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Michael Busch<p>Do not allow anything like this, USA.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com‬<br>2025 May 6</p><p>In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.</p><p>This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.<br><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24a1030.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supremecourt.gov/docket/docket</span><span class="invisible">files/html/public/24a1030.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lojj5mt7uk2e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/erininthemorn</span><span class="invisible">ing.com/post/3lojj5mt7uk2e</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Do not allow this or anything like it. And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social‬<br>2025 April 21</p><p>Spoke with @leahlitman.bsky.social about two huge religion cases at the Supreme Court that have flown under the radar.</p><p>The conservative majority looks poised to compel state funding of Catholic schools AND give religious parents a right to veto curricula at public schools. <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-preview-alito-thomas-lgbtq-censorship.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/news-and-politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/supreme-court-preview-alito-thomas-lgbtq-censorship.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3lndrq2lp722u" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.so</span><span class="invisible">cial/post/3lndrq2lp722u</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Good.</p><p>And yet again, USA:</p><p>Require that all of the people who have been kidnapped &amp; trafficked by Trump and those with him be released.</p><p>Require that Congress act to remove Noem, Bondi, Rubio, Vance, and Trump from the government.</p><p>And require that Congress <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> of Thomas &amp; Alito.</p><p>QT Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social‬<br>2025 April 19</p><p>SCOTUS, early this morning in a 7-2 vote, temporarily blocked the deportation of a group of Venezuelans to El Salvador <br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/post/3ln643bazlc2q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.</span><span class="invisible">social/post/3ln643bazlc2q</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>"5th Circuit Court of Appeals wants to make it even easier for robocallers to scam you."</p><p>Require actual effective regulations instead, USA. And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social‬<br>2025 April 17</p><p>The 5th Circuit just gutted the FCC’s enforcement authority, declaring that its in-house adjudications are unconstitutional. </p><p>FCC can’t file enforcement proceedings in federal court, so this decision neuters its power <a href="https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-60223-CV0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/</span><span class="invisible">24/24-60223-CV0.pdf</span></a><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3ln2dxatkjs2r" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.so</span><span class="invisible">cial/post/3ln2dxatkjs2r</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Require that everyone kidnapped and trafficked by Trump be released, United States.</p><p>And require that Congress <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ImpeachTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachTrump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social‬<br>2025 April 10</p><p>IMPORTANT: a majority of the court says district court can order exec to facilitate return.</p><p>BUT the majority adds - it’s unclear if the court has authority to order government to “effectuate” return. The R Justices say that might exceed court’s power.<br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/leahlitman.bsky.social/post/3lmilgfq7ls2u" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/leahlitman.bs</span><span class="invisible">ky.social/post/3lmilgfq7ls2u</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Do not allow this or anything like it.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ImpeachTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachTrump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>"Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate 16,000 probationary federal workers"<br>"The court said nonprofits, labor unions challenging the move lacked standing."</p><p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-terminate-16000-probationary-federal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/Politics/suprem</span><span class="invisible">e-court-allows-trump-terminate-16000-probationary-federal/</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Require that your members of Congress act to stop all of this; to immediately free everyone Trump &amp; those with him have kidnapped; and to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ImpeachTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachTrump</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social‬<br> 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but .. <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd</span><span class="invisible">f/24a931_2c83.pdf</span></a><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social/post/3lmb2477rlc2e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.</span><span class="invisible">bsky.social/post/3lmb2477rlc2e</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ImpeachTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachTrump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social‬<br>2025 March 5</p><p>This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.<br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bsky.social/post/3ljn7qsufws23" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bs</span><span class="invisible">ky.social/post/3ljn7qsufws23</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Do not allow this or anything like it.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social‬<br>2025 March 4</p><p>The Supreme Court's first and only opinion today is San Francisco v. EPA. The majority substantially weakens the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge. It is 5–4 in relevant part, with Barrett, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissenting. <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-753_f2bh.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd</span><span class="invisible">f/23-753_f2bh.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3ljkqnjhbm22n" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.so</span><span class="invisible">cial/post/3ljkqnjhbm22n</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Do not let voter suppression continue in any form anywhere in the country; United States.