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Citizens United, Shelby County, Trump v. Hawaii, and now United States v. Trump. John Roberts' legacy for democracy.
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Add Dobbs and Rucho to this list, as folks are saying
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Loper Bright, too, certainly, and then there's the unsung villains like TransUnion v. Ramirez that effectively decided Congress lacks power to confer Art. III standing on a party by creating a new right by statute if the new right lacks a "concrete harm" element www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20p...
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The Court cut at the knees Congress' ability to create private legal rights (in this case, the right to sue a credit reporting agency for mistakenly labeling customers as likely terrorists, unless this mistake is revealed publicly) and the reasoning includes among the stupidest imaginable analogies
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This is a lot of erasure, dude has been awful and has enabled people who are equally awful or worse
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(by which I mean there are too many to list not taking any issue with OP's highlights)
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Heller!! Oldie but a goodie.
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they're still trying to figure out what they did there but absolutely--a key moment in the rise of vigilante democracy
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exactly. not a one-off. add: Rucho.
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kagan's final para seems apt
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Trump v. Anderson too. Straight up erasing a constitutional clause designed to protect the democracy from those who sought to overthrow it.