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Take Back the Court@takebackthect.bsky.social |
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If you want to build a democracy that works for everyone, you must have an honest judiciary. If you want an honest judiciary, you #TakeBacktheCourt.
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Revolving Door Project
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For more on how court-whisperers and judicial gift givers like Leo, Koch, Singer, and Crow are influencing the Court through amicus briefs, check out supremetransparency.org, a project of Revolving Door Project, True North Research, and @takebackthect.bsky.social.
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Take Back the Court
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When Trump and McConnell packed the Supreme Court, this was the moment they anticipated. Now, their hand-picked supermajority has returned the ultimate favor. The Roberts Court just declared an end to American democracy as we know it.
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Take Back the Court
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Republicans learned the hard way in 2022 that their radical plan to restrict abortion access costs them at the ballot box. So rather than deciding anything now, the MAGA justices punted the question past the 2024 election.
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Take Back the Court
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In her Moyle dissent, Justice Jackson explains exactly what the MAGA majority is doing: punting the question of whether pregnant women should be left to die in hospital waiting rooms so #SCOTUS can have a "do-over" at a "more convenient point in time."
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Murshed Zaheed
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“[P]retty much everything you need to know about the Republican Supreme Court majority — appointed by a convicted fraudster — that on back to back days, they made it easier to bribe government officials and to commit fraud.” - 🔥 @liptonlubet.bsky.social @takebackthect.bsky.social
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Murshed Zaheed
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“Death grip”- on point re how the far-right majority of Roberts #SCOTUS is controlling American policy. @takebackthect.bsky.social’s @liptonlubet.bsky.social ↘️
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Gabe Ortíz
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“It really paints a picture of exactly how these MAGA justices want our country to look: less safe, more white, and governed not by laws or rules but by their own radical idealogy.”
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Take Back the Court
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Anyone know how the Alito family is decorating for Flag Day today? 🤔
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Take Back the Court
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Even the Trump administration's bare minimum gun regulations are apparently too much for all six right-wing extremists on his Supreme Court.
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Take Back the Court
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Chief Justice Roberts says he won’t meet with senators about obvious ethics violations because of ‘separation of powers,’ but his justices are talking politics in the House Speaker’s DMs.
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Take Back the Court
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"Professors at the law schools Leo targeted for shadow philanthropy...are worried Leo is trying to incubate fringe conservative scholarship at top programs. And many think he’s just getting started."
MUST-READ from @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social in The Intercept: theintercept.com/2024/05/29/l...
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Take Back the Court
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Alito's letter to Sens. Durbin and Whitehouse is a joke. But the joke will be on us if Congress lets him have the last word on recusing from cases where he has clear conflicts of interest.
Our stmt from @liptonlubet.bsky.social: www.takebackthecourt.today/press-releas...
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Michael
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court reform is not some niche issue for activists, it’s the policy precondition that unlocks every other policy goal the Democratic Party has. it’s that or decades of right wing theocracy; no in-betweens
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Leonard Leo flies the "Appeal to Heaven" flag outside his home in Maine—from a neighbor who sent the photo to ProPublica (via reporter Andy Kroll)
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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Kagan's dissent in the South Carolina voting case is a tour de force of righteous trolling. Line after line calls out Alito's perfidy, pettiness, and malevolence. It's hard to pick which is best, but I've gotta go with these:
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Take Back the Court
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The MAGA Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority just told us exactly when they thought America was greatest: before the Constitution was amended to prevent voter discrimination based on race.
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Take Back the Court
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Sarah @liptonlubet.bsky.social: "Samuel Alito is giving Democratic leaders a rare second chance to prove that their concern for our democracy is sincere and that they are going to fight for Americans who have understandably lost faith in this court."
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Take Back the Court
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The call for insurrection is coming from inside the (beach) house. Now is the time for Congress to subpoena Alito, Thomas, and Roberts. How many more anti-American flags does Alito have to fly at his home and vacation house before Congress draws a line in the sand?
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Take Back the Court
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Sarah @liptonlubet.bsky.social: "If John Roberts cares about the court’s legitimacy even a fraction of the amount he claims to, he should support lawmakers’ efforts to hold Thomas and Alito accountable. Anything less is just bold-faced complicity in their corruption."
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Take Back the Court
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In between decisions erasing our most fundamental rights and freedoms, Thomas and Alito spend their time defending election deniers and flying their flag — all while the court rigs the system for Trump. The result: Americans don't trust this rogue court. Who could blame them?
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Murshed Zaheed
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Becoming clear by the day we don't have a legitimate #SCOTUS as long as at least Thomas and Alito remain on it.
Not to mention McConnell/Trump also rammed through the nominations of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Barrett w/o any regard for precedent.
Do Biden & Sen. Democrats realize how dire this is?
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Murshed Zaheed
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👀#SnowflakeSam - good grief - thin skinned Sam Alito is now triggered for being connected to insurrectionists. Scorcher of statement from @takebackthect.bsky.social's @liptonlubet.bsky.social making it clear Alito "has no business" sitting on #SCOTUS.
PS: #ImpeachClarenceThomas too
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Take Back the Court
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TBTC Pres. Sarah @liptonlubet.bsky.social on #SnowflakeSam Alito's new ethics scandal: "If Alito is so triggered by a yard sign that he can’t exercise basic judgment, he has no business sitting on the nation’s highest court."
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@liptonlubet.bsky.social: "Sam Alito has disqualified himself from legitimate service on the Supreme Court. It’s hard to imagine a more blatant f-you to the American public than proudly displaying a vestige of a failed coup attempt on the country you’re supposed to serve right on your front lawn."
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Healthcare Across Borders
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"It doesn’t matter if it’s this election cycle or the next: Republicans intend to use the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide."
