Post AwEFSS3eC0VZPV80HI by galad@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwDzNLg4t7ICuMeGm0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-07-17T12:43:28Z
       
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       #GiftArticleIn clearing the way for Trump’s efforts to transform US govt, #SCOTUS has issued a series of orders that often lacked a fundamental characteristic of most judicial work: an explanation of the court’s rationale.On Mon, for instance, in letting #Trump dismantle the #Education Dept, the majority’s unsigned order was a single 4-sentence paragraph entirely devoted to the procedural mechanics of pausing a lower court’s ruling.#law #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/politics/supreme-courts-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE8.ZmL2.CKCpuQiVGtl0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
       
 (DIR) Post #AwDzVEQjiYZmkOEQFc by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-07-17T12:45:00Z
       
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       What the order did not include was any explanation of why the court had ruled as it did. It was an exercise of #power, not reason.The silence was even more striking in the face of a 19-page dissent by Justice Sonia #Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena #Kagan and Ketanji Brown #Jackson.#law #SCOTUS #Trump #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower
       
 (DIR) Post #AwECJpqg4OjAjAGGsi by CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
       2025-07-17T15:08:31Z
       
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       @Nonilex It takes a lot of time for the 6 of them to keep changing back and forth between black robes and white sheets.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwEFSS3eC0VZPV80HI by galad@mastodon.social
       2025-07-17T15:43:38Z
       
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       @Nonilex They just handed the next Democratic presidential another monkey paw ruling. This “ruling”, combined with other gobbeltygook “rulings”, will give that administration the ability to gut ICE, fire Trump loyalists, and fire Trump appointees. Possibly they even accidentally gave that next administration the ability to fire their corrupt asses.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwEGE29Jp5soxMTBgG by DrBonesMD@med-mastodon.com
       2025-07-17T15:52:20Z
       
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       @Nonilex One has to wonder what is happening to their bank accounts from unnamed sources. We already know about Thomas and Alito...
       
 (DIR) Post #AwF0647LDYVAdRgQL2 by gregly@retro.pizza
       2025-07-18T00:26:18Z
       
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       @Nonilex I'm betting at least Thomas is in the Epstein files. Maybe Alito too.