Justice Sonia #Sotomayor admitted being moved 2 tears by #Supreme Court decisions that she did not agree w, reflecting on her emotional experiences in her time on Court. Sotomayor shared her emotional response to cases in speech at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, highlighting her personal struggles, dedication to her work. The 69-year-old Justice made these comments during an event honoring her at #Harvard, where she received an award for her contributions. #insurrection#constitution#democracy
The #SupremeCourt on Thurs allowed the use of a #SC congressional map that a lower court said “exiled” thousands of #BlackVoters to carve out a district safer for a #WhiteRepublican incumbent.
"Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris (who helped lead the effort to overturn Roe v. Wade) has acknowledged in a videotaped interview from 2022 that reversing Roe was just an interim step. In fact, he and his colleagues plan to also amend the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion in all 50 states 'from conception until natural death' once they amass enough power.
"The #Constitution is unambiguous about this,” Greaves said. “You just cannot take a religious identity and cut it out from a public accommodation. It’s against the law, the school districts will lose."
A German court just decided the Federal Office for the Protection of the #Constitution (#Verfassungsschutz) can continue to classify the #AfD party as a "rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall" ("suspected case of #right-wing #extremism"). This is the 2nd-worst classification. The worst is "gesichert rechtsextrem" ("assured right-wing extremism").
The judge said "The smoke alarm of the constitution goes off.".
"Top NYT Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump."
"The failure to clearly describe Trump's plan to cancel prosecutions of himself & other elements of his legal strategy as threats to the system itself, that is, as efforts to put himself above the law."
After Bush 43 and his executive power grabs, a fed up Republican judge said that the Right just takes positions, then tries to shoehorn them into some “originalism” that never really existed. #scotus#meme#immunity#constitution#history#politics
"While textualism and originalism were supposed to be, we were told, our touchstones for interpretation under the conservatives’ legal vision for America, we heard little of that from the court’s conservative men on Thursday when Donald Trump’s immunity claim came to the justices. Then, text and history were inconveniences.
“'I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,' lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm defends democratic election laws, wrote today on social media. He added: 'I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.'”
Judge Wendell Griffen on the day fascism appeared in the Supreme Court:
"Yesterday a lawyer stood in the well of the Supreme Court of the United States and boldly declared that a President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution if he/she commits murder, bribery, sedition, conspiracy to overthrow the government, or any other crimes as an 'official act.'”
#America (as a nation) born in rebellion against a #monarchical#dictatorship
paying freedom and #Democracy
with blood.
'#Founding#Fathers' created gardrail (The #US#Constitution)
to prevent political/religious dictatorship from being re-established
Today
ONLY 6 people are enough (the #SCOTS)
'decide' to give back 'Immunity' to a single person
(practically authorize -absolute power- dictatorial 'monarchy')
erasing in an instant
the very soul of America.
...
easy...
I had dismissed the Foreign Commerce Clause as the source of federal immigration power, but the constitution’s Importation Clause, as originally understood, indicates a disturbing connection between immigration and “commerce,” when the context of slavery is taken into account. Like so much of the constitution, the deep logic of the immigration power returns us back to the nation’s original sin. #Law#scotus#supremecourt#constitutionhttps://senatormoobs.substack.com/p/slavery-and-immigration
Professor Mary Bilder joins SideBar to discuss the concept of female genius and how women sought to influence the drafting of the constitution. (And provides her unvarnished opinion of the response to the SOTU.)
If Wilson wants to live by his interpretation of some religious dogma, he's free to do that. What he not allowed to do is force his cruelty dressed up as 'morality' on others. His hateful agenda includes a ban on abortion care from the moment of conception & without exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. #culture#religion#freedom#democracy#fascism#politics#constitution
The French Senate on Tuesday endorsed a Constitutional review project bearing significant modifications to the local electoral rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments. The text passed with 233 votes in favour and 99 against....
French Senate endorses new election rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments (www.rnz.co.nz)
The French Senate on Tuesday endorsed a Constitutional review project bearing significant modifications to the local electoral rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments. The text passed with 233 votes in favour and 99 against....