#supreme court of the united states

[genderqueerpositivity]

With the landmark ruling — which falls in line with many of the SCOTUS justices' conservative stances — a precedent has now been set that in certain instances, U.S. businesses can legally deny their services to LGBTQ+ people under the First Amendment.

A final fuck you to the LGBTQ community at the end of Pride Month, courtesy of the Supreme Court.

#scotus #LGBTQ #politics #us politics #usa politics #lgbtqia #queer #news #supreme court of the united states

[lenbryant]

SCOTUS believes racism is a relic of the past.

#scotus #affirmative action #supreme court of the united states

[sentienttoast]

#king #danny devito #the only white man's opinion I want to hear on this #id in alt text #image id in alt text #roe versus wade #roe v wade #roe vs. wade #abortion #women's rights #feminism #feminist #Scotus #supreme court #Supreme court of the united states #healthcare #reproductive care #reproductive rights

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I decided to reread the hunger games and that fucking "if it wasn't for the baby" line is fucking pitch perfect. The capitol response of injustice at an "unborn child" never given a chance when they've watched hundreds of children kill each other year after year. It's just so..... accurate.

#the hunger games #row v wade #roe vs. wade #gun control #supreme court of the united states #scotus

[i-can-sabotage-me-bi-myself]

I just want to cry but I can't. I'm out of tears from how much anguish I've been caused from the shit this fucking country has done to us. Fuck SCOTUS. Fuck the conservatives. Fuck this country.

I don't want to be a hateful person. I wish I felt lucky to be an American, but I don't. I despise this part of my identity because of all the injustices the U.S. enables. There are days where I feel like I can't breathe. Some days I feel like I'm dying. Some days I feel like I want to die. But I don't want this for myself. I don't want this for anyone.

I have to keep fighting.

#united states of america #united states #u.s. #u.s. politics #supreme court of the united states #scotus #fuck scotus #abort the court #abort the supreme court #affirmative action #lgbtqia+ rights

[gilliatt83]

LISTEN: Sotomayor asks if unhoused people should ‘kill themselves' if th...

#youtube #homelessness #Supreme Court of the United States

[hopeymchope]

Yeah Republicans came up with this idea in response to the “stolen” election from 2020, You know — “The Big Lie” that has literally no evidence behind it and which ahs been laughed out of every court in the nation for not having a single basis in reality?

They claimed that this plan would help them “prevent another stolen election.” But of course, the election was never stolen. What they mean is that they will use this to prevent ever losing an election.

We already know that most of the conservative justices on the court have spoken or written in favor of ISLT. The only one who hasn’t already established her opinion of this on the record is Amy Coney Barrett, and she’s more than extreme enough for most people to assume she’s in favor. In other words: This is basically a done deal. The decision of the court is plainly obvious, and it will signal the end of America as a democracy forever.

...unless someone can do something to stop them/change the makeup of the court before the decision comes down, of course.

Biden either needs to pack the court ASAP, or make certain multiple sitting judges are prosecuted/impeached.

#american #united states #important #u.s. supreme court #supreme court #scotus #supreme court of the united states #doom #well i guess it was semi-nice while it lasted #america

[tomorrowusa]

It's no mystery how the GOP got a majority on the US Supreme Court.

The most immediate explanation for the earthquake is the weight of three conservative justices appointed by former President Donald Trump and confirmed by a Republican-controlled Senate during his term. Trump was able to fill more seats in a single term than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. But that is far from the whole story. The current supermajority on the court exists because of major political factors that have favored Republicans in the postwar era and historic circumstances that were windows of opportunity for all six conservatives to be appointed and confirmed.

The longest-serving member of the current court, Clarence Thomas, was confirmed in 1991. At the time, Republicans had won the popular vote for president in seven of the previous ten election cycles (1952 - 1988). But in the eight presidential elections since then, Republicans have won the popular vote only once. Two Republicans who lost the popular vote reached the Oval Office by prevailing in the Electoral College. Those two — George W. Bush and Donald Trump — would eventually appoint the five justices who, with Thomas, make up the current 6-3 conservative supermajority. (Democrats also had five appointees in this period, but one died and one retired and both were replaced by Republicans.)

