John Yates<p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MobBoss</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ConvictedFelonTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConvictedFelonTrump</span></a> caught on video thanking corrupt failed <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> crony justice <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> for unethical rulings his way! <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
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Frankie ✅<p>No, John Roberts, You Are Not a Civil Rights Hero </p><p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/john-roberts-compares-extremist-judges-civil-rights-heroes.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/news-and-politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/john-roberts-compares-extremist-judges-civil-rights-heroes.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOPCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPCult</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a></p>
BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SmudgeTheInsultCat</span></a></span> </p><p>We have free speech in the US (for now). </p><p>scotus says corporations giving obscene amounts of $$ to support candidates & causes is exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. </p><p>Any action short of violence against a judge’s person or property is the way for us UNmonied folks to exercise OUR First Amendment rights.</p><p>So criticizing, peacefully resisting, protesting anywhere & anytime, and even doxxing these assh&$es is fair game. Suck it! <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a></p>
Dorothea Lange<p>Mr. Roberts saying, "They're on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and I'm out here." Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 73 </p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/MalheurCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalheurCounty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oregon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/undefined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undefined</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/DorotheaLange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DorotheaLange</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773624/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">loc.gov/pictures/item/20177736</span><span class="invisible">24/</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>New leaks make clear that Justices <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Jackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jackson</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kagan</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sotomayor</span></a> wanted the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CodeOfEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeOfEthics</span></a> to be enforceable. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Gorsuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gorsuch</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> did not.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/us/supreme-court-ethics-rules.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/12/03/us/supr</span><span class="invisible">eme-court-ethics-rules.html</span></a> </p><p>The article is silent on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Kavanaugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kavanaugh</span></a> and didn't identify the position of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Barrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barrett</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLaw</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Project 2025 ex-director condemns Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’ </p><p>The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> is <br>👉condemning what he sees as <br>“violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kevin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kevin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <br>and 🔸calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book.<br>
“If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, we have to do our part as well,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paul</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dans</span></a>, who led Project 2025 until July, said in an interview. </p><p>“There’s no place for this sort of violent rhetoric and bellicose taunting, especially in light of the fact that President Trump has now been subject to not one but two assassination attempts.”<br>
Roberts, who took over Washington’s preeminent conservative think tank in 2021, declared ⭐️a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be,” <br>during an appearance on a pro-Trump podcast in July, before a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. </p><p>That same month, Roberts started marketing his book, <br>💥whose cover proposed “Burning Down Washington” and featured an image of a match.</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/16/project-2025-heritage-violent-rhetoric/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">24/10/16/project-2025-heritage-violent-rhetoric/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America’s rickety democracy <br>-- in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.</p><p>Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy: </p><p>if Donald <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, rightwing courts, <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gerrymandered</span></a> state legislatures and an extreme Republican <a href="https://c.im/tags/caucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caucus</span></a> in the US House of Representatives create constitutional <a href="https://c.im/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> over the certification of this presidential election, 👉two men cleared the path.</p><p>The single-minded determination of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a> built a conservative supermajority on the US <a href="https://c.im/tags/supreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supreme</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> and ♦️stacked lower and state courts with Republican <a href="https://c.im/tags/ideologues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideologues</span></a> that have pushed the nation to the right via the least accountable branch of government.