Steve Thompson PhD<p>How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-john-roberts-has-empowered-a-lawless-presidency" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/the-lede/ho</span><span class="invisible">w-john-roberts-has-empowered-a-lawless-presidency</span></a></p><p>The Chief Justice’s rebuke of Donald Trump over his calls to impeach judges obscures Roberts’s own role in fostering the destruction in Washington.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TRUMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TRUMP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ROBERTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ROBERTS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PRESS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PRESS</span></a></p>
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RememberUsAlways<p>Trump found the limits to the federal executive as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> face more than 60 court injunctions in their first 100 days.<br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <br>"<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a> is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> said.<br>"President Barack <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> 12 injunctions during his administration. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration 64 and President Joe <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> 14, according to a study by Harvard Law Review." <br><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-03-21/trump-calls-for-an-end-to-nationwide-injunctions-is-he-facing-more-than-previous-presidents" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usnews.com/news/politics/artic</span><span class="invisible">les/2025-03-21/trump-calls-for-an-end-to-nationwide-injunctions-is-he-facing-more-than-previous-presidents</span></a></p>
BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p>A relief for the time being, but experience has taught us that we never know when the seditious six will swing around & make a breathtakingly awful ruling.<br>They’re gonna hafta show a lot of spine THIS YEAR to make up for giving a lifelong criminal like trump essentially blanket criminal immunity.<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@jawarajabbi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jawarajabbi</span></a></span></p>
RememberUsAlways<p>"Many top legal experts believe a full-blown constitutional showdown between President Trump and the courts is already here. Others are confident there's still room to avoid one.</p><p>But most agree that the administration's battle with U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg — who last weekend ordered a temporary halt to the administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members — is a significant escalation."<br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Johnroberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnroberts</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boasberg-courts-constitutional-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boa</span><span class="invisible">sberg-courts-constitutional-crisis</span></a></p>
RememberUsAlways<p>How do you know <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> is nearly destroyed and in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/coma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coma</span></a>?</p><p>The same guy who empowered <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is the only guy that can smack Trump down. <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> </p><p>One man controls the entire <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> agenda and it's Justice Roberts. </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> vs <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/election2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election2026</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/2026election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2026election</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>The Administration Can’t Even Take a Hint from the Chief Justice</p><p>Will No One Rid Us of This Turbulent Musk?<br><a href="https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/the-administration-cant-even-take" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">harrylitman.substack.com/p/the</span><span class="invisible">-administration-cant-even-take</span></a></p><p>"Musk’s response was far worse. Yesterday, he made the maximum allowable donations to the seven <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> members of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> who have filed or vocally supported the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a> of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a>. The intent is unmistakable. He is showing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contempt</span></a> for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> and the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
ClassWario<p>A senior <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitehouse</span></a> official told Reuters: "We view <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> stepping in as him saying he is an establishment guy, this is just against the D.C. code of ethics to call for impeachment of a judge, but he will ultimately be on our side and he is."</p><p>The entire orchard is blighted. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-calls-supreme-court-rein-judges-blocking-trumps-agenda-2025-03-19/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/white-hou</span><span class="invisible">se-calls-supreme-court-rein-judges-blocking-trumps-agenda-2025-03-19/</span></a></p>
Wokebloke for Democracy<p>"U.S. residents expressed shock and disbelief that a member of the GOP had openly validated the rule of law."<br><a href="https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/nation-rocked-by-jarring-spectacle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">borowitzreport.com/p/nation-ro</span><span class="invisible">cked-by-jarring-spectacle</span></a><br><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>“…his [Trump’s] suggestion that any judge with whom he disagrees should be removed…sparked pushback from Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts… Roberts wrote the Trump v. United States decision of July 1, 2024, establishing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of their official presidential duties, and it seems likely that Trump did not expect a rebuke from him.”<br>—Heather Cox Richardson, March 18, 2025<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/johnroberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnroberts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
MessagingMatters<p>Chief Justice <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> Publicly Rebukes <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> ’s Call to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Impeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Impeach</span></a> Federal Judge</p><p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/chief-justice-roberts-rebukes-trump-0ad8470f?mod=home_ln" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marketwatch.com/articles/chief</span><span class="invisible">-justice-roberts-rebukes-trump-0ad8470f?mod=home_ln</span></a></p>
John Yates<p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MobBoss</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ConvictedFelonTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConvictedFelonTrump</span></a> caught on video thanking corrupt failed <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> crony justice <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> for unethical rulings his way! <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
Frankie ✅<p>No, John Roberts, You Are Not a Civil Rights Hero </p><p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/john-roberts-compares-extremist-judges-civil-rights-heroes.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/news-and-politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/john-roberts-compares-extremist-judges-civil-rights-heroes.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOPCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPCult</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a></p>
Luca da Firenze<p>Chief Justice <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a><br>he's 'worried'<br>in his Annual Report he writes about<br>'the importance that Federal Laws are respected<br>and that threats and intimidation towards judges are unacceptable practices'</p><p>It's a clear direct message to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and the 'Heritage Foundation'<br>but<br>how can <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> expect that the 'criminal syndicate' he helped bring to power <br>will respect the 'laws'<br>when he and the other MAGA Scotus judges did NOT<br>respect the Constitution they were supposed to uphold?</p>
BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SmudgeTheInsultCat</span></a></span> </p><p>We have free speech in the US (for now). </p><p>scotus says corporations giving obscene amounts of $$ to support candidates & causes is exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. </p><p>Any action short of violence against a judge’s person or property is the way for us UNmonied folks to exercise OUR First Amendment rights.</p><p>So criticizing, peacefully resisting, protesting anywhere & anytime, and even doxxing these assh&$es is fair game. Suck it! <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a></p>
Dorothea Lange<p>Mr. Roberts saying, "They're on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and I'm out here." Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 73 </p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/MalheurCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalheurCounty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oregon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/undefined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undefined</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/DorotheaLange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DorotheaLange</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773624/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">loc.gov/pictures/item/20177736</span><span class="invisible">24/</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>New leaks make clear that Justices <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Jackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jackson</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kagan</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sotomayor</span></a> wanted the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CodeOfEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeOfEthics</span></a> to be enforceable. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Gorsuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gorsuch</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> did not.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/us/supreme-court-ethics-rules.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/12/03/us/supr</span><span class="invisible">eme-court-ethics-rules.html</span></a> </p><p>The article is silent on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Kavanaugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kavanaugh</span></a> and didn't identify the position of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Barrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barrett</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLaw</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
JB<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>politics-AssociatedPress</span></a></span> Like the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotus</span></a>, red state courts have plummeting legitimacy. Good on all local officials who defy nakedly partisan orders. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fightfascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fightfascism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pennsylvania</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Project 2025 ex-director condemns Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’ </p><p>The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> is <br>👉condemning what he sees as <br>“violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kevin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kevin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <br>and 🔸calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book.<br>
“If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, we have to do our part as well,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paul</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dans</span></a>, who led Project 2025 until July, said in an interview. </p><p>“There’s no place for this sort of violent rhetoric and bellicose taunting, especially in light of the fact that President Trump has now been subject to not one but two assassination attempts.”<br>
Roberts, who took over Washington’s preeminent conservative think tank in 2021, declared ⭐️a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be,” <br>during an appearance on a pro-Trump podcast in July, before a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. </p><p>That same month, Roberts started marketing his book, <br>💥whose cover proposed “Burning Down Washington” and featured an image of a match.</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/16/project-2025-heritage-violent-rhetoric/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">24/10/16/project-2025-heritage-violent-rhetoric/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America’s rickety democracy <br>-- in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.</p><p>Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy: </p><p>if Donald <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, rightwing courts, <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gerrymandered</span></a> state legislatures and an extreme Republican <a href="https://c.im/tags/caucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caucus</span></a> in the US House of Representatives create constitutional <a href="https://c.im/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> over the certification of this presidential election, 👉two men cleared the path.</p><p>The single-minded determination of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a> built a conservative supermajority on the US <a href="https://c.im/tags/supreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supreme</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> and ♦️stacked lower and state courts with Republican <a href="https://c.im/tags/ideologues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideologues</span></a> that have pushed the nation to the right via the least accountable branch of government.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jankowski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jankowski</span></a> masterminded the partisan <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gerrymanders</span></a> that ♦️tilted state legislatures and congressional delegations across the south and the purple midwest toward extreme Republicans, <br>♦️ended Barack Obama’s second term before it started, and ♦️rendered elections in Wisconsinand North Carolina all but meaningless over the last decade and a half.</p><p>Leo and Jankowski understood, separately, that the courts and state legislatures were undervalued and often undefended targets for a deliberate strategy aimed at capturing important levers of power that sometimes float under the radar. </p><p>They could be Moneyball-ed, to borrow the term Michael Lewis used in his book about how the Oakland A’s made an end-run around large-market teams by understanding value that their opponents overlooked.</p><p>What Leo and Jankowski built separately would soon reinforce the other’s creation (with, of course, crucial assists from chief justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>), tightening the knots around meaningful elections, pushing policy to the extreme right and 💥making it nearly impossible for voters to do anything about it</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/electoral-college-map-gerrymandering?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/oct/04/electoral-college-map-gerrymandering?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p>The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> opinion was so focused on the risks to the vigorousness of the activities of future presidents that could come from the threat of future prosecutions that it was willing to ignore the current threat to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s actions in 2020, not to mention his continued insistence that he won the last election.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOPfascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPfascists</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsUnfitForOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsUnfitForOffice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsATraitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsATraitor</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/wannabeDictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wannabeDictator</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsAFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsAFascist</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsAFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsAFelon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsHumanGarbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsHumanGarbage</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUSIsCorrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUSIsCorrupt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/election-2024/jack-smith-scotus-filing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alternet.org/election-2024/jac</span><span class="invisible">k-smith-scotus-filing/</span></a></p>
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