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Today is the final day of #SCOTUS’ term — & the justices have left some of the most important & contentious cases until the end.
They are slated to release 6 opinions, including decisions that will deal with nationwide #injunctions on #Trump’s ban on #BirthrightCitizenship, whether #parents can opt their children out of #school lessons involving #LGBTQ #books, & a #Texas #law that requires age verification to view online #porn.
#FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton — #Texas law that requires #porn sites to verify age.
#FCC v. Consumers’ Research — consumer *protection* group devoted to fighting “#woke” corporations contends that E-Rate phone & internet subsidies for #LowIncome communities violates the #nondelegation doctrine
Friday, June 26, is the Supreme Court’s final day of issuing opinions on the merits docket for the 2024-25 term. The court has six cases left to decide, on topics ranging from the […]
#Louisiana v. Callais — a 2022 map w/ 1 majority-Black district was ruled to violate the #VotingRightsAct. The new map, drawn w/ 2 majority-Black districts, was challenged by a group describing themselves as “non-African American” who contend it was unconstitutional racial #gerrymandering. The state says it drew the map not due to #race but to protect #Republican incumbents, such as #House Speaker #MikeJohnson & Rep Julia Letlow, who sits on the House #Appropriations Cmte.
Regarding #Trump v. CASA — The case BEGAN as a challenge to Trump’s ban on #BirthrightCitizenship, but #SCOTUS is instead weighing an emergency appeal by the administration on a different question:
Do federal district #courts have the #authority to issue nationwide injunctions?
From the opinion of the court: The principal dissent’s analysis of the #ExecutiveOrder is premature because the #BirthrightCitizenship issue is not before us. [excuses excuses]
Justice #Sotomayor dissents, in an opinion joined by #Kagan & #Jackson. Jackson also has a separate dissent.
From near the conclusion of Justice Barrett's opinion for the Court, on behalf of the 6 conservatives:
"#FederalCourts do not exercise general #oversight of the #ExecutiveBranch; they resolve cases & controversies consistent with the authority #Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its #power, too."
First, #ClarenceThomas has a concurring opinion in which he stresses that #SCOTUS "today puts an end to the 'increasingly common' practice of federal courts issuing universal injunctions."
#Alito too has a concurring opinion in which he notes that the court does not resolve two issues that "potentially threaten the practical significance of today's decision: the availability of third-party standing & class certification."
#Alito says that the "Court does not address the weighty issue whether the state plaintiffs have third-party standing to assert the #Citizenship Clause claims of their individual residents."
#Barrett, in her opinion, specifically goes after Justice #Jackson: "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial judiciary.”
#Alito says next that the ruling "will have very little value if district courts award relief to broadly defined classes without following" the procedural protections for class certification.
District courts are going to have to start certifying classes now [#ClassAction].
#Kavanaugh's concurring opinion notes that district courts do not have the last word on preliminary #injunction requests -- courts of #appeals & #SCOTUS can also weigh in, & "that order of operations will not change." [which is why they should have the ability to apply nationwide & the power to rule an executive action is illegal. FFS]
#Sotomayor contends that the #Trump admin DID NOT ASK the court to completely block the lower court orders because it would have to show that the order is probably constitutional, which it can't do, she says. "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent & the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along."
This gets at the "merits" of the #BirthrightCitizenship issue (the focus was universal injunctions).
#Barrett writes that "prohibiting enforcement of the #ExecutiveOrder againast the child of an individual pregnant plaintiff will give that plaintiff complete relief. Her child will not be denied citizenship. Extending the injunction to cover all other similarly situated individuals would not render her relief any more complete."
[but it’ll stop the courts from having to hear thousands of cases on the same issue - it’s called upholding an existing #law]
The court holds today that the appointment of the task force members is consistent with the Constitution.
Specifically the court rules that task force members can be removed at will by the Secretary of #HHS, & their recommendations about preventive services are reviewaable by the secretary before they take effect.
#Kavanaugh writes majority opinion. #ClarenceThomas dissents. He contends that the majority erroneously relied on a new theory that the government "invented" on appeal.
It holds that neither #Congress's delegation of #power to the FCC or the FCC's delegation of power to the private corporation violated a theory known as the #nondelegation doctrine.
