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SCOTUS Strikes Again

Yet again SCOTUS proves they are a pack of political hacks that care little for the rights of the people.

Once again it is the whole voting thing….

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Trump a temporary win in his campaign against noncitizen voting. The court’s three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision, reports the AP. The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Department of Homeland Security program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, in their efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on their rolls. But because existing law blocks most states from systematically purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election, the immediate impact on the upcoming midterms is likely limited.

The court’s order puts on hold a federal judge’s June ruling that deemed the administration’s recently revamped version of SAVE illegal. US District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan had blocked the use of the tool, saying it violated Americans’ privacy rights and could result in voters being wrongly removed from the rolls. A federal appeals court declined to pause Sooknanan’s ruling, prompting the administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court. The SAVE program was created under an immigration law mandating that DHS help federal, state, and local agencies prevent government benefits from going to noncitizens. Since the Trump administration moved last year to significantly expand its search abilities, at least 67 million registrations have been scanned, but critics worry it could end up purging valid voters.

Some registrants have already been wrongly flagged. In Travis County, Texas, for example, officials said they investigated 97 voters flagged by SAVE as apparent noncitizens and found that at least 10% of them—and likely up to 21%—were US citizens. The county urged the Supreme Court to reject the administration’s appeal, while the state of Texas submitted its own brief defending the database. Even though the use of the SAVE program has been blocked for months, the administration said in court filings that DHS officials have continued to use Social Security Administration data “in certain cases to verify information and help determine whether illegal voting may have occurred.”

What are the possibilities that someone could lose their right to vote because they have the wrong political leaning?

Many eligible voters may be at risk of having their voter registrations wrongfully canceled just weeks before the midterms after the US Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to screen voters using a database known for flagging naturalized citizens.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority lifted a lower court order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using and expanding the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database—whose original purpose was to check if noncitizens qualified for government benefits—to trawl through state voter rolls and link them to information supposedly confirming citizenship.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-trump-voter-database

This is just an extension to the already felonious rulings that these fools have made that will make cheating in an election almost a gimme.

The slugs continue to rule against the people of this country in favor of corporations and MAGA issues that allows them to rule the roost.

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Is SCOTUS Running Sacred?

I have not been the kindest of critics of SCOTUS and that has not changed I still think they are nothing more than political hacks.

I did read an article that I found interesting if it is accurate….

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The court’s action, although temporary, raised the deepest concern about the intentions of Chief Justice John Roberts and the “conservative” bloc (whose version of conservatism no longer extends to upholding legal precedents or constitutional norms).

Americans rightly worry that the court will allow or even encourage President Donald Trump to deny voting rights, intimidate voters, and tamper with balloting, if only because the court majority has so relentlessly expanded his authority and exempted him from ordinary oversight.

In one decision after another, they have awarded him the powers and immunities of a monarch in a casual manner that would have made the founders retch.

Indeed, the majority has consistently lent its authority and reputation to his dictatorial ambitions, while increasing the power of the wealthy in politics and diminishing or eliminating the protections afforded to society’s least powerful groups. Making many of these bad decisions worse is the justices’ recent habit of issuing important rulings on the “shadow docket,” unsigned and unexplained, which undermines their integrity and shields them from criticism. It is hard to know how to evaluate a decision when no logic or law is offered to undergird its validity.

It would not be unlike the Roberts right-wingers to upend this election with a shadow docket ruling, a cowardly maneuver they have adopted in more than two dozen cases since Trump returned to the White House — and ruled in his favor in more than three out of four.

https://www.alternet.org/supreme-court-mail-in/

Roberts has seemingly been doing Donny’s work for him in recent rulings and some think that could bite them in the ass come midterm elections….if that is true then could Roberts’ recent dissenting opinion be a false flag to make them look more neutral?

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s liberals on Monday in a dispute over the planned White House ballroom, warning that his colleagues’ ruling threatens Congress’ control of federal spending. In a six-page dissent, Roberts said the $400 million project is “likely unlawful” because lawmakers never explicitly signed off on funding, reports the Hill, and he rejected the Trump administration’s claim that the work qualifies as routine White House upkeep. The dissent marks a rare break for Roberts from Trump’s claims to executive power, notes CNN, with the chief justice borrowing a line from Winston Churchill: “‘We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us’,” adding, “All the more reason to ensure that those responsible follow the rules in deciding what to tear down and what to build up at the People’s House.”

