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SCOTUS Could Be Set to End Key Protection for Minority Voters (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-could-be-set-to-end-key-protection-for-minority-voters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p121#a250801p121

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Yesterday's incredibly dunce-like decisions from SCOTUS reminded me once again why I am refusing to become a member of the US Supreme Court bar.
"I will not be joining the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Bar"
https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/no-…

Congress hankers for closure in funding war with Trump. SCOTUS is slow to deliver. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/02/impoundment-scotus-trump-congress-rescissions-00538076
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p4#a250902p4

The MAGA era
— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court
— has resulted in a new, gruesome project:
❌giving Trump whatever he wants.
🔥This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful
while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump.
It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.
The majority opinion in "Trump v. C…

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows
The Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart.

ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded broadband users accused of piracy be dropped; SCOTUS may hear Cox's similar case (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users
One piracy case is over, but the biggest one could be decided by Supreme Court.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Today's Trump v. CASA decision screams for an expansion of SCOTUS.
Why?
Because this opinion means more cases will come to SCOTUS to be resolved to achieve national consistency.
Yet SCOTUS is overworked.
This was mentioned in the SistersInLaw podcast from last week, "Pretzel Logic" where it was said:
"I mean, this is maybe grounds for we need a bigger court. We need two Supreme Courts so that they can handle enough cases."
I ha…

Brett Kavanaugh says he doesn't owe the public an explanation (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/422035/supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-shadow-docket
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p40#a250802p40

This headline tells you where the US is heading, fascism. Also it tells us to avoid any travel to the US if possible.
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-allows-trump-admin

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

Heard chanting and marching while doing yardwork, zipped over to check it out, and…
…lo and behold! an emergency protest in favor of immigrants rights, organized by https://www.miracmn.com in response to the SCOTUS threatening birthright citizenship.
Despite the apparent short notice, folks brought their game. Got a couple of photos (with permission). The guillotine actually moves up and down while the rider pedals!

Christians sued over PrEP coverage because it supports "homosexual behavior." SCOTUS shut them down. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/christians-sued-over-prep-coverage-because-it-supports-homosexual-behavior-scotus-shut-them-down/

#SCOTUS majority supports #DJT admin efforts for Kristi Noem and friends to deport people they don't like from US soil to random countries with no notice.
Damning dissent issued by some robed gals in DC that no one will read...

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689176/supreme-court-universal-service…

Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court rejected claims that the way the Universal Service Fund is implemented is unconstitutional.

SCOTUS will review a dispute between Cox and major music labels after an appeals court threw out a $1B jury verdict against Cox over alleged piracy by customers (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/s…

At some point, the Supreme Court will have shredded the US Constitution so much that we need to start over after the war.
#constitution #scotus #CivilWar

My earliest recollections of #SCOTUS rulings date to the mid 1960s, along with both family and classroom discussions of rulings such as Brown vs Board of Education and Loving vs Virginia.
I never dreamed that #SCOTUS would provide cover for a

My earliest recollections of #SCOTUS rulings date to the mid 1960s, along with both family and classroom discussions of rulings such as Brown vs Board of Education and Loving vs Virginia.
I never dreamed that #SCOTUS would provide cover for a

Yes, well, your son and Trump at Deutsche Bank. And that sudden retirement that ushered in Kavanaugh.
'Democracy Is At Risk': Retired SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy Expresses Grave Concerns Over 'Tone Of Our Political Discourse' - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/democracy-is-at-risk-retired-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-expresses-grave-concerns-over-tone-of-our-political-discourse/

#Scotus endorses human trafficking and slavery.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-li…

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

ACLU Fires Back: New Lawsuit and TRO Filed to Defend Birthright Citizenship After SCOTUS Sides with Trump
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/aclu-fires-back-new-lawsuit-and-tro

You know that it's a rough day at #SCOTUS when it hands down a ruling from which *eight* justices dissent (albeit in different parts).
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.soc…

#Trump's war on science continues thru #SCOTUS & the next pandemic's going royally fuck America & #MAGA who can't afford the protections they'll need.
But they'll figure out …

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2…

SCOTUS conservatives end "universal injunctions" in birthright citizenship cases (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-conservatives-end-universal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p2#a250628p2

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

This veteran probably voted for Trump, if I read his statements in the article correctly.
In that case, he got what he voted for.
Maybe not what he thought he voted for, but well .... should have informed himself.
Now his wife can be sent to Sudan or El Salvador or whatever country on earth, due to #Scotus removal of

ICE detains the wife of a US Marine veteran
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans. Paola Clouatre is the mother of a breastfeeding infant and one of tens of thousands of people detained and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. Immigration law experts say directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previousl…

Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA.
(Wait for SCOTUS to reverse this)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105.159.0_1.pdf

Now that SCOTUS has crippled the ability of Federal judges to issue blanket injunctions against unconstitutional acts by the government we can anticipate that there have to be many, many, many more individual lawsuits, pretty much one suit per victim of a government policy.
I do hope that lawyers have begun to create a shared repository of text and research that can be updated and evolved as cases succeed or fail.
(Of course there will have to be limited access rights in order to…

