SCOTUS Rulings Seasons, 2019

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Clarence Thomas’s Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor

A Mississippi prosecutor went on a racist crusade to have a black man executed. Clarence Thomas (https://www.newyorker.com/tag/clarence-thomas) thinks that was just fine.

“A court confronting that kind of pattern cannot ignore it.“

But Thomas can, and he did.

Indeed, he filed a dissenting opinion that was genuinely outraged—not by the prosecutor but by his fellow-Justices, who dared to grant relief to Flowers,

Thomas said that the prosecutor’s behavior was blameless, and

he practically sneered at his colleagues,

asserting that the majority had decided the Flowers case to “boost its self-esteem.” :lol wow

Thomas also found a way to blame the news media for the result.

“Perhaps the Court granted certiorari because the case has received a fair amount of media attention,”

he wrote, adding that

“the media often seeks to titillate rather than to educate and inform.”

In his Flowers dissent, Thomas all but called for the overturning of the Court’s landmark decision in Batson v. Kentucky, from 1986, which

prohibits prosecutors from using their peremptory challenges in racially discriminatory ways.

Thomas made the case that

the Court should be more willing to overturn its precedents.

It’s customary for the Justices to at least pretend to defer to past decisions,

but Thomas apparently no longer feels obligated even to gesture to the Court’s past.

As he put it last fall, in a concurring opinion in Gamble v. United States (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-646_new_o759.pdf),

“We should not invoke stare decisis to uphold precedents that are demonstrably erroneous.”

Erroneous, of course, in the judicial world view of Thomas.

The Supreme Court’s war on its past has begun, and Clarence Thomas is leading the charge.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomass-astonishing-opinion-on-a-racist-mississippi-prosecutor?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_062219&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c1048022fcc&cndid=43758549&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily

Gorsuch was seen to be a nasty motherfucker from his pre-SCOTUS rulings, and he continues 100% with motherfucking Thomas

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Supreme Court Hands Total Wine, Other Out-Of-State Liquor Retailers A Big Win

In a case with consequences for fans of wine and liquor, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, has

struck down a two-year residency requirement for anyone seeking an initial license to operate a liquor store in Tennessee.

There is no doubt that if a state had such a restrictive provision involving the sale of any other product, it would be deemed a violation of the Constitution's ban on erecting barriers to interstate commerce.

But the 21st Amendment, which repealed the national prohibition of liquor sales, left to the states the right to regulate those sales within state borders.

Mississippi :lol was the last dry state in the country, finally allowing the sale of liquor in 1966. :lol

The practical effect of the decision will be that more big-box competitors are likely to move into the state, forcing some local stores out of business.

But liquor prices may go down, and there will be more product choices for consumers.

The last major court decision on state regulation of liquor sales was in 2005, when the high court struck down state laws that allowed in-state wineries to ship directly to consumer out of state but barred out-of-state wineries from shipping to consumers in the state.


https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/732524432/supreme-court-hands-total-wine-other-out-of-state-liquor-retailers-big-win (https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/732524432/supreme-court-hands-total-wine-other-out-of-state-liquor-retailers-big-win)

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Supreme Court rules for sex offender in child pornography case testing power of judges, juries

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that even sex offenders deserve to have the reasons for their sentences determined by a jury, not a judge.

The justices ruled 5-4 that a federal law requiring sex offenders (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/27/supreme-court-sex-offenders-north-carolina-facebook-twitter/98481998/) to return to prison based on a judge's new findings is unconstitutional. Supreme Court precedent gives juries, not judges, the power to determine criminal conduct.

Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of President Donald Trump's two nominees on the court, wrote the opinion and

was joined by the court's four liberal justices – for the fourth time this term. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"A jury must find every fact that is essential to an individual's punishment," Gorsuch said.