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jankowski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jankowski</span></a> masterminded the partisan <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gerrymanders</span></a> that ♦️tilted state legislatures and congressional delegations across the south and the purple midwest toward extreme Republicans, <br>♦️ended Barack Obama’s second term before it started, and ♦️rendered elections in Wisconsinand North Carolina all but meaningless over the last decade and a half.</p><p>Leo and Jankowski understood, separately, that the courts and state legislatures were undervalued and often undefended targets for a deliberate strategy aimed at capturing important levers of power that sometimes float under the radar. </p><p>They could be Moneyball-ed, to borrow the term Michael Lewis used in his book about how the Oakland A’s made an end-run around large-market teams by understanding value that their opponents overlooked.</p><p>What Leo and Jankowski built separately would soon reinforce the other’s creation (with, of course, crucial assists from chief justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>), tightening the knots around meaningful elections, pushing policy to the extreme right and 💥making it nearly impossible for voters to do anything about it</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/electoral-college-map-gerrymandering?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/oct/04/electoral-college-map-gerrymandering?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p>The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> opinion was so focused on the risks to the vigorousness of the activities of future presidents that could come from the threat of future prosecutions that it was willing to ignore the current threat to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s actions in 2020, not to mention his continued insistence that he won the last election.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOPfascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPfascists</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsUnfitForOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsUnfitForOffice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsATraitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsATraitor</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/wannabeDictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wannabeDictator</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsAFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsAFascist</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsAFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsAFelon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpIsHumanGarbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsHumanGarbage</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUSIsCorrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUSIsCorrupt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/election-2024/jack-smith-scotus-filing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alternet.org/election-2024/jac</span><span class="invisible">k-smith-scotus-filing/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Through his role in securing the nominations of Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, and Samuel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> to the Supreme Court, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a>’s political cachet began to grow. </p><p>An avid networker, he cultivated friendships with other members of the court, <br>spending a weekend in Colorado hunting with Judge Antonin <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scalia</span></a> <br>— himself a devout Catholic and, like the Corkerys, close to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dei</span></a>. </p><p>Surrounded by such religious zeal, it didn’t take long for their example to reawaken his own Catholic faith, and Leo soon began tapping his network of <a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darkmoney</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/backers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backers</span></a> to support religious causes. </p><p>He twice bailed out the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Becket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fund</span></a>, a nonprofit named after a twelfth-century English martyr, that officially worked to protect religious freedoms, <br>especially those that were important to conservative Catholics. </p><p>He reveled in his reputation as the financial savior of this important community. </p><p>Soon afterwards, President Bush picked Leo as his representative to the "United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,"<br>a federal agency set up to police religious freedom around the world. </p><p>Despite its lofty aims, the commission had a tiny budget and its commissioners were unpaid. </p><p>Within Washington circles, many saw it as nothing more than an office for amateurs who meddled in foreign policy. </p><p>Undeterred by the skeptics, Leo made the most of his time at the commission to push his own Catholic agenda <br>— traveling to places like Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, and Vietnam to investigate allegations of religious persecution. </p><p>His own faith seemed to grow during that time, <br>with Leo occasionally reprimanding his staff for putting him in a hotel too far from a church, <br>making it difficult for him to attend Mass. </p><p>Some colleagues began to note a particular bias in the way he carried out a role that conflicted with the commission’s stated aim of championing the freedom of all religions. </p><p>He became embroiled in a lawsuit after one former colleague accused him of ❌firing her because she was Muslim. </p><p>Several staff members resigned because of the controversy, <br>and Leo was fired not long after. </p><p>Despite the scandal, his time at the commission deepened Leo’s faith and helped him cultivate his image as a serious political figure. </p><p>By the time of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a>’s twenty-fifth anniversary dinner in November 2007, <br>his influence was clear. </p><p>Leo shared the stage with the president and three sitting Supreme Court Justices <br>— Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. </p><p>Chief Justice John Roberts sent a video message. </p><p>“Thanks in part to your efforts, a new generation of