The biggest contributor on this score was Trump's 2016 win in the Electoral College against Hillary Clinton. George W. Bush also came to the presidency initially via the Electoral College after losing the popular vote to Al Gore in 2000. (Bush did win the popular vote in his reelection year, before he appointed any justices.) Republicans have also had far more luck in having Supreme Court vacancies occur when they controlled the White House and a working majority in the Senate.

Republicans have better understood and appreciated the power of the federal courts in the long term. They even have scouts for the federal bench in the form of the Federalist Society.

Thomas was the first new justice on the court who had been associated with the Federalist Society, a campus gathering of conservative law students and faculty at Yale, the University of Chicago and other schools. Rising up in the wake of Roe, the group was formally founded in 1982. Their animating idea was that federal judges were arrogating too much power to themselves and playing fast and loose with the Constitution to accommodate their own policy preferences. Many of the rulings of the Supreme Court under Chief Warren Burger and his predecessor Earl Warren were regarded as egregious examples of "activist judges" run amok. Since then, the Society has grown and prospered in numbers, influence and fundraising prowess. Succeeding perhaps beyond its dreams, it now counts the six conservative members of the Supreme Court among its current or former members. It has had no small role in their elevation, aggressively recruiting and promoting candidates for the bench and supporting conservative Republican candidates for president.

Read the entire excellent article by Ron Elving via the link at the top of the post.

One thing Mr. Elving doesn't get into is how Trump and G.W. Bush, who appointed five current justices between them, came to power in the first place.

In 2016 Donald Trump won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania by margins smaller in those three states than number of votes in each cast for Green Party candidate (and onetime Putin dinner companion) Jill Stein. If Hillary had taken those states she would have had 273 electoral votes instead of 227.

In 2000 G.W. Bush won Florida by just 537 votes. Ralph Nader got 97,488 votes in the state. If Gore had won Florida he would have had 291 electoral votes instead of 266.

On Election Night 2016 Rachel Maddow told viewers at MSNBC...

"If you vote for somebody who can’t win for president, it means that you don’t care who wins for president."

And I'd add that when you vote for president you are implicitly also casting a vote for SCOTUS.

#supreme court of the united states #scotus #the republican supermajority on the supreme court #election 2000 #election 2016 #jill stein #ralph nader #george w. bush #donald trump #rachel maddow #third parties give us far right scotus justices #ron elving

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

DID THE SUPREME COURT JUST GIVE A GOOD RULING ON MOORE V. HARPER?!?!?!!!?!?!?!?!

OH. MY. GOD.

I cannot believe voting rights have actually been upheld this term, I’m literally shaking with shock and happiness omg.

#moore v. harper #scotus #supreme court of the united states #supreme court

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Eye Contact! Anger (at the Republicans that pushed the overturning of Roe V. Wade). Auto-generated captions.

#beau of the fifth column #YouTube video (auto-generated captions) #eye contact #Roe V. Wade 2022 #Future of SCOTUS #Supreme Court of the United States

[forgotn1]

I don't think Supreme Court Justices should be able to take their seat unless the US people want them to. I say, let the appointment and confirmation hearings continue as they have, but instead of taking office from there, they then have to be approved by the American people in the next election. And instead of appointing and confirming one person, they should do three at a time so that the US people have a wider range of choices for who represents them in the court.

No electors either, just the popular vote. Preferably a ranked voting system, but that is something we need for all elected officials in order to end the two-party system.

#scotus #supreme court #supreme court of the united states #roe v wade #politics

[littleblondelawyer019]

This Court is the Lochner Court 2.0.

History really does repeat itself.

#scotus #Supreme Court of the United States #Roberts #Thomas #Alito #Gorsuch #Kavanaugh #Barrett #student loans #affirmative action #pride #🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 #Lochner Era #Lochner Court #US Supreme Court #Supreme Court #student loan relief #student debt relief #gay rights #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA+ #student loan forgiveness #stack the court #pack the court

[lenbryant]

Mainstream media fails us again with their tepid failure to communicate the important points.