In the case before the court, the accused received "a new prison term based instead only on facts found by a judge by a mere preponderance of the evidence."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/26/supreme-court-rules-sex-offender-child-pornography-case/1564204001/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/26/supreme-court-rules-sex-offender-child-pornography-case/1564204001/)

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How the DOJ just asked the Supreme Court to essentially become a ‘branch of the Trump administration’

at the last minute, Justice Department Solicitor General Noel Francisco (https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-966/104091/20190625161322614_DEPT%20OF%20COMMERCE%20ET%20AL%2 018-966%20LETTER.pdf) wrote new

a new plea to the justices asking them to take an even more extraordinary step than simply ruling on the issue before them.
Indeed, law professor Richard Hasen wrote in Slate on Tuesday that if the court goes along with Francisco’s request, it will essentially act as a part of the Trump administration (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/census-case-john-roberts-bush-v-gore-tragedy.html).

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/how-the-doj-just-asked-the-supreme-court-to-essentially-become-a-branch-of-the-trump-administration/?utm_sour%E2%80%A6

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NY SG Tells SCOTUS To Deny DOJ’s ‘Extraordinary’ Request In Census Case

Less than 17 hours before the Supreme Court is expected to decide the legality of the census citizenship question, the justices were still getting bombarded by filings related to the discovery of new evidence linked to the case. (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/census-citizenship-redistricting-study-case-bombshel)

New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood asked (https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-966/104219/20190626164554061_18-966%20Resps.%20Letter%20to%20Court%206.26.19%20wit h%20Service%20List.pdf) the court on Wednesday evening not to resolve the issue of whether the question was added for discriminatory reasons.

The Justice Department on Tuesday had requested (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice-department-equal-protection-request-census-citizenship) that the court resolve to claim, so to head off additional litigation that could occur around it.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/how-the-doj-just-asked-the-supreme-court-to-essentially-become-a-branch-of-the-trump-administration/?utm_sour%E2%80%A6 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/how-the-doj-just-asked-the-supreme-court-to-essentially-become-a-branch-of-the-trump-administration/?utm_sour%E2%80%A6)

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Fuct Yeah! The Supreme Court Addresses Scandalous Trademarks (https://abovethelaw.com/2019/06/fuct-yeah-the-supreme-court-addresses-scandalous-trademarks/)

For now, the PTO will be forced to register just about any mark thrown its way, regardless of content.

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/06/fuct-yeah-the-supreme-court-addresses-scandalous-trademarks/ (https://abovethelaw.com/2019/06/fuct-yeah-the-supreme-court-addresses-scandalous-trademarks/)

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FUCKING HUGE for the "Administrative State"

Justices uphold precedent backing government regulators

The legal drive to rein in the power of federal regulators hit an unexpected stumbling block on Wednesday as the

Supreme Court narrowly rejected an opportunity to overturn a controversial legal precedent under which

courts let federal agencies interpret their own regulations.
Conservatives have been railing and battling against that principle, known as Auer deference, for years, but in the new, late-term ruling (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-15_9p6b.pdf),

Chief Justice John Roberts split with his Republican-appointed colleagues by refusing to strike down the longstanding legal rule.


Roberts did not join all of Justice Elena Kagan’s opinion upholding Auer, but he joined enough of it to give the doctrine a reprieve.

However, Roberts’ conservative colleagues signaled that they believed that the approach — which critics say gives the so-called administrative state unchecked power — was effectively gutted by the new decision. B U L S H I T :lol

” the chief justice wrote.

“The majority catalogs the prerequisites for, and limitations on, Auer deference:

The underlying regulation must be genuinely ambiguous;

the agency’s interpretation must be reasonable and must reflect its authoritative,

expertise-based, and

fair and considered judgment; and

the agency must take account of reliance interests and avoid unfair surprise.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/26/supreme-court-precedent-government-regulators-1383718 (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/26/supreme-court-precedent-government-regulators-1383718)

Steve fucking Bannon, FUCK YOU :lol

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rules that state law assuming driver’s consent to blood test for drugs/alcohol, even when driver is unconscious, provides exception to 4th Amendment’s warrant requirement, allowing law enforcement to draw blood from unconscious drivers w/o warrant

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Partisan gerrymandering is legal


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#SCOTUS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUS?src=hash) ruled 5-4 that partisan gerrymandering claims are not justiciable. Straight-line ideological vote. Roberts writes for the majority. Kagan for the dissenters. Both cases at the court covered by this ruling

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The oligarchy's anti-democratic partisan WHORES are delivering.

