John Oliver mentioned they are agreeing with Trump on shadow dockets 83% of the time.
It was 53% with Biden and far, far fewer shadow dockets requests.
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beepingnoise8 hr ago
+1016
The irony that he provides evidence of a political leaning supreme court, and they recently said they are not without evidence. Just like them providing no supporting information on the shadow docket rulings.
Folks, this supreme court IS political leaning.
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mellolizard7 hr ago
+366
They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation
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chironomidae6 hr ago
+109
Once the fix is in, there's no need to lie anymore
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SPACE-BEES6 hr ago
+42
Rest easy, this won't be the final humiliation
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ClosetNerd5625 hr ago
+27
This is it folks they’re taking us back 200 years! I hope it truly is that they are the dying kind and that’s why they are drilling hard into America. Hold on America you are made of different roots!
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fanboy1008046 hr ago
+40
Andor being endlessly quotable is great, but depressing that it's so accurate
40
mytransthrow7 hr ago
+46
This Scotus has political sycophant. Namely all the conservitive judges.
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StableLamp7 hr ago
+83
Not only that but the amount of cases that have gone to the shadow docket under trumps second has also increased by a lot.
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livinginfutureworld5 hr ago
+26
It's a legal coup.
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genscathe5 hr ago
+4
Is there a public list of shadow dockets?
4
Hrekires10 hr ago
+6774
The Justices aren't political, it just so happens that procedure and substance perfectly align with the Republican party's power grab every time.
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Flash_ina_pan10 hr ago
+2556
John Roberts is a c***.
2556
Abhoth529 hr ago
+692
Not easy to be a c*** AND a cocksucker all at the same time. He makes it look effortless.
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Flash_ina_pan9 hr ago
+345
He did f*** an entire generation of voters in the ass without the courtesy of a reach around
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Usual-Asparagus-12999 hr ago
+74
Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?
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INVERT_RFP9 hr ago
+62
Who said that? Who the f*** said that? Who's the little communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker that signed his own death warrant??!!
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Usual-Asparagus-12998 hr ago
+38
Nobody huh? The fairy fuckin’ godmother said it!
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SpCommander8 hr ago
+31
Out-f******-standing! I will PT you all until you f****** die!
31
onequbit8 hr ago
+23
I'll P.T. you until your assholes are
sucking
buttermilk! Was it you, you scroungy little f***, huh?!
23
woogonalski6 hr ago
+10
Private joker….hell, I like you. You can come over to my house and f*** my sister.
10
chincinatti9 hr ago
+7
It’s called a teepee ⛺️ and they are trying to steal it like it’s 1695
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MentalDisintegrat1on9 hr ago
+125
Don't forget clearance Thomas
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hi_imryan9 hr ago
+120
The most self-loathing black man I’ve ever witnessed.
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Beginning_Ebb42208 hr ago
+68
He's not self-loathing on the contrary he is quite successful grifting on the coattails of a white billionaire with naz-i memorabilia who conveniently covers some of his relatives cost of living. He "got his" and does not care about other people of color.
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Wargamer_Stocks2Win9 hr ago
+40
Do you actually think that he knows he’s black? Sometimes I wonder 👀
40
Yesterday_Jolly7 hr ago
+13
His DNA test came back positive
13
thecloudcities9 hr ago
+15
I don’t know if that’s a typo or if you’re implying he can be easily bought, but I’m choosing to believe the latter and offer you my kudos.
15
SunMoonTruth9 hr ago
+37
He’s an embarrassment to the profession. He’s going to be remembered very poorly for helping with the demise of America and its democracy.
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bros4026 hr ago
+8
honestly at this point, the Roberts Court might be as bad, if not worse than the Taney Court.
8
Flash_ina_pan9 hr ago
+34
History is written by the victors, and unfortunately the worst people are winning. Dems are captured opposition, GOP is getting their wishlist, and the court is rubber stamping the downfall of American democracy.
34
Taellosse9 hr ago
+73
That is incredibly unfair to perfectly fine vaginas everywhere.
John Roberts is a fetid d*** with weeping herpes sores. And Sam Alito and Brett Kavanaugh are the pair of hairy, pendulous balls hanging behind him.
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alficles8 hr ago
+31
Nah, Kavanaugh is slightly farther back. You know, where the beer goes in.
It's still incredible to me that we have a Supreme Court Justice that can't tell the difference between "Bottoms Up!" and "Up Your Bottom!"
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Taellosse8 hr ago
+14
I usually refer to him as "Justice 'I like beer' Kavanaugh".
