William Lindsey :toad:
As Chris Geidner notes, on Friday, the issued another unsigned shadow-docket ruling, this one blocking blocked a lower court’s order that would have required the Trump administration to spend 4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress by September 30, when that funding expires.
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-impoundment-is-ok-when-trump-does-it
William Lindsey :toad:
"Does it ever feel like the Supreme Court is going out of its way to favor all the cases that undermine democracy, while hampering cases that would lift democracy?
Not just on the merits of cases, but in the way the Court goes about hearing cases and making its decisions in the first place."
~ David Pepper
#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/justice-delayed-justice-denied-5d6
William Lindsey :toad:
"You would think that at some point, cooler heads might prevail, and things could go back to something approaching political normalcy.
And then you look at the current cast of characters on the Supreme Court and the political party that put them there and the ruling they made that presidents are beyond the law, and all the crap they’re doing with the 'shadow docket,' and you think…
Not."
~ Lucian Truscott
#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-and-comey-and-the-whirlpool
William Lindsey :toad:
"The Supreme Court has simply abandoned the Constitution."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/into-the-breach-once-again
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