“This conservative court is out of control—blatantly partisan and ideological, the six-member majority scarcely even pretends otherwise anymore. ... Democratic presidential contenders will have to answer the question: What do you plan to do about the Supreme Court?” newrepublic.com/post/212399/...

Dems Must Talk Seriously About Supreme Court Expansion

The smart and totally justified way to do it: Increase the number of judicial circuits.

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"Supreme Court reform is important because you can’t have democratic self-government with this Court’s corruption. That’s the main reason to do it. It also teaches a lesson. Don’t spend too much time creating a big corrupt shiny object. Because the Constitution creates the tools to break it."

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What Exactly Should a Project 2029 Be? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

We have to take building democracy as seriously as the MAGA Supreme Court takes dismantling it. That starts with expanding and rebalancing the court itself.

The public has long been ahead of policymakers when it comes to Supreme Court reform. Court expansion has net positive public support even without significant support from Democratic elites. Significant room for growth once leaders start to ... lead. bsky.app/profile/gell...

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 5mo ago

NEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

TBTCAF’s @liptonlubet.bsky.social on today’s SCOTUS tariff decision: “We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme.”

“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States” -- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...

TBTC President @liptonlubet.bsky.social notes the Roberts Court’s own corruption plays a role in its willingness to embrace Donald Trump’s corruption: “You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is all John Roberts’ fault

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

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Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them. Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...

Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/noem-...

Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Mister Trump Asks For It

Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about.

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The Trump administration’s racist terror campaign against Black and Brown communities has been given the greenlight by a compromised, out of control Supreme Court. There can be no second-class citizens in a free America.

SCOTUS tells ICE it can target people based on race

ICE gets the go-ahead for indiscriminate immigration stops in LA.

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“Today’s SCOTUS ruling puts farm workers — and every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant — in greater danger,” said @ufw.bsky.social President Teresa Romero. ufw.org/u-s-supreme-...

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay in L.A. Raids Case

Decision lifts temporary order barring DHS from unlawful stop practices

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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Shorter Brett Kavanaugh: "Papers, please"

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Just listened, via Morning Edition, as a woman with learning disabilities broke down crying while recounting how ICE agents racially profiled her in Washington, D.C. Even brief questioning — especially by unidentified agents with sidearms and mask — can be traumatic, Brett.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

SCOTUS says racial profiling is constitutional, at least when Trump admin does it during roving, aggressive, astonishing immigration enforcement in LA -- where a district court found fed officers were arresting Brown people for ... speaking Spanish. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"So you're saying if you don't like [kids reading picture books about inclusivity], you gotta get involved in politics and change it that way, is that what you're saying?!" Alito snears disparagingly. Also Alito, this time justifying Dobbs: "Women are not without electoral or political power." 🤔

We’re sorry* the government secreted you away to a foreign torture prison, but you used the wrong heading on your paperwork, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Best of luck not being renditioned before you can file a new complaint! *Alito, writing separately to note that he is in no way sorry.

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · last yr.

The majority writing that individuals need due process and notice and an opportunity to file a habeas petition is nice. But it reads to me as partially designed to take the sting off the majority’s brutal order - while not altering its horrifying substance all that much.

Unconscionable injustice dressed up as "law."

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS Judge Boasberg's restraining order against the deportation of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. The majority holds that migrants must file habeas petitions where they're confined. Liberals + BARRETT dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎@lcv.org · last yr.

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In 2023, John Roberts' #SCOTUS shocked all of us by not making the worst possible decision in a voting rights case. On Monday, it will hear arguments in a "nearly identical" case — with potentially major consequences. More from @imillhiser.bsky.social:

The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case

Several federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s congressional maps.

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The last day to vote in @credomobile.bsky.social's grantee election is TODAY! Support our work to fight for a #SupremeCourt that serves the American people instead of ruling over us: www.credodonations.com/organization...

What makes this month’s @credomobile.bsky.social election special? Well, it’s one election the right-wing Supreme Court can’t rig. And it’s a way for you to support our work to reform and rebalance the court for FREE! Voting closes tomorrow. Make your voice heard!

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Every month, CREDO donates to the progressive causes you care about most.

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So Elon Musk has the same ethics rules as the Supreme Court: none.

NEW: Using the radical independent state legislature theory, the RNC asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allows voters to cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots were rejected.

RNC Asks SCOTUS To Take Up Appeal To Restrict Provisional Voting in Pennsylvania

Read more here.

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