@hegemommy.bsky.social on our memo w/ @takebackthect.bsky.social & @ultraviolet.bsky.social 🔽
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Murshed Zaheed
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"It’s hard to imagine a more blatant f-you to the American public than proudly displaying a vestige of a failed coup attempt on the country you’re supposed to serve right on your front lawn." - @takebackthect.bsky.social ▶️ "Alito has disqualified himself from legitimate service" on #SCOTUS
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Murshed Zaheed
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The threat of federal abortion ban under Trump via Comstock is more than real. Big ups to @hcaborders.bsky.social @takebackthect.bsky.social @ultraviolet.bsky.social for sounding the alarm. Lots more to come in the push to #CancelComstock. LFG.
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"Ignoring the Comstock threat or waiting for a more politically convenient time—whenever that may be—is only going to exacerbate our post-Dobbs human rights crisis."
@hegemommy.bsky.social on our new memo w/ @hcaborders.bsky.social @ultraviolet.bsky.social urging Congress to #CancelComstock:
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Healthcare Across Borders
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There’s no time left for complacency.
As the right ramps up its campaign for a national abortion ban, we’re sounding the alarm for Congress to #CancelComstock.
Learn more (w/ @takebackthect.bsky.social @ultraviolet.bsky.social):
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Take Back the Court
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When we say the right wants to turn back the clock on our rights — it’s not a euphemism or a metaphor.
It’s a very real threat made possible by the long-defunct #Comstock Act of 1873. Why Congress must #CancelComstock (w/ @hcaborders.bsky.social @ultraviolet.bsky.social) ⬇️
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Healthcare Across Borders
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Right-wing extremists want to weaponize this zombie law to restrict abortion in all 50 states. If lawmakers want to truly protect abortion, they must #CancelComstock.
READ/SHARE our latest w/ @takebackthect.bsky.social & @ultraviolet.bsky.social
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Take Back the Court
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"Most people I know think that civil forfeiture should be unconstitutional as a point-and-click violation of the Due Process clause. [...] Unfortunately, most people I know are not on the Supreme Court."
@elienyc.bsky.social breaks down SCOTUS' Culley v. Marshall ruling:
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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Had a great time speaking with Lisa for her fiery new podcast.
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Take Back the Court
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NEW: Lisa Graves talks to providers & experts — including TBTC Pres. @liptonlubet.bsky.social — about how Dobbs was not the end of the right-wing Supreme Court's attacks on abortion. It was the beginning of a new, more sinister phase.
Listen 👇👇👇
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Jamison Foser
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New from me & @willroyce.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social on a SCOTUS corruption angle that often goes overlooked in coverage of decisions:
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"What’s happening is not normal. It’s not OK. This isn’t how the law and the Constitution is supposed to work. The president is not above the law, which means he cannot be immune from accountability for the rest of his life." @elienyc.bsky.social on point as always: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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Alito: [Describing how the legal system works—there’s a trial, it costs money, it takes up your time when you would rather be doing other things] How could we possibly subject someone to that??!!
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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Your honor, in our timeline, Trump won the 2020 election, the rule of law doesn't apply to him, & Bork is the ultimate authority on all law, having successfully been appointed chief justice. Therefore, you should dismiss this case and crown my client the MAGA king of the universe. - Trump's attorney
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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You see, it depends on the circumstances whether staging a coup is an official act. I can't answer this hypo without knowing more facts -- is the president in question Republican? - Trump's attorney
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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Let's say -- hypothetically -- a public official's spouse urges state legislators to conspire in overturning the election and sending the Biden family to "barges off of Gitmo" -- immunity or super immunity? - Thomas, probably
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Michael Podhorzer
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This morning’s lively oral arguments risk obscuring what should be the only story—that there was no justification for the Court hearing this appeal other than postponing the trial.
#JusticeCantWait
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Healthcare Across Borders
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Far-right extremists are literally telling us how if they win they’re going to weaponize a 19th century law to enforce a nationwide abortion ban by criminalizing the shipping of any materials used in an abortion. Democrats must commit to fighting back by repealing the Comstock Act.
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L O L G O P
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Worth noting that a 160-year-old ban is exactly how MAGA plans to ban abortion in all 50 states.
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet
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Putting aside how little Alito seems to understand law or medicine, here's a scotus justice parsing whether pregnant people deserve medical care when their risk of organ failure might be "temporary" not permanent. What a gotcha Sam. You sure showed us. Those radical organ-failure-preventing libs!
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Take Back the Court
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Some "friends" expect benefits. Learn more about the right-wing powerbrokers funding groups that filed “friend of the court” briefs in many of this term’s SCOTUS cases at SupremeTransparency.org — our new project with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social & True North Research.
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Take Back the Court
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Some "friends" expect benefits. Learn more about the right-wing powerbrokers funding groups that filed “friend of the court” briefs in many of this term’s SCOTUS cases at SupremeTransparency.org — our new project with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social & True North Research.
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Revolving Door Project
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We illuminate these connections with our new website Supreme Transparency, a collaboration between us,
@takebackthect.bsky.social, and True North Research.
Follow this page for updates ⬇️
supremetransparency.org
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Murshed Zaheed
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Supreme corruption demands #SupremeTransparency. Amazing work from @TakeBacktheCt @revolvingdoorDC & @itstruenorth shedding sunlight on dangerous connections bw #SCOTUS justices, the cases they’re hearing & the money and relationships behind them both. supremetransparency.org
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Jamison Foser
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Coverage of right-wing powerbrokers who cozy up to Supreme Court justices often stipulates the powerbrokers don't have interests before the Court. This new
@takebackthect.bsky.social @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social & True North Research collab shows why that's wrong.
supremetransparency.org
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