#Kagan writes: "Under our #nondelegation precedents, #Congress sufficiently guided & constrained the discretion that it lodged with the #FCC to implement the universal-service contribution scheme. And the FCC, in turn, has retained all decision-making authority within that sphere, relying on the ‘corporation’ only for nonbinding advice. Nothing in those arrangements, either separately or together, violates the Constitution."
Gorsuch writes that the majority's ruling "defies the #Constitution's command that #Congress 'may not transfer to another branch 'powers that are strictly & exclusively legislative.'" #Gorsuch also contends that "even as the Court swallows a delegation beyond anything yet seen in the U.S. Reports, it also signals, unmistakably, that there are some abdications of congressional authority, including in the very statute before us, that the present majority isn't prepared to stomach."
#Sotomayor dissent joined by #Kagan & #Jackson: “The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.”
"We have long recognized the rights of parents to direct 'the #religious upbringing' of their children. And we have held that those rights are violated by government policies that substantially interfere with the religious development of children."
“Based on the record before us, the Board's introduction of the LGBTQ themed storybooks & the failure to provide notice & opt-out options for parents meets that test: it does interfere with the children's religious development & imposes a burden on #religious exercise.”
The board had argued that the #curriculum & no-opt-out policy "serve its compelling interest in 'maintaining a school environment that is safe & conducive to learning for all students."
The court agrees with this "as a general matter," but it notes that the board allows opt-outs for other reasons, suggesting that opt-outs are not actually unworkable.
Strange, #SCOTUS says that they are not going to decide #Louisiana v. Callais, the #VotingRightsAct #gerrymandering case, but instead they are requesting further argument. "In due course," it will "issue an order scheduling argument & specifying any additional questions to be addressed in supplemental briefing."
#ClarenceThomas dissents from the decision to have reargument in Louisiana v. Callais.
#SCOTUS rejected arguments from the porn industry that the law violates the #FirstAmendment rights of adults to access explicit content online because it required users to share identifying information that could be sold, misused or hacked.
During oral arguments in January Justices indicated the landscape of the porn industry had rapidly transformed since the court last issued a major decision dealing with explicit material, about 20 years ago. Today, porn sites & smartphones allow easy access to adult content. "We’re in an entirely different world,” #ClarenceThomas said. “Playboy was about squiggly lines on cable TV.” [he definitely knows]
The #Texas #law requires age verification for any site where more than one-third of the content is sexual material “harmful to minors.” Users must submit digital #identification, a government-issued ID or other forms of proof that they are 18 or older. The law bars the sites from retaining identifying #information, but it does allow them to transfer the #data for verification purposes.
In response to statutes in #Texas & elsewhere, #Pornhub cut off service to states requiring #AgeVerification. The #porn industry plaintiffs, who formed an association called the #FreeSpeech Coalition, sued to block the TX #law before it went into effect in 2023. Derek L. Shaffer, an attorney for the coalition, argued the lower court ruling allowing the law could “open the door to an emerging wave of #regulations that imperil #FreeSpeech online.”
Shaffer told the justices that young people should be block from accessing #porn, but there were less intrusive ways of doing that than #AgeVerification. He suggested educating parents & using content-filtering software were better routes, but Justice Amy Coney #Barrett pushed back on that, citing her own children. #privacy #Texas #law #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment 🧵
“Kids can get online porn through gaming systems, tablets, phones, computers,” Justice Amy Coney #Barrett said. “Let me just say that content-filtering for all those different devices, I can say from personal experience, is difficult to keep up with.”
Another section of the #law, which was blocked by a lower court, requires sites to post “sexual material health warnings” that make widely disputed claims that pornography is “potentially biologically addictive” & “proven to harm brain development.” Sites that violate the law face fines of up to $10,000 a day.
The very short summary of the ruling in #FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton: "The power to require age verification is within a State's authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content."
The court says that the #Texas #law "simply requires proof of age to access content that is obscene to minors" & therefore "does not directly regulate the protected speech of adults."
The court doesn’t seem to have considered the violation of #privacy implications .
#Trump says he will ‘promptly file’ to push policies after blocked by courts after #SupremeCourt decision
Speaking from the White House, Trump said he would try to advance restrictions on #BirthrightCitizenship & other policies that had been blocked by district courts.