The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Birthright Citizenship Is a Trump Power Grab – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-scotus-decision-explanation-trump-power-grab/

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Current situation which SCotUS decision today will make worse:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trans-kids-attacks-trump-families/
I am not part of the community, so there are likely better resources:
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"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness (Matt Watkins/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/scotus-analysis-amy-coney-barrett-texas-babies-stateless.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p149#a250627p149

'We'll just ignore all those district judges and let SCOTUS rule'
Opinion | Justice Kavanaugh explains what the injunctions ruling won’t change - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4nmxNT3

Hey, remember when the #GOP opposed the #ACA because it would stop you from using the healthcare provider of your choice?
Well, guess what the #GOP-appointed

Hey, remember when the #GOP opposed the #ACA because it would stop you from using the healthcare provider of your choice?
Well, guess what the #GOP-appointed

US supreme court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-scotus
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p6#a250628p6

Today's SCOTUS ruling on the maximum scope of district and circuit (appellate) court rulings is going to create a hierarchy of zones in the US.
These zones will align with the boundaries of the Federal courts (and thus may be altered by Congress).
Some of these zones will have more freedom - such as those in California - and some will will have less - such as those in Texas.
We are slowing moving the US away from the Constitution and back towards the failed Articles of …

Sotomayor slams SCOTUS for 'gross' abuse of discretion
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/so-gross-an-abuse-sotomayor-rips-scotus-for-rewarding-trump-admins-flagrantly-unlawful-conduct-and-no-notice-deportations/

Small issue of standing, but whatever:
Kim Davis Petitions SCOTUS To Overturn Obergefell - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/kim-davis-petitions-scotus-to-overturn-obergefell/

Louisana asks Supreme Court to gut Voting Rights Act and ban use of race in redistricting (Zach Montellaro/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/louisiana-callais-scotus-redistricting-voting-rights-act-00532223
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p133#a250827p133

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

What does SCOTUS actually stand for these days? Is it the 'Supine Court' (submissive) or the 'Subprime Court' (high risk) of the US ?

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

"The precision of our analysis notwithstanding, the sad truth is that the future looks bleak and insurrectional, particularly for those in the USA. As these words hit the web, the SCOTUS has effectively abolished universal injunctions to presidential power, thereby kicking off the democracy overrule process we predicted exactly three years ago in this magazine–needless to say, a prediction we would have loved to get wrong."

#SCOTUS agrees with #DJT admin , orders new decision to limit authority of federal #judiciary, increase #Presidental powers.
The

"...He wanted the Nobel prize – and to discuss tariffs.” Transactional to the last, in an extortionate "that's a nice economy you have here, a shame if anything happened to it". I guess the tariffs make it an official act. (Thanks, #SCOTUS)

"...He wanted the Nobel prize – and to discuss tariffs.” Transactional to the last, in an extortionate "that's a nice economy you have here, a shame if anything happened to it". I guess the tariffs make it an official act. (Thanks, #SCOTUS)

Trump is asking SCOTUS to permit outsourcing torture
Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D.,
is the case where the Trump administration asks the justices to effectively neutralize the Convention Against Torture
According to Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted a proceeding that determines whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country,
and then, if that noncitizen is allowed t…

Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.

Total denial of due process. Shame on #SCOTUS
#SupremeCourt lets Trump resume deportations to third countries
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/trump-deportation-supreme-court.html

SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us…

Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/417583/supreme-court-convention-torture-deportation-south-sudan-dhs-dvd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p154#a250623p154

Well, SCOTUS further torches what is left of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments...
"Supreme Court lifts limits on Trump deporting migrants to countries not their own"
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

SCOTUS declines to hear a copyright suit accusing Ed Sheeran of copying the sheet music for his song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On (John Fritze/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/16/politics/ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-supreme-court

Supreme Court declines to hear copyright appeal that alleged Ed Sheeran copied Marvin Gaye song
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a copyright suit against pop star Ed Sheeran filed by a company that alleged his smash single “Thinking Out Loud” copied the classic Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.”

District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/illston-mass-firings-post-scotus-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p19#a250719p19

Kagan slams colleagues for giving Trump more firing power
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/layering-nothing-on-nothing-kagan-rubbishes-scotus-majority-for-under-reasoned-order-giving-trump-yet-another-green-light-to-purge-biden-appointees/

Legit Q: What will be the consequences to #Trump if he's outed as a pedophile?
❌ His base doesn't care about his racism, sexism, lack of ethics or criminality
❌ Congress kowtows & rolls over for him every week
❌ SCOTUS is bought & sealed
❌ Reasonable people already know he's evil incarnate
I don't see this as a means to weaken or oust him.
Fr…

Mark Davis (@mark_davis_8647) on Threads
I don’t ask for much. But I’m asking now. Like it. Share it. Burn it into the algorithm. Donald Trump. Jeffrey Epstein. Pam Bondi. The cover-up is real. And Trump doesn’t wanna talk about it anymore. So we’re gonna talk about it louder than ever. Blow this wide open. Let’s make them hear it in the streets. Fucking viral. Right now.

