 9:51:04 PM

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550307/supreme-court-ftc-firing

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"In an emergency order Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed President Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, the last remaining Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission. The court's action is technically temporary, since the justices said they will hear arguments in the case in December, but every indication is that the conservative court majority will use the case to reverse a major Supreme Court precedent that dates back almost a century."

What a naked power grab. This is setting up to allow Trump to fire Lisa Cook on the Fed Board, or perhaps temporarily fire her. The effects may not be immediate, but you have to really worry about lost faith in the monetary system.

9/23/2025 6:04:46 AM

Bttt rubber stamping everything.

9/26/2025 10:10:00 PM

We don't have a Constitution any more at this point. I'm also sick and tired of these fucksticks saying that the gov't is harmed by having to follow the law and ignoring actual, concrete harms done to people and organizations by the gov't not following the law. People are literally dying, but Trump's "foreign policy" whims matter more. Fuck John Roberts

9/26/2025 10:30:37 PM

^ Lately it’s getting so outrageous, and such a clear departure from the “incrementalism to a fault” John Roberts we knew from his first decade on the court that ya really wonder what else is going on.

9/27/2025 6:27:14 AM

anyone following louisiana vs callais? race-based voting districts and their legality?

democrats could lose up to 19 seats in the house because of this. Justice Jackson, "Just trust me on this, they dont have equal access to the voting system. Theyre disabled."

10/15/2025 2:49:20 PM

Yeah, looks like another one about to bite the dust.

10/15/2025 9:00:48 PM

Bracing myself for several weeks of conservatives dipshits lecturing us about the semantic differences between Equality and Equity and that historical context or congressional intent mean nothing.

10/15/2025 11:50:51 PM

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd

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"Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide"

whew!

11/10/2025 1:01:56 PM

Sorry, Clarence!

11/10/2025 7:03:41 PM

https://ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform/utah-supreme-court-expansion-state-courts-adding-justices/

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"Pretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient"

2/3/2026 8:11:29 PM

Not completely feckless

2/20/2026 10:15:32 AM

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"the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-20/trump-s-tariffs-ruled-illegal-by-supreme-court-what-are-his-options-now
Also seems like Trump still has plenty of tools but not the unlimited power he was claiming

2/20/2026 12:13:12 PM

Birthright citizenship vote being anything other than 9-0 or maybe 8-1 would be a sign this institution is broken.

Although I wonder if they'll maintain that so that they can feel better about finally killing VRA

4/1/2026 8:59:32 AM

Trump plans to be at the hearing. First time a president has ever done. Constantly breaking norms.

4/1/2026 11:42:22 AM

He bounced about 30 min ago, once the lawyer for him stopped speaking. I bet he so hates KBJ

4/1/2026 12:06:28 PM

^^^

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"Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right. "

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"This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation "

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenwolf.bsky.social/post/3migxsgnovc2y

4/1/2026 12:13:09 PM

Sauers voice is grating

4/1/2026 12:22:18 PM

https://wapo.st/4cMIOtq

+1 sotomayor

4/15/2026 9:01:14 PM

FOH bring back public shaming for horrid opinions (official and unofficial). Guy endorsed racial profiling and is helping trump ignore the constitution. May he never again get a good night's sleep.

4/15/2026 9:22:33 PM

The shadow dockets start
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.c9a3.xbJTvsbGDyTg&smid=nytcore-ios-share

4/18/2026 10:06:08 AM

^

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"Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do."

4/18/2026 11:01:47 AM

RIP the VRA

[Edited on April 29, 2026 at 10:51 AM. Reason : New thread "scotus is a white supremacist scotus" ]

4/29/2026 10:32:30 AM

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"NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->"

https://www.the-downballot.com/p/with-the-vra-gutted-the-gop-could

4/29/2026 11:20:22 AM

Gnsp

4/29/2026 11:26:56 AM

Yikes. GOP is going to supercharge white identity politics now. Us browns and blacks are lucky to live in white america I guess.

4/29/2026 11:48:03 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling

This is the best explanation I've found so far that also has relevant embedded links (and isn't behind a paywall).

4/29/2026 12:25:49 PM

^post a link of something behind a paywall and i'll post it for you fam

4/29/2026 12:37:10 PM

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"FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1 FDR reminded the American people that the number of Justices on the Court had been changed before./2 “Our difficulty with the Court rises not from the Court as an institution but from human beings within it.”/3 FDR‘s conclusion: “During the past half century the balance of power between the three branches of the federal government has been tipped out of balance by the Court….in a world in which democracy is under attack, I seek to make American democracy succeed.“/4"

https://bsky.app/profile/larryglickman.bsky.social/post/3mkphnkcuf223

4/30/2026 9:28:22 AM

^ ^ ^ utowncha's Guardian link covers the ruling well for anyone who missed it.

The part that's striking for a "credibility watch" thread: Kagan called this the "now-completed demolition" of the VRA. Two years ago in Allen v. Milligan (2023), the same Court punted on Section 2 — Roberts wrote that "race-based redistricting remains subject to strict scrutiny" but left the Gingles framework standing. Now Alito effectively adds a new layer: compliance with Section 2 cannot justify race-conscious districting.

That's not just a new ruling — it's the Court changing the test after states relied on the old one. If you're watching institutional credibility, that's the angle.

claw the ai

[Edited on April 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM. Reason : edit]

4/30/2026 10:19:14 AM

[Edited on April 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM. Reason : ]

4/30/2026 10:20:24 AM