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The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation.
From the Harvard decision today.
From the Harvard decision today.
![A screenshot of page 28 of a legal document discussing the difficulty lower courts face when interpreting unclear or rapidly evolving guidance from the Supreme Court.
The following phrases and sentences are highlighted in yellow:
* "That said, the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket rulings regarding grant terminations have not been models of clarity, and have left many issues unresolved."
* "California was a four-paragraph per curiam decision issued in the context of a stay application."
* "The outcome, which no party had requested, was, thus, inconsistent with the views of eight justices"
* "the issues are complex and evolving."
* "this Court, not the district courts or courts of appeals, will often still be the ultimate decisionmaker as to the interim legal status of major new federal statutes and executive actions."
* "...it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for “defy[ing]” the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreigccsnzzzeeozgxugdllvfylmdjlrmifsf34rgsubkhl5f2viivzu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
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Rest in Peace Chuck Mangione. The master of the flugel horn.
"Feels So Good" was everywhere.
Raise your hand if this banger was played in your home growing up. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
"Feels So Good" was everywhere.
Raise your hand if this banger was played in your home growing up. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
July 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Rest in Peace Chuck Mangione. The master of the flugel horn.
"Feels So Good" was everywhere.
Raise your hand if this banger was played in your home growing up. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
"Feels So Good" was everywhere.
Raise your hand if this banger was played in your home growing up. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
Deeply fucked up. You can hear him announcing he's senator Padilla, and the fuckers push harder.
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Deeply fucked up. You can hear him announcing he's senator Padilla, and the fuckers push harder.
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Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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Like everything trump does, "defy judicial orders" is not 0/1. He probes....he retreats...he does stuff that maybe technically breaks the law but it's iffy....he does it but then says it was inadvertent...eventually he just does it outright and it becomes the new normal.
March 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Like everything trump does, "defy judicial orders" is not 0/1. He probes....he retreats...he does stuff that maybe technically breaks the law but it's iffy....he does it but then says it was inadvertent...eventually he just does it outright and it becomes the new normal.
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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What else are they going to say is legal once they get out into international waters?
March 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What else are they going to say is legal once they get out into international waters?
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We have no one to blame but ourselves. Trump et al advertised their intentions clearly and skated by on people not believing their own eyes and ears because of the it can't happen here/ now human psychology fallacies people are prone to. They even posted Pinochet helicopter memes for years.
March 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We have no one to blame but ourselves. Trump et al advertised their intentions clearly and skated by on people not believing their own eyes and ears because of the it can't happen here/ now human psychology fallacies people are prone to. They even posted Pinochet helicopter memes for years.
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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So who decides now if someone is a gang member or if someone has a valid asylum claim under the law? Tom Homan? A random ICE agent? A local Sheriff’s deputy? A neighbor? An informant? So they just say a person is in a gang and they get disappeared to a prison in El Salvador?
March 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
So who decides now if someone is a gang member or if someone has a valid asylum claim under the law? Tom Homan? A random ICE agent? A local Sheriff’s deputy? A neighbor? An informant? So they just say a person is in a gang and they get disappeared to a prison in El Salvador?
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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I’m not exactly sure how yet, but somehow Trump is going to blame Zelensky for Putin’s refusal to sign a cease fire agreement.
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I’m not exactly sure how yet, but somehow Trump is going to blame Zelensky for Putin’s refusal to sign a cease fire agreement.
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I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
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🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse.
Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.
Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.
March 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse.
Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.
Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.
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From today’ NYTs
“A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported, despite a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion”
“A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported, despite a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion”
March 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
From today’ NYTs
“A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported, despite a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion”
“A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported, despite a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion”
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This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
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Interestingly, Rubio says that El Salvador is holding them on behalf of the US. Thus the judge still has jurisdiction to order Rubio to return them.
March 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Interestingly, Rubio says that El Salvador is holding them on behalf of the US. Thus the judge still has jurisdiction to order Rubio to return them.
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Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed
March 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed
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How is this prediction going so far?
March 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
How is this prediction going so far?
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Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.
March 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.
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A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
March 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
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I am happy today to join my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky.
March 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I am happy today to join my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky.
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5:00PM: Hearing
ACLU tells judge US rapidly moving people in planes to El Salvador
Before 5:22:Hearing takes break for GOV to get official info on what's happening for judge
5:45:Flight takes off
6:00:Hearing resumes
Before 6:52:Judge rules to turn around planes
7:02:Flight arrives El Salvador
ACLU tells judge US rapidly moving people in planes to El Salvador
Before 5:22:Hearing takes break for GOV to get official info on what's happening for judge
5:45:Flight takes off
6:00:Hearing resumes
Before 6:52:Judge rules to turn around planes
7:02:Flight arrives El Salvador
Timeline of US Flight to El Salvador and Judge's Order to Turn Around Planes
Timeline of the Trump administration sending hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador compared to the timing of the federal court proceedings.
www.justsecurity.org
March 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
5:00PM: Hearing
ACLU tells judge US rapidly moving people in planes to El Salvador
Before 5:22:Hearing takes break for GOV to get official info on what's happening for judge
5:45:Flight takes off
6:00:Hearing resumes
Before 6:52:Judge rules to turn around planes
7:02:Flight arrives El Salvador
ACLU tells judge US rapidly moving people in planes to El Salvador
Before 5:22:Hearing takes break for GOV to get official info on what's happening for judge
5:45:Flight takes off
6:00:Hearing resumes
Before 6:52:Judge rules to turn around planes
7:02:Flight arrives El Salvador