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>"U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Voting Ban in Place"</p><p><a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/u-s-supreme-court-leaves-mississippis-jim-crow-era-felony-voting-ban-in-place/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mississippifreepress.org/u-s-s</span><span class="invisible">upreme-court-leaves-mississippis-jim-crow-era-felony-voting-ban-in-place/</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Do not allow this or anything like it. And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social‬<br>2025 January 24</p><p>In a sign that the barrier between church and state could be further weakened, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by Oklahoma officials to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school.</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-hear-church-state-fight-oklahoma-bid-launch-first-public-rcna186031" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-c</span><span class="invisible">ourt/supreme-court-hear-church-state-fight-oklahoma-bid-launch-first-public-rcna186031</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lawrencehurley.bsky.social/post/3lgje5tsqjs27" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/lawrencehurle</span><span class="invisible">y.bsky.social/post/3lgje5tsqjs27</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Do not allow this or anything like it.</p><p>Require that Congress and the state governments act to preserve the coverage mandates.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>‪QT The Washington Post‬ @washingtonpost.com‬<br>2025 January 11</p><p>The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception, to millions of Americans.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> </p><p>QT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ProPublica</span></a></span> <br>2025 January 7</p><p>An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections.</p><p>(Published July 2024)</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/judges-ethics-codes-recusal-conflict-of-interest-families" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/judges-</span><span class="invisible">ethics-codes-recusal-conflict-of-interest-families</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Actually enforce anti-corruption rules throughout the government, United States.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social‬ <br>2024 December 22</p><p>Findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis': <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3ldw6v5fmfs2r" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.</span><span class="invisible">bsky.social/post/3ldw6v5fmfs2r</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Today in rarely-needed parts of the United States Constitution:</p><p>"No Person holding any Office shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> , USA</p><p>QT New York Magazine<br>2024 October 31</p><p>"Samuel Alito added a knighthood to his résumé, pledging an oath to the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George."<br><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/justice-alitos-royalist-cosplay.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nymag.com/intelligencer/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/justice-alitos-royalist-cosplay.html</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Vote for Harris, for Walz, and for Democratic candidates for Congress.</p><p>For so many reasons.</p><p>And both require that Donald Trump &amp; those with him be held accountable for all of their many crimes and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> of the illegitimate extremists who have enabled their offenses.</p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Vote for Harris, for Walz, and for Democratic candidates for Congress.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT The New Republic <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@newrepublic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>newrepublic</span></a></span> <br>2024 October 23</p><p>Matt Ford: "I Don’t Trust the Supreme Court With the 2024 Election"</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/187402/dont-trust-supreme-court-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/187402</span><span class="invisible">/dont-trust-supreme-court-2024</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Vote for Harris, for Walz, and for Democratic candidates for Congress.</p><p>For so many reasons.</p><p>And require that Trump and those with him be held accountable for all of their many crimes.</p><p>That includes requiring that Congress <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> .</p><p>QT ABC <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ABCNetwork" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ABCNetwork</span></a></span> <br>2024 October 22</p><p>"Judge who tossed Trump's classified docs case on list of proposed candidates for attorney general"</p><p>https://abcnews .go.com/US/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed/story?id=114997807</p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> </p><p>"U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas had made an investment in Tesla of between $15,001 and $50,000. O’Connor has delivered a string of decisions in the Media Matters lawsuit in favor of Musk" - <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/g-s1-28620/texas-judge-elon-musk-x-case-tesla-shares" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2024/10/16/g-s1-28620/</span><span class="invisible">texas-judge-elon-musk-x-case-tesla-shares</span></a></p><p>For a lot more reasons why Reed O'Connor should not be on the bench; read <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@AngryBlackLady" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AngryBlackLady</span></a></span> and the Rewire News Group for many years now. e.g. <a href="https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/09/04/wednesdays-lawsuit-is-republicans-next-chance-to-gut-the-aca-but-it-wont-be-their-last/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/09/04</span><span class="invisible">/wednesdays-lawsuit-is-republicans-next-chance-to-gut-the-aca-but-it-wont-be-their-last/</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p>Yet again, USA:</p><p>Do not allow this or anything like it, anywhere in the country.</p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnpackTheCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnpackTheCourts</span></a> of illegitimate extremists who want only to hurt and kill people.</p><p>QT Associated Press <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@AP" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AP</span></a></span> <br>2024 October 7</p><p>"Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban" - <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/supreme-cou</span><span class="invisible">rt-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72</span></a></p><p>QT Bloomberg<br>2024 October 7</p><p>Justices Pass on Reviewing Alabama In Vitro Fertilization Ruling" - <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/justices-pass-on-reviewing-alabama-in-vitro-fertilization-ruling" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.bloomberglaw.com/health-l</span><span class="invisible">aw-and-business/justices-pass-on-reviewing-alabama-in-vitro-fertilization-ruling</span></a></p>
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