The 5-4 majority didn’t decide whether the ballroom itself is legal. Instead, it ruled that a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation lacked standing to sue, saying her objections amounted to a simple dislike of the project. That cleared the way for above-ground construction to resume on what the administration now calls a national security upgrade. Roberts countered that the plaintiff’s long involvement in historic preservation and her interest in the White House as it currently stands make her injury concrete enough to get into court. “The White House is not just any building,” he wrote, and the decision is “no victory for the separation of powers.”

I realize this is just a minor thing but it comes when they are most worried about the midterms….so is this just a game for popularity (or as close to it as they could come in this short time)?

Is this just smoke blown up our butts?

Thoughts?

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The Long Con

Another re-post of a piece I wrote for Daily Agitator….if you are a subscriber then you can forego this post.

I keep doing this if the hopes that it will help drive more people to my other blog….

This is about the Chief Justice, Roberts…..and his rise to power….

 

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SCOTUS In The Crosshairs?

One can hope….but do not hold your breath.

Most of us see that the Supreme Court has become just an extension of far Right politics…..they are political hacks….and now the Dems step up and want to do something to correct the deficiency in the Court.

Democrats aren’t just venting about the Supreme Court’s conservative majority—they’re putting a menu of structural changes on the table. As Julian Mark reports in the Washington Post, recent bills from congressional Democrats would expand the court from nine to 13 justices, cap terms at 18 years, impose a binding ethics code, and rein in the court’s fast-moving “shadow docket.” The push—the story describes it as being at a “fever pitch”—comes after a string of major conservative rulings on voting rights, campaign finance, abortion, and presidential power, and amid polling that shows historically low public approval of the court.

Republicans and conservative legal advocates say the campaign is really about punishing a court that’s handing down decisions the left dislikes, and they argue the proposals are aimed at pressuring justices, not fixing legal flaws. Even Democrats acknowledge that most of these bills are going nowhere unless their party secures firm control of Congress and then scraps the filibuster, a combo seen as highly unlikely. The Post also spotlights legal scholars who warn that some reforms could further politicize the court—and float alternative ideas like a “balanced bench,” with an equal number of justices chosen by Democrats and Republicans.

Read the full story.

Seriously?

What are the chances of any of this actually happening?

This is a typical move by the Dems….an election approaches and they hit on an issue they think will sway voters….I think they are farting in the wind.

There has been lots of ‘ideas’ on how the Court can be fixed all depending on the Dems gaining control of the Congress….and when and if they do what do you suppose will happen?

Being the opinionated SOB that I am I have written about reforms….

Can SCOTUS Be Fixed?

Yes the Court needs a major overhaul…..yes term limits are needed….age restrictions needed….more justices are needed….etc…..but will these ‘reforms’ actually make the Court a more ethical organization?

I think it is a wonderful idea…..but also think that it is a waste of time at this point in our history.

Why am I crapping on the Dems?

I posted this on my other blog, Daily Agitator, and it is very much right on point with what I think about the Dems and their ideas….

Great Ideas But Sucky Execution

I do not see a future for this issue.

Anything you would like to add?

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It’s Good To Be A SCOTUS Associate

We all have seen the reports about the underhanded money making of our Supreme Court judges and now a new one has come up….this one is about conserv judge Alito…..

The supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows.

The analysis from the non-profit advocacy group and judicial watchdog Court Accountability, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found that even at the lowest range of estimates, Alito gained almost $400,000 from his oil and gas interests since being tapped for the high court by George W Bush in 2005.

The findings come as the supreme court prepares to take up a case in which the oil companies Suncor Energy and Exxon asked the justices to find that federal law prevents subnational governments from filing lawsuits against fossil fuel producers for the climate-warming effects of their products.

The supreme court said this month it will hear oral arguments in the case on 5 October, the opening day of its new term. The Trump administration, which is siding with the oil companies, has asked for 10 minutes of argument time. Court Accountability and other groups have called for a Senate committee to investigate Alito, the sole supreme court justice with holdings in energy companies, and said he should recuse himself.

He and the court rejected those calls.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/samuel-alito-oil-gas-assets-supreme-court-analysis

And he sits on the highest court in the nation and makes judgements on any legal actions brought against oil companies….this puts him up there with the corruption of Thomas.

SCOTUS is getting more corruptible by the session….and in doing so is destroying most modern laws….

When rationalizing its alarming injection of politics into legal decision, conservatives on the John Roberts Supreme Court are dumping years of legal analysis and precedent in favor of historical arguments. In essence, legal theory appears to be taking back seat to what law in America used to look like, says Florida International University philosophy Associate Professor Eric Scarffe.

