Post AxXPpoxU92bgRRbIdU by twrling@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxV3kQX4whXzvkLtgW by twrling@sfba.social
       2025-08-22T18:42:58Z
       
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       "“The supreme court has pulled the rug out from under the lower federal courts, and it has done so deliberately and knowingly. The chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary from attacks by this president, and in my view he has utterly failed.”  #SCOTUS https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
       
 (DIR) Post #AxV3kRt5uKkg8Jezdg by volkris@qoto.org
       2025-08-24T01:30:23Z
       
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       @twrling What in the world? Pulled the rug out from lower federal courts? No, that's not how the US system works at all.The Supreme Court sets the rules. Lower courts are bound to follow those rules. There's no pulling the rug out, there's just the constitutional order, effectively a supervisor telling the underlying what to do.If your boss tells you to go count the cans in the store room instead of sitting on your phone, that's not pulling the rug out, that's managing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxV45efPac9nqgN8Nc by manfromhuh@lab.nyanide.com
       2025-08-24T16:18:37.624666Z
       
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       @twrling The higher obligation would be to uphold the constitution. That has nothing to do with "protecting the lower courts." Whatever that even means.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxV4BtLxtnYB8RFZIW by manfromhuh@lab.nyanide.com
       2025-08-24T16:19:45.336500Z
       
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       @twrling Though, let's be honest, it means not overturning decisions that benefit "my team." 🙄
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXPpoxU92bgRRbIdU by twrling@sfba.social
       2025-08-25T02:53:24Z
       
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       @manfromhuh  I read it as not "undermining" the lower courts when they make accurate interpretations of the law and the Constitution.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXPppXHzvFMEULtRY by manfromhuh@lab.nyanide.com
       2025-08-25T19:31:39.595167Z
       
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       @twrling And the Supreme Court disagreeing with the lower court's ruling is "undermining" them?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxYwO5Oouq2my9jG8e by twrling@sfba.social
       2025-08-25T20:25:53Z
       
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       @manfromhuh  When the lower court's decision is firmly grounded in established law, then yes. Lower court is doing their job and SCOTUS is undermining them for ideological reasons unrelated to law.