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Adam Schiff Turns Up The Heat On SCOTUS Over Trump Immunity
Rep. and Senate candidate Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that the Supreme Court will further discredit itself if it does not act quickly on Trump’s immunity claim.
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The Supreme Court Could Refuse To Hear Trump’s Immunity Appeal
It is no slam dunk that the Supreme Court will agree to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. SCOTUS could let the appeals court decision stand.
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7 Former State Supreme Court Justices Urge SCOTUS To Affirm Trump Disqualification
Seven Former state supreme court justices, including several who were elected or appointed by Republicans, filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to affirm Trump’s Colorado disqualification.
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Michelle Obama Blasts The SCOTUS Hypocrisy Behind The Overturn Of Affirmative Action
After the conservative Supreme Court majority overturned affirmative action, former First Lady Michelle Obama reacted with a powerful and personal statement.
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Chief Justice Complains about the Heckling of Corrupt SCOTUS
Chief Justice John Roberts is operating under the idea that in a democracy, no one should be allowed to use their First Amendment to disagree with this court in any place where they might see or hear it.
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Ted Cruz Falsely Accuses Merrick Garland Of Acting Out Of Malice Against Republicans
Ted Cruz falsely claimed the special counsel is nothing but petty retribution because mean Republicans wouldn’t let Garland be on the SCOTUS.
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Opinion: “Anti-Government†GOP Actually Wants Big Government Against The People
This is a form of government not of, by and for the people, but one against the people. This is the government the Republican Party, the Supreme Court it built, and Trump are delivering.
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Jim Jordan Throws A Fit As House Democrats Stand Up To SCOTUS On Marriage Equality
Rep. Jim Jordan claimed that the Democratic bill to protect marriage equality was a plot to intimidate the Supreme Court.
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Opinion: Alito, Thomas Think Reality of Gun Violence Shouldn’t Concern SCOTUS
Rather than assess our history and re-think traditions that are unhealthy, indeed lethal, for us, SCOTUS, lead by the illogical minds of Alito and Thomas, use tradition to validate laws and decisions that are harmful to–deadly for–Americans.
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Opinion: Chicago Sky Celebrate 50 years of Women’s Equality Under Title IX as Alito, SCOTUS Do the Opposite
While the celebration of Title IX was certainly planned ahead of the release of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision nonetheless colored the discussion of the important legislation that advanced women on the basketball court, among other social arenas.,
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AOC Says SCOTUS Justices Kavanaugh, Barrett, And Thomas Committed Impeachable Offenses
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday that she believes that three conservative Supreme Court justices committed impeachable offenses.
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Religious Freedom Tables Turned As Synagogue Sues Over Florida’s Abortion Ban
A South Florida Synagogue has sued over Gov. DeSantis’ new 15 week abortion ban because it violates their religious freedom.
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Analysis: The Missing Person in Alito’s Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade
Less attention has been given, in discussions and analysis in the media, to the actual text of Alito’s opinion, especially the heinous cultural assumptions and curiously faulty historical analysis and reasoning
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Ted Cruz Who Incited The 1/6 Attack Accuses Biden Of Using Mob Violence To Threaten SCOTUS
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called the left and mob and claimed that President Biden is threatening the lives of Supreme Court Justices.
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Speaker Pelosi Rips SCOTUS For Slapping Women In The Face
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that the Supreme Court has disrespected women and slapped them in the face with the draft opinion on Roe.
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Biden To Nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson To The Supreme Court
Multiple reports say that President Biden has chosen Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for the Supreme Court.
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Decrying Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Justices Thomas and Alito Endorse Trump’s Assault on Civil Rights
Last Monday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case brought by Kim Davis, a former country clerk who, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case legalizing same-sex marriage, who refused to issue certificates for such marriages because of her religious objections to…
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Biden Is Delivering The Senate To Democrats By Making SCOTUS Fight About Obamacare
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is delivering votes to Senate Democratic candidates by making the SCOTUS fight about Obamacare.
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Mark Kelly Campaign Has To Add More Phone Bank Shifts Because Democrats Are Fired Up Over SCOTUS
The Senate campaign of Mark Kelly in Arizona has had to add more phone bank shifts because Democrats are so fired up over the Supreme Court.
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Andrew Cuomo Calls Trump Tax Decision a “Victory for Democracy” as President Has Twitter Meltdown
Andrew Cuomo praised the Supreme Court’s decision to allow New York prosecutors access to Donald Trump’s tax returns on Thursday but the President himself was not happy. The Governor of New York welcomed the news that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has the right to present the President returns to a grand jury. He is…
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Trump Says He Can “Live With” Supreme Court’s Decision on LGBT Rights Despite Conservative Anger
Donald Trump says he can accept the Supreme Court’s decision on LGBT rights, despite conservative outrage. The President did not criticize the move, as some believed he would. The court ruled 6 to 3 that LGBT people enjoyed protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights act – meaning they cannot be fired simply for…
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Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “The President Is Behaving Like a King” by Withholding His Tax Returns
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today about Donald Trump’s tax returns. It’s not clear how the justices will vote, but Democrat Hakeem Jeffries has made his position clear. The New York Congressman tweeted as the justices began grilling lawyers for Congress and the President on Tuesday. “Every single President since Richard Nixon…
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Supreme Court conservatives sympathetic toward Trump census citizenship query
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic toward a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a plan opponents have called a Republican effort to deter immigrants from taking part in the population count. During an…
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Immigrants Have The Supreme Court’s Attention in Two Major Cases
This was already a big week for immigration law at the Supreme Court, and it could get even bigger.
