We have to take building democracy as seriously as the MAGA Supreme Court takes dismantling it. That starts with expanding and rebalancing the court itself.

The public has long been ahead of policymakers when it comes to Supreme Court reform. Court expansion has net positive public support even without significant support from Democratic elites. Significant room for growth once leaders start to ... lead. bsky.app/profile/gell...

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.”

“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States” -- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...

TBTC President @liptonlubet.bsky.social notes the Roberts Court’s own corruption plays a role in its willingness to embrace Donald Trump’s corruption: “You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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...

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...

Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/noem-...

The Trump administration’s racist terror campaign against Black and Brown communities has been given the greenlight by a compromised, out of control Supreme Court. There can be no second-class citizens in a free America.

“Today’s SCOTUS ruling puts farm workers — and every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant — in greater danger,” said @ufw.bsky.social President Teresa Romero. ufw.org/u-s-supreme-...

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Shorter Brett Kavanaugh: "Papers, please"

Just listened, via Morning Edition, as a woman with learning disabilities broke down crying while recounting how ICE agents racially profiled her in Washington, D.C. Even brief questioning — especially by unidentified agents with sidearms and mask — can be traumatic, Brett.

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.”

"So you're saying if you don't like [kids reading picture books about inclusivity], you gotta get involved in politics and change it that way, is that what you're saying?!" Alito snears disparagingly. Also Alito, this time justifying Dobbs: "Women are not without electoral or political power." 🤔

We’re sorry* the government secreted you away to a foreign torture prison, but you used the wrong heading on your paperwork, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Best of luck not being renditioned before you can file a new complaint! *Alito, writing separately to note that he is in no way sorry.

Unconscionable injustice dressed up as "law."

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In 2023, John Roberts' #SCOTUS shocked all of us by not making the worst possible decision in a voting rights case. On Monday, it will hear arguments in a "nearly identical" case — with potentially major consequences. More from @imillhiser.bsky.social:

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So Elon Musk has the same ethics rules as the Supreme Court: none.

NEW: Using the radical independent state legislature theory, the RNC asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allows voters to cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots were rejected.

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Here's me on what Trump 2.0 means for trans people, a group of 2 million Americans being targeted by a President who just declared us deceitful by nature

Wrote about a Supreme Court case that could start a nationwide rollback on birth control rights. Braidwood v. Becerra is nominally about insurance coverage, but as we witnessed with abortion, making reproductive healthcare less accessible is a stepping stone to bans. My first in @democracydocket.com

Well, here we are. Historically, Comstock enforcement never targeted legal abortion, which Anthony Comstock himself insisted upon. So this kind of enforcement is using the Act in a way that is new. They are making it up.

BREAKING: In a victory for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court denies an appeal from Montana officials seeking to reinstate two voter suppression laws. The state wanted SCOTUS to use the radical independent state legislature theory to overturn a decision from the Montana Supreme Court.

I am sure it’s all just small talk …

ICYMI: The right-wing Supreme Court took up a case that could threaten countless people's access to cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds, and other lifesaving health care services. @imillhiser.bsky.social with the details:

"Imagine a Supreme Court with a full majority of Trump-appointed justices....not a single Supreme Court precedent would be safe...Every Senate Democrat must stand ready to protect our courts and the very notion of 'equal justice under law.'"

Here's a 74 year old Supreme Court Justice weighing in on an internet case

New: The right-wing Supreme Court majority is now looking to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act’s policy that makes cancer screenings, heart statins, and HIV prevention free.

Clarence Thomas repeatedly broke the law and no institution with enforcement authority is going to do a damn thing about it. A long sigh with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

People sometimes ask me when it was that I lost it my confidence in the integrity of the Supreme Court; was there a tipping point? Indeed, there was. 🧵

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether states can kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid even for non-abortion services like birth control and STI testing / treatment The South Carolina case is called Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

So... just to clarify... it's fine for Supreme Court justices to act unethically, but calling them out for that ethical misconduct is against the rules?

Trump and his right wing goons are planning an all out assault on birthright citizenship with a strategy in which they are hoping MAGA justices in Robert’s far right #SCOTUS deliver them the win. Planning an all out attack on the Constitution in broad daylight.

"In two months, Americans will watch Chief Justice Roberts swear Trump in for a second term that is, in meaningful part, the product of Roberts’ handiwork." New from our friends @alexaronson.bsky.social (@courtacctability.bsky.social) & @thelisagraves.bsky.social (@truenorthresearch.bsky.social):

@susanrinkunas.com reports that mass deportation stan Stephen Miller has been giving hundreds of thousands of $ to 1 single lawyer -- Jonathan Mitchell. One thing’s clear: Stephen Miller is solidifying his cruel, fascist portfolio by amping up his reproductive oppression. https://buff.ly/3OSb8Oh

So disturbing: Now that a jury will never pass judgment on the evidence against Trump for his insurrection, he's liberated to call that "exoneration" and rewrite 1/6 as a Day of MAGA Patriotism. We can't let that happen. On pod @saletan.bsky.social is good on this: newrepublic.com/article/1893...

"There is nothing—not history, not law, not reason—that Thomas will not warp in pursuit of maximalist Second Amendment freedoms." -- @mjsdc.bsky.social 🎯 More in @slate.bsky.social:

Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.

Oh hey, that was us! We partnered with @indivisible.org, @standupamerica.bsky.social, @nwlc.org, Progressive Change Institute, Alliance for Justice, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and more to tell them to do everything they can to confirm these judges.