#Trump: "Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, and some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore. That was meant for the babies of slaves."
And, just note that the Constitution *does* say the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to maintain a “well-regulated militia”…you know, if we’re going by intent…
🤮. There goes the constitution and the USA as an entity. I guess it will now divide into individual states, each with their own laws and interpretations. With some of those rulings today, that’s what I interpret from it.
Unfortunately, there is no federal law protecting the privacy of adults using porn sites. And it could be argued that proof of age is consistent with COPPA.
Opts outs for "I'm a bigot" are, in fact, unworkable, tho. You should be allowed to opt out of LGBTQ+ reading any more than you should be able to opt out of reading about people who aren't white or male.
Schools could send a latter to parents at the start of the year with all dates they'll be using LGBT+ books so they can opt their kids out, and then ensure there is something LGBT+ in every lesson.
One other note: this will EXPLODE the number of class action lawsuits. Because it will REQUIRE them in order to get injunctions against unconstitutional laws or illegal government actions.
Other than lawyers, who in the world wants MORE class action lawsuits?
This was my favorite part of Marbury v Madison where they talked for three paragraphs about how much they hated Judge Jackson’s personal style and mannerisms
"The plaintiffs in [Braidwood], who have religious objections to the requirement that insurers provide coverage for a drug that prevents HIV, contend that [...]"
If you have religious objections to insurers covering a drug that prevents a debilitating, mostly-fatal infectious disease that you can get from receiving an emergency blood transfusion, then your religious beliefs are founded on hate and cruelty.
Social networks and other digital activities make us operate on the modality of the “little thing to do” in which, a few seconds before doing it, we are already projecting ourselves. This is not co…
Dogen et la tradition zen invite à se laisser enseigner par la rivière, la montagne.Le simple fait que le terme Dharma signifie enseignement et réalité de l’univers est en soi une invitation claire…
"Il semble que nos dirigeants, ici dans l'Occident « libéral », aient trouvé un nouveau moyen de transformer une personne en non-personne.
Voici un homme, Hüseyin #Doğru, journaliste allemand (d'origine turque, mais sans double nationalité) que les autorités européennes ont puni d'une manière inédite et extrêmement cruelle pour ses reportages et ses opinions sur la #Palestine.
Les autorités allemandes ont tiré les leçons de mon cas. Ne souhaitant pas avoir à répondre devant les tribunaux de toute interdiction des voix pro-palestiniennes (à l'instar du procès que je leur intente actuellement), elles ont trouvé un autre moyen : une sanction directe de l' #UE utilisant une directive jusqu'alors inutilisée, introduite au début de la guerre en #Ukraine, qui permet à Bruxelles de sanctionner tout citoyen de l'UE qu'elle estime travailler pour les intérêts russes. S'accrochant à l'argument selon lequel le site web/podcast de Hüseyin était également diffusé sur Ruptly (entre autres plateformes), elles utilisent cette directive visant les « actifs anti-russes » pour détruire un journaliste qui a osé s'opposer au génocide palestinien.
Concrètement, cela signifie que le compte bancaire de Hüseyin est gelé ; que si vous ou moi lui donnions de l'argent pour acheter des provisions ou payer son loyer, nous serions considérés comme ses complices et soumis à des sanctions similaires ; cela signifie également que s'il était fonctionnaire, il serait licencié ; s'il était étudiant, il serait expulsé de son université ; s'il percevait une pension, celle-ci serait suspendue ; s'il percevait des prestations sociales, celles-ci seraient gelées. Cela signifie également, de manière étonnante, qu'il ne peut pas quitter l'Allemagne !
Enfin, et ce n'est pas le moins important, cela signifie que Hüseyin ne peut pas poursuivre son gouvernement pour l'avoir transformé en non-personne, mais seulement contester la Commission européenne à Bruxelles – où il n'est même pas autorisé à se rendre !
Dois-je en dire plus ? N'est-il pas évident que nous vivons aujourd'hui dans une #Europe nominalement libérale où, en un clin d'œil, vos droits politiques et humains peuvent être révoqués, y compris votre droit de contester votre gouvernement devant un tribunal ?" -- Yanis #Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis
Medea Benjamin responds to leaders of the Atlantic alliance setting a military-spending target for themselves so staggering it exceeds that of the U.S.
