Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

261
active users

shakedown.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.4.3

#unpackthecourts

1 post1 participant0 posts today
Michael Busch

Pound the facts and pound the law.

And also #ImpeachTrump and #UnpackTheCourts .

QT Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social‬
2025 August 7

It seems unhelpful to me that whenever someone says “Trump proposal X would be clearly illegal” a thousand people all chorus in to say “yes but SCOTUS is in the bag, it doesn’t matter.” Sure, the corrupt majority might sign off on anything. But we need to ACT like the law still matters.
bsky.app/profile/normative.bsk

Bluesky Social · Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)It seems unhelpful to me that whenever someone says “Trump proposal X would be clearly illegal” a thousand people all chorus in to say “yes but SCOTUS is in the bag, it doesn’t matter.” Sure, the corrupt majority might sign off on anything. But we need to ACT like the law still matters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Michael Busch

#UnpackTheCourts and do not let voter suppression continue in any form.

QT Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social‬
2025 July 28

In another 8th Circuit ruling limiting Voting Rights Act enforcement, a panel rules private individuals/groups in 7 states have no right to sue under Section 208, which allows voters who need help because of a disability or inability to read/write to get help from a person of their choice
bsky.app/profile/hansilowang.b

Bluesky Social · Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) (@hansilowang.bsky.social)BREAKING: In another 8th Circuit ruling limiting Voting Rights Act enforcement, a panel rules private individuals/groups in 7 states have no right to sue under Section 208, which allows voters who need help because of a disability or inability to read/write to get help from a person of their choice https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26032480-arkansas-united-2025-07-28-8th-circuit-panel-opinion/
*
Michael Busch

Yet again, USA:

Require that Congress block this, #ImpeachTrump, and #UnpackTheCourts of the illegitimate extremists who are making decisions without regard for law or fact to enable his crimes.

QT Mark Joseph Stern
‪@mjsdc.bsky.social
2025 July 23
‬
By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.so

Bluesky Social · Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute. Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a11_2cp3.pdf
Michael Busch

#ImpeachTrump and #UnpackTheCourts of the illegitimate extremists on SCOTUS who are enabling his crimes.

QT Don Moynihan‬ ‪@donmoyn.bsky.social‬
2025 July 23

*The Trump administration has defied or frustrated the court in more than one third of the 165 cases where the courts have ruled against them.
*Since April, SCOTUS has granted relief to Trump in all 15 of the emergency applications, writing a decision to explain its reasoning only three times.
bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.

Bluesky Social · Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)New, from me: until recently the big question was “what happens when Trump defies the courts?” The answer, as it turns out, is that SCOTUS will support him. The new question is what are the consequences for American democracy and governance?🧵 https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-youre-a-star-the-supreme-court
Michael Busch

#ImpeachMcMahon, #ImpeachTrump, and #UnpackTheCourts .

QT ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social‬
2025 July 17

The Supreme Court's emergency docket decision to allow Trump to gut the Department of Education is maybe the most pro-Trump, pro-Authoritarian ruling the Court has made in service of Trump thus far, and I've read them all.
My latest in @thenation.com

thenation.com/article/politics

bsky.app/profile/elienyc.bsky.

The Nation · The Supreme Court Just Crowned Trump King—AgainIn ruling the president can decimate the Department of Education, the court took a key congressional power—and gave it to Trump.
Michael Busch

#UnpackTheCourts and #ImpeachTrump .

And free everyone Trump and those with him have kidnapped and trafficked.

QT Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com‬
2025 July 3

Justice Sotomayor: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."

bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedm

Bluesky Social · Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)Justice Sotomayor: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
*
Michael Busch

If John Roberts does not want to be publicly condemned; he could stop making monstrous decisions devoid of law or fact.

And Roberts does not get to "both sides" political violence in the United States; which is all-but-exclusively by Trump and those with him.

#UnpackTheCourts and #ImpeachTrump .

"Chief Justice Roberts warns against heated political words about judges"

apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

Michael Busch

Yet again, USA:

Do not allow this or anything like it.

Require that Congress end it, #ImpeachTrump and remove him, and #UnpackTheCourts .

QT Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social‬
2025 June 27

Justice Barrett writes for the right-wing supermajority reining in nationwide injunctions and letting Trump unconstitutionally end birthright citizenship in areas of the country where judges have not yet blocked Trump's citizenship-stripping executive order.
bsky.app/profile/mikesacks.bsk

Bluesky Social · Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social)Justice Barrett writes for the right-wing supermajority reining in nationwide injunctions and letting Trump unconstitutionally end birthright citizenship in areas of the country where judges have not yet blocked Trump's citizenship-stripping executive order. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf
Michael Busch

Yet again, USA:

Do not allow this or anything like it.

And #AbolishICE, #ImpeachTrump, and #UnpackTheCourts .

QT Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social‬
2025 June 23

Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment: supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd

bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.

Michael Busch

Yet again, USA:

Do not allow this or anything remotely like it.

And #UnpackTheCourts .

QT ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social‬
2025 June 18

Here we go, we have Skrmetti. SCOTUS, 6-3, UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care.

Roberts with the majority opinion, all three liberals dissent.

Michael Busch

Yet again, USA:

Do not allow this or anything like it.

And require that Congress hold Musk and those with him accountable for their crimes; #ImpeachTrump; and #UnpackTheCourts .

QT Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social‬
2025 June 6

SCOTUS conservatives give DOGE access to Social Security records, overruling lower courts. All three Democratic appointees would reject the Trump administration’s request.
bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.

Bluesky Social · Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives give DOGE access to Social Security records, overruling lower courts. All three Democratic appointees would reject the Trump administration’s request.
Michael Busch

Do not allow this or anything remotely like it; United States.

And #UnpackTheCourts .

QT Josh Block
‪@joshablock.bsky.social‬
2025 May 23

En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

A plurality of the en banc court would also hold that library books are government speech,
bsky.app/profile/joshablock.bs

Bluesky Social · Josh Block (@joshablock.bsky.social)En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.
TrendingLive feeds
About