I want to say that I couldn't believe he was confirmed, but we had Clarence Thomas' example sitting right there for decades, proving just how low the bar really is.
But you make a good point about the anatomical analogy. I guess Thomas is the other testicle, then. I *had* been thinking of him as the scrotum, but I can adapt.
14
halfbreedADR7 hr ago
+7
I just refer to him as Justice Douchebro
7
thejazzophone9 hr ago
+7
He's really trying hard to overcome Tawney as the worst chief justice
7
DaneLimmish9 hr ago
+153
This procedure and substance even violated their own procedure and substance, which they set in 2022
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nobot43218 hr ago
+35
“Don’t use this as a precedent.”
35
OK_x869 hr ago
+147
It's playing with fire. If you disenfranchise people to the point that they know they will not be heard and they have no democratic recourse to change the system they will look to undemocratic means to change things.
The way they are operating they're doing it with such utter contempt and impunity and they're moving so fast that they are all but begging mass protests, strikes and riots to explode. Especially during the summer.
To paraphrase King here, riots are the voice of the unheard. This is going to get wild.
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princeofid7 hr ago
+51
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."
-said the guy they shot in the head.
51
pulley9998 hr ago
+59
I feel like a lot of people are in a holding pattern until the midterms, since we haven't had a major election since this shitshow started people are still hoping that our civic systems will prevail. As the OP shows both parties are preparing for the midterms to be bloody and are going all-in on establishing whatever systemic advantages they can. Both parties see this as potentially the last election that will ever matter (for different reasons.)
No matter what happens, I expect things to get *interesting* after.
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Buzumab6 hr ago
+15
I don't know. I think community has been sufficiently degraded such that you can have disenfranchisement that doesn't lead to revolt. Decay of the social fabric and general dysfunction, definitely, but I really don't know if we have the capacity to meaningfully organize.
The institutions that supported King aren't all weaker now, and less interwoven, with less unity in direction. Everyone is more isolated, and more people are almost totally isolated. Even major movements like BLM didn't really lead to major policy shifts except in a handful of localities, and it's arguable that the counter-reaction has made the situation worse in some ways.
15
NeutralBias7 hr ago
+16
The people making these decisions are old and do NOT care about the consequences. Their time horizon is the rest of their lives and everything after that is irrelevant.
The country can burn down for all they care, so long as they get theirs on the way.
16
Sherifftruman10 hr ago
+91
Totally coincidental!
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jpiro9 hr ago
+196
I’ve come all the way around on the idea of packing the court. If the Dems can get enough power to pull it off, let’s f****** ram four more justices in there, make it a bakers dozen and get shit done.
DC statehood. Codify abortion rights and LGBTQ equality. Reverse Citizens United. Do it all.
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Shadowislovable8 hr ago
+54
Reminder that there are 13 circuit courts but only 9 justices. 13 would make it so that there'd be a judge to handle every circuit, and the chief to handle the federal circuit.
54
Beginning_Ebb42208 hr ago
+71
What happened under Trump cannot be allowed to continue to happen. I support stacking the court if they can, term limits and overwhelming reforms if they cannot.
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sixsixmajin8 hr ago
+51
Even if they *can* manage to stack the court, term limits and sweeping reforms would still be a good idea.
51
GoldandBlue7 hr ago
+19
I used ro think Democrats should be the adults in the room. Follow the laws and norms and set an example. We've moved way past that. We need fighters. Figrh fire with fire. And prosecute every single one of rose crooked GOP fucks.
19
o_MrBombastic_o9 hr ago
+27
They're not political they're just always right and you're always wrong. Sort of like God always agrees with what they think and is always against what you think. You're wrong for trying to use facts and experts and educated positions all those things have a well known liberal bias
27
jupiterkansas8 hr ago
+11
"I'm right and you're wrong" is the only principle Republicans believe in.
11
ChunkyBubblz10 hr ago
+3421
They really don’t want black people voting.
3421
IvetRockbottom10 hr ago
+1276
That sentence is true without the word "voting" as well.
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Malaix10 hr ago
+504
Nah they love having black people as punching bags, property, c**** prison labor, moral panic targets...
504
Ml2jukes9 hr ago
+84
Also jockeys, funny how little relative success the confederate conference is having in CFB when they finally have to properly compensate black folks for their labor.
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DingerSinger20169 hr ago
+20
Um....the SEC is the conference that is accused of throwing the most money at athletes under the table pre-NIL. If anything, Big 10 has finally caught up.
