RE: https://mastodon.social/@nvo987/115710446037718418
next on Midwindsor Murders:
Andrew, a Lolita Express enthusiast, is found dead at the Tower of London’s stairs landing. Suspicion falls on Midwindsor’s garden stalker, Bucktooth Chuck, worried that #Epstein’s Jet Lag Disease might threaten his son’s Billy’s Succession Ball.
Prince Andrew Sparks New Debate as Line of Succession Comes Under Fire
https://youtu.be/FA6FrnhzrdI
#PrinceAndrew #KingCharles #RoyalFamily #RoyalNews #Monarchy #Succession #BuckinghamPalace #BritishRoyals #RoyalUpdate
"In the face of the Trump administration’s repeated assaults on the rule of law and the power of the legislature, the Court majority has not merely stood aside but has strewn the path to authoritarianism with flowers. All this comes on top of catastrophic decisions that have turned the American political system over to dark money, weakened voting rights, & dismantled the separation of church and state."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/8
"This Supreme Court not only sabotaged the proceedings against Trump’s conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election but went on to grant this President—and presumably all those in the future – an immunity to criminal prosecution that has no foundation in history or the Constitution."
~ Katherine Stewart
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/7
"Of the 23 temporary orders and rulings passed down by the body that in some way related to direct actions by the Trump administration, Cheeto Benito luxuriated in a whopping 90% win rate."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/6
"The win-rate for folks who challenged the administration at the circuit court level was similar, with them coming out on top 59% of the time in the 90 cases analyzed by Court Accountability.
Our ol’ alphabet soup friend, known as SCOTUS, was a far different story, however."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/5
[A 2025 court accountability report] found that by late October, individuals or groups who challenged the Trump administration secured legal victories in approximately 60% of the 240 rulings judges had handed down. Notably, that total included winning 55% of cases before Trump-appointed judges. Not too shabby, Lady Justice!"
~ Peter Rothpletz
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/4
"The Supreme Court is corrupt and broken. I think these six Supreme Court justices aren't justices. I don't think they have loyalty to the Constitution. I think they have loyalty and fidelity to their right-wing billionaires and their extremist authoritarian agenda."
~ Wajahat Ali
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/taking-on-the-contemptuous-supreme
"Otherwise, the bunch has all the integrity of a 'piss-poor bowling team from Memphis,' as the late Dr. Thompson once wrote of an earlier conservative Court."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/2
"There’s only one reason to continue to follow the activities of the current Supreme Court. And it’s to watch the carefully constructed conservative majority wind itself into knots to explain how their authoritarian-enabling rulings don’t apply to Democratic presidents or the possibly imminent Democratic Congress."
~ Charles Pierce
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy #EconomicElites
/1
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a69673292/scotus-trump-slaughter/
"When the history of this era is written, the role of the Roberts Court in systematically removing critical guardrails, while letting the White House run wild, must figure prominently."
Jay Kuo
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/9
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-humphreys-executor-case-scotus
Wajahat Ali on "the lazy, dangerous, and reckless arguments of this corrupt Supreme Court":
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-terrible-anti-democratic-corrupt
Robert B. Hubbell:
"The reactionary majority is acting in a corrupt manner."
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-reactionary-majoritys-final-assault
Josh Marshall on the "corrupt rule" of the court's controlling bloc
Mark Mansour:
"a blatantly corrupt Supreme Court majority"
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-to-republican-and
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/7
The words "corrupt" or "corruption" are used seven times as Heather Cox Richardson and Marc Elias talk about the case of the Supreme Court National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission (NRSC v. FEC) now before the court.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/6
Recurring words in discussions of John Roberts' Supreme Court and Trump right now: "corrupt" and "corruption."
These words appear 9 times as Don Moynihan's commentary looks at what the right-wing Supremes seem poised to do in "a classic case of politicization weakening state capacity and performance, and inviting corruption."
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-whose-will
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/5
"The conservatives’ bleating about the big bad bureaucracy gets harder to stomach when juxtaposed with the monarchical presidency they’ve created, making him immune from prosecution for his crimes, shielding him from lower courts more inclined to block his maximal exercises of power, and now, likely putting the entire executive branch under his thrall."
~ Kate Riga
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/4
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roberts-humphreys-executor-overturn-independent-agency
"Depending on how the majority writes the opinion (its author will likely be Roberts, who has penned the bulk of the Court’s pro-Trump opinions on presidential power, including Trump v. U.S.), Slaughter will mark a terrible new milestone for our system of separated powers, and another major step toward making the president a king."
~ Kim Wehle
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/3
"The outcome of Monday’s oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court has been fairly clear since the summer: Humphrey’s Executor, a unanimous 1935 decision upholding Congress’s power to restrict the president’s ability to fire independent agency heads, is going to be overturned."
~ Chris Geidner
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/2
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor
"In arguments today [the SupremeCourt] appeared poised to give [Trump] the power to take control of the modern American government by stacking the independent agencies that do much of the government’s work with officials loyal to him."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #UnitaryExecutive #monarchy
/1
I’m on series two of Netflix’s “Victoria”, a dramatization of the life of England’s Queen Victoria & the glories & trials of the Victorian age. I’m hooked, even through the series is as much soap as it is biopic. Victoria was so interesting, ascending to the crown at 18, marrying for love, bearing 9 children & overseeing the empire. I’ve always thought monarchy to be odd, existing with little or no rational justification in any case ever. For much of history ‘might made right’ so those with the biggest armies & best strategies ruled. Then their sons and daughters ruled. I confess I am fascinated by the history of royalty. My wife laughs, not appreciating the irony of my fascination. I hope to be alive to see the implosion of the Mountbatten-Windsors. I am also not traditionally religious (Pythagorean by faith), but I am fascinated by this new American Pope - so I’m occasionally reading Catholic Digest. I consider both #monarchy & #religion to be curious oddities of the human condition. Thus, my fascination.
OK: today’s #DailyTeaser #quiz is about #abolishing the #monarchy
https://niknaksoldpeculiarblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/nik-naks-daily-teaser-8-12-2025-how-to.html
I had a philosophical turn, writing this …
| #8December #abolition #monarchy | #quote #Wikipedia | #NationalAnthem … |
