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stevevladeck.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · 6d ago

Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS chose, and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:

  1. “We’re All Trying to Find…
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MaryAustinBooks
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social · May 07, 2026
OMG we NEED this video. #dogs #scotus
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wendythedruid
@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · May 07, 2026
The administration calls it a "little detour." One hundred seventy-four civilians dead. Twenty-five billion dollars. Zero congressional votes. When the past RNC chair calls it war crimes, you're not reading partisan screed—you're reading a smoke alarm. The land is keeping score. It always has. https://twp.ai/4hr1bc #Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+
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blogdiva
@blogdiva@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116520032707782074 i co-wrote, with other feminist bloggers, a letter to the US Congress asking them to reject Samuel Alito for #SCOTUS. the lawyers in the group had a long list of cases but there was one case that stood out. we all agreed it was THE red flag about his extremism: HIS CRUELTY TOWARDS A BLACK TEENAGE GIRL in a decision that allowed prosecutors to treat her as an adult instead of a child. that case felt like a foreshadow of this #MAGA coup & #civilWar #USpol #racism #fascism #elections2026
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
But Sam Alito just cannot handle a dissent from Brown that explains that he and the other Roberts Court judges who went along with him are nakedly using their privilege and authority to advantage the Republican Fascist Party and its white supremacist agenda. 7/
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fsinn
@fsinn@mas.to · May 05, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116519999064276706 DO NOT MISS THIS. *ALL* OF THIS. AND YES I AM IN FACT SHOUTING. #MustRead all of this @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social thread. #Law #Racism #Misogyny #Patriarchy #WhiteSupremacy #Judiciary #RuleOfLaw #Fascism #SCOTUS #RobertsCourt #Alito #ImpeachAndRemove #ExpandTheCourt
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
All of this has happened on the shadow docket. So the Roberts Court has ok’d election cancellation without merits briefing, oral argument, etc. This would be extraordinary and pernicious enough. But because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and pointed out how exceptional and dangerous the Court’s order is, Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, wrote an opinion basically calling her uppity. 4/
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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai · May 02, 2026
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · May 02, 2026

Me on the Fifth Circuit’s massive Friday night ruling purporting to re-impose the in-person dispensation requirement for Mifepristone; how it’s déjà vu all over again; and how it’s a good reminder of why, sometimes, we need an emergency docket at #SCOTUS:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/224-the-re

  1. The Return of the Mifepri…
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sccdp
@sccdp@sfba.social · May 01, 2026
GA Governor Brian Kemp won't redistrict Georgia - THIS election. So gear up to fight him for 2028 as he engages in the usual GOP racism to try to reduce minority representation. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/iran-war-60-day-authorization-threshold-trump-hegseth-congress-rcna343015/rcrd109325?canonicalCard=true #uspol #democracy #scotus #georgia #vra
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sccdp
@sccdp@sfba.social · May 01, 2026
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-sued-for-suspending-active-election-nullifying-votes-to-draft-gop-gerrymander/ #voting #democracy #uspol #scotus #vra
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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai · May 01, 2026
#GiftArticle #SCOTUS kills #VotingRights The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics. #law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/supreme-courts-voting-rights-gerrymandering.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.NAaT.LyRxcoyihmGB&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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xankarn
@xankarn@mastodon.online · Apr 30, 2026
They sacked the Capitol and brought the Confederate flag, but racism poses no threat to democracy in America, so there’s no cause for concern, according to Roberts et al. #uspol #voting #SCOTUS #democracy
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HamonWry
@HamonWry@mastodon.world · Apr 30, 2026
‘This isn’t what I voted for’ Oh, Hell yeah you did! You should have stopped playing Candy Crush and updating Facebook every 3 minutes and paid more attention to who you were voting for. The writing was on the wall the whole time. #MAGA #gop #republicans #democracy #politics #trump #scotus #dictatorship #constitution #epstein #EpsteinFiles #iran #middleeast #Israel #news #worldnews
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DeliaChristina
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social · Apr 30, 2026
It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision. This morning, I was on a call with another (highly accomplished) middle-aged Black women and this is how we processed it together: We are realizing that we (including our younger elder millennial sisters) are likely to be the LAST generation of Black women who will achieve so much. This decision is not just a gutting of the VRA but the highest court's massive rejection of the idea that this country is, indeed, a land of opportunity for everyone. The court is now an overt and explicitly complicit engine of white nationalism. THAT is how much anti-Blackness has been simmering underneath this facade of 'American democracy.' So now, Black folks, we need to decide. Retreat, close ranks to protect our own, and/or fight for a renewed Reconstruction on top of the smoldering ruins of this gotdamn system? #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #SCOTUS #CivilRights #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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HamonWry
@HamonWry@mastodon.world · Apr 30, 2026
Today, SCOTUS pounded another nail into the coffin of American democracy. #scotus #johnroberts #democracy #MAGA #votingrights #Midterms #constitution #trump #epstein #EpsteinFiles #america #news #worldnews #iran #war
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@990000@mstdn.social · Apr 29, 2026
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@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Apr 29, 2026
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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai · Feb 20, 2026
The decision centers on #tariffs imposed under an “emergency” powers #law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” #tariffs he levied on nearly every other country on earth. It’s the first major piece of Trump’s broad agenda to come squarely before the nation’s highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of 3 conservative jurists in his first term. #law #economy #geopolitics #Trump #SCOTUS #affordability #inflation #CostOfLiving
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internetarchive
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Apr 21, 2026
The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia. Read the full announcement ⤵️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/ #DemocracysLibrary
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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai · Feb 25, 2026
#Trump did his usual rote #lying about the #economy — pity the fact-checkers who tried to keep up even in the first 10 minutes or so of the speech — along with some of his other greatest hits, including the many #wars he stopped [🙄] & the magic of #tariffs. (He referred to the “unfortunate involvement” of #SCOTUS on the tariff issue, as if the justices barged into his office like interlopers.) #SOTU
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