Today in Labor History March 29, 1965: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the defendant in Textile Workers Union v. Darlington Manufacturing Company. In a 7-0 ruling they ruled that a company could close a recently unionized factory, even if it was done specifically to bust the union.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #unionbusting #SCOTUS #union #antiunion

Justice Sonia Sotomayor defends 'fearlessly independent' judiciary amid Trump attacks

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-sotomayor-defends-independent-judiciary-trump-attacks-rcna198660

> Remarks by the liberal justice came as President Donald Trump and his allies have harshly criticized judges for blocking his agenda.

#SCOTUS #judges #courts

🤦🏻‍♀️ "Trump’s administration asked #SCOTUS on Wednesday to allow it to freeze millions of dollars in grants to states for addressing teacher shortages over allegations that the money was being used on programs that take part in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives." https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/teacher-grants-supreme-court-trump-appeal?cid=ios_app

How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-john-roberts-has-empowered-a-lawless-presidency

The Chief Justice’s rebuke of Donald Trump over his calls to impeach judges obscures Roberts’s own role in fostering the destruction in Washington.

#TRUMP #MAGA #SCOTUS #ROBERTS #DC #PRESS

As Trump Dodges Court Orders, Samuel Alito Suggests Obeying Judges Can Be Optional

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/samuel-alito-lower-courts/

A justice suggests flouting democratic norms after taking part in a decades-long project to weaken democratic rights.

#Alito #SCOTUS #ethics #ruleoflaw #Trump #press

Now for some good news:
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the free press. It said no to a billionaire and it did not change the standards in a way that would make it easier for a pubic figure, such as Trump or Musk, to successfully sue the #media for libel:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-will-not-weigh-in-on-billionaires-case-against-bedrock-press-freedoms_n_67e16948e4b003e4b67d9158 #politics #SCOTUS

"Many top legal experts believe a full-blown constitutional showdown between President Trump and the courts is already here. Others are confident there's still room to avoid one.

But most agree that the administration's battle with U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg — who last weekend ordered a temporary halt to the administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members — is a significant escalation."
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
#Johnroberts
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boasberg-courts-constitutional-crisis

i was mildly encouraged to learn that some of the dissents in the recent 5-4 #SCOTUS decision forcing $2 billion in #USAID bills to be paid over Trump's objections were more reasonable than appear at first glance.

Specifically the reason for dissent wasn't that the courts should force the government to pay its bills, it was that only ~$300 million or so worth of bills were actually being litigated, so a lot of the dissent was more "how can a court force the government to redress the grievances of people not even involved in the lawsuit" instead of "how can the court force the government to do anything".

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/03/supreme-court-denies-trump-request-to-block-2-billion-foreign-aid-payment/

#USpol

We all saw it coming and this corrupt partisan SCOTUS fully enabled it.

‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/09/trump-assault-rule-of-law

Even if the supreme court were to resist the president’s onslaught, it has little means to enforce its decisions.

#SCOTUS #LAW #TRUMP #PRESS

Important! [NYTimes - gifted]: Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term? By David Enrich, March 3, 2025

New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/magazine/nyt-sullivan-defamation-press-freedom-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.NHIs.U5ZCurO7Aiy6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#pressfreedom #freespeech #investigativejournalism #scotus #attackonspeech

Please boost this around. Attend if you are able. Add your voice.

#USA #Constitution #NATO #News #Fascism #Nazism #Democrats #Economy #Tariffs #MAGA #Financial #Protest #Veterans #Scotus #Potus

https://nowmarch.org/

San Francisco handed #SCOTUS the chance to weaken the #CleanWaterAct -- and they took it.

This ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute, and harder for regulators to protect the health of people and the environment. Really shameful.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12029553/supreme-court-sides-with-san-francisco-against-epa-sewage-lawsuit

#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #pollution #waterpollution #waterislife

Trump after the Joint Session speech shakes Justice John Robert's' hand & says, "Thank you again. Thank you again. I won't forget it."
I tried to clean up the background sound a bit, but I'm not an expert.

