Roberts wrote "the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" and "eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it" then signed on to this opinion expressly allowing the government to continue discriminating on the basis of race.
FUBAR …
the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.
The same Supreme Court that just acted overnight to unleash ICE raids that break apart families and brutalize people in LA, couldn't find the time in 2024 to fast-track Jack Smith's case against a sitting president for trying to overthrow our government.
Their priorities tell you everything.
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
The injunction is silent as to the use of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’ use of force and to prohibit excessive force. To the extent that excessive force has been used, the Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies should be available in federal court. I agree with the dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
The House speaker was forced to walk back his perplexing claim that Trump served as an FBI informant on Epstein.
Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy spoke by phone recently, according to the Vatican.
German police have arrested three people accused of working for Russian intelligence to plan bomb attacks inside Germany.
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
Looking forward to traveling to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for our town hall with @votevets.org.
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Chris Murphy: "Let's be clear what this trip is all about. This is President Trump's corruption tour of the Middle East. He is going to the gulf to collect tribute. What's happening here is an extraordinary level of corruption. We shouldn't pretend this is business as usual."
AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces
Art of the Deal
Red food dye isn’t the number one killer of kids.
Guns are…
ART OF THE FOLD........
So many layers of corruption.
Happy tariff capitulation day to all who celebrate.
@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.
This right here......
Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.
One of these things is not like the others.
A string of headlines by different outlets saying Trump fired the Democratic commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and then one headline from The Verge that begins: “Trump illegally fires…”
Be like The Verge.
we can turn the other cheek. but they ain't making it easy.
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