20
GodzillaUK9 hr ago
+22
As villains/less thans. Makes their inferiority complex from all the p*** they consume easier to swallow. It's why they hate trans too.
No he wouldn’t. He uses his votes to take a lot of bribes. Which he made legal
18
yogfthagen10 hr ago
+34
Maye it's only 3/5ths of a vote....
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richincleve9 hr ago
+20
"Reporting from the Supreme Court, by a 5 and 3/5ths to 3 majority..."
20
whiskeyrebellion10 hr ago
+89
It \*is\* racist, completely definitely racist, but the larger goal is to disenfranchise Democrats. Black people are still reliable votes for Democrats. I wonder what the right’s reaction would be if the Democrats tried to split up majority elderly or Christian districts.
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Taellosse9 hr ago
+36
Well, *obviously* that would be ageist or a violation of the First Amendment, respectively! We can't have *that*!
And if you think they're going to care that this is *obviously* hypocritical, I have this *amazing* bridge in Brooklyn I am looking to sell for *c*****!
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Hysteria6259 hr ago
+23
So I suspect that a significant portion of the GOP is racist. What’s scarier is how many more of them are not technically racist, but more than willing to use rascism to win.
It’s a subtle difference, and I’m sure many people would wonder what the difference is. Here’s the thing—you tell a GOPer that they’re racist and they’ll chew you out but good, because how dare you accuse them of it. But they’ve discovered what LBJ said so long ago, that if you convince a poor white man that he’s better than a poor black man, the poor white man will happily let you pick his pocket.
23
-Saucegurlllll7 hr ago
+19
White supremacy is like the air, they cannot see the thing they breathe in every day. It's so ingrained into society that even just trying to point it out can make you sound like a conspiricist.
Like credit scores are white supremacist. They structurally disadvantage black people by baking into the number the systemic oppression from previous eras of red lining and other racist policies. But people hear that and go "How can a number be racist? That sounds dumb as f***."
But that's WHY we analyze racism structurally. We analyze systems and their racist outcomes so that it doesn't matter what any individual does or feels.
This supreme court has decided to hault such analysis. They individualize all racism. In order to prove a law is racist, you cannot look at its outcome, you can only look at what the legislators said when they wrote the law. And so, laws that attack racist systems are transmuted into racist laws, and discriminatory laws are transmuted into non-racist laws so long as the entire GOP voting for it doesn't say "And we're doing this because we hate black people." And even then John Roberts' "major questions doctrine" would pave the way for some bullshit.
19
EfficientTourist748010 hr ago
+94
Republicans cannot beat the racist party allegations
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Naps_and_cheese10 hr ago
+91
Maybe because they keep doing racist shit. Must be a connection.
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PathlessDemon10 hr ago
+21
Almost like there really was a party switch at some point in America, particularly when the aristocratic DixieCrats of the 1940’s-1960’s changed parties to the Republican Party during the Civil Rights Era, ultimately changing voting demographics and the political landscape in the process.
21
resilindsey9 hr ago
+16
*shocked pikachu*
16
Lostlilegg9 hr ago
+16
They were never trying to
16
brokencreedman10 hr ago
+35
That's why black voters need to get out and vote in EVEN BIGGER numbers than ever before. They're trying to steal the black vote. Don't let them.
35
jpiro9 hr ago
+37
This. And it’s important to keep in mind that gerrymandering can absolutely backfire. It dilutes strongly held districts to create a greater number of weaker-but-favored districts. A significant boost in voter turnout is all it takes to steal MORE seats than previously thought possible.
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brokencreedman9 hr ago
+20
Half the country doesn't vote, or some absurd number like that. So THEY need to get off their asses and get out there too.
20
30thnight8 hr ago
+8
Of course but don’t expect the African American vote to tip things over the edge when we don’t see any democratic leadership doing anything.
8
NewsCards10 hr ago
+2970
> The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan battle for control of the closely divided chamber.
When Democrats change the map, they do it after the public votes and approves it.
When Republicans change the map, they just ram it up your ass without permission.
Tell me again how both sides are the same?
2970
Khaldara10 hr ago
+960
Also when the voters decide it’s somehow unconstitutional, but when a corporate owned conservative shithead rams it through with the agreement of nobody it’s somehow super ultra constitutional.
960
Archon-9 hr ago
+192
Can't wait to see the bullshit they come up with to decide Virginia's voter approved map is unconstitutional
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Starslip7 hr ago
+38
> Can't wait to see the bullshit they come up with to decide Virginia's voter approved map is unconstitutional
They don't need to, they'll just sit on any case that makes it to them until it's too late to matter. Only cases that help the GOP get looked at quickly
38
JPJWasAFightingMan9 hr ago
+136
That already happened...