I suppose this is just the normal kind of conversation that a President has with the man who gave him immunity for doing anything he wants while in office.
#SOTU #SCOTUS

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ Of course. Those poor oppressed straight white people are the ones who don’t get hired. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

“ #SCOTUS appeared to support the idea of making it easier for men, Whites and straight people to sue for job discrimination, based on oral arguments Wednesday in the case of an Ohio woman who claims she faced anti-straight bias in the workplace” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/supreme-court-workplace-discrimination-marlean-ames/

So the only question remaining is whether John Roberts is going to sell out the Constitution.

Do you adhere to the Unitary Russian Agent theory?

What say you, motherfucker?

#SCOTUS #JohnRoberts #UnitaryRussianAgent #ArrestKrasnov #USPol

This is another loyalty test to see if #SCOTUS will take a broad or narrow approach. ie is it in on #Project2025 or not. Silly question really, after past Roe and the immunity decisions. Trump hasnt even prioritised new appointments to bench.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/federal-court-trump-firing-power-dellinger/index.html

" #SCOTUS for now prevented #Trump from firing head of a watchdog agency in 1st legal showdown to reach the justices..

In unusual move, the court neither granted nor denied emergency request filed by Trump admin after lower courts blocked the effort to fire Hampton Dellinger, who heads the Office of Special Counsel" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-maintains-pause-trump-bid-immediately-fire-watchdog-agen-rcna192643

I've observed Reagan as the doorway for the capitalist greed to enter. He changed the rules on corporate stock buy backs that were formerly illegal.

Then, decades later, the #SCOTUS enabled that same corporate money to flow into elections from decisions like #CitizensUnited. McConnell cemented it all when Trump seated 3 Justices.

Looks like Erik Prince's SCOTUS whispering worked... jfc

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

By Ian Millhiser Apr 15, 2024,

"The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a #MassProtest in the states of #Louisiana, #Mississippi, and #Texas.

"Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act."

#McKessonVsDoe #BLM #Fascism #SCOTUS #SLAPPs #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #CivilDisobedience #CorruptSCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #ImpeachJusticeThomas #Blackwater #ErikPrince #NoDAPL #Academi #Activism

#ClarenceThomas secretly attended fundraising event for group pushing cases before the court, new report says

The #Koch network is frequently behind cases before the court, including a closely watched challenge this term that could upend decades of precedent.

by Kelsey Reichmann, Sep 22, 2023

"Thomas’ attendance at the Koch network fundraiser is coupled with his failure to disclose the trip. Ethics experts called on the Judicial Conference — the rulemaking group for federal courts — to refer Thomas’ disclosure lapses to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"'The law is very clear,' Gabe Roth, executive director at Fix the Court, said in an email. 'The Judicial Conference must refer to the Attorney General 'any individual' for which there is 'reasonable cause to believe' that 'information required to be reported' in their disclosure has not been reported. We're far past 'reasonable cause' territory.'

"Thomas’ failure to disclose other gifts from #billionaires has already been reported to the Judicial Conference, however no action has been taken by the group.

"According to ProPublica, the Palm Springs event was just one instance the Koch brothers rubbed elbows with the conservative justice. The trio all took regular trips to an exclusive all-male retreat in California, Bohemian Grove. Thomas is said to attend the camp as Crow’s guest. Other attendees at the retreat include #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince, George H.W. Bush, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi."

https://www.courthousenews.com/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-fundraising-event-for-group-pushing-cases-before-the-court-new-report-says/

#SCOTUS #Oligarchy ##Corporatocracy
#Corruption

Well, well, well... It seems we've come full circle, eh?

#ClarenceThomas secretly participated in #Koch network donor events

Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, helping a political network that has brought cases to #SCOTUS

By Joshua Kaplan - Justin Elliott - Alex Mierjeski
Published September 22, 2023

"Thomas' involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship with the Koch brothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view. It developed over years of trips to the #BohemianGrove, a secretive all-men's retreat in Northern California. Thomas has been a regular at the Grove for two decades, where he stayed in a small camp with real estate billionaire #HarlanCrow and the Kochs, according to records and people who've spent time with him there.