lawyers is rising,” President Bush told the assembled members. </p><p>At the time of this dinner, Leo was still recovering from the sudden death of his daughter Margaret just a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday <br>— an event that had a profound impact on him. </p><p>Margaret had been born with spina bifida and used a wheelchair. </p><p>Events around her death had reinforced Leo’s faith. </p><p>The previous summer, during a family vacation, Leo had promised Margaret that he would try to go to Mass more regularly. </p><p>Over the years, Margaret had developed an obsession with anything religious, and would nag her parents to take her to Mass. </p><p>She especially loved angels <br>— and priests, insisting on a hug every time she saw one. </p><p>The day after they returned from vacation, Leo got up early to go to Mass <br>— as promised — and looked in on Margaret. </p><p>As he was walking down the hall, she started gasping for breath and died shortly afterward. </p><p>“I will always think that she did her job,” he later said. “She did her job.”</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Backed by a cabal of wealthy conservative patrons like industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Koch</span></a>, <br>banker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mellon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scaife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scaife</span></a>, <br>and the devout Catholic entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frank</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hanna</span></a>, <br>the Federalist Society under Leo became a breeding ground for conservative judges who were recruited at law school, <br>groomed through the society’s program of events and talks, <br>and then bound together through their careers. </p><p>“The key was to figure out how to develop what I call a ‘pipeline’ <br>— basically, where you recruit students in law school, <br>you get them through law school, <br>they come out of law school, <br>and then you find ways of continuing to involve them in legal policy,” Leo later explained. </p><p>In 2005, the Federalist Society began openly advocating for <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <br>— a former member<br> — to be nominated to fill a vacant seat at the Supreme Court, <br>the first time it had campaigned publicly for a particular candidate. </p><p>A few months later, its sway had grown so much that it torpedoed President George W. Bush’s own preferred candidate for another vacant seat on the Supreme Court <br>— <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harriet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harriet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miers</span></a>, a judge and close friend of the president who wasn’t a member of the Federalist Society <br>— and pressured him to nominate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Samuel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>, one of its members, in her place. </p><p>Leo worked closely with the "Judicial Confirmation Network", <br>a new nonprofit organization set up using funds from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arkley</span></a>, a California businessman known as the <br>“foreclosure king,” who had made billions buying up mortgages of people in financial difficulties. </p><p>The idea for <a href="https://c.im/tags/JCN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JCN</span></a> had been hatched at a dinner in Washington attended by Leo and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shortly after Bush’s reelection in late 2004. </p><p>JCN spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on radio and online advertisement to shape public opinion. </p><p>It was run by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neil</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ann</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corkery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corkery</span></a>, a couple who had been members of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dei</span></a> since at least the eighties. </p><p>Neil had been a critical figure in getting a new residence for male, celibate members of the Catholic movement built in Reston, Virginia. </p><p>“Opus Dei members preach their faith through their work as well as the friendships they develop,” Ann explained. </p><p>She and her husband would later preach their faith by becoming central figures in a series of nonprofits that would channel dark money for Leo’s efforts.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>On July 1, four days after Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate, <br>the Supreme Court declared Donald Trump basically <a href="https://c.im/tags/immune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immune</span></a> from criminal prosecution. </p><p>At that point, a sense of impending, almost inevitable <a href="https://c.im/tags/doom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doom</span></a> was engulfing (small-d) democratic America. </p><p>But the Right was enthused. </p><p>On July 4, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kevin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kevin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> celebrated the Court’s disastrous decision in an interview on Steve Bannon’s show. </p><p>Roberts rejoiced that 💥“we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”</p><p>These bold assertions of dominance and brazen threats of violence caused outrage that was directed at Trump as much as at Heritage. </p><p>In the broader perception, Roberts was Project 2025, and Project 2025 was Trump </p><p>– this, then, was the dark future the country was barreling towards.</p><p><a href="https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-project-2025-became-toxic-and" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/ho</span><span class="invisible">w-project-2025-became-toxic-and</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Supreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Supreme</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a> was hit by a flurry of damaging new <a href="https://c.im/tags/leaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leaks</span></a> Sunday as a series of confidential memos written by the chief justice were revealed by The New York Times.