The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in an international conference on: "The fight against international terrorism: approaches and Russia's contribution" en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in an international conference on: "The fight against international terrorism: approaches and Russia's contribution"
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organizationen.odkb-csto.org
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The three liberals agree on an overarching theme: They no longer see the Court playing by the old game of constitutional law. Their dissents suggest anything but an assumption of business as usual. The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law and its tiresome technicalities—about a majority that is no longer doing law as that term has come to be understood."
~ Aziz Huq
#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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Look Closer at the Liberal Justices' Dissenting Opinions
Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"As we approach this milestone [the 60th anniversary of the passing of the Voting Rights Act], we find ourselves not in a moment of reflection or rededication but in a state of legal free fall."
~ Maureen Edobor
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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The Supreme Court Is Writing a Slow-Motion Eulogy for One of America’s Greatest Achievements
Maureen Edobor (Slate)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments next term on Louisiana’s racially gerrymandered congressional map, and the court as early as next week may put on hold and set for argument a case in which the 8th Circuit held that private plaintiffs have no right to sue to enforce Section 2 of the act."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"These pending decisions threaten to gut what remains of this once powerful statute, which has already been largely hollowed out by the Roberts court over the past decade-plus."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Elie Mystal says that in giving Trump the power to decimate the Department of Education, the Supremes have once again crowned him king:
"That is not the power of a president, it’s the power of a dictator. More than granting Trump immunity, more than anything else this court has done, this ruling gives him the powers of a king."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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The Supreme Court Just Crowned Trump King—Again | The Nation
The NationWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And the Republicans on the court did this while they were on vacation, in an emergency-docket ruling that didn’t even require them to explain themselves.
The Supreme Court is of no more use. It will not protect democracy, the rule of law, or even the constitutional order. The next Democratic president should use the powers granted to Trump to impound the court."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"We are living through a time when Catholic identity is being hijacked by power. Through networks like Opus Dei, and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, far-right religious leaders have built an anti-democracy machine that frames cruelty as virtue and domination as divine will."
~ Shannon Vavich
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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I Am a Gutter Catholic
Shannon VavichWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"These forces, wealthy, secretive, and politically connected, have spent decades quietly embedding their ideology into American institutions.
Their goal is nothing short of a return to a feudalistic model of governance: hierarchy, submission, and clerical control. They speak of 'natural law' and 'order' but act out of ambition, not mercy."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The installation of six Supreme Court justices tied to this movement, largely orchestrated by Leonard Leo, is no coincidence. It is a calculated campaign to undo democracy in the name of Christ."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The history that people concerned about the Supreme Court's destruction of democracy — destruction driven by theocratic ideas — need to know is the following:
When civil rights legislation was enacted by the Democrats in the 1960s, white evangelicals kicked and screamed. At this point, the US Catholic bishops allied themselves with white evangelicals.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •That alliance has had fateful and lasting consequences. It led first to the formation of the Religious Right and eventually to MAGA and white Christian nationalism.
To make the Religious Right's crusade against the Democrats and human rights appear more morally acceptable than it was when it was born out of racism, the Catholic bishops focused on abortion.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •White evangelicals, who had never said a peep about the abortion issue and couldn't care less about it, became gung-ho in the anti-abortion cause, with the U.S. Catholic bishops quietly engineering this response behind the scenes — and assisting Leonard Leo in the stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right Opus Dei-leaning Catholics.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The media have focused largely on white evangelicals as the big force intent on replacing democracy with theocracy, but behind the scenes, the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have done everything they can to make it appear their hands are not dirty, have pulled the strings, using white evangelicals while avoiding media scrutiny.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Linda Chavez thinks that the decision of the "pro-life" Supreme Court's right-wing Catholic bloc to allow deportations to third-world countries should shock American consciences (the terms "pro-life" and "right-wing Catholic bloc" are my addition, not hers).
She writes,
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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The Conservative Supreme Court’s Decision Allowing Deportations to Third Countries Should Shock the Conscience of Americans
Linda Chavez (The UnPopulist)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"On July 3, the Supreme Court handed down its final order vacating the lower court’s preliminary injunction and paving the way for their removal to South Sudan—due process, to determine whether this violates U.S. and international law barring torture, be damned."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The prisoners were on the ground in Juba, the South Sudanese capital, one day later.
We have no way of knowing what will happen to these men now. The Trump administration claims it received assurances that they would not be tortured. But it has not disclosed what provisions it has taken, if any, to ensure that South Sudan’s government makes good on those assurances."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"U.S. border czar Tom Homan told Politico last week that once the U.S. deports an individual to a place like South Sudan, it doesn’t track their ongoing status or even what country they’ll be in a week later."
Speaking of "pro-life" Catholics, that's Homan's self-description, too.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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Kinene
in reply to William Lindsey • • •More on Opus Dei. They sound like real creeps. And as always, follow the money.
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Manipulation, greed and power: The untold story of Opus Dei
Natalia Junquera (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)Nick's world 🌎 👨🦯 🗽
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Kyle Memoir 🍉
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Look Closer at the Liberal Justices' Dissenting Opinions
Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)