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Here’s Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Executive Order Is Set Up To Fail
It’s conceivable that Trump is hoping his boy Gorsuch will welcome the opportunity to expand corporate “religious freedom†to all corporations, whether said religious views are sincerely held, or merely more profitable. But if we go with the existing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, this element of the Executive Order will fail.
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Busted Again: Texas Republican Electoral Maps Ruled Racist
Republicans in Texas keep trying to find new ways to rig the electoral system, but the courts are on to them.
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Opinion: SCOTUS Hears Arguments To Tear Down Church and State Barrier
A ruling for theocracy will effectively demolish church-state separation and neuter the First Amendment’s religious clauses.
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Democratic Senator Storms The Floor To Block GOP From Going ‘Nuclear’ On Stolen SCOTUS Pick
Merkley’s decision to hold the floor over the Gorsuch nomination comes as Republicans plan to hold a vote to change the Senate rules.
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Minority Whip Dick Durbin Says Gorsuch Lacks Democratic Votes for SCOTUS Confirmation
“At this point, I don’t believe there are eight Democrats supporting Judge Gorsuch,” said Dick Durbin
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Trump Supporter Wants God to Kill Liberal Supreme Court Justices
“We declare the reversal of the decree of ’73, Roe v Wade … We declare the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The powers of Nazgul, witchcraft and death are being reversed now over this nation.â€
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Opinion: Election Nullification Petition Is Distributed To SCOTUS Justices
Petitioners say: “As the leaders of the free world, we cannot allow an adversary to invade our territory and subvert our republican form of government.”
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PFAW Says Gorsuch an ‘Unacceptable Nominee Who’d Put Ideology Above the Constitution’
“Gorsuch is an ideological warrior who puts his own right-wing politics above the Constitution, the law and the rights of everyday people.”
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Here’s Why Democrats Must Fight Trump’s Extremist Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch
Gorsuch wasn’t only the most conservative of Trump’s two remaining frontrunners; he’s also to the right of Justice Samuel Alito and late Justice Antonin Scalia
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Justice Denied for Merrick Garland and the American People
Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It continues to be denied to the American people.
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Trump Is The One American Who Warrants Losing His Citizenship
If anyone in America warrants having their citizenship revoked, it is Donald Trump; but like all Americans who aren’t naturalized, once a always a citizen, and it is too bad in Trump’s case.
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Supreme Court Decides to Weigh in On Transgender Rights
On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on transgender rights in the case of Gloucester County School Board vs. G.G.
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Conservatives Already Plotting To Block Clinton’s SCOTUS Picks, Let Court ‘Die Out’
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Not even an overwhelming victory by Hillary Clinton is likely to convince Republicans that they should do their job.
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Most Americans, Including SCOTUS, Disagree With Republicans On Gun Safety Regulations
92 percent of Americans support expanded background checks and 85 percent support preventing people on watch lists from buying guns; Republicans disagree.
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenges To State Assault Weapons Bans
In a day littered with bad news when it comes to gun legislation, there is one silver lining: The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear challenges to assault weapons bans enacted in Connecticut and New York.
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SCOTUS Deals Blows To Racist Republicans and Discriminatory Employers
The Scalia-less Supreme Court rejected racist Republicans’ gerrymandering and employers who think discriminating on the basis of race is constitutional.
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The Call Goes Out: It’s Time for the Grassley Rule
Perhaps a better name for it would be simply, “The United States Constitution.” It’s the one they’ve all sworn to uphold, after all.
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Trump Authorizes the Heritage Foundation To Nominate SCOTUS Justices
Trump embraced an organization as bigoted and racist as he is and authorized them to stack the Court with equally bigoted justices.
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Trump Supporters Reject SCOTUS Nominee Merrick Garland Because He’s a Jew
According to Duke, “three open Jewish members” is too many on SCOTUS, because “those Jews” will do “whatever the Jewish agenda is”
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Elizabeth Warren Annihilates Republicans On The Senate Floor For Delegitimizing Obama
Warren said no matter how much it hurt the nation, “Senate Republicans do pretty much everything they can to avoid acknowledging the legitimacy of our democratically-elected President.”