They’re using history, said Scarffe, to do what judicial philosophy long has not: remove judgment from judging.

“Rather than promoting judicial restraint, … key cases reveal how the ‘history and tradition test’ has been weaponized to enable one of the most radical revisions to this nation’s constitutional order since the New Deal,” argued Scarffe. “It has been used not only to overturn previous decisions and precedent, but also to fundamentally shift the way the Court engages in judicial review.”

Courts traditionally weigh interests, assess evidence, and openly confront competing constitutional values. But cases like the Wolford v. Lopez, which the court used to strike down Hawaii’s restrictions on carrying firearms on private property that is open to the public, the court made a decision based entirely upon whether a sufficiently similar restriction existed at some point during the nation’s founding.

https://www.alternet.org/roberts-court-reform-politicized/

The judges now are nothing more than political hacks and do not deserve the positions they have been given…

It is beyond time for some massive Supreme Court reforms and changes.

Or we continue to have these hacks destroy the Constitution one ruling at as time.

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Chipping The 2nd

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SCOTUS seems to be the theme or the meme for today…..they will be ruling on the law against AR-15s….a good law in my opinion…..

The Supreme Court is stepping directly into the fight over bans on AR-15-style rifles. On Tuesday, the justices agreed to hear challenges to assault-style weapons restrictions in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, setting up a major Second Amendment clash in the term that begins in October, NBC News reports. Both laws bar certain semiautomatic rifles that gun-control advocates label “assault weapons,” including AR-15s, which have been used in mass shootings such as the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the 2022 Uvalde school massacre. Connecticut expanded its ban after 20 children and six adults were killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has recently broadened gun rights, including a 2022 decision that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry guns outside the home. Last week, the court struck down a Hawaii gun law. When the justices declined to hear a similar case last year, four conservatives signaled they view AR-15 bans as unconstitutional; Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the court “should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon.”

Under longstanding precedent, bans of “dangerous” or “unusual” weapons are allowed, but gun rights advocates say that as “the most popular rifle in the country,” AR-15-style rifles shouldn’t be considered unusual, Politico reports. At least 10 states have banned “assault weapons,” arguing that they don’t qualify as “arms” protected by the Second Amendment, per the Hill. Challenges to the Connecticut and Cook County laws were brought by individual gun owners and gun-rights groups including the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation. Lower courts have so far upheld both bans.

I look for SCOTUS to strike down the law for they have not been a friend to the people but rather the gun industry….it has a lot more money to give than joe blow.

Do not get me wrong….I have no problem with gun ownership just that of assault weapons and such….no one needs that for hunting or personal protection….if they are that bad of a shot then get a shotgun the coverage is better.

Do you think SCOTUS will do the right thing?

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If At First…

Yesterday SCOTUS handed another defeat to Donny’s push to rid this country of brown skin people….and after the ruling I said it would not end there….and I was right…..

President Trump isn’t dropping his fight over birthright citizenship, even after the Supreme Court ruled against him. In a social media post, Trump called the decision “too bad for our Country” and urged Congress to start work immediately on a legislative workaround, reports the New York Times. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!” he wrote. In its ruling Tuesday, the court overturned a Trump executive order that sought to end the policy of bestowing citizenship on children born on American soil. The order violates the 14th Amendment, declared the 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts.

  • Kavanaugh dissent: Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh joined the majority, along with the court’s three liberal justices. Kavanaugh, however, dissented from the majority ruling by disagreeing that the order violated the Constitution, per the Washington Post. He agreed it violated federal law, though.
  • Thomas vents: Clarence Thomas was in the “no” camp with Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, and Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion joined by Gorsuch. “The Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support,” Thomas wrote.
  • Alito, too: “This is one of the most important decisions in the history of the Court, and in my judgment, the Court has made a serious mistake,” Alito wrote. “As interpreted by the Court today, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on virtually everyone who happens to be born in this country, including the children of ‘birth tourists.'” But a “careful analysis” of the amendment shows it does not do that, he asserted. (The full text of the 1868 amendment is here.)
  • Birth tourism: As alluded to by Alito, supporters of Trump’s executive order argued that the existing policy encourages “birth tourism,” in which pregnant women come to the US for the express purpose of giving birth. “The trouble is that there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view,” wrote Roberts, per the Wall Street Journal.

Birth tourism?  Sounds a lot like the crap that use to be spread about women who got pregnant so they could collect welfare…that was bullshit and this subject is too.

This is just hatred of people with brown skin….they can put all the cheap lipstick on that pig but it will not change the bigotry.