Your votes don't fucking count EVER, but esp true if you've partisanly gerrymandered

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Party line SCOTUS vote locks in GOP minority rule

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Party line SCOTUS vote locks in GOP minority rule

in practice, we have seen where the vote is very close, or Dems actually win the vote, Repugs win, maintain (big) majority in states legislatures.

That will get much worse now.

Worst will be in purple states.

eg, TX flipping blue? :lol G M A F B

America is fucked and unfuckable, as the oligarchy strengthens is anti-democratic, anti-Constitution wealth-extractive domination.

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Congress and state legislatures to take on partisan gerrymandering"

In response to the Supreme Court's ruling on the issue of partisan gerrymandering, Sam Berger, vice president of Democracy and Government Reform at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:

Today, the Supreme Court failed to set a reasonable standard to protect American democracy from extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Allowing lawmakers to choose their voters, rather than ensuring that the voters choose them,

results in noncompetitive elections that do not represent the views of the American people.

It is now up to Congress and state legislatures to take on partisan gerrymandering, such as by establishing independent redistricting commissions and requiring them to draw districts that best represent the will of the people.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-opinions-june-27-2019/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-opinions-june-27-2019/index.html)

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"contrived" reason, aka A FUCKING LIE "justifying" the citizenship question placed on the census after violating govt regulations

No citizenship question on the census.

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Partisan gerrymandering is legal


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#SCOTUS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUS?src=hash) ruled 5-4 that partisan gerrymandering claims are not justiciable. Straight-line ideological vote. Roberts writes for the majority. Kagan for the dissenters. Both cases at the court covered by this ruling

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The oligarchy's anti-democratic partisan WHORES are delivering.

Your votes don't fucking count EVER, but esp true if you've partisanly gerrymandered

Thought you was gonna win that one, eh, _? Uh, uh. The old man didn't go to all that time, trouble & money setting Gorsuch & Kavanaugh in there for nothing.
tee, hee.

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"contrived" reason, aka A FUCKING LIE "justifying" the citizenship question placed on the census after violating govt regulations

No citizenship question on the census.Roberts basically told DOC to resubmit the paperwork with more plausible lies -- which in effect probably means there is no more time to include it for the 2020 census.

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:lol holy shit :lol

Trump says he will see if Census can be delayed after court ruling

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-census-trump/trump-says-he-will-see-if-census-can-be-delayed-after-court-ruling-idUSKCN1TS2PJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reu ters+Politics+News%29 (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-census-trump/trump-says-he-will-see-if-census-can-be-delayed-after-court-ruling-idUSKCN1TS2PJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reu ters+Politics+News%29)

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The Roberts Court Continues to Debase Democracy, With a Miserable Gerrymandering Decision

The Supreme Court refusal to address extreme gerrymandering is just the latest example of how this Court majority champions political privilege.

Roberts concluded that “partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.”

Kagan concluded that “In giving such gerrymanders a pass from judicial review, the majority goes tragically wrong.”

when it comes to fundamental questions of

whether the judicial branch will sustain American democracy, the answer from the Roberts Court is invariably “no.”

consider the record of the Roberts Court on cases that define the framework and functionality of our electoral processes:

With the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, the Roberts Court effectively gutted campaign finance protections, clearing the way for corporate interests to flood the political process with money.

With the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Roberts Court gutted key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

With this week’s decisions on the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause (from North Carolina) and Lamone v. Benisek (from Maryland), the Court has rejected a call for judicial intervention to address corruption of the political process by legislative charlatans at the state and local levels.

“They had a rare opportunity to strengthen, if not save, fair representation in our democracy and they categorically failed.”

HR 1, the For the People Act that has been backed by the US House, “would curb extreme partisan gerrymandering by ensuring that states draw congressional districts using independent redistricting commissions

the measure in being blocked in the Senate by majority leader Mitch McConnell and the same hyper-partisan Republicans who mangled the nomination process in 2016 to assure that Roberts could maintain an antidemocratic majority.

