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🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

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Republicans have closed ranks against non-wealthy-Republican voting. Just as Republicans closed ranks to allow race to matter for ICE, but not for civil rights.

M@msderohanes.bsky.social

Does that mean that we need a Constitutional amendment as broad as the 2nd Amendment to protect voting rights? Something like "The Right of Citizens to Vote, Shall Not be Infringed"? Are 4 different Constitutional Amendments to protect voting not enough to protect legal votes from being thrown out?

This is such a waste of time and resources. States should be the ones responsible for verifying their own voter enrollment as they ARE responsible by The Constitution for voting! Why do 6 of 9 want to allow any infringement?

The NAZIS are gonna RIG it any way they can‼️... They plan to stay in OUR Government FOREVER -- Like Pootin/RUSSIA... The question is: ARE WE GOING TO ALLOW THIS FASCIST TAKEOVER TO HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA⁉️

Flawed? YOU MEAN TAMPERED WITH BY DOGE. ELECTIONS FIX NONE OF THIS. WE ARE ON OUR OWN. DECIDE QUICKLY, PEOPLE...OR DON'T AND KNEEL.

Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down I. The West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to all this?

Turns out "garbage in, garbage out" isn't just a coding error—it's a legal strategy. We've reached the era where the database is the judge and the glitch is the verdict.

If peeps don’t get that Supreme Court MUST be reformed & that country is falling completely into authoritarian rule, we’re screwed. Vote like your life, legacy, & heirs depend on it because all do! Give dems veto proof Congress to turn this terrible tide - NOW. Sick to my stomach every single day.

A Democratic candidate for senate, house or president who doesn’t issue a full throated endorsement for expanding the court, and an actual plan, should not be elected. Anything the Dems do will be undone by the court if they fail to reform it. Job 1!

Purity rules that allow GOP to maintain power is not a flex. Focus should be in dismantling GOP power by voting Dem all the way... & getting more to vote blue. Yet people who purport to care continue to depress votes by discouraging voters from showing up at the polls when the GOP suppress votes!

Anything and everything a Democratic administration wants to achieve, can and will be undone by this right wing Supreme Court. That’s not speculation. VRA, Roe, more to come. So let’s take a wait and see approach. Maybe conduct a study. Maybe file more amicus briefs.

2016 was a consequential election. People ignored HRC's warnings. 2024 was a consequential election. People dismissed Harris' warnings. It's going to take multiple election cycles w/ Dems as a majority to fix part of what the GOP has broken. Some, like the dismantling of USAID, can't be undone.

Not at all surprised. They needed a corrupt decision to counteract the few partial decisions they've made lately that didn't directly redefine the Constitution. Gotta keep those benefactors happy or they won't pay off mortgages and shit. I truly hope a few of them burn in a car accident very soon.

I just want to talk with the people in 2016 who were saying "don't tell me i need to vote, and don't tell me the Supreme Court is an important reason why i should be voting" ...now that it's 2026 There have been SO many reasons to say: Do we think that the Supreme Court is an important issue yet?

They are leaving no options left other than civil disobedience and maybe more. "They" are "going for it", presumably they see this as their last chance. If we get thru this it is time to flush the supreme court down the toilet ASAP.

If we ever get the chance to again, we must destroy the confederacy. Once and for fucking all. The confederacy is the root of all of our problems. And they must be eliminated.

I was thinking about this, because I recently heard "The South's Gonna Do It Again" by Charlie Daniels Band. So is he saying they're gojng to surrender again at Appomattox Courthouse?

Interesting side-effect: If the Democrats don't win the mid-terms, the possibility that the current Roberts Court will be diluted vanishes.

His feelings are more important than balls and strikes. Another case to revisit after the Roberts court rides into the sunset-- presumably to give the sun to the GOP. Untangling these partisan decisions will take a long time.

This court is presiding over the fall of the US democracy. Small comfort for us that their families also have to live in dictatorship and these traitors to the constitution are excoriated for however long the new USA lasts. Or by whatever rises in the ashes.