“History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.” -Marsha P. Johnson
1969 juin 28, Ça suffit ! (The day enough was enough.)
Je ne pense pas. L'image a été prise en 1969 et je pense qu'il est probablement né après cette date, donc trop jeune. Trop paresseux pour vérifier sur Wiki, mdr ! Qui qu'il soit, j'espère qu'il est toujours parmi nous.
Ansarullah’s leader praised Iran’s victory over Israel, calling it a win for all Muslims.
He said Iranian missiles shattered Israeli defenses and caused widespread fear.
Tiranı koruyan silahlar değil, onu destekleyen ve bütün ülkenin ona kul olmasını sağlayan üç beş kişidir. Başta inanması zor gelse de bu harfiyen doğrudur. Bu beş altı kişi her zaman tiranın gözüne girer, ona yaklaşır ve bizzat tiranın kendisi onları zulümlerinin ortağı, zevküsefalarının yareni, pis ahlaksızlıklarının pezevengi, yağmalarının yardakçısı olmaya davet eder. Bu altı kişi, reislerini öyle iyi idare ederler ki tiran, topluma yalnızca kendi kötülüğüyle değil onların aracılığıyla da zulmeder. Bu altı kişinin altında da saygın yerlere getirip beslediği altı bin kişi bulunur. Cimriliklerini yahut zalimliklerini gözetmeleri, emirlerini vaktinde yerine getirmeleri, dört bir yanında kötülük etmeleri için bu altı bin kişiyi eyaletlerin yahut mali işlerin başına getirirler. Böylece bu kişiler, yalnızca onların himayesi altındayken varlıklarını sürdürebilir yahut kanunlardan ve cezalardan muaf tutulabilir.
One of my least favorite items to find is the infamous 'spicy pillow'. When lithium batteries start to fail, gasses build up inside the cells and they expand. Because the breakdown process produces both it's own fuel and oxygen, they can explode or catch fire, at which point the fire is almost impossible to extinguish. They'll even burn in an airtight container or completely underwater.
Semana triste para nosotros. Otra más sin que la UE 🇪🇺 sancione a Israel por genocidio (sarcasmo, nunca lo hará), y nos vamos a la ruina por alimentar la industria de la matanza humana, como llamaban Marx y Engels a la industria militar. La OTAN nos chupará la sangre con el beneplácito del gobierno más progresista de la historia… Salgamos de este pozo de mierda en qué se ha convertido la UE, y abandonemos la OTAN lo antes posible.
The side which can print USDs & The side which said “we have all the leverage” is now talking about “mutual respect” and leading with rare earth magnet supplies. I think we found USAs Achilles heel. It is rare earth magnets, they don’t have any.
Rare earth magnets aren’t just for EVs! They’re also used in:
Edit: Merci à tous, nous avons trouvé un endroit !
Demande urgente, boosts appréciés: Je suis à la recherche d'une salle à louer pouvant accueillir une cérémonie funéraire pour ~80 personnes ce mercredi 2 juillet à Nantes, France. Il n'est pas nécessaire que ce soit "conventionnel" - un bar, un théâtre, un parc, un jardin, etc. peuvent faire l'affaire. La salle municipale qui nous a été proposée a un chantier extrêmement bruyant à côté de la salle, ce qui ne peut pas fonctionner. Merci.
:boosts_appreciated: Urgent request, boosts appreciated: I'm looking for a room to rent that could hold a funeral ceremony for ~80 people this Wednesday, July 2, in Nantes, France. Doesn't have to be "conventional" - a bar, theatre, park, garden, etc could function. The municipal room that has been proposed to us has an extremely loud construction site adjacent to the room, which cannot work. Thanks in advance. #Nantes #MutualAidRequest
Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard ... But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author Guards, Guards (1989)
Les militantes, qui avaient jeté de la peinture sur les façades des deux bâtiments, étaient jugées pour « dégradation en réunion de monuments classés ». [...]