This is precisely where the courts should step in as defenders of democracy—to, in Kagan’s words, address “worst-of-the-worst cases of democratic subversion” that are “causing blatant constitutional harms.”

the Roberts Court has made itself the champion of these worst-of-the-worst cases of democratic subversion

https://www.thenation.com/article/john-nichols-supreme-court-john-roberts-democracy-gerrymandering-decision/

The oligarchy's SCOTUS Repug whores assuring America (of the non-oligarchy) is fucked and unfuckable.

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Party line SCOTUS vote locks in GOP minority rule
this one they did rule on the merits. and as expected, and aligned with precedent, partisan gerrymandering is affirmed. it was a stupid challenge unless you thought a conservative court would actually overturn it. best way to ditch a gerrymander is to argue and demonstrate a racial intent

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"this one they did rule on the merits" :lol

oligarchy whore SCOTUS5 have not been bound by stare decisis, precedent or anything else when they want to rule in favor of the oligarchy.

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"this one they did rule on the merits" :lol

oligarchy whore SCOTUS5 have not been bound by stare decisis, precedent or anything else when they want to rule in favor of the oligarchy.



because in the racial gerrymandering case from virginia they ruled on procedural grounds, not on merits

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because in the racial gerrymandering case from virginia they ruled on procedural grounds, not on merits

racial gerrymandering is, has been illegal

partisan gerrymandering, extreme and disenfranchising as the parties can wrangle, has been, is now legal.

(political) Congress could pass a law killing partisan gerrymandering, and (judicial) SCOTUS5 says they would not rule on it.

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Here’s Why Trump Just Had a Meltdown Over the Supreme Court’s Crucial Census Ruling

Trump reacted on Twitter, saying that he’s “asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long” until SCOTUS gets “additional information” needed to ensure his Adminstration’s victory.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_normal.jpg (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)Donald J. Trump
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(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020. I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the.....



https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_normal.jpg (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)Donald J. Trump
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.....United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter. Can anyone really believe that as a great Country, we are not able the ask whether or not someone is a Citizen. Only in America!
12:37 PM - Jun 27, 2019 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298734311878657)

he totally missed the part where it can be asked,:lol Trash doesn't do "close reading or listening" or nuance.

As Vox noted (https://www.vox.com/2019/6/27/18761016/supreme-court-census-citizenship-opinion-decision):

The Commerce Department has acknowledged that in an emergency, with “extraordinary effort,”

it could finalize the census forms as late as October 30 and still run the census in time in 2020.

So in theory, it could spend some time gathering new evidence, issue a new decision adding the question to the census, and then get the courts to review that decision and uphold it as correct.

But it would have to do all that within four months, tops.

The existing case took a year to adjudicate at trial, and another five months from the initial ruling to Thursday’s SCOTUS decision.


In other words, the strategy on timing totally backfired.


2. His Administration got called out for lying.

Secretary of Commerce Ross (who decided to include the citizenship question in the census)

argued the need for the question by saying he was trying to better enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

Ross’ real motivation appears to be derailing the counting of Hispanics and immigrants, thus providing those communities less-than-fair amounts of government representation.

Reviewing the District Court’s decision, SCOTUS lined up Ross’ story with the evidence adduced in court. And that didn’t go so well for the Trump Administration.

The citizenship question had been planned for quite a while:

That evidence showed that the Secretary was determined to reinstate a citizenship question from the time he entered office;

Then later, Ross explained his decision by citing enforcement of the VRA. SCOTUS wasn’t buying it.

We share the District Court’s conviction that the decision to reinstate a citizenship question cannot be adequately explained in terms of DOJ’s request for improved citizenship data to better enforce the VRA.

And down came the hammer:

Altogether, the evidence tells a story that does not match the explanation the Secretary gave for his decision




3. The Administration could’ve won, but they totally bungled this. It could also get worse.

SCOTUS was tasked with answering whether inclusion of the census question violates the Constitution (https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/scotus-just-handed-ny-a-new-way-to-win-the-census-citizenship-question-case-against-wilbur-ross/) in various ways;

it ruled that the question could be permissible.

The problem wasn’t that it was illegal per se, but

that the Administration was bullshitting about why they wanted the question included.

but where his people forgot to show a non-discriminatory purpose in their thought process. What’s more, what’s been dismissed as a conspiracy theory (https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-doj-decries-eleventh-hour-conspiracy-theory-to-save-the-census-citizenship-question/) by the DOJ may end up proving the real motivation for the census question’s inclusion.

