“The dangerousness of the Court’s decision is not conjecture: Late last year, the Trump administration deported four women back to Haiti, and in February, their decapitated bodies were found in a river.”

The way I didn't know who tf "Dollar Store Obama" was for damn near the whole paragraph lmao

This: “By making excuses for the president’s bigotry, the Republican justices are not only making a mockery of the law—they are placing the lives of people of color in jeopardy.”

i’m open to investors

As a Watergate historian, this might be the dumbest and worst take we’ve seen from JD Vance in a long time. And it’s also a complete misunderstanding of Nixon and Watergate.

Alito really acting like it's some kinda gotcha that Trump has terminated TPS designations for African countries AND Asian and Latin American countries the jurisprudential equivalent of a 'I'm not racist, I hate all (non-white) people equally' t shirt ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

this morning's decision in the TPS case, Mullin v. Doe, is just a straightforward declaration from the Supreme Court that neither the law nor the lives of nonwhite people matter ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

"When it comes down to it, the thousands of words Alito wrote could have been tossed out in favor of just 10: “Haitians have no rights white men are bound to respect.” @elienyc.bsky.social

(while being killed) stay alert everyone this is just a trial balloon for them killing someone more important

ready to web the nar

the level of psychic damage a Clarence Thomas concurrence inflicts on me I finished my close-read of Alito's terrible opinion in the TPS case and was like "well that's the worst thing I've ever read" then Thomas pops out like "worst thing you've ever read SO FAR, I wanted to do something WORSE"

"Hawaiians disapprove of people carrying guns in public The problem for Hawaii, however, is that 18th-century laws support neither the end that Hawaii pursues nor the means that it deploys, so they cannot justify Hawaii's default rule" 1) i'm gonna lose my mind 2) this is that BS im talkin about!

Right off the bat Alito begins with anachronism. As @maureenebrady.com brilliantly showed in her recent SLR piece, the Court is projecting modern property categories backwards. www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prope...

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John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

The ideas grouped here work as Swiftian parody — but without reckoning with the Roberts Court, as we’re all reminded again this morning, none of them can stick. Gotta address the rot in our constitutional structure before all else, and specifically addressing SCOTUS has to happen first.

Comparisons to Dred Scott and the Lochner Court are almost old hat by now, but lately I find myself thinking about the Slaughter-House Cases. The Trump Court's tortured logic is, at best, roughly on par with "the Reconstruction amendments only apply to federal, not state, citizenship."

The Roberts Court is a cancer attacking from every angle - from our freedom to decide what happens to our bodies, to protections for people who've sought safety, to allowing corporations to steal our health & wealthy. Fitting they're now helping cancer spread. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

Y'know if I hadn't just finished The Originalism Trap, this set of decisions may have de-motivated me enough to put it down as too-depressing-given-current-events. Only one other book made me feel like that way ever, and I was reading it well-before the recent VRA gutting.

Having a “jurisprudential séance” with @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app during my 3 hour rainy beltway commute!

This should be f**king basic.

Every single Democratic presidential candidate should be coming out in support of expansing and rebalancing this MAGA Court. If he or she doesn’t, need to be disqualified. In the meantime Jeffries/Schumer need to commit to jurisdiction stripping bills, investigations - all options - now.

KBJ dissenting in Wolford (decision invalidating Hawaii law that creates a presumption of no firearms on private property w/o property owner's consent): "Today’s decision makes one thing clear: The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law."

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

this mfer thinks he's funny ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

Justice Alito even asked a smartass question during the Temporary Protected Status oral argument the other day like 'what does non-white immigrants even mean? Are Greeks white? What about southern Italians?' ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

I have now written about the *other* racist thing the Supreme Court did yesterday,* namely, pretending Trump's racist immigration policies have nothing to do with his racism *& as I alluded to below, it's actually somewhat related to the terrible VRA decision too ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

SCOTUS is all-in on ethnic cleansing for a white America. Gutter racists.

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

The last immigration opinion in particular is awful and instead of yelling about it at length I'm just going to observe that the equal protection analysis is almost entirely unsupported by citations to relevant authority. There's a cursory cite to one leading opinion and then a bunch of handwaving.

I would accuse 'Diba of firing a shot across SCOTUS' bow, except this hit them amidships, right at the waterline.

This is evil. Get your history from historical scholars. Not AI owned by a trillionaire white nationalist.

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

6-3: It is constitutionally race-neutral to just kick out all the foreigners. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

Today's SCOTUS decision means that the Trump administration may prematurely terminate TPS for Haiti, Syria, and any other country it wishes, without bothering to offer any legitimate justification or following the procedures required by Congress, because courts cannot review the decision.

for fucks sake man

The Supreme Court doesn't think Rastafarians enjoy the same religious protection for their hair as other Christians enjoy for their bigotry. To get there, The Court launched a frontal attack on the foundation of civil rights laws. I explain in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The conservative supermajority went as far as it possibly could in several 6-3 decisions this week. “Again and again, it reached out for expansive holdings that did maximum damage to precedent, congressional authority, and civil liberties.”

Jackson, joined by Sotomayor, has a very sharp dissent condemning Bruen and its freewheeling applications in cases like this one. Kagan has a more temperate solo dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The third and not last decision is Mullin v Al Otro Lado. Alito, again, has the opinion for the 6-3 court, holding that a person does not "arrive in the United States" if stopped on the other side of the border. Sotomoyar is reading from her dissent for the trio. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The second opinion is in Wolford v. Lopez. Alito has the opinion for the court holding that Hawaii's restrictions prohibiting concealed carry on private property open to the public absent explicit permission from the property owner violates the Second Amendment. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...