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   Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 13:37:36 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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   The blitz is the wave upon wave of dreadful opinions on the merits. The stealth is in the shadow docket rulings. The combined goal, just as with Trump’s EOs and secretive military moves, is to consolidate anti-constitutional, authoritarian power in the hands of the right. The current Supreme Court is not engaged in adjudication as that practice works in a pluralistic constitutional. democracy. It is simply another arm of a dictatorial takeover of the U.S. federal government. 3/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 13:37:37 JST Heidi Li Feldman

     A friend asked my opinion on an op-ed in the New York Times today, written by a scholar whose work was much cited by the majority in Friday’s birthright citizenship case. I’m not naming the scholar or linking to the op-ed because, as I told my friend, I think the scholar is disingenuous - his defense of the opinion cannot be taken seriously. All this just by way of background …. 1/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 13:37:37 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     My friend commented that for nonlawyers it is hard to really grasp what this term’s Supreme Court decisions mean. I told him that this is definitely intentional by the Court, in my opinion. The current Supreme Court rolls just like the President they are rushing to empower, through a combination of blitz and stealth. 2/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 13:44:34 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     So why should a legal scholar or lawyer-activist ever bother explaining what the Supreme Court is doing? It certainly isn’t to evaluate the merits of the Court’s work as adjudication. They are not adjudicating so it isn’t coherent to say that their adjudication is bad qua adjudication. They are dictating and they are dictating ethically horrible and existentially dangerous outcomes. 4/

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     BronMason (bronakins@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 05:05:26 JST BronMason

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     “The current Supreme Court is not engaged in adjudication, … It is simply another arm of a dictatorial takeover of the U.S. federal government.”

     By accreting king-like powers to the president, allowing him to disregard Congress & the lower courts, the cabal made it so that only one election matters—the presidency.
     They must be certain that they will ALWAYS hold the presidency. Do we doubt they will use any and all means necessary to do so, including cheating?