After new documents from the estate of recently deceased Republican operative Thomas Hofeller went public,

it was alleged that these records showed that Hofeller specifically orchestrated

the addition of the citizenship census question to achieve certain advantages.

Hofeller notoriously specialized in gerrymandering maps to ensure Republican advantages.

“These newly discovered documents…

eliminate any colorable doubt about the link between Hofeller and government employees involved in the citizenship question approval process.”

Judge Hazel agreed (https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1143137717695459328) on Monday that the

Hofeller evidence “potentially connects the dots between a discriminatory purpose–diluting Hispanics’ political power–and Secretary Ross’s decision.”

https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/heres-why-trump-just-had-a-meltdown-over-the-supreme-courts-crucial-census-ruling/

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racial gerrymandering is, has been illegal

partisan gerrymandering, extreme and disenfranchising as the parties can wrangle, has been, is now legal.
already was considered constitutional


(political) Congress could pass a law killing partisan gerrymandering, and (judicial) SCOTUS5 says they would not rule on it.
that was never in question

[Winehole23]

this one they did rule on the merits. and as expected, and aligned with precedent, partisan gerrymandering is affirmed. it was a stupid challenge unless you thought a conservative court would actually overturn it. best way to ditch a gerrymander is to argue and demonstrate a racial intentOne perhaps is code for the other.

Who are "traditional democrat constituencies"?

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One perhaps is code for the other.

Who are "traditional democrat constituencies"?
there will always be overlap when a particular demographic votes as a monolith tbh

[Winehole23]

Akin maybe to the new legal fig leaf for bigotry: "religious freedom" of business to exclude at will...(Jews, blacks, gays, Muslims, etc.,)

[Winehole23]

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-BSZIkUcAEh3rD.jpg

USA sucks more and more, less and less tolerant, more hate, more discrimination, more exclusion, more vengeance to hurt other people

[Winehole23]

in my young adulthood this was still indecently referred to as "freedom of association"

We call it religious freedom now.

Which creed preaches bigotry? I mean apart from overt neo-Nazis.

What's the scriptural and doctrinal basis for abusing and excluding...certain people?

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man, the war on white christian men is real

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in my young adulthood this was still indecently referred to as "freedom of association"

We call it religious freedom now.

Which creed preaches bigotry? I mean apart from overt neo-Nazis.

What's the scriptural and doctrinal basis for abusing and excluding...certain people?

In the OT, there's one or more examples of "our guys" totally obliterating rival communities, aka genocide, tribal-cide, and it's above all, esp the NT, that the "made for TV" OT that animates today's exclusionary, hate-driven American so-called "Christ"-ians.

And "western" monotheisms all terrorizes out-groups with "you ain't goin to heaven unless you're one of us" or "if you don't join us or are a member of a rival group, we gonna kill you"

America's religious power-driven, hate-driven venal, grifting fascists frame their hate behind "religious freedom", which really means we want freedom to punish, hurt, screw the other guys. Christ would vomit out such "Christians". aka, freedom for us, but not for you.

"Live And Let Live", "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You" are inoperative, anathema for these fucking Christian assholes.

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John Roberts is trying to wreck democracy — but Trump’s incompetence keeps getting in the way

A pair of rulings handed down by the Supreme Court on the last day of its current session

shows just how much

Chief Justice John

Roberts has overseen the slow destruction of the democratic process in this country over the last decade.

Since assuming the center seat on the nation’s highest court in 2005,

Roberts has ruled in favor of unlimited corporate spending in political elections and

against enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

This week he added allowing partisan gerrymandering to continue and

at least a potential citizenship question on the census,

Under Roberts’ tenure, the court’s

conservative justices have previously provided free legal advice to favor certain outcomes.

For instances, they asked the Trump administration come back several times with modifications to its so-called travel ban, so that the court could pretend it was something other than a “Muslim ban.”

In the infamous Citizens United case, the Roberts court had the plaintiff reframe demands (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/21/money-unlimited) in order for the conservatives to rule on the case they wanted, rather than the one actually in front of them.

