James Sloat

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On top of the decision that felonies are cool when white men like Trump and Hunter commit them, Bannon's CONVICTION was on two misdemeanor counts. He was pardoned of a felony before trial, and now faces trial for analogous charges in NYS in September. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/u...

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if you don’t know the heritage foundation, they spent millions courting & supporting clarence thomas, alito, gorsuch, kavanaugh, & amy coney barrett. they also fund litigious fascist orgs like moms for liberty. here’s what they can do when all the little moving parts come together.

if you’re not familiar with heritage, if you don’t give a fuck about biden v trump, i bet you have some experience with the moms for liberty freaks who make every schoolboard & pta meeting hell, who want to burn the books in your libraries. heritage pays for that.

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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 69 avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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NEW: DOJ officials plan to pursue the criminal cases against Trump past Election Day even if he wins, under the belief that department rules against charging or prosecuting a sitting president would not kick in until Inauguration Day. (gift link)

Justice Dept. plans to pursue Trump cases past Election Day, even if he winswapo.st If Donald Trump is elected president, the finish line for federal prosecutors is Inauguration Day, not Election Day, people familiar with the discussions said.

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I would be very happy if part of Donald Trump's sentence in New York was requiring him to make a public reading, without edits, of today's 31 page decision for the disbarment of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, which debunks most of FPOTUS's claims of election fraud in 2020.

www.nycourts.gov

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This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.

Mark Esper says Trump suggested they "just shoot" protesters in 2020www.youtube.com “He says, ‘Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.’” That’s what former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper recalls Pres. Trump saying in...

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but seriously, have we considered disbarring all six of those supreme court justices

The New Jersey Bar could one up New York in the funniest possible way.

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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Joshua J. Friedman

TRUE: The Supreme Court's immunity decision is unlikely to unsettle the NY verdict TRUE: Trump's charged conduct consisted of *unofficial* acts FALSE: Trump's charged conduct took place before his presidency (he was mostly charged for reimbursements to Michael Cohen made while he was president)

Are the 6 terrorist right-wing SCOTUS "judges" begging and pleading for personal 24/7 security?

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Today in history, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the first lines of his obituary.

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Under Eric Adams, NYC parks are getting their lowest proportion of the city budget in a decade

City Parks to Get Even Smaller Share of Budget Under Mayor Adamswww.thecity.nyc

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

Perhaps their robes would catch on fire.

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Gautham FC

My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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My friend and colleague Ken White has written a great thread describing some (but far from all) of the enormous problems with today's decision by Chief Justice Roberts granting Donald Trump criminal immunity on grounds never before accepted by any court. Today's decision threatens the Republic.

There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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When Chief Justice Roberts was nominated, many "wise people" in DC said that Democrats should be re-assured, because John Roberts was "an institutionalist before he was a partisan." If that ever was true (and I doubt it was), it is not true today. Today's Trump decision is pure partisanship.

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A difference between me and many of my friends is that most of my friends believe that manners and decorum mean that a person will not participate in fascism. Maybe it is the lesson that my bitter Jewish grandmother taught me, but I've always believed that aristocrats can push us into the ovens.

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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.

Trump, who tried to overthrow an election, campaigned persistently for his fellow party members to grant him absolute immunity for his misdeeds in office. And they did. If you can't distinguish between "energy in the executive" and a constitutional crime spree, you've given up on US democracy.

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The good news is that we now all have a handy "Are you a fascist" litmus test for people. Explain the official acts doctrine without naming names and ask if they think it's good or bad.

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If Joe Biden cannibalizes Justices Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch but does so explicitly as part of his commitment to upholding the Constitution is that an official act for which he is immune from prosecution?

And by "unrigging" we mean "eating the current justices", right?

So President Biden now has superpowers. What kind of fun can he have now.

SCOTUS and the GOP have now officially waged a very dangerous war against the citizens of the United States.

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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.

As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.

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One pretty clear dynamic on display this week is whose legal interests the Supreme Court cares about (corrupt politicians, hedge fund fraudsters, literal January 6 rioters) and whose it doesn’t (poor people) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...

Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Humility Is Sanctimonious Horseshitballsandstrikes.org The Supreme Court's opinion in Grants Pass v Johnson reveals a lot about whose interests the conservatives care about—and whose they don't.

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Please never vote for an R.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.