</p><p>The court’s Chief Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> was clear to his fellow justices in February: <br>He wanted the court to take up a case weighing Donald Trump’s right to presidential immunity<br>—and he seemed inclined to protect the former president.</p><p>“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently,” <br>Roberts wrote to his Supreme Court peers, according to a private memo obtained by the Times. </p><p>He was referencing the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to allow the case to move forward.</p><p>Roberts took an unusual level of involvement in this and other cases that ultimately benefited Trump, according to the Times<br>—his handling of the cases surprised even some other justices on the high court, across ideological lines. </p><p>(As president, Trump appointed three of the members of its current conservative supermajority.)</p><p>Such was the case in March that debated whether Colorado, or any state, had the authority to 🔸remove an official from a federal ballot. </p><p>♦️Roberts persuaded the other justices to make their opinion<br>—that states could not unilaterally drop a federal candidate from the ballot<br>—unsigned to authoritatively signal their unanimity, according to the Times.</p><p>The judges agreed, until the conservatives sought to include an additional proposition that mandated anyone seeking to enforce the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionist candidates get congressional approval. <br>Four justices<br>—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amy Coney Barrett<br>—thought that idea went too far, and wrote concurrences in disagreement. <br>Roberts himself wrote the majority opinion.</p><p>♦️Roberts also took charge of the court’s ruling that declared the 🔸government went too far in charging those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.<br>He had initially assigned the case to Samuel Alito <br>but abruptly took it over himself days after the Times revealed Alito’s wife Martha-Ann hung an upside-down U.S. <a href="https://c.im/tags/flag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flag</span></a><br>—an emblem of the “Stop the Steal” movement, and propagated by some Jan. 6 rioters<br>—outside his home, according to the Times. </p><p>It was unclear whether the two episodes were linked; none of the justices answered the Times’ questions</p><p>👉The switch, however, was unusual among court standards. Such instances usually only occur when a decision changes, experts told the Times.<br>Thus came the Trump ruling. <br>The conservatives had voted to grant Trump, and all presidents, expansive <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunity</span></a> for “official” acts during their tenure. <br>🔥But Roberts again took the case for himself, prompting some at the court to wonder whether he may have taken on too much. <br>He got pushback from justices both liberal (Sotomayor) and conservative (Barrett), though the opinion made it through in July, providing Trump with a clear win.<br>🆘 The clear loser? Judge <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tanya</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a>, who must decide how the ruling applies to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s still-pending case against Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-roberts-secret-trump-memo-revealed-in-huge-scotus-leak" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/john-roberts</span><span class="invisible">-secret-trump-memo-revealed-in-huge-scotus-leak</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>How <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> Shaped <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Winning Streak</p><p>Behind the scenes, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChiefJustice</span></a> molded 3 momentous <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> cases that helped determine the fmr president’s fate.</p><p>Last Feb, Chief Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> sent his 8 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> colleagues a confidential memo that radiated frustration & certainty.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartisanCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Unlawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unlawful</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/justice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.wARn.oV9X_Fd23Prd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/just</span><span class="invisible">ice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.wARn.oV9X_Fd23Prd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Project 2025 ex-director accuses Trump campaign advisers of ‘malpractice’ </p><p>Rightwing criticism of Trump’s campaign staff has grown in recent weeks as the former president has sought to at least appear to moderate his position on some policy proposals and issues, including reproductive rights.</p><p>While there has been little direct criticism of Trump himself, a <a href="https://c.im/tags/FireLaCivita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FireLaCivita</span></a> hashtag trended briefly on social media.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Dans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dans</span></a>, who served for two years in the White House under Trump, <br>spearheaded work at the conservative <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heritage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foundation</span></a> thinktank that produced <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a>. </p><p>The 922-page tome proposes an array of radical plans to reshape government – such as replacing tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trump loyalists, abolishing the education department and drastically restricting abortion and contraception.</p><p>The document has been described as a manifesto for Trump’s presidency, <br>and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kevin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kevin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, president of the Heritage Foundation, said in a podcast that the project would herald “a second revolution that would be <a href="https://c.im/tags/bloodless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloodless</span></a> if the left allows it to be”.</p><p>As criticism grew, Trump eventually responded by claiming to disown the plan, <br>falsely stating he did not know its architects <br>– even though most used to work for him and he gave the keynote address to their annual conference<br> – and calling its suggestions “ridiculous and abysmal”.