(https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/john-roberts-is-trying-to-wreck-democracy-but-trumps-incompetence-keeps-getting-in-the-way/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=442)https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/john-roberts-is-trying-to-wreck-democracy-but-trumps-incompetence-keeps-getting-in-the-way/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=442

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Supreme Court to review DACA program protecting young undocumented immigrants

The Supreme Court announced Friday it will take up next term whether the Trump administration illegally tried to end the program that shields from deportation young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

A string of lower courts have said that President Trump’s decision to terminate the Obama-era program was

based on faulty legal reasoning

and that the administration has

failed to provide a solid rationale for ending it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-to-review-daca-program-protecting-young-undocumented-immigrants/2019/06/28/c69a8b04-1500-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fa8fd506964d&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-to-review-daca-program-protecting-young-undocumented-immigrants/2019/06/28/c69a8b04-1500-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fa8fd506964d&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

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that isn't even with respect to the latest Alabama bill which was basically a blanket ban on all abortions (even in cases of incest and rape). that one is even more ridiculous and will be struck down in federal court shortly, tbh

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that isn't even with respect to the latest Alabama bill which was basically a blanket ban on all abortions (even in cases of incest and rape). that one is even more ridiculous and will be struck down in federal court shortly, tbh

Well, it keeps the Base lit & active. (We're) old and our arteries are hardening. We need a prompt, a feather across the crack to get the old heart pumpin', the bile risin', 21. Next November can't come soon enough.

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Well, it keeps the Base lit & active. (We're) old and our arteries are hardening. We need a prompt, a feather across the crack to get the old heart pumpin', the bile risin', 21. Next November can't come soon enough.
You thought Gorsuch and Kavanaughty would be your free pass. Nope. You served it right up to SCOTUS and they volleyball spiked it right on your head, sending ya back to the reading room.

[Splits]

Well, it keeps the Base lit & active. (We're) old and our arteries are hardening. We need a prompt, a feather across the crack to get the old heart pumpin', the bile risin', 21. Next November can't come soon enough.

Dem arteries can't harden fast enough. Die already, so we can progress as a society.

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You thought Gorsuch and Kavanaughty would be your free pass. Nope. You served it right up to SCOTUS and they volleyball spiked it right on your head, sending ya back to the reading room.

We won on the Gerry materiel. RBG can't last much longer.

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Dem arteries can't harden fast enough. Die already, so we can progress as a society.

I know, (we) will progress right into a shit hole, except the hierarchy of Dems & RINO's. They'll be above the shit hole, walled in quite nicely. Their kids too.

[spurraider21]

We won on the Gerry materiel. RBG can't last much longer.
not in Virginia (racial gerrymandering). the allowance of political gerrymandering has been law for a while. kennedy woulda gone the same way anyway. but you thought swapping kennedy for kavanaughty would get you past roe.

[Splits]

I know, (we) will progress right into a shit hole, except the hierarchy of Dems & RINO's. They'll be above the shit hole, walled in quite nicely. Their kids too.

Don't worry. Your Putin Puppet has set us back at least 20 years, given voice and platform to the racists and this generation's McVeighs. Your work here is done. Now go ahead and die please.

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Don't worry. Your Putin Puppet has set us back at least 20 years, given voice and platform to the racists and this generation's McVeighs. Your work here is done. Now go ahead and die please.

It was on your Hussein Obama's watch when this supposed interference occurred, Splits. Hussein was President till 20 January 2017.

Let us be frank though. Blitzing American "billboards" with pictures of Hillary's broad ass and fainting spells ain't interference. You got beat, a split of 80,000 votes. It happens. It happened.

She quit at the home stretch. Spit the bit & wouldn't finish the race. Went back home, hit her knees and spent the last fortnight praying. It's human. Fuck, I've done it time & time again from death spirals of the folks, personal woes, economic woes to the outcomes of NBA scores!

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not in Virginia (racial gerrymandering). the allowance of political gerrymandering has been law for a while. kennedy woulda gone the same way anyway. but you thought swapping kennedy for kavanaughty would get you past roe.