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oobey9 hr ago
+59
That was not SCOTUS.
59
anally_ExpressUrself9 hr ago
+46
It was SCOV
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12thandvineisnomore8 hr ago
+18
Is it being appealed to SCOTUS? SCOTUS will probably not put it on the docket until after the midterms, if it is.
18
denzik8 hr ago
+34
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/11/politics/virginia-redistricting-us-supreme-court
Yes, they are trying to stay the Virginia SC's decision so the map can be used in the midterms.
34
oops_i_made_a_typi5 hr ago
+24
they should just ignore it and go ahead and use it anyways like Ohio did
24
HappyChandler8 hr ago
+16
It was a state question and not something scotus would look at. (Unless it hurt Trump).
The side that rams it through gets to do what they want, the one that tries to do things the right way gets nothing?
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abnormalbrain9 hr ago
+47
We've entered into full might-makes-right government. Don't worry it doesn't last long. No one does.
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princeofid7 hr ago
+5
Karl Rove, that porcine ghoul from W's admin, said of the neocons: "We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
5
Chessh203610 hr ago
+104
So can democrats play by the same game? I’m so tired of this. Just ignore the courts? Push it through or whatever?
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Taellosse9 hr ago
+117
No, of course not. Fascists always exempt themselves from the rules while demanding their opposition and victims adhere stringently to them.
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c-williams889 hr ago
+74
Virginia could’ve just retired their entire Supreme Court and appointed new ones, but instead they listened to the useless national democrats and have decided to shrug their collective shoulders and do nothing and hope that norms prevail I guess
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viktor729 hr ago
+42
Which just pisses me off so much. You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
They won’t even fight back when their own actual jobs as representatives are on the line.
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TheJinManCan8 hr ago
+25
Have they already said they're going to adhere to the ruling? They won't pull an Ohio and just ignore their shit?
25
viktor728 hr ago
+26
They said as much today, yes.
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TheJinManCan8 hr ago
+25
Oh ffs.
25
c-williams889 hr ago
+49
I forget the post I saw it, but an interviewer even directly asked the VA guy why it seems like republicans never are stopped by procedural roadblocks but democrats always are. Of course he had a mealymouthed answer to that one
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viktor729 hr ago
+21
Exactly. It’s no different than telling a bully, stop, you’re hurting me.
21
nitid_name8 hr ago
+12
They're not even bringing a knife. They're bringing a toothbrush, and didn't even file it down into a shiv first.
12
Frequent-Ferret-51108 hr ago
+28
It's pretty incredible completely limp-dicked Democratic leadership like Chuck Schumer have been throughout the whole Trump presidency. Just rolling over when seizing messaging would be *so f****** easy.*
Both sides are not the same, one side is the clear "evil" side, but those in charge of the other side are useless dumbfucks and need to be ousted just as badly as Republicans if we can ever hope to have a functioning country again.
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Ashamed-Raccoon-13879 hr ago
+22
I don't know, the democrats tried their hand at gerrymandering (I forget what state) and the republicans had about a dozen kiniptions.
22
IkeKaveladze7 hr ago
+6
The moment there was even a whisper of Texas the dems should have gone balls to the walls in every state. There should be zero red seats in Illinois, California, New York, New Jersey, and many more. They go low, we go fry.
6
Aking19987 hr ago
+3
The only way to save democracy at this point is to uproot it all and start again, this time making sure this bullshit can never happen again
3
ETxsubboy9 hr ago
+27
> When Republicans change the map, they just ram it up your ass without permission.
I mean, predators gonna be predators. These fools aren't exactly asking for consent in anything they do.
27
Ragnarawr10 hr ago
+28
Ones democratic, ones fascist.
Oh, the same? They both take a taxpayer salary.
28
CubeOfWar10 hr ago
+810
The most dangerous outcome we could get from all this is for people to conflate a loss of hope with a loss of resolve. A situation doesn't become truly hopeless until everyone decides to not fight back.
A potential dummy-mander will never materialize if everyone complies in advance and stops voting.
810
napotih9429 hr ago
+260
Yep. This is also why all of those morons saying over and over again 'well I don't think anything will happen' are so stupid.
*You and your vote are literally the only way out of this situation.*
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jbruce729 hr ago
+92
There are other way outs. People just dont wanna go that route because they're comfortable enough.
