After 2.5 hours of oral argument before the #SupremeCourt about whether Trump's trillion dollar #Tariffscheme is unconstitutional or illegal, all comes down to which way #NeilGorsuch and #AmyConeyBarrett flip. It was a very skeptical bench today, and made the #MAGA6 SQUIRM!
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We’re on the Unfuck Stage of Trump’s Abuse of Power
SCOTUS will decide whether to take up the Kim Davis marriage case, and here's what it will mean
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/voices/supreme-court-marriage-equality
Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Colorado’s ban on harmful ‘conversion therapy’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-skeptical-conversion-therapy-ban
The sham of oral arguments on conversion therapy is meant to show SCOTUS is 'unbiased'
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/voices/supreme-court-conversion-therapy
Senate Republicans confirm 48 Trump nominees at once
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the…
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Panic over marriage equality misses the real threat.
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Gorsuch’s Snail Darter Argument
The Supreme Court this morning denied certiorari in Apache Stronghold v. US. This looks like the end of the road, at least the legal road, for this case. It also signals the start of something else: in short order, the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Resolution’s mine will be published, and that will trigger the transfer of Oak Flat to two foreign mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, joint owners of Resolution Copper.
(For more background, see this post, this, this, and this.)
Only Gorsuch and Thomas dissented; Alito did not participate. Gorsuch’s dissent is worth reading in its entirety. Here, I want to call out just one of his arguments. He’s pushing hard against the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning that the “disposition” of federal land does not substantially burden the free exercise of religion (even if the land in question happens to be essential to the exercise of that religion, as Oak Flat is to the Western Apache).
The truth is, Congress has adopted all sorts of laws restricting the government’s power to dispose of its real property. Take just one example, the Endangered Species Act. That law, this Court once held, required the government to halt “operation of a virtually completed federal dam” to protect the endangered “snail darter,” a “previously unknown species of perch.” TVA v. Hill, 437 U. S. 153, 156, 158 (1978). The Court read the Act to require that result even though Congress had spent more than $100 million on the dam—nearly half a billion in today’s dollars—and our holding effectively “‘divest[ed] the Government of its right to use what is, after all, its land.’” 101 F. 4th, at 1051 (quoting Lyng, 485 U. S., at 453). If Congress went to such lengths to accommodate the snail darter, why should we suppose it offered less protection to people practicing an ancient faith?
I get it, but the argument makes me uneasy. It comes close to holding the Endangered Species Act up to ridicule, and at a moment when the Act itself is under serious threat. Just last month, the Trump administration proposed a new rule that would change the definition of “harm” under the Act, such that habitat destruction would not constitute harm.
The federal government’s disposition of its real property often threatens the habitats of endangered species, as it did in Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, the case to which Gorsuch refers here. Were the Trump administration’s new rule in effect, the case would have gone the other way, or never have been brought at all. I imagine Gorsuch will revisit this argument, and say more about whether he considers the accommodations of the Endangered Species Act reasonable or ridiculous, should this new interpretation of the Act come before the Court.
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The spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in Trump’s America | Lloyd Green https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/confederacy-trump-republican #Trumpadministration #USCapitolattack #AmyConeyBarrett #USsupremecourt #BrettKavanaugh #Farright(US) #DonaldTrump #NeilGorsuch #USpolitics #MikePence #USnews #Race
In other words, Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas, #NeilGorsuch & #BrettKavanaugh don’t believe in the power of the #judiciary, their own power, or the #SeparationOfPowers.
They believe that the president is in fact above the #law — as long as that president is #Trump.
Here is the order, Alito’s self sabotaging dissent starts on page 2.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a831_3135.pdf
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Judge Ali should consider "the feasibility of any compliance deadlines," #SCOTUS added.
4 conservative justices dissented from the denial of the application, w/Justice #Alito writing that Ali did not have "unchecked power to compel the government to pay out ... 2 billion taxpayer dollars."
"I am stunned," Alito added.
The other dissenters were Justices #ClarenceThomas, #NeilGorsuch & #BrettKavanaugh.
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US supreme court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row prisoner https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/supreme-court-ruling-richard-glossip-death-row #Capitalpunishment #AmyConeyBarrett #USsupremecourt #SoniaSotomayor #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #NeilGorsuch #Republicans #Oklahoma #USnews
#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk
UPDATE
*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*
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...#JamesBurnham, who #ProPublica described as #DOGE's general counsel, clerked for Justice #NeilGorsuch and was previously a partner at the law firm #JonesDay."
"Of the list of #WhiteHouse #DOGE staffers, only one appears to have previously worked in politics.
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UPDATE
*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*
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...organization."
"...Other names...include #JacobAltik, #KeenanKmiec, and #StephanieHolmes. #Altik was selected to clerk for Justice #NeilGorsuch for the term starting in October 2025, while #Kmiec clerked for Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, as well as for #SamuelAlito while #Alito was still a federal circuit judge....
#SupremeCourt Denies #DonaldTrump Request to Stop His #Sentencing. He is scheduled to b sentenced in #NewYork on Friday morning after being convicted of 34 #felonies. #presidency used to #subvert #justice for #criminal actions. Thank Judge #merchan for completing the work he is obligated to do as judge #AileenCannon facilitates #trump #corruption #subversion of #democracy. Justices #ClarenceThomas, #SamuelAlito #NeilGorsuch #BrettKavanagh would have granted Trump’s request to block.
From the SCOTUS ruling:
“Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Kavanaugh would grant the application.”
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#Corrupt #US #SupremeCourt turns away #challenge to #race neutral #admissions #criteria at #Boston #highschools
justice #NeilGorsuch noted that the #schools have since changed the #admissionspolicy, which "greatly diminish[es] the need for our #review."
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-boston-high-schools-admissions/
[Slate]: Don’t Mistake Neil Gorsuch’s Abrupt Recusal for Actual Ethics. By Mark Joseph Stern
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/supreme-court-ethics-neil-gorsuch-recusal.html
This is an interesting read. The simple statement "Gorsuch recused himself" is really misleading; there no self-awareness, lofty ethical stance; he was ultimately forced to the obvious, the right thing. Geezuz
Bernie Sanders says he opposes urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/10/bernie-sanders-supreme-court-justices-sonia-sotomayor-biden #RuthBaderGinsburg #USelections2024 #AmyConeyBarrett #USsupremecourt #SoniaSotomayor #BrettKavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #BernieSanders #DonaldTrump #Republicans #NeilGorsuch #SamuelAlito #USpolitics #Democrats #JoeBiden #USnews
Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr.’s bid to be removed from Michigan, Wisconsin ballots
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s last-ditch bid Tuesday to remove his name from the p
https://www.heartlandnewsfeed.com/2024/10/29/supreme-court-rejects-rfk-jr-s-bid-to-be-removed-from-michigan-wisconsin-ballots/
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