The glamorous life of a captured Supreme Court judge is somethin’ else: Party with autocrats at a State Dinner at night; harm voters & democracy by day.

Just thinking about SCOTUS makes me feel depressed. It feels like even if we get rid of Trump and MAGA, we will be ruled over by SCOTUS Federalist Society dictatorship for a long time to come :(

SCOTUS is afraid of court expansion if Democrats win. The GOP appointed justices don’t want their power diluted. Shameful.

Roberts & Co will let trump pour literally ANY amount of gas on our smoldering democracy if it means limiting the (well-earned) losses to the GOP this fall. And they KNOW trump will abuse this newfound power they've handed him. They KNOW. They are risking EVERYTHING here, and they MUST go!

Fine…then just make sure we vote in overwhelmingly numbers that this won’t matter. Stop wringing your hands and whining…the momentum is still with the DEMS…just have to get out the vote…like we always knew. Nothing comes easy….

Taney said the Constitution protected slavery, and he was correct! (Despite it being morally abhorrent) Roberts doesn't have that fig leaf, this is pure calvinball and any ostensible constitutionality is gone.

Interesting Side-effect: If the Democrats don't displace the Republican Congress, the possibility that the current SCOTUS will be expanded and the Supreme Six's power diluted vanishes.

Photoonist@photoonist.bsky.social

Even an 18 year term limit would allow a President to replace 2 justices per four-year term on average. Breaking political gridlock in the court both ways potentially.

On average. The problem is that the Senate has to confirm. And so, the Parties can play chicken, e.g. the way that McConnell "stole" a seat and Ruth Ginsberg misguidedly didn't resign to have her seat reliably filled by Obama. The Constitution is now totally hacked,... 1/2

Apparently, the 6-3 majority felt that the courts should not interfere with the executive branch's ability to do something it wasn't given any legal power to do by the Constitution.

Grab your ankles and grin. Federalist Society has taken over the government of the United States of America in a bloodless coup. Just like Reagan planned in the eighty's. And y'all thought I was crazy

And yet, there are still progressives who are reluctant to endorse Supreme Court expansion. A growing number of politicians and organizations have done so. If your representative or organization has not yet done so (check these lists to see), reach out. supreme13.org/endorsements/

supreme13.orgSupreme Court Expansion Endorsements | Supreme 13Explore U.S. senators, representatives, organizations, and coalitions that have publicly endorsed expanding the U.S. Supreme Court.

Musk's DOGE people collected this flawed database. They illegally merged US citizens' private data and sent it to Palantir (Peter Thiel). This database has millions of incorrect and outdated entries. Remember, ICE uses the same database, and they keep arresting the wrong people.

Three of the justices have a long and personal history in voter suppression!🤬

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social

Is anyone going to mention that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all young lawyers on the Florida recount case in 2000 when George W. Bush stole the election? They should have recused themselves on all voter suppression & election stealing cases, but such cases are their raison d'etre.

Any winning Democratic candidate who does not seek to enact drastic court reform, up to impeachment, court expansion, mandatory ethics, term limits, legislative curtailment of judicial review scope, will have failed this country. This is a fundamentally anti-democracy court @marcelias.bsky.social

The faulty, rushed construction of the illegal database is another example of the Corruption&Incompetence that saturates the orane felon's regime. The kill by a single stroke has failed. Time for death by 1000s of cuts. Each legit voter denied is another legal action. Shame SCOTUS!

So because SCOTUS sees the writing ✍️ on the Wall that Republicans Are Losing Ground with the American 🇺🇸 People they change the Rules in their favor ( SCOTUS is Afraid Democrats are going to ADD more Justices on the bench and things will be sent back to be heard again )

Anyone residing in one of the states using the SAVE database needs to check their registration status regularly. I thought they couldn’t purge voters within 90 days of Election Day, but that seems to only apply to “systematic” purges, which means they can likely remove these flagged individuals.

