Lots of alternative approaches to districting. But none will work without Supreme Court reform, because the Supreme Court is highly likely to strike down proportional representation, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, or anything. The text of the Constitution does not matter to them, sadly.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

If Dems added 4 seats under the next Dem president, we'd have a 7-6 moderate/liberal Supreme Court that could... 🚺 Restore Roe v. Wade ⚖️ Reverse presidential immunity 🌎 Protect the environment 🧑‍🔧 Protect unions and workers 🗳️ Restore the Voting Rights Act 📍 End gerrymandering ⭐ And more Let's do it!

LFG. When/IF Democrats get back in power in 2029 - they should absolutely #ExpandtheCourt.

TBTCAF’s @liptonlubet.bsky.social on today’s SCOTUS tariff decision: “We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme.”

🔔🔔🔔 “Democratic politicians need to be thinking about Supreme Court reforms now, so that if and when they have a window in which they can implement such reforms, they don’t waste precious time getting organized” 🔔🔔🔔

There are ample professional disincentives to spilling the inner workings of a court; even misconduct is rarely disclosed. Only reason to demand NDAs is if the Justices are engaging in conduct so egregious that the legal profession would recognize the need for court employees to disclose it.

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

Conservatives/Republicans don't blink when it comes to consolidating power. Something Democrats/progressives must keep in mind IF they were to get control of the WH and both chambers of Congress again (can't repeat the same mistakes from 2021). #ExpandtheCourt

John Roberts was born today. A reminder on what he has unleashed on America. This all his fault.

There isn't a perfect playbook for defeating authoritarianism, but we know from other countries that democratic resurgence is possible. I wrote for @slate.com about some of what we're seeing in Minnesota and why I believe, even now, that we will win. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Did he just say "what goes around comes around"??! 👀

I don't know exactly how the new birthright citizenship case will come out, but I'd note that if it eviscerates §1 of the 14th Amendment, the remedy of "just pass a constitutional amendment" wouldn't apply. The 14th is already there. The sole public remedy would be to reform the Supreme Court.

Arcadia, always.

In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think about this a lot and I've convinced myself that (almost) none of our current emergency could happen without Roberts' blessing. For my money he's done more to hurt the US than anyone in the country's history by a pretty wide margin. He's way worse than Trump.

Stop whatever you're doing and read this piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social laying out how John Roberts has spent his entire adult life constructing the scaffolding for Trump's authoritarian takeover, and why he's so invested in rigging the system to continue to help Trump.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Great to see a clear-eyed assessment of the path forward that incorporates court expansion & other crucial judicial reforms. We can't move forward if we keep letting MAGA justices pull us back. Into a sinkhole. Buried under East Wing rubble. Thank you @rooseveltinstitute.org for this important work!

Sadly evergreen.

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Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them. Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...

Exactly this - a “precondition for any other promise to be credible.” Whole 🧵 is an important read.

the press release writes itself: "I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"

Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

"Barrett offers a misreading of King Solomon as a strategic foil for her idealized American judge, who evidently never needs to worry about facts."

this this this. it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!) not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.

"There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years." @pemalevy.bsky.social on SCOTUS's election rigging.

Vergogna

The Congressional budget is a moral failure. Congress must fix this harm. We will not stand by while millions go hungry or without health care. Today, we come together as a Jewish community to demand a federal budget that invests in women, children & families. #JewishDayofAction

For the zillionth time, the S Ct makes the best case for expanding the court and enacting term limits. It is hopeless as currently constituted

Penciled in axing that last tiny sliver of democratic accountability for October -- now they can finally go on summer break unburdened. Such hard work burning down democracy...

Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.

"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty [not to summarily execute Supreme Court justices]. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation."

The Only Republicans Can Rule doctrine.

Any Democrat who is not committed to complete structural reform of this far right #SCOTUS - including its expansion - need GTFOH - period.

The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

As are the six MAGA justices. This is beyond.

The Roberts Court is fundamentally anti-freedom, unless it concerns the freedom of billionaires and theocrats to have their way with the rest of us.

So far, the best predictor for Supreme Court decisions is to ask, what would the Christian nationalists want? The Court will deliver. It almost does not matter what the actual text, precedent or logic would indicate.

Call me crazy, but it almost seems like having a SCOTUS made up of a very-small-n highly-non-random sample of judges is not a great thing. Expand the Court. A lot.

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law