Deux activistes de Dernière Rénovation comparaissaient le 26 juin devant le Tribunal judiciaire de Paris pour avoir participé à une action de désobéissance civile en 2024 contre Louis Vuitton et l’hôtel Matignon, dans le but d’alerter sur l’urgence…
“If the group is proscribed next week, as is expected, being a member of or inviting support for Palestine Action will carry a maximum penalty of 14 years. Wearing clothing or publishing a logo that arouses reasonable suspicion that someone supports Palestine Action will carry a sentence of up to six months.”
Ha’aretz report confirms what was already clear: GHF ‘aid stations’ are murder traps Israeli media have confirmed what was already clear – yet shamelessly denied by the Isra…
Not satisfied with shooting innocents at ‘aid’ stations, occupation is trying to addict survivors to opioids Israel and the US have been caught dosing food, distributed at ‘aid…
Plan thwarted by 3rd nation, warned Tehran, Washington Information obtained by the Iranian media indicates that Israel was plotting to carry out a bombing on US territory to be blamed on Iran, in a…
A suicide bomber armed with an AK-47 stormed into Saint Elias Greek Orthodox church in Damascus during Sunday evening mass, detonating his explosives after being wrestled to the ground by three congregants.
Outraged by the growing support for socialist politics and what it represents, Trump and the fascists in the Republican Party have escalated their violent rhetoric against Zohran Mamdani—including threats to deport the US citizen.
🌊 China Launches Amphibious Assault Drills in South China Sea
China’s People’s Liberation Army launched large-scale amphibious assault drills in the South China Sea on June 27 under the Eastern Theater Command.
Training included air-cushion landing craft operations, live-fire wave assaults, and ship-to-shore maneuvers under “complex conditions,” according to footage released on social media.
The exercises follow recent Australia–UK freedom of navigation operations in the region and are viewed as a clear signal of China’s expanding capability to conduct offshore amphibious landings far from its home coast.
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Demonstrators marched against the arms trade on the final days of the 55th edition of the major aerospace exhibition. The protests called for a boycott of Israel and an end to the arms trade.
In its decision in Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court has dismantled constitutional protections, sanctioned executive lawlessness, and established the pseudo-legal foundation for presidential dictatorship.
Leading American physician Dr. Pierre Kory has issued an alarming wake-up call to Western nations by warning that Japan's sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) crisis "disappeared" as soon as the govern
Do children born on U.S. soil automatically become American citizens? Many claim the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that they do...
On Friday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an in-depth report substantiating the existence of orders instructing Israeli soldiers to fire into unarmed crowds of aid-seekers.
Στο χωριό μου αυτό το λέμε "στουφ" Προφανώς πρέπει να το έβγαλαν από το «stuff» τίποτα αγγλομαθεις "φωστήρες" Έπαθε "στουφ' η "στουφο" Ένα βήμα πριν το overdose. 😂🤣😂🤣
>doesn't want his work to be "mainstream." Kojima I'm sorry it's 27 years too late to attempt to pull this. Turns out making one of the games that becomes an icon for a specific generation of titles and franchise that is commonly considered at the peak of video games may make this hard.
Death Stranding may not be exactly the same type of mainstream but it's still mostly appealing to people who like big name Hollywood actors in their games.
@Iffine games, the man hasn't made a game since mgs5. Stranding is a glorified walking simulator and movie game. It's not even a game. It's a really retarded attempt to make a interactive medium into a inactive medium like a movie. It's stupid and gay.
On June 6, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) returned Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to the House Intelligence Committee, and added Steve Cohen (D-TN), expanding the committee’s membership to 27 by unanimous consent.
The reason that the United States Empire throws its resources toward indoctrinating people into believing that socialism and communism are nemeses, is not because the U.S. cares about people being oppressed.
The U.S. does that itself and is at the forefront of oppressing people around the world.
It is because socialism and communism are direct threats to capitalist colonialism, which is the system that the U.S. uses to oppress. Empire cannot exist if it cannot oppress.
Explore every possibility that Empire told you not to.
The conservative justices’ ruling in the birthright citizenship case unshackles the president from lower court rulings that curbed his unconstitutional abuses of power.
Society / June 27, 2025 The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •There are 6 cases remaining:
#FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton — #Texas law that requires #porn sites to verify age.