The conservative case against Trump's worst judicial nominee (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/420601/supreme-court-emil-bove-conservative-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p71#a250722p71

Supreme Court liberal delivers blistering dissent after hit to its 'reputation' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/scotus-2672407149/

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president?
#FourthOfJuly
-- Mrs Betty Bowers

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/458863/supreme-court-nih-public-health-grants-gobbledygook
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p138#a250821p138

Today would be a good day for the Washington DC bureau of public works to shut down the sewer lines leading from the white house, Congress, and SCOTUS.

"set the stage for SCOTUS to allow or prevent ICE from stopping, questioning, detaining and potentially arresting people in a "roving" manner in California on the idea that an individual's Hispanic appearance, speaking in Spanish or speaking English with an accent, day labor occupation, and location amount to "reasonable suspicion" of unlawful presence in the country."
Trump admin asks SCOTUS to halt judge's ICE injunction
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-admin-begs-scotus-to-destroy-judges-potential-contempt-trap-and-let-ice-stop-question-spanish-speaking-day-laborers/

How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost (Nicholas Confessore/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p56#a250619p56

Trump To SCOTUS: Let Us Dismantle Education Dept - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/trump-to-scotus-let-us-dismantle-education-dept/

👍 'Malicious compliance': How one judge is not-so-subtly defying SCOTUS’ far-right 'shadow docket' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-scotus-district-judges/

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to send eight men to South Sudan with no process (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-allows-trump-admin-to-send
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p123#a250703p123

Tomorrow is Bastille Day.
We could adopt that into the US.
What US building would make a good stand-in for the Bastille?
SCOTUS?
Alligator Auschwitz?
Mar the Lago?
???

The Supreme Court just handed Trump his biggest victory of his second term (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/419751/supreme-court-mcmahon-new-york-trump-mass-firings-education
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p146#a250714p146

I see that the Marines are being told they can "detain" people while waiting for police to arrive to "arrest" them.
I would mention that our very own SCOTUS says that if a person is not free to leave then that person is under arrest and must be given a Miranda warning.
Now --- here we have the Army or Marines "detaining" people - people who are not free to leave - and probably not giving Miranda warnings.
As such, were I the defense counsel, I …

"Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured."
Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture, in DHS v. D.V.D. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture

Hillary Clinton predicts SCOTUS will eventually overturn same-sex marriage (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/hillary-clinton-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p42#a250820p42

Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p156#a250609p156

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketanji-brown-jackson-dissents-term-recap/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p125#a250710p125

Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416073/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-shadow-docket-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p112#a250609p112

I see no Constitutional reason why SCOTUS is precluded from revisiting a prior decision and amending it.
We issue updates for software, why not for decisions?
Yes, it could lead to uncertainties if used more than rarely.
But imagine if the court could re-open the Dred Scott or Korematsu decisions and change the original?
Git hubs could accommodate this.

Trump, Epstein and a Stinging SCOTUS Dissent (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/epstein-investigation-trump-supreme-court.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p42#a250719p42

I think a more accurate phrasing is: How can we be free if #SCOTUS and the #GOP Congress tell #47 his threatening our rights and freedoms is just fine, while unanimously approving people like #Hegseth and

I think a more accurate phrasing is: How can we be free if #SCOTUS and the #GOP Congress tell #47 his threatening our rights and freedoms is just fine, while unanimously approving people like #Hegseth and

Lil Kalish: "A New Orleans family traveled to Chicago 3x in two years. An Alabama mom took her son to Spain. These are the lengths families of trans youth have gone for gender-affirming care after state bans. SCOTUS is expected to rule on whether these bans can stay in place. www.huffpost.com/entry/this-s..." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:egn4tb6zejhdgbr4ey464vsk/post/3lregvpv3dc2i

SCOTUS leaves in place DC gun restriction on large magazines – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/supreme-court-dc-gun-restriction-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots/3717654/

Fortunately, Obama has immunity, thanks to Trump's SCOTUS...
Bondi’s Obama Grand Jury: The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared
https://newrepublic.substack.com/p/bondis-obama-grand-jury-the-authoritarian

DOJ Jumps on SCOTUS Nationwide Injunctions Ruling to Revive Trump's Anti-Voting Order (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-trump-anti-voting-executive-order-supreme-court-nationwide-injunction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p73#a250707p73

"Four separate judges have now blocked Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, including for the “born and unborn,” yet the Trump Administration has not appealed any of the rulings to the Supreme Court. At the same time, **Trump’s lawyers are arguing in court that the “unborn” have no rights—directly contradicting their anti-abortion stance**"
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Push Halted by Judges, No Appeal to SCOTUS
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/trumps-birthright-citizenship-push