SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States)

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@adamparkhomenko/post/DHHibunpA0J?xmt=AQGzftye6qoqW7OVxJCo_B8FNnz3HJ7bHOV2Kwzux96TNQ

Ruh roh, Elon

Then what? Who’s going to arrest Elongitaint? He’ll be snickering at Mar-I-Lieo or the Orange House continuing his Doge-ing.

There’s no consequences for these fucks.

OnWis97

Yep. the American People work for Elon. We couldn't take that arrangement back if we wanted to.

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@propublica/post/DHLxxxBILwW?xmt=AQGz2SKYoJPjmMHLf60LyIaC65Req8PPqfdaumWOH3p-7w

NEW: The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
https://propub.li/3DL8gRn

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@josh_gerstein/post/DHMuwwNPu4p?xmt=AQGzy8XBRNbtUqzasM035U2Df9ELhgBw4I9z-1IlljpUSQ.

JUST IN: Trump administration asks Judge Cooper to reconsider his order that DOGE has to comply with #FOIA. And, wait for it....there's an Amy Gleason declaration. Doc: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25564597-crewvdogereconmot031425/ Earlier: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/judge-orders-doge-record-release-00223151

HughFreakingDillon

Halifax2TheMax said:

Why is anyone surprised? There’s more outrage that Teslas are being spray painted with Cryon than the fact that a green card holder is currently being detained for exercising their 1st amendment rights because Israel. Who would sue the US Government? Why certainly not a white Christian male and their breeders. Only “the other” sues the government.

There isn’t “more outrage” at one specific event than the other. There is the pointing out of the hypocrisy of feeling glee at vandalism when it’s seen as “vurtuous”, but not when it’s the “other team”. 

And there’s the hypocrisy of the first amendment apparently only applying to citizens. Because, as you pointed out, israel. 

It’s not a contest. I see people pointing out both positions. 

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@thetnholler/post/DHUBm63PC5F?xmt=AQGz4V_NEuasM9Mm5Pm2lC5OHim5e7imGo_tVYRT_hRCqQ

Trump & Bondi now straight-up defying the court, even telling the judge to cancel his hearing about deportations without due process.

Constitutional crisis is not hyperbole.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.24.0_2.pdf

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@thetnholler/post/DHUBm63PC5F?xmt=AQGz4V_NEuasM9Mm5Pm2lC5OHim5e7imGo_tVYRT_hRCqQ

Trump & Bondi now straight-up defying the court, even telling the judge to cancel his hearing about deportations without due process.

Constitutional crisis is not hyperbole.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.24.0_2.pdf

It’s too late. Waaaaaay too late.

mickeyrat

US Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Trump's attack on judge - https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-chief-justice-roberts-calls-judges-impeachment-are-inappropriate-after-trump-2025-03-18/

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@annepmitchellesq/post/DHgkPPQO5dN?xmt=AQGzYePmTfgvWu2F0bffI0F5zhbTcbUda2I3YfbFLXPkTw

JUDGE REPRIMANDS ADMINISTRATION IN LETTER FOR LYING ABOUT SCOPE OF TRO IN SOCIAL SECURITY CASE

As you  may recall, Judge Hollander told DOGE "Get the hell out of Social Security". Apparently the administration lied (no!) and said that the restraining order required them to get rid of *all* Social Security Administration workers.  The judge takes the unusual step of spanking them in direct correspondence.

tbergs

Way to go SCOTUS. One small step for justice, one giant leap for authoritarianism. 

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@keithboykin/post/DIKjSPASHKB?xmt=AQGzC6E9dfXeufrjVI6xZLIuG5lRIqa6WEi1aqACLP61Ow

Justice Sonia Sotomayor warns that the Supreme Court has just enabled Trump to arrest and deport U.S. citizens to foreign countries.