Virginia isn't in play. When it ain't in play Trump doesn't spend time ruminating about it, nor, appealing to it, or, governing it. "They're" on their own. Sure, if weather hits 'em he'll toss 'em a check, but, he will not waste time there. California? Out. New York? Out. Virginia? Out. Illinois? Out. He'll go up to Maine and get that 1 EC, but, that it's on the upper Eastern seaboard. Otherwise? Out. Not only fly by, but, by-by. Because there is no risk Every second he spends on such ground is wasted.

Dance with who brung you.

[Splits]

It was on your Hussein Obama's watch when this supposed interference occurred, Splits. Hussein was President till 20 January 2017.

Let us be frank though. Blitzing American "billboards" with pictures of Hillary's broad ass and fainting spells ain't interference. You got beat, a split of 80,000 votes. It happens. It happened.

She quit at the home stretch. Spit the bit & wouldn't finish the race. Went back home, hit her knees and spent the last fortnight praying. It's human. Fuck, I've done it time & time again from death spirals of the folks, personal woes, economic woes to the outcomes of NBA scores!

Keep living in the past, it suits you and your backward folk. The rest of us are looking forward to again burying your ideology, much like we did Jr's war mongering.

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Keep living in the past, it suits you and your backward folk. The rest of us are looking forward to again burying your ideology, much like we did Jr's war mongering.

I'm sure. You'll have it all put back together before January ever arrives. Every fucking position filled, paper pushing bastards.

"I feel better now. We're not out of the woods by any measure, but, we're on our way to recovery from 3.6% & a 401k windfall."

But, he'll be President ever more, Splits. Just like the 44 before him.

[spurraider21]

Virginia isn't in play. When it ain't in play Trump doesn't spend time ruminating about it, nor, appealing to it, or, governing it. "They're" on their own. Sure, if weather hits 'em he'll toss 'em a check, but, he will not waste time there.
sounds like i picked a good time to move there :)

[Winehole23]

RBG can't last much longer.Famous last words. Can't tell you how many people I know made life altering decisions because they thought, such and such old (person) couldn't last much longer!

[baseline bum]

Virginia isn't in play. When it ain't in play Trump doesn't spend time ruminating about it, nor, appealing to it, or, governing it. "They're" on their own. Sure, if weather hits 'em he'll toss 'em a check, but, he will not waste time there. California? Out. New York? Out. Virginia? Out. Illinois? Out. He'll go up to Maine and get that 1 EC, but, that it's on the upper Eastern seaboard. Otherwise? Out. Not only fly by, but, by-by. Because there is no risk Every second he spends on such ground is wasted.

Dance with who brung you.

Bend over, I'll make your virginia in play.

[boutons_deux]

'Hide the evidence': New Texas law may help GOP keep secrets about its redistricting strategy

transparency advocates warn that the new measure will dramatically expand what legislative documents can be kept secret,

allowing the men and women who write laws to hide why they make the decisions they do and who is influencing them to act.

The bill was passed ahead of the 2021 redistricting process, leading some to worry it was

written specifically to help state lawmakers and legislative staffers responsible for redrawing the Texas’ political maps to hide their tracks.
“This is very clearly an attempt to hide communications about redistricting from any future court review,”

“Normally, Texas legislators have only had two options: lie or tell the truth about their motives.

“The new bill is an attempt to create a third option, which is hide the evidence.”

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2019/06/28/hide-evidence-new-texas-law-may-help-gop-keep-secrets-redistricting-strategy

Repugs do whatever they fucking want to gain and maintain power, knowing the will not be punished.

[boutons_deux]

this shitbag AGAIN from shithole TX

Texas GOP rep. advises Trump to ‘ignore’ the Supreme Court and ‘print the Census’ with citizenship question

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)

has advised President Donald Trump to

“ignore” the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to allow a citizenship question to be included in the next U.S. Census.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/texas-gop-rep-advises-trump-to-ignore-the-supreme-court-and-print-the-census-with-citizenship-question/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/texas-gop-rep-advises-trump-to-ignore-the-supreme-court-and-print-the-census-with-citizenship-question/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Trash's people say they are dropping the question quest, while Trash contradicts them they he is pursuing it, still.