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Lance Khrome's avatar

"Some people are not choosing who to “banish” from family events. The Trump administration wants to banish them from America. "

Well said, and a wonderful summary of the Hanif Abdurra writeup in the NYer. Even the repellent Dem "centrists" are (reluctantly) getting the Mamdani wave, and perhaps Bill Ackman & co. won't get the last laugh come November.

And the Supremes — dear god, after torching the Biden Administration's repeated requests for emergency relief regarding the student loan business, here they are, yet again, rolling over for tRump and his assault upon separation of powers, and involving the Dept. of Education. Who amongst us expected ANYTHING different?

“My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,”

Amy Coney Barrett, 12 Sept. 2021

Noted.

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Lauran McDaib's avatar

Why does Amy Coney Barrett flip flop like a fish out of water? Does her husband whisper in her ear every night on how she should vote! This is 2025 and women should not need to follow their husbands demands because of a particular religious belief....

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Zach's avatar

Thank you as always, but especially today, for your moral clarity.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

The administration doesn’t actually want to destroy the Dept of Education just yet. What it wants is the money allocated to it. With no employees to administer it, the way is easy to simple block grants to the states. And the states will be allowed to do anything “legal” it wants —like pay for private school vouchers if the state allows them. So my tax money from a “giving” blue state goes to some evangelical school that does need to meet any standards for education, not even the paltry ones now in effect in red states. It’s all in Project 2025.

The aim is clearly to create a underclass of undereducated serfs. But undereducated doesn’t mean dumb. Plenty of people are smart enough to resist a theocracy. That’s the one ray of hope in this mess.

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Jacobs-Meadway Roberta's avatar

Thank you for calling out the obnoxious NYT opinion piece as a marked and annoying contrast to what is happening in NYC with the hysterical attacks on Mamdani and in this country and at the SCOTUS where reasoned decisions and the rule of law are now in very short supply.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Read this earlier in Politico: The six conservatives not only decide on shadow docket (and without any justification) … BUT ALSO tip their hand by allowing what a lower court found indefensible, hints strongly at what they will no doubt later find very defensible indeed.

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MJ Delaney's avatar

The corrupt bribes and back room deals between the SCOTUS conservatives and the Project 2025 gang are beginning to get paid back and paid off big time - and America is losing. Thomas’ trips’, Kavanaugh’s credit cards and only God knows what Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch and Barrett have been offered and promised. The quid pro quo is clear - destroy the Constitution, individual rights, legal precedent and the Rule of Law and purge government departments and programs that service ALL the people to benefit and enrich the moneyed elite In America - let them rule and have theoir interests and only their interest served. We are heading for Civil War in America, a working and middle class economic, individual rights and anti-authoritarian Civil War. They better saddle up.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

I think that with the addition of Justice Coney-Barrett - a million dollar celebration at a maskless White House mid-Covid - the Chief Justice can dispense with the opaque (Justice is colorblind) and come out of the closet with full partisan MAGA … but still within the non-verbiage of a shadow docket decision.

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Noorillah's avatar

Even under that shadow, he smells like 100% bona fide chicken shit.

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Michael's avatar

This ruling frankly saddens and demoralizes me.

I grew up in the era of the Vinson and Warren courts and as a teenager and then young man the liberal Supreme Court Justices were my heroes..

Not athletes, not movie stars, or celebrities- this young kid worshipped guys like Vinson, Warren, Black, Douglas Murphy, Marshall, Jackson, Rutledge Roberts, Brennan, Frankfurter. even Byron White mercurial as he was.

I was dismayed when Burger became chief but his court turned out okay for the most part due to the valiant and masterful rearguard actions of William Brennan. The succeeding Courts have been a dismal slide to the right as one by one my heroes died or retired with their ranks steadily thinning. Now with the Roberts Court we have hit rock bottom and with this most recent ruling, I am convinced Roberts is the worst Chief Justice ever and Barrett has betrayed her early promise

I really am very sad about this plummet, not less so because I know I won't live to see another Court as fine as those two courts of my youth.

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Lauran McDaib's avatar

It's pretty obvious that SCOTUS is way deep into the far rightwing beliefs of the Heritage Foundation and have no plan to back down on their obnoxioous agenda to gut American democracy. For those of us who still believe in the Constitution and the rights given us by that document we need to make sure to elect a congress that will inact laws that uphold and protect the principles laid down by our forefathers (and mothers). That will pretty much boil down to electing Democrats and Independents who still believe in the freedoms of our country. Resist...Oppose...Deny those who would choose to take our freedoms away.............

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Emmett's avatar

If the liberal justices get fed up enough, is it possible for them just to not refer a case to the full court? I know that would be breaking norms, but is there any real requirement that justices refer every single case?

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Noorillah's avatar

Good question.

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Jennifer's avatar

I'm curious about the idea floating around that if T dismantles the department of education that he'd be unwittingly forgiving student loans that had terms specifically naming the DoE. Any chance it could hold water in contract law?

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GeorgeC's avatar

Thank you Chris.

It's sad that the epically corrupt GQP 6 on the Roberts' Kangaroo Court have lost all sense of self-respect and are now openly proving to everyone watching that they are utterly corrupt, bought & paid for and have ZERO respect for the rule of law. They should be deeply ashamed and need to be openly, publicly, and loudly mocked at EVERY opportunity.

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ASBermant's avatar

The Extreme Court (kudos to Jon Margolis for the clever renaming) is following the Project 2025 script to the letter. From p. 285:

"[T]he Department of Education (the depart-ment, or ED), discussed by Lindsey Burke in Chapter 11, is a creation of the JimmyCarter Administration. The department is a convenient one-stop shop for the woke education cartel, which—as the COVID era showed—is not particularly concerned with children’s education. Schools should be responsive to parents, rather than to leftist advocates intent on indoctrination—and the more the federal government is involved in education, the less responsive to parents the public schools will be.This department is an example of federal intrusion into a traditionally state andl ocal realm. For the sake of American children, Congress should shutter it and return control of education to the states."

Keep in mind the ultimate goal of Project 2025 and the Extreme Court: Turn the USA into a Christian-based autocratic democracy.

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Noorillah's avatar

An oxymoron...

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Joe From the Bronx's avatar

The marginal amount of law in last week's order was enough for Sotomayor and Kagan.

I was annoyed at them not joining Jackson there.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Thank you Chris for all

of this. Here in Arkansas

there's been a

concerted effort by

Huckabee Sanders to

hurt public schools as

much as possible. Her

LEARNS bill has been

deplorable and now

SCOTUS has given her

a weapon to finish it off.

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Christopher Sheahen's avatar

The conservative justices sure seem eager to facilitate the Trump administration. Maybe they bought into Project 2025.

They cite separation of powers when it suits them, not when it is in the way of their agenda.

What’s happening in this country?

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