#FCC v. Consumers’ Research — consumer *protection* group devoted to fighting “#woke” corporations contends that E-Rate phone & internet subsidies for #LowIncome communities violates the #nondelegation doctrine
#SCOTUS #law
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scotusblog.com/2025/06/remaini…
The cases that remain
Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Louisiana v. Callais — a 2022 map w/ 1 majority-Black district was ruled to violate the #VotingRightsAct. The new map, drawn w/ 2 majority-Black districts, was challenged by a group describing themselves as “non-African American” who contend it was unconstitutional racial #gerrymandering. The state says it drew the map not due to #race but to protect #Republican incumbents, such as #House Speaker #MikeJohnson & Rep Julia Letlow, who sits on the House #Appropriations Cmte.
#SCOTUS #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Kennedy v. Braidwood Management — does the #Constitution require members of the Preventive Services Task Force to be #appointed by the president & #confirmed by the #Senate? It concerns the legality of a portion of the #ACA that requires #health plans to provide #free #PreventiveCare such as #cancer screenings, #contraception & #immunizations.
Mahmoud v. Taylor — #Maryland public #schools & #LGBTQ+ subject matter
#Trump v. CASA — #BirthrightCitizenship
#SCOTUS #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Regarding #Trump v. CASA — The case BEGAN as a challenge to Trump’s ban on #BirthrightCitizenship, but #SCOTUS is instead weighing an emergency appeal by the administration on a different question:
Do federal district #courts have the #authority to issue nationwide injunctions?
#SCOTUS #law #judiciary
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •First opinion is in. It’s #Trump v Casa
#BirthrightCitizenship #judiciary #authority
supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
The government's applications to partially stay the district court's nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases are GRANTED.
The court says that universal injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts."
#SCOTUS #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •From the opinion of the court: The principal dissent’s analysis of the #ExecutiveOrder is premature because the #BirthrightCitizenship issue is not before us. [excuses excuses]
Justice #Sotomayor dissents, in an opinion joined by #Kagan & #Jackson. Jackson also has a separate dissent.
#Trump #SCOTUS #judiciary #authority #immigration #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •From near the conclusion of Justice Barrett's opinion for the Court, on behalf of the 6 conservatives:
"#FederalCourts do not exercise general #oversight of the #ExecutiveBranch; they resolve cases & controversies consistent with the authority #Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its #power, too."
TOTAL BS!
#Trump #SCOTUS #judiciary #authority #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •There are also separate opinions.
First, #ClarenceThomas has a concurring opinion in which he stresses that #SCOTUS "today puts an end to the 'increasingly common' practice of federal courts issuing universal injunctions."
#Alito too has a concurring opinion in which he notes that the court does not resolve two issues that "potentially threaten the practical significance of today's decision: the availability of third-party standing & class certification."
#Trump #judiciary #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Alito says that the "Court does not address the weighty issue whether the state plaintiffs have third-party standing to assert the #Citizenship Clause claims of their individual residents."
#Barrett, in her opinion, specifically goes after Justice #Jackson: "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial judiciary.”
#Trump #SCOTUS #judiciary #authority #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Alito says next that the ruling "will have very little value if district courts award relief to broadly defined classes without following" the procedural protections for class certification.
District courts are going to have to start certifying classes now [#ClassAction].
#Trump #SCOTUS #judiciary #authority #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Kavanaugh's concurring opinion notes that district courts do not have the last word on preliminary #injunction requests -- courts of #appeals & #SCOTUS can also weigh in, & "that order of operations will not change." [which is why they should have the ability to apply nationwide & the power to rule an executive action is illegal. FFS]
#Trump #judiciary #authority #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Sotomayor contends that the #Trump admin DID NOT ASK the court to completely block the lower court orders because it would have to show that the order is probably constitutional, which it can't do, she says. "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent & the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along."
This gets at the "merits" of the #BirthrightCitizenship issue (the focus was universal injunctions).
#Trump #SCOTUS #judiciary #immigration #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Barrett writes that "prohibiting enforcement of the #ExecutiveOrder againast the child of an individual pregnant plaintiff will give that plaintiff complete relief. Her child will not be denied citizenship. Extending the injunction to cover all other similarly situated individuals would not render her relief any more complete."
[but it’ll stop the courts from having to hear thousands of cases on the same issue - it’s called upholding an existing #law]
#Trump #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Next case:
Kennedy v. Braidwood
The court holds today that the appointment of the task force members is consistent with the Constitution.