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AuroraFinem9 hr ago
+73
More like if we can’t get people to get off their ass to vote every 2-4 years for something to change do you think any of them would remotely consider stronger action?
You can’t win fight when a most people will abstain.
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winky98278 hr ago
+14
Throughout all this bullshit, I keep thinking to myself...districts be damned. All it would take is reasonable white folks to vote in the other direction and this bullshit would be pointless.
14
Most_Alps8 hr ago
+15
You know who is most likely to skip voting because they have it locked up? Republicans
That's how f****** stupid these people are. If they rigged it this way without going on TV constantly bragging about how it was in the bag, maybe it would actually work, instead they are getting smoked left and right in all of the off cycle contests leading up to the midterms
15
Reatona9 hr ago
+172
Roberts and the Gang of Six really want to make sure Black votes are so diluted they really won't count any more. This is how you steal elections.
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FILTHBOT40005 hr ago
+7
Not just that.
Roberts apparently wants to be the supreme power in the land. I mean they just up and decided that a well established law shouldn't exist the way it has for decades. They didn't say it was unconstitutional; just nullified a congressionally passed and President signed law. That's not their job. But when the Executive and Congress are about as honorable as an Ophrah Winfrey guest, all bets are off.
And apparently only he and the rest of the Six Shits can divine what the Constitution means, and no one else, not past courts, nothing else.
7
JerryDipotosBurner8 hr ago
+66
> Anticipating a court reversal, Alabama officials recently enacted a law allowing it to void the results of a May 19 primary for some congressional districts and instead hold a new primary under the revised district boundaries. Alabama had asked for an expedited decision ahead of the primary.
This is what it looks like when your democracy is failing.
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chriskot12310 hr ago
+246
John Roberts is a piece of shit who, despite what he claims he wanted his entire tenure, will be remembered as the chief justice who saw the US slide backwards
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JebryathHS9 hr ago
+142
More specifically, he'll be remembered as leading the most nakedly partisan, corrupt and politically motivated court of all time - unless his successors are allowed to dig even farther towards hell.
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DingerSinger20169 hr ago
+37
No, that distinction still goes to Roger Brooke Taney for the 7-2 *Dred Scott v. Sandford* decision.
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JebryathHS8 hr ago
+54
In terms of known impact, absolutely the w***** for awful. In terms of nakedly political, I'd say roughly tied with 6-3 stating that the president is above the law (but only if the court concedes that his actions were official).
Trump vs USA has got to be one of the worst rulings of all time. As pointed out *in the dissents*, it implies that it's legal for the president to order the military to *arrest or murder political rivals*. This not only obviously flies in the face of the Construction and established law and precedent, it also represents everything the Founding Fathers hated and tried to avoid while writing the Constitution. But it's not even just that! It actually then goes on to overturn an additional two hundred years of *English* precedent by effectively making the President a unitary executive with power similar to kings before the magna carta. (Then, hilariously, continuing to rule against Biden on a number of issues because they knew he wasn't a monster that would have them arrested and killed as they had argued he could.)
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bros4026 hr ago
+9
Yeah. Roberts definitely did put his entry on Top Five Worst SCOTUS rulings, though.
Dred Scot v. Sanford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Buck v. Bell
Korematsu v. US
Trump v. USA
I think Trump v. US knocks Lochner off of the worst rulings list
9
kstargate-4259 hr ago
+42
A few of his opinions will be shown in the history books next to Taney's Dredd Scott decision as inane rulings that are so bad no one can find a good excuse for them besides partisan bias
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doneandtired20149 hr ago
+14
Someone needs to present him with his very own Klan regalia the next time they see him in public.
14
rudmad8 hr ago
+10
I imagine bro doesn't get out in public much.
10
ArkhamCityWok6 hr ago
+7
Piece of shit didn’t see the U.S. slide backwards, he shoved it backwards and cut its Achilles to prevent it from moving forward. He is just as much an evil shit bag fascist as the rest of them.
7
lake_country_dad10 hr ago
+376
Vote! Vote! Vote! Elections matter!
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Hayes4prez9 hr ago
+196
Agreed, look at Hungary. A landslide so overwhelming even a dictator had to abdicate. People whining aren’t helping. Go vote, and make sure your friends vote as well
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Indigoh9 hr ago
+73
The only way to be sure they still matter is for all of us to vote. Look at it this way:
* If we don't vote, they don't have to jump through any hoops to get the results they want. They just get it for free.
* If we do vote, and they dislike the results, they have to *work* to change them, opening themselves to mistakes and draining resources.
If our elections are already vulnerable to illegal manipulation, and you want to fix that vulnerability, voting is the first and most important step.