</p><p>LaCivita described the project as <br>“a pain in the ass” <br>at the Republican national conventionin Milwaukee.</p><p>A New York Times/CNN poll found 75% of American voters had heard of Project 2025, <br>while 63% strongly opposed its contents.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/10/paul-dans-project-2025-trump-campaign?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/sep/10/paul-dans-project-2025-trump-campaign?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>John Roberts is well aware of the Supreme Court's credibility problems, but he doesn't want to fix it by a code of conduct -- he wants to fix it by cosy interviews with journalists </p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shelby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>County</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antidemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antidemocratic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Daley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankrolling</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fringe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Three of our Supreme Court Justices had worked on Bush v Gore in 2000 -- and those are the "moderates" on this court </p><p>- David Daley</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shelby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>County</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antidemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antidemocratic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Daley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankrolling</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fringe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Equal parts "Dark Money" and "Democracy in Chains", <br>Minority Rule is a riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to <br>💥hijack <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> in America, <br>💥its profound implications for the 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/presidential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>presidential</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a>, <br>💥and the crucial role that Chief Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> has played in determining how we vote.</p><p>In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, <br>taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. <br>From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ, <br>this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation <br>— the Voting Rights Act. <br>His name was John Roberts.<br>Over thirty years later in 2013, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts, <br>now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, <br>wrote <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shelby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>County</span></a> vs. Holder, <br>one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence. <br>A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act, <br>Roberts's decision <br>— dangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the past <br>— emboldened right-wing, <a href="https://c.im/tags/antidemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antidemocratic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> around the country immediately. <br>No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby.</p><p>Now lauded investigative reporter <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Daley</span></a> reveals the urgent story of this 🆘fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party's favor. <br>From the bowels of Reagan's DOJ to the walls of the conservative <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> to the moneyed Republican resources <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankrolling</span></a> restrictive voting laws today, <br>Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. <br>Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to 🔥a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box <br>— an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. <br>In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fringe</span></a> conservative <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a> about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy. <br>Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.</p><p><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/-9780063321090/1-0?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_gE3ND8cGzt8kj2t9rC7OytFg28&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvW2BhDyARIsADnIe-KgQUFDIvpF383rfzJJyLKqiQuHTU7fzCum3YJJarH1NoCET9_Gh6YaAnYOEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">powells.com/book/-978006332109</span><span class="invisible">0/1-0?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_gE3ND8cGzt8kj2t9rC7OytFg28&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvW2BhDyARIsADnIe-KgQUFDIvpF383rfzJJyLKqiQuHTU7fzCum3YJJarH1NoCET9_Gh6YaAnYOEALw_wcB</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>A funny thing happened, something <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heritage</span></a> president <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kevin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kevin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, <br>who wears Lucchese cowboy boots and drives around in a black diesel Ford F-150 pickup truck <br>(the vehicle of choice for “Y’all Qaeda” MAGA activists), <br>surely didn’t anticipate. </p><p>As progressive groups divided up the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> document, studied it, and mustered very specific warnings, <br>the <a href="https://c.im/tags/crazy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crazy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/neo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neo</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> that is the “brand” of Project 2025 memed its way into the national consciousness. </p><p>Suddenly, seemingly overnight, people who had never read it, who would never read it, were aware of its malign intent. </p><p>The very name “Project 2025” was turned into a communications death star, as snippets appeared on TikTok, and details emerged from movie stars’ mouths. The jokes and memes and tweets reached critical mass.