"The Grove is an exclusive, two-week party held in the Sonoma County redwoods every July. A member or his guest can wander from the Grove's shooting range to a lecture by #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince, or from a mint julep party to a performance by the Grove's symphony orchestra. Wine, sometimes at $500 a bottle, flows freely, and late at night, members consume clam chowder and chili by the gallon. More than one attendee recalled walking outside in the morning to find a former cabinet secretary who fell asleep drunk in the grass.

"There's a saying among the Bohemians, as the club's members call themselves: The only place you should be publicly associated with the Grove is in your obituary. That privacy is paramount, members said, in part to allow the powerful to speak freely — and party — without worrying about showing up in the press. Only designated photographers are allowed to take pictures. Cellphones are strictly forbidden.

"Members typically must pay thousands of dollars to bring a guest. Several people ProPublica spoke to said that before the pandemic, they saw Thomas there just about every year. ProPublica was able to confirm six trips Thomas took to the retreat that he didn't disclose. Flight records suggest Crow has repeatedly dispatched his private jet to Virginia to pick up Thomas and ferry him to the Sonoma County airport and back, usually for a long weekend in the middle of the Grove festival."

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/22/clarence-thomas-secretly-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events_partner/

#Oligarchy #Corporatocracy #Corruption

Of course. It's his #SCOTUS.

Via Bloomberg:

Breaking: Donald #Trump asked the Supreme Court to let him to fire the head of the agency that protects government whistleblowers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-16/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-on-firing

My read is that Sotomayor wants widespread demonstrations against the SCOTUS. And I think that Biden missed an important opportunity to stack the courts. He should have wasted all political capital on that, and nothing else. Given all of the issues that the Republican ass-clowns have created which are headed to the courts and ultimate the SCOTUS, I think most people can see the importance in delegitimatizing what should have been reshaped years ago (by adding justices when new federal districts were created) and not allowing the Republicans to steal seats on the courts (i.e. they delegitimatized it first).

#SCOTUS
#Sotomayor
#GeneralStrike
#ProtestTheCoup

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5131656-sotomayor-hits-presidential-immunity-decision-in-first-public-comments-since-new-trump-admin/

‘Directly violates the law’: Trump defying ’90 years of Supreme Court precedent’ in firing labor board member after ‘unlawful’ termination, lawsuit says

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/directly-violates-the-law-trump-defying-90-years-of-supreme-court-precedent-in-firing-labor-board-member-after-unlawful-termination-lawsuit-says/

#trump #scotus #labor #law #press

FWIW, folks I follow used these hashtags today: #law (27) #tech (24) #autosum (24) #legaltech (24) #scotus (8) #uspolitics (5) #uspol (5) #lawfedi (3) #trump (3) #dailystats (3) #holocaust (2) #holocaustremembranceday (2) #lafires (2) #ClimateChange (2) #project2025 (2) #migratierecht (2) #privacy (2) #raadvanstate (2) #tariffs (2) #technology (2) #heritagefoundation (2) #Climate (2) #Cybersecurity (2) #auslaw (2) [#DailyStats]

SCOTUS Declines To Review Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Disenfranchisement Law -

NEW: “#SCOTUS declines to hear a #Mississippi case challenging a lifetime voting ban on people with certain felony convictions. Previously, the 5th Circuit upheld the ban as constitutional, rejecting 8th Amendment claims and ruling against voting advocates” https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-declines-to-review-mississippis-jim-crow-era-felony-disenfranchisement-law/

Oy. Here we go. We're screwed.

"In a sign that barrier between church and state could be further weakened, #SCOTUS agreed to hear a bid by #Oklahoma officials to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school.

The court..consistently backs religious claims, will hear a dispute over proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would serve students online throughout the state while maintaining its remit to promote Catholic faith."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-hear-church-state-fight-oklahoma-bid-launch-first-public-rcna186031

And here we go.

Utterly disgusting.

#LGBTQ

Breaking News: An #Idaho House committee passed a resolution calling on #SCOTUS to undo the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/idaho-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court.html

🧵 Thread 30/X
🥥 Emperor Trump.
Trump returns to office on January 20, 2025, with the powers of an emperor granted to him in a special dispensation by the US Suoreme Court.
Avoid the imperium. Avoid the inauguration on Monday. 🥥
#USPolitics #Inauguration #InaugurationSurvivalKit #SCOTUS #TuckersBalls