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QitianDasheng26669 hr ago
+90
We're going to have to do more than vote and I don't mean spend a Saturday holding a sign. They're not going to accept the results and we will have to put our bodies on the line to defend our rights. Anyone who isn't preparing for that now should just make peace with living under authoritarianism, because these are our options.
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caniborrow50cents8 hr ago
+21
But what about states’ rights?
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lift_heavy649 hr ago
+151
The confederacy was not properly punished
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sillyhillsofnz7 hr ago
+21
It's difficult to be merciful *and* just.
After winning the Civil War, the Union, for whatever reasons Lincoln, Grant, and Co. had, decided to be merciful - something the Confederacy never would have been to a defeated Union; if you don't believe me, just look at how they treated the dead Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
I understand mercy, especially for your fellow wayward countrymen. But mercy without justice leave those who were wronged and who may still be vulnerable wide open to future reprisals and backsliding. No accountability or punishment for those who did wrong leaves them a position to do it again. And wouldn't you know it - here we are.
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Guy_GuyGuy5 hr ago
+12
Lincoln and Grant would have done fine if there hadn't been Andrew Johnson in between them f****** EVERYTHING up about Reconstruction before it even started.
Lincoln was merciful but he wasn't going to let the Confederacy get away with EVERYTHING like Johnson did, and Grant tried his best to tighten the ghost of a leash on the southern states that remained after Johnson got booted.
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_Miss_Eclipse8 hr ago
+24
Sounds like it needs to be punished again
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plumberfun8 hr ago
+14
Can you imagine John Roberts will live forever as thr Supreme Court Justice that end the Constitution and especially the bill of rights as law of the US
14
rbp1839 hr ago
+54
There is no longer a functioning legal system in this country. F****** fascist MAGA whores have turn the US into lawless cluster f***.
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Feinty9 hr ago
+65
F*** the supreme court. As a kid you read and hear about this supposed impartiality, and now the trust has completely eroded away. They said they are apolitical - what a load of shit.
Expand the supreme court and put term limits and an impeachment process
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GallowWho8 hr ago
+11
There was never impartiality when judges are referred to by their political affiliation.
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floppy_disk_57 hr ago
+5
better yet, require a 2/3rds majority rather than a simple majority to put a judge into the supreme court.
5
Dcajunpimp9 hr ago
+11
Virginia needs to gerrymander based on the SCOTUS ruling. Start lowering their D+17, D+18 x2 and D+26 to D +12 and move the excess to the R+3, R+6, R+12 and even Red districts.
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manateefourmation5 hr ago
+12
I have said for a very long time that John Roberts is the new Roger Taney and that on the long arc of history will be seen as that.
Taney’s Court, in the Dred Scott case, infamously found that black Americans were not citizens. Until now, it has largely been considered the worst case in American history. John Roberts would make Roger Taney proud.
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E1M1_DOOM9 hr ago
+107
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
\- JFK
The supreme court is playing with fire. They are courting a very dangerous turn of events.
One thing that I keep coming back to is that at the end of trump's stupid coup attempt, everyone went home without much argument. It's like they all knew that the jig was up. Those tools knew that the election hadn't been stolen. If they truly believed that the will of the people had been subverted, they would have kept fighting.
The fact that they left so easily speaks volumes.
If gop shennanigans swing the election to steal power from the electorate, I don't think the anger in this nation will be soothed so calmly as on Jan. 6th. I really hope the gop comes to its senses and stops trying to blatantly cheat their way to an undeserved victory.
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Imp0ssibleBagel9 hr ago
+54
Trump said he would cheat in the 2024 election with Elon. Elon said he helped cheat. Every swing state was won by miracle razer thin margins. Not a single county in the *entire country* flipped from red to blue for Harris (this didn't even happen in Ragean's landslide - Mondale only won like 50 counties, but still some of those flipped from Ragean - and 2024 wasn't even close to a landslide)
It's already clear that voting was tampered with in 2024. The results are statistically insanely improbable and the idiots f****** admitted it. Where is the uprising? If it didn't happen two years ago, it isn't going to happen.
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ButtEatingContest7 hr ago
+24
> Trump said he would cheat in the 2024 election with Elon.
