Does everyone realize that if they can cancel ongoing elections to redraw maps, they can cancel the ones in November too?

It’s important to understand the court is moving so quickly dismantling not just the voting rights act but the right to vote because they know Trump is old, he’s term limited, and when he leaves so does the cult of personality. They must cement their power now, before their coalition falls apart.

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Plaintiffs should force the Court to actually take inconsistent positions, if that’s what it’s going to do. Keep building the case that SCOTUS is pursuing GOP and white domination. The more that’s obvious, the less onerous will be the task of fixing it later on.

"he kept me out of jail" is todd blanche's only job description as AG

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

Supreme Court today: We'll allow Alabama Republicans to change the congressional map in the primary election even though absentee voting has literally already started Supreme Court last December: November's too late to strike down the GOP's map in TX's March primary election!!

Constitutional convention or bust

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I posted this right about the contrast between Virginia and Florida's supreme courts on Friday. Just as relevant now, with SCOTUS blocking the court order against the Texas gerrymander because it's too close, but now basically allowing Louisiana and Alabama to cancel next week's elections.

I am increasingly frustrated with the endless D struggle session about messaging. Your voters are getting outright disenfranchised! Your messaging doesn't matter if you don't fix that! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-your-vo...

Democrats: Desperate, furious [over Republican judges throwing out the results of a vote they lost by making up a technicality] Republicans: Trying to defy the odds [by disenfranchising millions of voters and trying to steal an election]

The Virginia Supreme Court saw the FBI go after Louise Lucas and said, "No thank you, won't be us." Raid had its intended impact.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Sic semper democratiae

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

Republicans are always trying to tell struggling people who’s to blame for their lot in life. But it’s the fucking billionaires. They took our money. Working people used to have it. They took it. That’s it. It’s that simple. They stole our money and we should take it back.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Hard to see so many basic rights being dismantled and not view the Biden interregnum as a total failure. His presidency was premised on restoring institutions and stability, and so many of the wins achieved have already been undone by Trump (as well as 50+ years of progress).

Manufacturing Content

feels like federalism is dead

kalshi how soon after the king's visit will trump start wearing a rack of medals on his suits

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and immediately Republicans in the Deep South began planning to suspend ONGOING elections.

The Supreme Court is the only place John Roberts wants a black man to have a vote

FYI

Good morning. Just a reminder that the United States Supreme Court is illegitimate and Dems should plan to legislate like it.

People are struggling and they want to take money out of our pockets and spend it on gilded ballrooms and foreign wars.

Shot/Chaser

He meant Southern Comfort.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".

OK I’ll bite: who is this Stefanik person

No, they just have no other tools in their tool belts.

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Yeah. Obviously they’d like to start with Democratic voters first but ultimately the goal is to erase the franchise entirely. Make it merely a rubber stamp for the chosen few. That’s why a threat to anyone’s right to vote is a threat to everyone’s right to vote.

Gen X did a January 6th at Woodstock 99 so whatever it was happened in childhood

THE POPE IS WEAK ON CRIME. THE POPE PRACTICES RECONCILIATION. THE POPE ASKS GOD TO FORGIVE THOSE WHO HARMED HIM. WHAT A WIMP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

It never occurred to them they might not be the ones in control.

They like Trump and want to help him. Accomplices

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

A lot of MAGA Catholic converts chose the church because a system of theocratic monarchy appealed to their desire to be in absolute, unquestioned control. They never realized that in a split between the Church and the GOP, they don’t get to be both. That’s theocracy. You don’t get a vote.

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

JD Vance’s record of killing world leaders continues, in a figurative sense

We got money for Hungary but can’t feed the hungry

And the opportunity for radical reform

I would be more cautious before making a causal claim about the effectiveness of a threat to commit genocide. Seems like the stakes are high enough.