Actually, the text of the SC decision implies the 90-day rule does still apply, so I’m happy to be wrong about that. The bad news is the text also includes a footnote referencing another case in the fed system challenging the 90-day rule. So this could be the last election where it does apply.

So after this decision, there's no more complaining by orange fascist about voting fraud right? When they get destroyed, it's going to be a fair election and he'll accept the results, right? Sarcasm intended

In a scathing dissent, Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote: "The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."

Fuck Dissents… they must make Roberts and the others laugh with glee knowing they can continue to destroy democracy and no one will do a damn thing about it. They want to make the November election a joke, a validation of permanent rule.

Jackson: "The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take."

Jackson: "Even more concerning is the majority’s omission of any consideration of the harms that might occur if the modified SAVE system is allowed to continue operating...[like] the risk that States might cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens."

The ruling also deals a blow to voting and privacy groups challenging DHS' overhaul of the database as a violation of federal privacy laws and an unconstitutional attempt to usurp states' authority over elections. Read the full story:

democracydocket.comSupreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purgesThe decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.

Justice Jackson may be the best person on the court iny lifetime, and I was born when Nixon was president. Feel free to dissent, politely. I just think she's the bee's knees.

"to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges" seems a bit inaccurate; the feds cannot purge state voter rolls of their own accord, right? Though some states might be willing and / or be coerced?

Just in time to help the drowning Republicans. The Roberts court is complicit in the destruction of our beautiful Democratic Republic. THE EXPERIMENT MAY BE OVER UNLESS WE FIGHT TO SAVE IT!

Unfrikkinbelievable. I can’t even begin to think of rationale for this that doesn’t come from fantasyland. This SCOTUS needs major major overhaul.

We're evidently in a constitutional crisis given comments from honorable law professor Lawrence Tribe on way to authoritarian takeover of democracy. Trump is our era pathetic devil.

This is a crime in plain sight. Any SCOTUS Justice that voted for this should have all prior decisions impugned and they should be vacated from their seat immediately. I'm not joking.

1) Elections will happen in the future (we hope) and this post doesn't specify "in this election", so what they said is true: this does risk mass disenfranchisement in future elections 2) We can bet that some states or local registrars will still try to use this in this election, against the rules

America does have laws, but enforcement is another matter. Republicans don’t mind Trump violating laws! while they 💤 with their heads in the sand.

Well, not quite. "Currently, federal law bars states from conducting systematic voter purges, as the country is within what’s known as the 'quiet period' — a 90-day window before an election when the National Voter Registration Act forbids systematic removals from the registration lists." However..

"However, the DOJ has argued that the quiet period does not prevent states from removing individual voters from their rolls before an election if the federal government flags those people as suspected noncitizens." (From the article)

democracydocket.comSupreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purgesThe decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.

What constitutes a “mass purge”? Seems like it will be easy for the cheaters to twist that to serve their purposes. They will stop at nothing.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

Let's all channel our anger about this to: 1. Vote & getting everyone we know to vote (& checking registration first). 2. Volunteer & donate to campaigns &/or GOTV groups like Black Voters Matter, Voto Latino, Indivisible, etc. We need to control Congress & the WH by '29 to reform this court.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Roberts, Coney Barrett, and Kavanaugh were at the dinner at the White House last night.

How does the executive branch of the federal government - which has no constitutional role in elections - purge voter rolls? As I understand it, local officials hold elections and they determine who gets to vote, not the feds.

They will not stop until they have permanently entrenched right wing authoritarian rule. And I just don't understand why more people aren't screaming about this as the five alarm fire it is.

Fucking stupid and baseless like the majority of their recent opinions. An attempted bloodless coup. Check your registration and vote early before these motherfuckers can purge your name.

Texas found only 117 registered voters the Feds want to investigate out of 18 million of a max of 0.00065%. While there are many downsides of Blue states sharing their voter rolls, doing so would eliminate the grounds for legal challenges that might delay seating duly elected Democrats. Hmm…