“The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redresss…History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@democracydocket/post/DIPXvcBuc0-?xmt=AQGzQoMDQrJDwMNsY4uknMEfgjCCOW17G54fSCHgyMllVA

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts allows Trump to fire two independent agency heads. This comes after the administration signaled its intent to challenge a 90-year-old ruling that inhibits presidents from firing such officials. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-trump-fired-independent-federal-board-members/

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@chrisgeidner/post/DISlDDqsIU-?xmt=AQGzuWgHb9tOe4AuD8ujkaqEE5_8qdAcbJ9X0PkQKdOa5w

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has already responded to tonight's Supreme Court ruling with a follow-up order, reiterating part of her initial order, seeking a new declaration from DOJ w specific details by 9:30a Friday, and scheduling a status conference in the case for 1p Friday. https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-says-trump-admin

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@katiephang/post/DITxxV1OctD?xmt=AQGzAkNMYCpwUPVb79THPk2cemPJVFdjnvDvPyiLM-O-UA

UPDATE:

Trump Administration is trying to delay until Tuesday, April 15th, at 5:00 pm, to submit its affidavit in the Abrego Garcia case, despite the judge ordering them to do it by 9:30 am ET this morning.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.52.0.pdf

mickeyrat

Judge orders Trump officials to testify about efforts to return wrongly deported man - https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-consider-trumps-compliance-with-order-over-wrongly-deported-man-2025-04-15/

mickeyrat

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

We have a database that allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts: https://propub.li/3GyKA3R

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.com/@democracydocket/post/DJMT0VRsib1?xmt=AQGz25ifIrT4muHLIytIoMlrP67Ct-9U5apGYfrpEy6KhA

A conservative legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller is suing Chief Justice John Roberts, arguing that two key court agencies should be controlled by the executive branch. Legal experts say the move would upend judicial independence.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-ally-stephen-miller-sues-john-roberts-control-courts/

mickeyrat

US Supreme Court maintains block on Trump deportations under wartime law - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-maintains-block-trump-deportations-under-wartime-law-2025-05-16/

mickeyrat

White House asks US Supreme Court to block access to DOGE records - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-asks-us-supreme-court-block-access-doge-records-2025-05-21/

mickeyrat

copy/paste. not my words.

WOOT AND BOYHOWDY THIS IS A FUN SPANKING!!  THE ADMINISTRATION TOOK THE EXTRAORDINARY STEP OF APPLYING FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS (INFO BELOW) TO KEEP DOGE FROM HAVING TO RESPOND TO A FOIA REQUEST, CLAIMING THAT DOGE IS "NOT AN AGENCY" AND SO NOT SUBJECT TO FOIA REQUESTS.

First, the plaintiff, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked both for the District Court to require DOGE to comply with the request for information and records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), *and*, and THIS IS IMPORTANT, for the court to order that those records be preserved pursuant to the Federal Records Act (FRA).

Remember my post where I said that people don't realize that of Marco Rubio's *4* positions in the administration, people are overlooking that perhaps the most dangerous one is as the National Archivist?  Where he can just 'disappear' records??

Anyways, the District Court ordered discovery.

A Writ of Mandamus is an order by a court to a government office, or official, or inferior court, and is only used when there is no other legal recourse.  In the panoply of available court actions and orders, it is very unusual to request a Writ of Mandamus.

But request it the administration did, asking the Circuit Court (a/k/a the Court of Appeals) to *order the lower District Court* to dismiss the order for discovery.

And then the Circuit Court handed the administration its a$$.

"The government petitions for a writ of mandamus to halt the district courts order for limited discovery into whether the United States DOGE Service (USDS) constitutes an agency within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) initiated the underlying litigation seeking disclosure of records reflecting USDSs organizational role, authorities, and operational reach. The government contends that the district courts order permitting narrow discovery impermissibly intrudes upon the Presidents constitutional prerogatives. Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, appropriate only when the petitioner can show that (1) it has no other adequate means to attain the relief it desires, (2) its right to the writ is clear and indisputable, and (3) issuance of the writ is appropriate under the circumstances.
...

In  light of the governments failure to make a persuasive showing on either of the first two elements of the analysis, there is also no reason, in considering the totality of the circumstances, to issue the writ.  Accordingly, the petition for a writ of mandamus is denied."