Specifically the court rules that task force members can be removed at will by the Secretary of #HHS, & their recommendations about preventive services are reviewaable by the secretary before they take effect.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
#SCOTUS #law #Constitution #PreventiveCare #ACA #health
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Kavanaugh writes majority opinion. #ClarenceThomas dissents. He contends that the majority erroneously relied on a new theory that the government "invented" on appeal.
#SCOTUS #law #Constitution #PreventiveCare #ACA #health
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reuters.com/legal/litigation/u…
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •The next opinion is #FCC v. Consumers' Research [anti-woke folk]
It is by Justice #Kagan, & the vote is 6-3 again. #Gorsuch dissents, joined by #ClarenceThomas & #Alito.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
It holds that neither #Congress's delegation of #power to the FCC or the FCC's delegation of power to the private corporation violated a theory known as the #nondelegation doctrine.
#law #SCOTUS #ERate #phone #internet #subsidies #LowIncome
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Kagan writes: "Under our #nondelegation precedents, #Congress sufficiently guided & constrained the discretion that it lodged with the #FCC to implement the universal-service contribution scheme. And the FCC, in turn, has retained all decision-making authority within that sphere, relying on the ‘corporation’ only for nonbinding advice. Nothing in those arrangements, either separately or together, violates the Constitution."
#law #SCOTUS #ERate #phone #internet #subsidies #LowIncome
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Gorsuch writes that the majority's ruling "defies the #Constitution's command that #Congress 'may not transfer to another branch 'powers that are strictly & exclusively legislative.'"
#Gorsuch also contends that "even as the Court swallows a delegation beyond anything yet seen in the U.S. Reports, it also signals, unmistakably, that there are some abdications of congressional authority, including in the very statute before us, that the present majority isn't prepared to stomach."
#SCOTUS #law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Next opinion written by #Alito — bad sign — it’s Mahmoud v. Taylor, the #Maryland public #schools & #LGBTQ+ subject matter
Predictably it is a 6 – 3 vote
supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
Alito holds that the parents in this case are likely to succeed in their challenge to the school board's policies foreclosing the opt-out option.
#law #SCOTUS
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Sotomayor dissent joined by #Kagan & #Jackson: “The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.”
#law #SCOTUS #PublicSchool #schools #education #LGBTQ+ #censorship #bigotry
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Alito writes:
"We have long recognized the rights of parents to direct 'the #religious upbringing' of their children. And we have held that those rights are violated by government policies that substantially interfere with the religious development of children."
#law #SCOTUS #PublicSchool #schools #education #LGBTQ+ #censorship #bigotry
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Alito cont:
“Based on the record before us, the Board's introduction of the LGBTQ themed storybooks & the failure to provide notice & opt-out options for parents meets that test: it does interfere with the children's religious development & imposes a burden on #religious exercise.”
#law #SCOTUS #PublicSchool #schools #education #LGBTQ+ #censorship #bigotry
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AP coverage: apnews.com/live/supreme-court-…
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Sotomayor:
The board had argued that the #curriculum & no-opt-out policy "serve its compelling interest in 'maintaining a school environment that is safe & conducive to learning for all students."
The court agrees with this "as a general matter," but it notes that the board allows opt-outs for other reasons, suggesting that opt-outs are not actually unworkable.
#law #SCOTUS #PublicSchool #schools #education #LGBTQ+ #censorship #bigotry #religion #NewApostolicReformation
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Next opinion is #FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton. It is by #ClarenceThomas - oh boy.
The vote is once again 6-3.
Kagan dissents, joined by Sotomayor & Jackson.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
#Texas #porn #law #SCOTUS
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Strange, #SCOTUS says that they are not going to decide #Louisiana v. Callais, the #VotingRightsAct #gerrymandering case, but instead they are requesting further argument. "In due course," it will "issue an order scheduling argument & specifying any additional questions to be addressed in supplemental briefing."
#ClarenceThomas dissents from the decision to have reargument in Louisiana v. Callais.
#law
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Back to the #Texas #porn #law
#SCOTUS rejected arguments from the porn industry that the law violates the #FirstAmendment rights of adults to access explicit content online because it required users to share identifying information that could be sold, misused or hacked.
