Sarah Lipton-Lubet
@liptonlubet.bsky.social
Advocate. Feminist. Court reform enthusiast.
Arcadia, always.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Arcadia, always.
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In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I think about this a lot and I've convinced myself that (almost) none of our current emergency could happen without Roberts' blessing. For my money he's done more to hurt the US than anyone in the country's history by a pretty wide margin. He's way worse than Trump.
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I think about this a lot and I've convinced myself that (almost) none of our current emergency could happen without Roberts' blessing. For my money he's done more to hurt the US than anyone in the country's history by a pretty wide margin. He's way worse than Trump.
Stop whatever you're doing and read this piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social laying out how John Roberts has spent his entire adult life constructing the scaffolding for Trump's authoritarian takeover, and why he's so invested in rigging the system to continue to help Trump.
Using racial profiling in immigration sweeps. Defying Congress' power of the purse. Firing independent agency commissioners.
President Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man: John Roberts
President Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man: John Roberts
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Stop whatever you're doing and read this piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social laying out how John Roberts has spent his entire adult life constructing the scaffolding for Trump's authoritarian takeover, and why he's so invested in rigging the system to continue to help Trump.
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Great to see a clear-eyed assessment of the path forward that incorporates court expansion & other crucial judicial reforms. We can't move forward if we keep letting MAGA justices pull us back. Into a sinkhole. Buried under East Wing rubble. Thank you @rooseveltinstitute.org for this important work!
SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Great to see a clear-eyed assessment of the path forward that incorporates court expansion & other crucial judicial reforms. We can't move forward if we keep letting MAGA justices pull us back. Into a sinkhole. Buried under East Wing rubble. Thank you @rooseveltinstitute.org for this important work!
Sadly evergreen.
Just amazing that, as things worsen week after week, the nation’s most powerful court keeps proceeding as though the gravest threat to our democracy is district courts failing to get out of the President’s way.
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Sadly evergreen.
Must read
Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...
The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory
If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.
www.offmessage.net
October 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Must read
Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them.
Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them.
Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
Exactly this - a “precondition for any other promise to be credible.”
Whole 🧵 is an important read.
Whole 🧵 is an important read.
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
September 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Exactly this - a “precondition for any other promise to be credible.”
Whole 🧵 is an important read.
Whole 🧵 is an important read.
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the press release writes itself:
"I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"
"I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"
September 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
the press release writes itself:
"I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"
"I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"
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Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
SCOTUS says racial profiling is constitutional, at least when Trump admin does it during roving, aggressive, astonishing immigration enforcement in LA -- where a district court found fed officers were arresting Brown people for ... speaking Spanish.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
25A169 Order
www.documentcloud.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
"Barrett offers a misreading of King Solomon as a strategic foil for her idealized American judge, who evidently never needs to worry about facts."
Amy Coney Barrett Somehow Managed to Get the Law and the Bible Wrong in Her New Book
Even Scripture is not sacrosanct when she wants to make a point.
slate.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Barrett offers a misreading of King Solomon as a strategic foil for her idealized American judge, who evidently never needs to worry about facts."
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this this this.
it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!)
not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.
it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!)
not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.
The Media’s Unfortunate Greater Interest in the Texas Redistricting Car Wreck than the Supreme Court’s Slow Poisoning of the Voting Rights Act electionlawblog.org?p=151440
The Media's Unfortunate Greater Interest in the Texas Redistricting Car Wreck than the Supreme Court's Slow Poisoning of the Voting Rights Act #ELB
I’ve written about two big election stories this week, the newly ignited redistricting wars starting in Texas and the Supreme Court’s strong signal that it could kill off the Voting Rights Act Section...
electionlawblog.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
this this this.
it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!)
not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.
it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!)
not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.
"There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years."
@pemalevy.bsky.social on SCOTUS's election rigging.
@pemalevy.bsky.social on SCOTUS's election rigging.
The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them
And justices don’t want you to notice.
www.motherjones.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years."
@pemalevy.bsky.social on SCOTUS's election rigging.
@pemalevy.bsky.social on SCOTUS's election rigging.
Vergogna
Samuel Alito will release new book next year, publisher says | CNN Politics
Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the Supreme Court, will publish a book next year, joining several of his colleagues who have inked deals in recent months to publish.
www.cnn.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Vergogna
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The Congressional budget is a moral failure. Congress must fix this harm.
We will not stand by while millions go hungry or without health care. Today, we come together as a Jewish community to demand a federal budget that invests in women, children & families. #JewishDayofAction
We will not stand by while millions go hungry or without health care. Today, we come together as a Jewish community to demand a federal budget that invests in women, children & families. #JewishDayofAction
August 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Congressional budget is a moral failure. Congress must fix this harm.
We will not stand by while millions go hungry or without health care. Today, we come together as a Jewish community to demand a federal budget that invests in women, children & families. #JewishDayofAction
We will not stand by while millions go hungry or without health care. Today, we come together as a Jewish community to demand a federal budget that invests in women, children & families. #JewishDayofAction
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For the zillionth time, the S Ct makes the best case for expanding the court and enacting term limits. It is hopeless as currently constituted
July 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
For the zillionth time, the S Ct makes the best case for expanding the court and enacting term limits. It is hopeless as currently constituted
Penciled in axing that last tiny sliver of democratic accountability for October -- now they can finally go on summer break unburdened. Such hard work burning down democracy...
NEW: The Supreme Court will review one of the last standing pillars of campaign finance regulations, which limits the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. The court will almost certainly strike down this restriction. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
June 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Penciled in axing that last tiny sliver of democratic accountability for October -- now they can finally go on summer break unburdened. Such hard work burning down democracy...
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Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.
"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty [not to summarily execute Supreme Court justices]. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation."
In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court held that President Trump can have the Supreme Court summarily executed if he really wants to.
June 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty [not to summarily execute Supreme Court justices]. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation."
The Only Republicans Can Rule doctrine.
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Only Republicans Can Rule doctrine.
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Any Democrat who is not committed to complete structural reform of this far right #SCOTUS - including its expansion - need GTFOH - period.
June 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Any Democrat who is not committed to complete structural reform of this far right #SCOTUS - including its expansion - need GTFOH - period.
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The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...
The main upshot of today's birthright citizenship ruling (that I'm still making way through) seems to be that each person victimized by an unconstitutional Trump order has to pretty much sue individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...