</p><p>"You know, it is kind of an amazing thing that they are so deeply steeped in right-wing ideology and culture that they think nothing of publishing this </p><p>and the rest of the country’s picking up and reading, and saying oh my God,” <br>Jamie Raskin said at the Center for American Progress briefing and conference on Project 2025 in July. </p><p>“But for them, that of course is where they’re going. </p><p>They are viewing it as a second American Revolution. </p><p>It’s really a second American counter-revolution. </p><p>I mean somebody like Clarence Thomas or Mrs. Alito or Donald Trump Jr.<br>—if they were back in the 1760s and 1770s, <br>they would be Tories and monarchists trying to figure out how to restore the king and protect the king against American revolutionaries.<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/185460/project-2025-haunt-donald-trump-until-election" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/185460</span><span class="invisible">/project-2025-haunt-donald-trump-until-election</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a>’s policy book, Roberts attacked environmentalists, the U.N., and the Environmental Protection Agency, calling for the unfettered use of oil and gas</p><p>In the foreword of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership policy book, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kevin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kevin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, the president of right-wing think tank The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heritage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foundation</span></a> sets the tone for the plan's hostility toward climate action and wholesale endorsement of fully extracting our oil and gas reserves, a path scientists have warned would be catastrophic.</p><p>♦️Roberts calls environmentalism a “pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue.” </p><p>He claims that those who suffer most from environmental policies are the “aged, poor, and vulnerable.” </p><p>Roberts continues, “At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human” because it promotes “population control and economic regression” by “regarding human activity itself as fundamentally a threat to be sacrificed to the god of nature.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]</p><p>♦️Roberts attacks global elites and calls for abandoning international organizations like the United Nations. <br>Claiming that “global elites” and organizations like the United Nations are making decisions on climate change that are insulated “from the sovereignty of national electorates,” <br>Roberts argues, “International organizations and agreements that erode our Constitution, rule of law, or popular sovereignty should not be reformed: They should be abandoned.” </p><p>Additionally, Project 2025 demands that “the next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]</p><p>♦️Roberts claims the EPA “quietly strangles domestic energy production,” <br>later adding, “The next conservative President should go beyond merely defending America’s energy interests but go on offense, asserting them around the world.” </p><p>Roberts goes on to claim that “America’s vast reserves of oil and natural gas are not an environmental problem; they are the lifeblood of economic growth. <br>American dominance of the global energy market would be a good thing: for the world, and, more importantly, for ‘we the people.’” </p><p>Under Roberts’ leadership, Project 2025’s section on energy production was reportedly written by the oil and gas industry and provides a blueprint for how the next president can turn “drill, baby, drill” into federal policy. </p><p>Notably, the industry is already producing record amounts of oil and gas under the Biden-Harris administration, all while holding thousands of unused drilling permits. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; Media Matters, 8/8/24; Vox, 3/13/24; PolitiFact, 3/29/22]</p><p><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025s-kevin-roberts-speak-ny-times-climate-week-nyc-event" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mediamatters.org/project-2025/</span><span class="invisible">project-2025s-kevin-roberts-speak-ny-times-climate-week-nyc-event</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Breaking: SCOTUS, 5-4, allows courts to block full Title IX sex discrimination rule during appeals</p><p>Gorsuch joins Sotomayor's dissent, along with Kagan and Jackson</p><p>As <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sotomayor</span></a> wrote for the dissenters, “Today … a majority of this Court leaves in place preliminary injunctions that bar the Government from enforcing the entire rule<br>—including provisions that bear no apparent relationship to respondents’ alleged injuries. <br>Those injunctions are overbroad.” </p><p>That concern about overbroad injunctions led the court 🔸earlier this year to partially stay an injunction blocking Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors 🔸<br>— allowing the state to enforce the ban against most people during the appeal.</p><p>Neither Chief Justice John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, who joined <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gorsuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gorsuch</span></a>’s 2020 majority in Bostock, *<br>nor Justices Amy Coney <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barrett</span></a> or Brett <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kavanaugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kavanaugh</span></a>, who in other instances have criticized overly broad injunctions, were willing to provide the four dissenters with a fifth vote to allow some of the Title IX rule to go into effect while litigation continues. </p><p>Instead, they joined with the court’s two most extreme-right members, Justices Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> and Sam <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>, to ♦️allow the full rule to be blocked during litigation♦️</p><p>(* In Bostock, the court held that the sex discrimination ban in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes a ban on sexual orientation discrimination and gender identity discrimination.)<br><a href="https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-5-4-title-ix-shadow-docket-denial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lawdork.com/p/scotus-5-4-title</span><span class="invisible">-ix-shadow-docket-denial</span></a></p>
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