#privacy
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •During oral arguments in January Justices indicated the landscape of the porn industry had rapidly transformed since the court last issued a major decision dealing with explicit material, about 20 years ago. Today, porn sites & smartphones allow easy access to adult content.
"We’re in an entirely different world,” #ClarenceThomas said. “Playboy was about squiggly lines on cable TV.” [he definitely knows]
#privacy #Texas #porn #law #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •The #Texas #law requires age verification for any site where more than one-third of the content is sexual material “harmful to minors.” Users must submit digital #identification, a government-issued ID or other forms of proof that they are 18 or older. The law bars the sites from retaining identifying #information, but it does allow them to transfer the #data for
verification purposes.
#privacy #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •In response to statutes in #Texas & elsewhere, #Pornhub cut off service to states requiring #AgeVerification.
The #porn industry plaintiffs, who formed an association called the #FreeSpeech Coalition, sued to block the TX #law before it went into effect in 2023. Derek L. Shaffer, an attorney for the coalition, argued the lower court ruling allowing the law could “open the door to an emerging wave of #regulations that imperil #FreeSpeech online.”
#privacy #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#privacy #Texas #law #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •“Kids can get online porn through gaming systems, tablets, phones, computers,” Justice Amy Coney #Barrett said. “Let me just say that content-filtering for all those different devices, I can say from personal experience, is difficult to keep up with.”
#privacy #Texas #porn #law #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Another section of the #law, which was blocked by a lower court, requires sites to post “sexual material health warnings” that make widely disputed claims that pornography is “potentially biologically addictive” & “proven to harm brain development.”
Sites that violate the law face fines of up to $10,000 a day.
#privacy #Texas #porn #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •The very short summary of the ruling in
#FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton: "The power to require age verification is within a State's authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content."
So #SCOTUS is basically simplifying down to a #StatesRights issue.
#privacy #Texas #porn #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •The court says that the #Texas #law "simply requires proof of age to access content that is obscene to minors" & therefore "does not directly regulate the protected speech of adults."
The court doesn’t seem to have considered the violation of #privacy implications .
#porn #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Thanks for nothing #SCOTUS
#Trump says he will ‘promptly file’ to push policies after blocked by courts after #SupremeCourt decision
Speaking from the White House, Trump said he would try to advance restrictions on #BirthrightCitizenship & other policies that had been blocked by district courts.
#law #ActivistCourt
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apnews.com/live/supreme-court-…
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Moronica #PamBondi says Americans are finally going getting what they voted for.
“These lawless injunctions gave relief to everyone in the world instead of the parties before the court,” she said.
#SCOTUS #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Trump: "Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, and some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore. That was meant for the babies of slaves."
#FuckSCOTUS #law #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship #NationwideInjunctions #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
Michael Gemar
in reply to Nonilex • • •Does the Constitution actually *say* that?
And, just note that the Constitution *does* say the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to maintain a “well-regulated militia”…you know, if we’re going by intent…
Luis Fierro
in reply to Nonilex • • •Peter Brown
in reply to Nonilex • • •And his grandfather was an immigrant from Germany.
Peter Brown
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in reply to Nonilex • • •Free Teks for sale, cheap
in reply to Nonilex • • •Peter Brown
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in reply to Nonilex • • •Chris
in reply to Nonilex • • •Something, something about separation of church and state.
(More barfing)
Someone please hold my hair.
Pam C
in reply to Nonilex • • •Amoshias
in reply to Nonilex • • •SouprMatt
in reply to Nonilex • • •One other note: this will EXPLODE the number of class action lawsuits. Because it will REQUIRE them in order to get injunctions against unconstitutional laws or illegal government actions.
Other than lawyers, who in the world wants MORE class action lawsuits?
SouprMatt
in reply to Nonilex • • •Lyle Solla-Yates
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in reply to Nonilex • • •Sean Fenian
in reply to Nonilex • • •"The plaintiffs in [Braidwood], who have religious objections to the requirement that insurers provide coverage for a drug that prevents HIV, contend that [...]"
If you have religious objections to insurers covering a drug that prevents a debilitating, mostly-fatal infectious disease that you can get from receiving an emergency blood transfusion, then your religious beliefs are founded on hate and cruelty.
HarriettMB
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