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Donny Loses To SCOTUS (Go Figure)

Donny has been trying really hard to see the babies born on US soil to non-citizens lose their right to be Americans for being born here….

The Supreme Court upheld the principle of birthright citizenship on Tuesday, handing President Trump a major defeat on one of his signature immigration initiatives. In the 6-3 ruling, the court backed the idea that nearly all children born on US soil are American citizens, no matter the status of their parents. Chief Justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices in striking down an executive order issued by Trump, reports SCOTUSblog and the New York Times. Roberts wrote the majority opinion.

The concept of birthright citizenship has been in place for more than a century under the 14th Amendment, which stipulates that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” The Trump administration disagrees with the interpretation of the sentence. But Roberts’ opinion declares:

  • “Citizenship, then and now was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
  • In a sign of how much the case mattered to the White House, Trump attended oral arguments in person earlier this year. The ruling could affect the legal status of about 250,000 babies a year, notes Reuters.

One of the few times that the judges did not side with Donny Do-Little….why?

You can bet that the little nazi fucker Miller will be working on the next way to try and take citizenship away from some Americans.

I do not think this issue is dead just yet…..

What do you think of this turn?

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Once Upon a Time In The South

SCOTUS has made it official that the hard fought right of voting is dead….but what can those alienated from voting do to make up for this loss?

 

https://newrepublic.com/article/210669/voting-rights-act-dead-new-model-black-politics

 

The marginalization of voters must come to a halt….we must make damn sure that every qualified voter has the right to do so and without interference.

That means….time to step up and fight!

And now the South should lead the way once again….the voting rights movement started in the South and now it is time for the South to rise again and take the lead.

Time to Cause Some Good Trouble Again in the South

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Justice Thomas–Just Another Political Hack

We know the Chief Justice Roberts is a political hack ans now Justice Thomas has opened his mouth and once again proved that he is a hack as well.

I have known he was one for years  and his wife is worse than him….there are so many times he should have recused himself but instead vote to assist the people in the suit.

His latest performance is around the abortion pill….

Justice Clarence Thomas sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court ruling preserving nationwide access to an abortion medication, arguing the drug manufacturers were operating a “criminal enterprise.”

On Thursday (May 14), the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone, according to The Guardian.

In October 2025, the state of Louisiana sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for allowing mifepristone to be prescribed remotely and mailed to patients, arguing that mailing the medication violated the state’s abortion restrictions and federal law.

This ruling halted a May 1 order from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that would have significantly restricted nationwide access to mifepristone.

In Thomas’s dissent, he argued that the plaintiffs — Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, two mifepristone manufacturers — had not shown they would experience irreparable harm if access to the medication remained blocked.

“Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise,” Thomas wrote. “They cannot, in any legally relevant sense, be irreparably harmed by a court order that makes it more difficult for them to commit crimes.”

He also pointed to the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, which broadly bans the mailing of anything considered “obscene, lewd or lascivious”, arguing mifepristone fits that description.

Thomas was joined by Justice Samuel Alito, who argued the ruling conflicted with the court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which gave each state the individual authority to regulate abortion.

In a similar case from 2024, the Supreme Court ruled against a lawsuit filed by The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), a coalition of conservative medical organizations and physicians.

The lawsuit challenged FDA rules allowing expanded access to mifepristone, including mail delivery and telehealth prescriptions.

(binnetweork.com)

Yo Thomas the only criminal enterprise here is the Supreme Court.

Then Thomas spoke at the Univ of Texas about ‘god given’ rights and how Progressives are destroying that….

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Justice Thomas is perhaps one of the most revered living justices on the right. Conservative lauded his speech, calling it “extraordinary.” “In addition to its sweeping condemnation of progressivism, his speech is an immediate classic in civics formation,” wrote Andrew Walker, professor of Ethics and Public Theology at Southern Baptist Seminary. “But that the speech’s content is now so foreign, so unfamiliar, to so many, reveals how successful progressivism has been in memory-holing our national inheritance. Progressivism is a civic, moral, and theological cancer. It must be fought against and defeated if there is to be an American order (and moral decency).”

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2026/05/clarence-thomas-warns-progressivism-threatens-americas-god-given-rights

Sorry Bubba the only cancer on society is your Oreo ass and the ilk that you represent.

BTW….what are those ‘god given rights?’  Name them!

These people like Thomas and his ilk are pathetic and creepy and will lie just to keep their positions in life….time for this one and well all of them to step down and let more competent people take over the Court….these people are doing more harm to this country than anyone they point their fingers at in their BS….

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