One of the things I picked up as a litigator and lib is to be untrusting of the Roberts court. Lib-appearing decisions have little landmines — Masterpiece Cakes followed an earlier decision in which one opinion basically said to frame the issue so, on the next try, the proponents could win. (The issue was whether one’s offense with a law on putative religious grounds was a basis to violate the law.)
So here with AARP, I wondered what was behind a sane majority given other recent actions. And I was stumped. I used to believe that Roberts was concerned with appearances, loathing letting people know the game was up, that the Republican majority was cool with party above law. That was his issue with Dobbs for one instance.
But recent actions had me wondering whether Roberts had given up.
But AARP, at the moment, suggests that there’s a majority to at least maintain the idea that due process isn’t as dead as Trump wants it to be.
Huge thank-you for the tireless work put in by the ACLU to just beat the clock on stopping expedited immigrant flights out of TX...they are doing exceptional work on the snatch-and-disappear cases, as well as contesting deportations based upon class-action suits. Full marks across the board!
One would think that an Originalist view of the Constitution would have a specific definition of what "War" is - as a very specific condition with very specific meaning - as declared by Congress. One would be wrong.
Noem and Hegseth say thumbs-down on invoking the Insurrection Act? Uh-oh, I sense a Laura Loomer intervention coming here, demanding of tRump that he sack the former for "subverting the tRump agenda". We may have a "reconsideration" of their opinion coming soon.
SCOTUS has had their finger on the scale for the administration and Maga cult for years! Ever since tRumps 1st term! Chief Roberts has aided the right ever since Citizens United! He also favored granting the sewer vermin immunity! Now it's a case of SCOTUS and Roberts, reaping what they've sown!
Those are the initials of one of the two plaintiffs in the ACLU suit...similar to JGG v tRump, another plaintiff identified only by his/her initials in one of several class-action immigration cases working their way through the courts.
I once had a 7th grade student who brought his little cars to school and played with them instead of working on the assignment. I made the mistake of telling him, Frankie, DO NOT bring toy cars to school! A few days later, Frankie brought in little dinosaurs to play with. Of course, his bad faith response: Mrs T, you told me not to bring toy cars! I learned a valuable lesson! Frankie may be a lawyer in trump's administration 🤔
One of the things I picked up as a litigator and lib is to be untrusting of the Roberts court. Lib-appearing decisions have little landmines — Masterpiece Cakes followed an earlier decision in which one opinion basically said to frame the issue so, on the next try, the proponents could win. (The issue was whether one’s offense with a law on putative religious grounds was a basis to violate the law.)
So here with AARP, I wondered what was behind a sane majority given other recent actions. And I was stumped. I used to believe that Roberts was concerned with appearances, loathing letting people know the game was up, that the Republican majority was cool with party above law. That was his issue with Dobbs for one instance.
But recent actions had me wondering whether Roberts had given up.
But AARP, at the moment, suggests that there’s a majority to at least maintain the idea that due process isn’t as dead as Trump wants it to be.
Of course, getting compliance from Trump & co………
Huge thank-you for the tireless work put in by the ACLU to just beat the clock on stopping expedited immigrant flights out of TX...they are doing exceptional work on the snatch-and-disappear cases, as well as contesting deportations based upon class-action suits. Full marks across the board!
Rest in eternal peace
Pope Francis.
One would think that an Originalist view of the Constitution would have a specific definition of what "War" is - as a very specific condition with very specific meaning - as declared by Congress. One would be wrong.
Noem and Hegseth say thumbs-down on invoking the Insurrection Act? Uh-oh, I sense a Laura Loomer intervention coming here, demanding of tRump that he sack the former for "subverting the tRump agenda". We may have a "reconsideration" of their opinion coming soon.
SCOTUS has had their finger on the scale for the administration and Maga cult for years! Ever since tRumps 1st term! Chief Roberts has aided the right ever since Citizens United! He also favored granting the sewer vermin immunity! Now it's a case of SCOTUS and Roberts, reaping what they've sown!
Who/what is A A. R. P.? How is it involved in the Supreme court ruling? Not our familiar group of senior citizens?
Those are the initials of one of the two plaintiffs in the ACLU suit...similar to JGG v tRump, another plaintiff identified only by his/her initials in one of several class-action immigration cases working their way through the courts.
I once had a 7th grade student who brought his little cars to school and played with them instead of working on the assignment. I made the mistake of telling him, Frankie, DO NOT bring toy cars to school! A few days later, Frankie brought in little dinosaurs to play with. Of course, his bad faith response: Mrs T, you told me not to bring toy cars! I learned a valuable lesson! Frankie may be a lawyer in trump's administration 🤔