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   Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Aug-2025 03:43:01 JST Tracy Rosenberg

   "“The supreme court has pulled the rug out from under the lower federal courts, and it has done so deliberately and knowingly. The chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary from attacks by this president, and in my view he has utterly failed.” #SCOTUS https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court

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     Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 11:54:18 JST Tracy Rosenberg

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     • manfromhuh

     @manfromhuh I read it as not "undermining" the lower courts when they make accurate interpretations of the law and the Constitution.

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     manfromhuh (manfromhuh@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 11:54:20 JST manfromhuh

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     @twrling The higher obligation would be to uphold the constitution. That has nothing to do with "protecting the lower courts." Whatever that even means.
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     manfromhuh (manfromhuh@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 11:54:20 JST manfromhuh

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     @twrling Though, let's be honest, it means not overturning decisions that benefit "my team." 🙄
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     Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 11:55:08 JST Tracy Rosenberg

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     • volkris

     @volkris Most of us don't see the Supreme Court that way right now. We see them undermining established understandings in the law. It's frustrating.

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 11:55:09 JST volkris

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     @twrling What in the world? Pulled the rug out from lower federal courts? No, that's not how the US system works at all.

     The Supreme Court sets the rules. Lower courts are bound to follow those rules. There's no pulling the rug out, there's just the constitutional order, effectively a supervisor telling the underlying what to do.

     If your boss tells you to go count the cans in the store room instead of sitting on your phone, that's not pulling the rug out, that's managing.

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     Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 05:26:22 JST Tracy Rosenberg

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     @manfromhuh When the lower court's decision is firmly grounded in established law, then yes. Lower court is doing their job and SCOTUS is undermining them for ideological reasons unrelated to law.

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     manfromhuh (manfromhuh@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 05:26:23 JST manfromhuh

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     @twrling And the Supreme Court disagreeing with the lower court's ruling is "undermining" them?