Supreme Court Rejects Effort To Block Trump’s Felony Sentencing
The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the state of Missouri to block Trump’s felony sentencing and lift his gag order.
The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the state of Missouri to block Trump’s felony sentencing and lift his gag order.
President Joe Biden is set to call for major changes to the Supreme Court, including ethics reform and term limits for Justices.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States placed the court itself on trial.
While the Supreme Court didn’t give Trump absolute immunity, it said presidents can abuse their power and pressure federal government agencies to overturn elections. That is considered an “official act.”
President Joe Biden put out a clear and strong statement agreement that domestic abusers shouldn’t get guns, while convicted felon Trump has said nothing.
Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to the Supreme Court ruling that domestic abusers can be banned from owning guns by hammering Donald Trump.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Democrats are to pass a bump stock ban, but it will be up to Republicans to supply additional votes.
For the first time ever, Justice Clarence Thomas has admitted that he should have disclosed two trips from conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said it is up to the American people and their representatives in Congress to pressure Alito and Thomas to recuse.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called Supreme Court Justice Alito an insurrectionist sympathizer and called on Congress to impose an ethical code of conduct on the Supreme Court.
When it comes to the Supreme Court’s questions regarding Donald J. Trump v. United States, they were supposed to answer the basic question of if Donald Trump had presidential immunity as he claims he does in the election interference trial in D.C.
Trump’s lawyer made outlandish claims of broad and comprehensive presidential immunity that liberal and conservative justices seemed not to buy.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife was involved in the Trump plot to overturn the 2020, minimized the 1/6 insurrection during SCOTUS arguments.
In a call with reporters ahead of the Supreme Court’s Mifepristone hearing, the Biden campaign and surrogates cut through the GOP smokescreen by pointing to Project 2025.
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.
Stephen Colbert exposed the holes in the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment logic with a single joke.
Rachel Maddow said it will be the American people not the courts who will defeat Trump and save democracy.
Even chained to his teleprompter, Donald Trump couldn’t hold it together while reacting to the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment ruling.
John Oliver called out the Supreme Court for having a serious conflict of interest in the Trump immunity case.
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) said that Trump is getting preferential treatment as the Supreme Court is sending the message that he is above the law.
There is no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Trump’s immunity claim. Four probably conservative justices how deep their corruption runs.
In a filing to the Supreme Court, Special Counsel Jack Smith argued that a stay should be denied and that Trump’s immunity claim is a threat to democracy.
Trump appealed to the Supreme Court and he is asking the highest court in the land to delay Jack Smith’s 1/6 case against him.
Trump was trying to use the Supreme Court hearing to boost his campaign, but instead he gave Jack Smith more evidence.
CNN cut off Trump’s remarks after Supreme Court arguments and laughed at the former president for incoherently rambling.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said that Justice Clarence Thomas added to the Supreme Court crisis by not recusing himself in the Trump ballot disqualification case.
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.
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.
Trump has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn his disqualification in Colorado, but even the beginning of his petition shows contempt for democracy.
A Supreme Court that is struggling with a loss of credibility made the decision to not disclose what the vote was to reject Jack Smith’s request for a ruling on Trump’s immunity claim.
Legal experts mostly expected the Supreme Court to turn down Jack Smith’s request for fast-track arguments on Trump’s immunity claims, but Trump may not get the long delay that he is seeking.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba said that the Supreme Court has to step in and stop the criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump.
Trump and his lawyers have been claiming that surviving impeachment gives Trump immunity from further prosecution, so Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to hear the claim and make a decision.
The Supreme Court rejected a request from John Eastman over an order to turn over his emails, but the big news is that Clarence Thomas recused himself.
Justice Samuel Alito spelled out the dangerous view of unlimited power that the conservative Supreme Court majority seems to hold when he claimed that Congress lacks the authority to regulate SCOTUS.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) bluntly said that conservative Supreme Court justices care more about billionaires who fly them around the world than working people.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called out conservative Supreme Court Justices for taking gifts from billionaires while killing student loan relief.
President Biden responded by saying that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is not a normal court when asked if SCOTUS has gone rogue.
After the conservative Supreme Court majority overturned affirmative action, former First Lady Michelle Obama reacted with a powerful and personal statement.
Former President Barack Obama said that the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s threat to undermine our system of checks and balances.
Trump and his band of election deniers have been pushing the theory that state courts lack the authority to question election laws in federal elections, but the Supreme Court shot them down.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted Justices Alito and Thomas while calling for Supreme Court term limits.
The Supreme Court preserved federal voting rights protections in Alabama that many thought would be further gutted by this conservative court.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) warned that if House Democrats release Trump’s tax returns, it could lead to the release of the tax returns of Supreme Court justices.
Former President Trump’s last-gasp effort to hide his tax returns ended on Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
The Supreme Court has refused to help Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) not testify in the Georgia Trump criminal investigation.
Trump wants the Supreme Court to block House Democrats from getting his tax returns, but so far, he has only been given an administrative stay while his request is considered.
In a genuinely last-gasp move, Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block an appeals court order that the IRS must turn over his tax returns to congressional Democrats.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Clarence Thomas to help him out after a lower court ordered him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia, investigating Donald Trump and other Republicans’ possible illegal interference with the 2020 election.
President Biden spoke his mind when he called the conservative Supreme Court majority more an advocacy group than an even-handed court.
The Supreme Court refused to hear pro-Trump liar Mike Lindell’s defamation case appeal, which means Mike Lindell must face the $1.3 billion lawsuit that Dominion initiated against him.
A new Monmouth University poll finds that nearly 60% of Americans think the Supreme Court is out of touch, and 66% want term limits on justices.
They aren’t dumping Trumpism, just Trump. Indeed, what some pundits have termed Trumpism is really just what mainstream Republican politics have been for decades.
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it clear that their recent decisions on guns, abortion, and climate change are the beginning and they must be stopped.
We have to recognize that the Supreme Court is now currently operating not just as an enabler of domestic terrorism in America but rather as a chief terrorist organization and a chief purveyor of anti-intellectualism in American culture.
Keith Olbermann suggested that states ignore the Supreme Court’s concealed carry ruling because the court has no mechanism of enforcement.
President Biden responded to the Supreme Court’s concealed carry ruling by pointing out that it contradicted both common sense and the Constitution.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) wasn’t having any of the GOP pearl-clutching over Supreme Court Justice security.
All of these issues—women’s right to choose, gun control, the rights of people to love how they want and marry whom they want, and much more—depend on one issue: democracy.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be sworn in to serve on the United States Supreme Court, has addressed the recent leaked draft opinion that indicates the Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that allows women to make choices about their reproductive health without excessive government restriction.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced that his administration could challenge a Supreme Court ruling that states must provide education to all, including undocumented immigrants.
Broadcast news veteran Dan Rather issued a condemnation of the Republican Party’s treatment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace the outgoing Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled that Biden is the Commander in Chief and Courts can’t interfere with his power, but Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito dissented.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) announced he will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, increasing the likelihood that she will be confirmed overall.
Justice Clarence Thomas warned that society would be weakened if more justices were added to SCOTUS to dilute his power.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicated he might vote “no” on President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
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The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s the highest governing offices in the land that are promulgating the most virulent racism and leading the genocidal charge.
Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) urged her colleagues to “take our time” considering a judicial nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who officially announced his retirement yesterday. “As you know, I felt that the timetable for the last nominee was too compressed,” Collins told reporters. “This time there is no need for any rush….
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first black woman to serve on the federal appeals court in ten years. She is now the leading contender to be President Biden’s SCOTUS nominee.
For whom does the hangman need to come for moderate and conservative Democrats to care?
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