Trump cheated by running at all. He's strictly forbidden by the constitution from running, but then the Supreme Court made up new special nonsensical rules making the constitution have no enforcement mechanism. (The Supreme Court could have simply over-ruled court findings that Trump as an insurrectionist, but instead they did this bullshit. Same bullshit that may open the door for a third Trump term)
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E1M1_DOOM9 hr ago
+35
I've heard this before, but right now it's still very much only believed by the fringe. True or not, the accpetance of these details hasn't been enough to warrant an uprising. It says a lot that no serious politician is parroting these claims. Again, true or not, what you posted is not generally accepted as credible by the majority of the electorate.
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DingerSinger20169 hr ago
+16
Not only this, but the elections are already certified. The time to challenge that was (ironically) on January 6th, 2025. Instead it was ratified unanimously.
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BegriefedOnline7 hr ago
+6
“And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
-Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts
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Justaticklerone5 hr ago
+10
The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy as an arm of the Trump Party. The Constitution has become an antiquated piece of paper under Trump. Roberts will go down in history as the most useless Chief Justice as the country reverts back to anti-diverse "White Christians Only" and "God supports us" philosophy politically.
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mountainfreshy9910 hr ago
+117
John Crow. John Crow. Call it John Crow.
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JebryathHS9 hr ago
+18
Careful, that sounds like a historic understanding and an acknowledgement that the courts shouldn't ignore the clearly written and well known intent of the still living people who wrote and ratified the fourteenth amendment and the voting rights act.
We should all aspire to avoid being political actors, like Kavanaugh, who is so famously committed to neutrality that he worked on the Clinton investigation.
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motorcycleboy90009 hr ago
+23
Jim Crow?
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The_neub9 hr ago
+38
John Robert’s Crow.
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vhsfairytales9 hr ago
+18
John (Roberts) Crow
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Bleezy795 hr ago
+9
The supreme court is rigging the election for republicans.
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kstargate-4259 hr ago
+42
Roberts court will go down in history as the most corrupt, partisan and worst court since Taney and his Dredd Scott decision. Most of these decisions just simply make zero legal sense, especially considering previous precedent and rulings by Roberts himself!
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alsatian019 hr ago
+15
Every bad hypothetical proposed by the socially awkward young Republican kid in Con law is becoming precedent. The John Birch Society is ejaculating all over The Constitution.
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DingerSinger20169 hr ago
+5
Disagree, he will be the worst since Melville Fuller with the 7-1 decision on *Plessy v. Ferguson*
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sealosam7 hr ago
+18
No such thing as Project 2025! “... " We're not racists!"... "....."
But the NFL draft! Taylor Swift wore Wrangler jeans!
We're so f****** done as a nation. Writing on the wall? Cooked, air-fried, baked and roasted.
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cpav8r10 hr ago
+21
They are going to do everything they can to keep the peoples’ voice from being heard
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Similar-Profile94679 hr ago
+21
Roberts, Alito, and Thomas should live the rest of their lives in prison.
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it_whispereth_me8 hr ago
+21
Let’s see what they do with Virginia next… (hint, they’ll leave in place a ruling that robbed the voters of VA their chosen map).
SCOTUS is an extension of MAGA Repubs, bought and paid for.
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TRex_Chef9 hr ago
+47
The rightwing maga pedo side of the supreme court are domestic terrorists. I hope the next admin arrests them and their inbred families, and makes an example of them on live tv
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mattjf227 hr ago
+13
Sometimes they say it's too close to an election to use maps that aren't racially gerrymandered. Now its never too close to an election to eliminate the voting power of black people.
Roberts was just saying that the court isn't political then follows up with a ruling like this. He wants you to listen to his words and ignore his deeds.
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Head-Training-56269 hr ago
+6
The Supreme Court needs…
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SJCHICK19758 hr ago
+7
Shocking 🙄 The majority of the current SCOTUS were bought and paid for a long time ago
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Strontiumdogs17 hr ago
+7
And...... trump gets what he wants, so he can continue to rob the American people.
Great system you have there America.
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tomtomclubthumb4 hr ago
+5
Supreme Court - "What part of Black people don't get political power did you not understand?"
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dgellow4 hr ago
+6
Your country is so fucked. Sorry for your loss
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time-for-reform4 hr ago
+6
So weird how racism is solved so we don't need these protections anymore and its not fair to make some states report to the federal goverment to have their maps approved for congressional seats yet as soon as those protections are stripped away the states that rebelled against their country immediately try to rig the maps in white man's favor.
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homebrew_19 hr ago
+17
Sadly this is what Americans voted for in 2016 and 2024.
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2CRedHopper9 hr ago
+16
and what they rioted for on jan 6.
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homebrew_19 hr ago
+10
And then Americans rewarded it in 2024.