#maddow #rachel maddow #abortion #trump #right-wing media #politics #republicans #maga me sick #roe v wade #dobbs v. jackson women's health organization #dobbs decision #corrupt SCOTUS #supreme court of the united states #Youtube

[mark-19]

Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor (recorded November 1992 - December 1993)

"Boy, I've never seen an issue so divisive. You ever see it, it's like a civil war, isn't it? Even amongst my friends, who are all very intelligent! They are totally divided on abortion! It's unbelievable! Some of my friends, for instance, think these pro-life people are annoying idiots. Other of my friends think these pro-life people are evil fucks. How are we going to come to a consensus? You ought to hear the arguments around my house; "they're annoying, they're idiots, they're evil, they're fucks!" Brothers, sisters, come together! Can't we once just join hands and think of them as evil annoying idiot fucks?

I beseech you, but that's me, Libra Rising, the scales! And, strangely enough, Shiva, The Destroyer (laughs). Who would have thunk it?

"We're pro-life." "Ooh, you look it! You look like you're filled with life." All the little kids: "Please don't adopt me, please don't adopt me, please don't adopt me!" "We're your new Christian pro-life parents!" "Oh, where's the tower, where's the gun? Where's the tower, where's the gun? I was adopted by pro-life Christians when I was a kid (gun noises). Does my penis make me a bad boy? That's what they told me (gun noises)!"

Please, give me the Satan-worshipping family down the block. The ones who have the good albums. Suddenly I'm adopted by the Flanders, you know? "Hi Bill, isn't it another beautiful God-created morning?" (weird noise). "We're pro-life." It's like, well what does that make me? You know what I mean? You're so pro-life! You're so pro-life, do me a fucking favor. Don't block med clinics, okay? Lock arms, and block cemeteries. Let's see how fucking committed you are to this premise. "She can't come in." "She's ninety-six, she was hit by a bus!" "There's options!" "What, do we got to have her stuffed? What are you talking about, she's dead!" "We're pro-life, get her out of that casket! Get her out! She's not going, we're pro-life people. There'll be no death on this planet."

Pro-life... and I always say, see, my theory, here's my actual theory beyond, uh, the huge, hilarious jokes I have. Here's my real theory, though: if you're so pro-life and you're so pro-child, then adopt one that's already here that's very unwanted and very alone and needs someone to take care of it to get it out of a horrible situation, okay? People say, "well why don't you do that?" And I say because I hate fucking kids and couldn't care less. Couldn't give a fuck. Don't care at all about abortion. It's your choice. Case closed, the end, bottom line; and by the way, a three-month old kid in your belly is not a fucking human being, okay? It's a bunch of little congregate of cells. You're not a human until you're in my phonebook (laughs).

There, my hat is now in the political ring."

#Bill Hicks #Rant in E-Minor #abortion #SCOTUS #Roe vs. Wade #Clarence Thomas #Brett Kavanaugh #Samuel Alito #Amy Coney Barrett #John Roberts #Neil Gorsuch #pro-life #conservative christians #evangelicals #pro-choice #anti-choice #Supreme Court of the United States #America #'Merica #stand up comedy #Youtube

[theramblingsofshaniarose]

The Supreme Court of the US wants to go after contraception next.

Contraception isn’t just to prevent a pregnancy, it’s to help regulate periods which all uterus bearing people have. If they ban contraception, all people with uteruses could have potentially dangerous menstrual cycles that can kill them. That’s is so not pro-life when the uterus bearing individual could die if their cycles are too irregular. Contraception comes in many forms, like the pill, the shot, an IUD (which will be banned), the rod in the arm, the patch and even other things.

Contraception saves lives. Forcing women to go off it and stay away from it doesn’t. It saves lives also by helping combat things like endometriosis and polycystic ovarian syndrome, two things that make it almost impossible to get pregnant naturally… so the Supreme Court needs to stay away from contraceptive banning… Contraception also helps people with cystic acne on their bodies too because there’s hormones that create the buildup too.

So fuck you Supreme Court.

#roe versus wade #Supreme Court of the United States #abortion #birth control

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Lily Allen and Olivia Rodrigo sang a beautiful dedication to the SCOTUS.

#lily allen #olivia rodrigo #Fuck You #SCOTUS #supreme court of the united states #Youtube