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If I’m reading your piece correctly, you’re saying they’re motivated by wanting to please Trump. I think it’s even worse than that: They’re in agreement with his racism, and think Reconstruction was a mistake that they’re eager to erase.

it's dead, jim

Thank you for summarizing the idiotic dissents so I don’t have to bother reading them.

They didn't just buy it. *They* are bought.

rush limbaugh in a robe

This ruling may not have been the worst-case scenario but it is a screaming emergency siren that we ignore at our own peril.

the white Christo Fascists won't stop until they get what they want.

Grounds for impeachment and disbarment.

Constitutional emergency indeed given Kavanaugh’s response, which basically provides Congress with the specs for the bill that would flip him to the other side.

the 5-4, with Barret saying it was a "narrow ruling" only applicable to that case, means they want to flip it, just not yet. probably want to wait until after the election and strike it in the shadow docket. They couldn't use shadow docket this time. this was a "try again in texas" verdict

JFC, I didn't realize it was 5-4. What a joke.

And they know it. That's why they waited to announce it last.

There are 3 completely illegitimate justices on the court, who were appointed by a traitorous potus, in the midst of his treason.

I'm pretty sure it's just dead at this point

In their positions, their arguments are tantamount to treason against the constitution Impeach, remove, disbar

Samuel L. Jackson played the 'Most Hated Negro in Cinematic History’ when he played Stephen in Django. Judge Thomas is the “Most hated black man in Judicial History.” He would overturn progress to send us back to the fields!

It should have been 9-0

By the skin of our teeth. We managed to avoid the worst case scenario by the skin of our teeth.

Do most Americans know SCOTUS picks its cases? Soft Serve SCOTU6.

We passed constitutional emergency a looooong time ago

They need to be impeached. The court expanded so such insanity can't be even considered.

Six supreme court justices are traitorous trump trash.

I was listen to Sherrilyn Ifill on the America250 special for July 4th as she explained on what should happen if Liberal democracy happens to be able to take back power from the house of Representatives -The very first actions that must take place after the speaker is replaced is SCOTUS reform!

Dem action will always lag behind rhetoric and the rhetoric here should be that 6 of them rot in prison for treason against the United States.

Congress must enact reforms starting in January. Sure, Trump will veto. Make him. The whole effort will educate the public and shift opinion toward the “unthinkable.”

The days of thinking the Supreme Court made decisions based on interpretation of law are long since past. This is clearly a racist, political body that is fine ending the 250 year democracy experiment in favor of a new Fascist Emperor model.

It’s the best court money can buy.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Two Justices pretty much did the pretzel twisting back in 1898. Were you having a constitutional emergency in 1898? Or, is 2 of 9 an acceptable/non-emergency amount of pretzel twisting? If no emergency in 1898 and 2 of 9 is OK, what's the threshold for GQ? 3 of 9 or 4 of 9?

Pack the court!

So, you see, it’s this way. I’m an originalist except when I’m not. We must take the words for their clear meaning at the time they’re written except where I might find some way to construe them in a way that contradicts their original meaning for my “original” purposes. See how original this is?

We know the installed right wing of SCOTUS is corrupt and taking bribes for their decisions on top of being horrible people. Kavanaugh and Thomas were both credibly accused of sexual harassment & abuse. Roberts & his wife have taken in over 10 million. We know this.

Same with their stupid ruling on immunity that was the majority in 2024.

Kind of seems like the argument boils down to of course the framers are far too bigoted to have meant this applies to everyone and so are we.

I think people are misunderstanding the possible implications of Gorsuch’s opinion. The usual logical endpoint of his domicile=citizenship is that states have unceded power to confer citizenship on anyone domiciled there. It is the other side of his transients were excluded from citizenship.

This: "The upshot of Barbara is that, as a country, we are but one MAGA dead-ender away from a Court that is willing (and maybe excited) to undo Reconstruction, just as soon as Republican politicians bring a case that will allow them to do it."

Originalism was a trap the left fell into. It was never posed in good faith, and we were stupid to think it ever was.

They argue in bad faith, trying to say the 14th is an anachronism while the 2nd, written a century before, is not. They want to get rid of the Reconstruction Amendments, and are chipping away however they can, just like with Roe.

As is most the court

Over the past several decades, we've been warned in panic mode about the dreaded "Constitutional Crisis" ... something to fear and to avoid at all costs. But. Over the past period of trump/maga, we've been drowning in Constitutional Crisis's every single day.