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lift_heavy649 hr ago
+10
It wasn’t a riot, it was an attempted insurrection
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Euphoric_Anxiety_16210 hr ago
+21
Wonder if the ultimate goal is apartheid. (This sc decision is absolutely not correct. )Somebody knows the details.
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jst4wrk76179 hr ago
+15
I f****** hate it here. And I’m not even black. But fucked up is fucked up. If they can do it to any race, they can do it to you too.
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haverchuck229 hr ago
+14
It’s racist to not allow people to be racist. The clowns pretend that they are kings of logic and that’s their actual argument for gutting the voting rights act
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ynot_xox9999 hr ago
+21
RacistAF republikkkans
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weezyverse9 hr ago
+23
250 years in, this experiment has failed and it's time we accept that and figure out what to do next.
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mrmrspersonguy110 hr ago
+9
The supreme court is corrupt and has irreparably damaged this country
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Jeez-essFC9 hr ago
+10
Cheating is the only way they win.
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CurryMustard8 hr ago
+9
They are taking the country from us. We are losing our rights in real time.
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FLtoVT_For-A-Reason7 hr ago
+9
This is the government the founders warned us about.
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johnn488 hr ago
+5
It’s curious how partisan translates to racial. Evidently removing Democratic districts is the same as removing Black and largely minority districts. So while it’s legal to draw a map on partisan lines, it’s illegal to draw a map on racial lines. Funny how they arrive at the same outcome regarding district boundaries. So the only conclusion that can be reached is that the Republicans represent largely White voters and Democrats largely minority voters.
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Death-by-Fugu8 hr ago
+6
Ending Reconstruction utterly doomed this nation. We have never recovered and never will. These current circumstances are just the past catching up with us.
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HardcoreKaraoke6 hr ago
+6
I hope everyone is ready for two more years of majority Republican control, a possible endless term for Trump, a MAGA Supreme Court for decades and possibly no Democrat in the Oval Ofrice for another decade.
Just like with Project 2025 and everything Trump said in the lead up to 2024 what they promised is happening. They're setting up the guardrails for a smooth midterm and controlling majority power in a hypothetical "fair" 2028 Presidential election.
And there is not a single thing the average American can do to prevent it from happening besides vote and pray your district isn't destroyed.
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windflex8 hr ago
+10
John Roberts single handedly destroying any integrity the Supreme Court had left. Regardless of what you think of it, the Supreme Court was truly a marvel. And most justices did hold respect for the institution regardless of their political opinion. Being able to dissent in a written essay and pass down rulings to lower courts in detail so they can then interpret the law when a case comes to their court. All tarnished by the abuse of the shadow docket. Most people believed the Supreme Court was the last pillar of our democracy. Good luck restoring that faith with the damage these christian fascists have done to it. May history forever remember them for their contribution to the demise of the court.
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momoenthusiastic10 hr ago
+12
They really are rigging the game in the open now
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viktor729 hr ago
+22
Meanwhile, Democrats today said they won’t do anything about the VA Supreme Court overthrowing the will of the voters.
I am pissed off. Really pissed off. I expect this shit out of the fascist GOP but the fact that Democrats won’t fight fire with fire, even to save their own f****** jobs. It’s beyond infuriating.
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kstargate-4259 hr ago
+13
Im pissed as well but you may have missed they [petitioned the case to SCOTUS](https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A1240/408563/20260511151941216_25A%20Application%20for%20Stay.pdf) this afternoon to force them to be public about whether they are partisan or just demented
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jtrack4739 hr ago
+16
Roberts court will go down in history as the most corrupt in history
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Macdaddy3579 hr ago
+15
Their sheets and hoods are showing.
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boot2skull9 hr ago
+4
We’ll get our midterms, but it will be functionally meaningless.
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jackiejack18 hr ago
+4
didnt the supreme court originally force alabama to add that 2nd district like 2 years ago?
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DeanerTheWiener5 hr ago
+4
Uncle Clarence Ruckus strikes again
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RobutNotRobot5 hr ago
+4
Looks like the case law that this court created out of whole cloth four years ago is wrong now.
They must really disagree with those bozos on the court in 2022.
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Stillwater-Scorp13819 hr ago
+12
It’s sad that the GOP has to cheat to win.
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Sirius-Face7 hr ago
+8
This corrupt court needs to be stopped.
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Xivios6 hr ago
+7
Americans are funny. You voted to end democracy and embrace fascism, then act surprised when fascists dismantle democracy. You get what you voted for.
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Silly-Platform98299 hr ago
+17
Republicans don't hate black people. They think everybody should own some.
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