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Scalia-less SCOTUS Lets Stand Lower Court Ruling Against NC Gerrymandering
A federal district court ordered North Carolina to redraw two gerrymandered maps. NC wanted a stay but without Scalia, they didn’t get it
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Hypocrite Mitch McConnell Once Argued That The President Was Elected to Impact SCOTUS
Mitch McConnell once wrote that the President is elected by the people to “carry out a program and altering the ideological directions of the court would seem to be a perfectly legitimate part of a presidential platform.â€
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Alabama Chief Justice Reinstates Same-Sex Marriage Ban – Says SCOTUS Is Confused
Notorious Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has unilaterally issued a judicial order overturning a six-month old United States Supreme Court ruling.
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Constitutional Dunce Scalia Needs To Be In An Asylum, Not SCOTUS
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
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President Obama To SCOTUS – Butt Out of Colorado’s Pot Law
Republicans in two states are appealing to SCOTUS to empower them to abolish another state’s rights to pass a law Republicans do not like
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Kentucky Gubernatorial Election Should Be A Wake Up Call For Democrats
Now if only Democrats would make a special effort to demonstrate to moderates that a major contributor to this country’s problems is conservative Christians and moderates pandering to evangelical fanatics forcing religion on the country, voters might wake up.
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Floridians’ Lawsuit Against Jeb Bush, Rick Scott and the Kochs Goes To SCOTUS
The crux of the case against the Kochs, Bush, and Scott is that they conspired to build what appears to be “an illegally-approved pipeline”
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Supreme Court Could Hear, Overturn Assault Weapons Ban
The Supreme Court could decide as early as Tuesday whether to hear a challenge to Highland Park, Illinois’ municipal assault weapons ban.
Supreme Court Sinks To 15-Year Low In Popularity, Hits 50 Percent Disapproval Rating
Gallup reveals that, ironically, Republicans rate the Roberts’ court much more poorly than Democrats do.
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Progressive Pope Endorses Christian Criminals Who Violate Law And Constitution
The Pope’s bible, the rule book containing every single one of god’s utterances, plainly says to obey the government authorities, period
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Breaking News To Evangelicals: God’s Law Does Not Supersede the U.S. Constitution
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes
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Democrats Drill Republicans By Hitting Them In The Koch With Supreme Court Ethics Bill
It is an affront to Americans, and frankly the rule of law, that every judge is held to ethical standards except the 9 Supreme Court Justices
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Republicans In Congress Push A Federal Evangelical License To Discriminate Law
So what evangelical Republicans in Congress came up with this week is a “novel” piece of federal legislation that mirrors the rash of religious Republican state schemes to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community.
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Rick Santorum Was an Outlier of Crazy, But the GOP Has Caught Up
You can legitimately pooh-pooh Santorum and his chances of winning elected office ever again in his lifetime but he is now just a voice in the choir
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Republican Opposition To SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Is Opposition To The Constitution
Conservative opponents of the Constitution see no contradiction in attacking the Marriage Equality ruling as a violation of the Constitution
Reaction To SCOTUS “Obamacare” Ruling Reveals Republicans’ Intrinsic Inhumanity
That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past six years
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Religious House Republicans Plan To Deny Contraception Access to 4.6 Million Women
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There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
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Too Bad Scott Walker, SCOTUS Doesn’t Think Forced Ultrasounds Are Cool
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
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The Religious Right’s Full Page Denunciation of the United States Constitution
If you want a place where you tell everybody what God wants and then force everybody else to listen to you, you’re in the wrong country
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In Challenging the Supreme Court, Republicans Challenge the Constitution
The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution
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Religious Right Serves Restraining Orders On Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Kagan
Tt was no great surprise that evangelicals followed the lead of two congressional Republicans and issued religious orders restraining the ‘wrong’ kind of Supreme Court Justices from fulfilling their duly sworn Constitutional duty.
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Victory for Democracy as Wisconsin and Texas Voter ID Laws Come Tumbling Down
Democracy called checkmate against Scott Walker’s attempt to rig Wisconsin’s vote, while a Federal Court slapped down Greg Abbott’s attempt to suppress votes in Texas.
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Right-Wing Justice Scalia is Crusading to Establish Religion by Constitutional Fiat
Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state “doesn’t mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”
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It Was Catholic Bishops Who Masterminded The Evangelical Hobby Lobby Crusade
A group of Catholic bishops in America found an easy means to exert control over Christian conservatives and manipulate them to re-establish Vatican control over theocratic and political matters to bring women into subjection to Catholic dogma.
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The Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Trojan Horse For All Businesses and Corporations
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
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In Hobby Lobby Case Supreme Court Replaces First Amendment With Corporate Theocracy
In Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Inc. the Supreme Court ended its flirtation with unanimity and ruled 5-4 in favor of corporate theocracy.
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Boehner’s Frivolous Law Suit Is A Shiny Object For His Intellectually Challenged Base
Sanity has definitely left the building when the Party of Unitary Executive President George W. Bush tries to make the case that Barack Obama has abused his powers under the Constitution.
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Americans Are Watching and They No Longer Trust The Conservative Supreme Court
The conservatives have been so blatant in their service to special interests that Americans have taken notice, and a new poll reveals the people have lost faith in, and are weary of, this conservative Court’s rulings.
Supreme Court Throws Out Establishment Clause With Public Prayer Ruling
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.
