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