It will mostly be cisgender girls -- mostly cisgender Black girls -- who will be affected most by this. The number of trans athletes in affected states is incredibly small. Like single digits small. The number of butthurt parents who will throw tantrums when their daughter gets smoked otoh is high.

excited for the Democratic response to today's Supreme Court decisions demolishing the foundations of society* *doing nothing

We haven't created a new circuit in 45 years. Since then we've added 100 million people. We need at least 5 new circuits. Also double scotus. These old people can't handle the caseload; half of them are talking utter gibberish.

We must document every single rule and norm that Trump has violated — that is not illegal but should be — and pass it into law. We cannot have someone else come in and abuse this office the way that Donald Trump has ever again.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

The Supreme Court and politicians and their defenders think they should be able to start up the Rube Goldberg machine of pain then walk away and by the time the boot at the end kicks us all in the balls we'll forget who inserted the ball at the top. www.welcometohellworld.com/they-will-ne...

In a decade they’ll be going after birthright citizenship for everyone, not just undocumented immigrants.

My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law.

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

Democratic leadership is signaling in bright flashing lights that they won't do shit about the court even if they win. Unless something massive changes (like they don't get the nominees they want), I think that's the safest bet as to what will happen.

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

celebrating the supreme court and promoting the fiction that they are standing up against Trump is an insane rhetorical stance for someone in Schumer's position. The Supreme Court Gang of Six is the leading vanguard of the plot to enslave our country, you don't have to hand it to them.

All the other circuits obliterated this bullshit birthright citizenship case. Only the lawless operatives on the highest court have the shameless gall to consider such a thing

It's going to end up being a surveillance state that requires severe privacy risks for girls to participate in sports going forward including invasive genetic testing and physical examinations.

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

Originalism is conservative calvinball. The founders anticipated assault rifles but not immigration, apparently.

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

This is sad, and I’m glad he’s getting help, but this is really not an excuse for a sitting member of Congress to bugger off without notice for four months. If you are incapable of fulfilling your duties for health reasons, you need to step down.

Cool that James Madison envisioned everyone having a rocket launcher but the authors of the 14th amendment explicitly stating their intentions doesn't count for some reason.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

I am the proud daughter of Guatemalan immigrants.

I am a proud “anchor baby.”

AND I AM AN AMERICAN!

5-4 the sky is blue 5-4 the earth is round We're a joke

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason

The plain language of the 14th amendment is incontrovertible. This should have been 9-0. The fact that it was not, supports court expansion and, frankly, impeachment of the conservative justices.

A justice over ruling the explicit language of the Constitution ought to be disqualifying. They ought to be escorted from their offices by security and immediately disbarred.

The constitution is constitutional by a 5-4 vote

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

only a 3-3 split for the conservatives on overturning the unambiguous letter-of-the-law in the US Constitution. "All persons born in the United States." 3 votes to overturn that on totally imaginary grounds. It's scary, not reassuring.

it's so dispiriting to bear witness to the total lack of consequences for the worst pieces of shit in the world

Jesus Christ

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

congrats america, some faceless government official will now be inspecting your childs genitals if they want to play sports with their friends

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

new up at the youtube channel youtu.be/VD0sbfQq3Tk?...

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

“You have to give up your privacy & anonymity online because there’s just nothing we can do about the open web getting bait-and-switched into an unregulated global social experiment that gamifies the worst behaviors of humanity for the profit of two billionaire freaks” is just not a great pitch.

I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism

Our tax dollars being stolen in order to make our electricity more expensive. Times reports it as "Trump would pay" and "struck deal"

I think “social media is harmful” is maybe a more broadly acceptable way of saying “Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are very evil” but the latter is a much more accurate description of the problem

when it zoomed out I gasped

sure glad we don't have recent history of dems refusing to do anything about the courts even when they had power, or public statements from party seniority and leadership on how they opposed doing anything about the courts and efforts to change it would actually be worse

something that seems nebulous and tricky to prepare for is that when the illegitimate supreme court returns a decision saying that all of the powers it gave to trump don't apply to democratic presidents everyone has to say "no"

OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: ahahaha I have decided to scam the government by paying thousands upon thousands to an insurance company and receiving nothing in return. But will Dr. Pillhawker see through my evil plans?

i kind of think any trifecta will get one shot at this so this should be a judicial reforms and expansion package on the order of the one that let jimmy carter shape the bench for two decades.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

The MAGA #SCOTUS "Sides With Dictatorship — and Chao" Roberts Court's Slaughter "ruling is even more disastrous than people realize" - @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-court-...

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

SCOTUS waiting until the last possible moment to release their birthright opinion as some kind of exercise in drama is extremely annoying. underrated reform is just to mandate a day when they release all of the opinions.

Bill Bramhall cartoon: The new White House annex.