@bobmueller@mastodon.worldInteresting writing in /r/religion today about Christianity and the Constitution.
"Christianity is incompatible with the US Constitution. The Fathers own words prove it."
https://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/1umqm4x/christia…
@cdarwin@c.imTrue patriots should want all Americans to vote,
They should oppose would-be dictators,
They should yield to the Constitution,
and they should demand a nation that is offered to everyone equally.
Actual followers of Jesus should defend the vulnerable,
They should give comfort to the sick, food to the hungry, welcome to the immigrant, and love to the least among us.
And while the masqueraders and pretenders parade around in grand performative acts of lo…
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@sakhavi@aoir.socialSo, congrats on still being US citizens…? I guess? #SCOTUS
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-us-su…
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsI maintain a fantasy version of the US Constitution to rewrite it how I think it OUGHT to read. Most recent commit is meant to overturn yesterday's bad SCOTUS decision:
https://github.com/cooljeanius/w_Constitution/commit/8e95ee43a9671fc6aa0fb3520a863c90ce969307
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBrian Kemp rules out canceling primary, using new maps in 2026 (Greg Bluestein/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/05/brian-kemp-rules-out-canceling-primary-using-new-maps-in-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p77#a260501p77
@steve@s.yelvington.comMy ancestors settled in what is now the United States in the early 1600s. I'm a citizen by birthright. So is anyone else born in the United States. I believe that because I'm not a bigoted a******. And, of course, it's crystal clear in the Constitution. We are people, not a race.
@cdarwin@c.imIn a rare dissent from the bench,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the Supreme Court
undid “centuries of political practice,”
and that the court concluded that the federal government had been acting in
“open defiance of the Constitution.”
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning (Jack Loftus/McSweeney's)
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-us-constitution-is-for-simple-folk-still-burdened-by-the-belief-that-words-have-meaning
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p33#a260702p33
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Corporations are people”
– Famous last words, Homo Sapiens @… https://infosec.exchange/@FritzAdalis/116643483355447185
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am thinking of drafting (yet another) proposal for our US Constitution.
The problem is that our Constitution creates a legislative ratchet - once a law that delegates power to the President is passed it is difficult for Congress to remove that law because Presidents are extremely reluctant to relinquish authority, even if they are not using that authority.
This time the idea is to extend Congress' powers so that Congress can claw-back grants of authority to the President. (…
@cdarwin@c.imOur republic rests on a clear premise:
No branch of government possesses absolute authority,
and no individual is above the law.
In a single stroke, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has dismantled this foundational understanding.
By executing a sweeping settlement with Donald Trump, Blanche committed an unprecedented dual assault on the Constitution,
usurping Congress' power of the purse while shattering the structural boundaries of executive appointmen…
@servelan@newsie.socialThe Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-06-14/supreme-court-doesnt-own-constitution
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI rather think that country needs a better constitution.
Not that mine even has one.
Trump fires NSF's oversight board | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"…Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia. 'A federal badge is not a license to violate the Constitution, and it is not a shield from state criminal law. We have prosecuted police officers who broke the law. We have prosecuted public officials who broke the law. We will prosecute ICE agents who break the law. There is no category of American who gets to operate above it.'"
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/
Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much money as I spend on myself for 3 years to protect us from those threats to our way of life.
@janneke@todon.nlPaul Krugman in #Buitenhof At this point the US no longer really has a constitution, and no longer has laws, it only has personalist rule by Donald Trump.
@servelan@newsie.social"Let's throw out the Constitution": Mullin shares DHS plans ahead of midterms - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/14/lets-throw-out-the-constitution-mullin-shares-dhs-plans-ahead-of-midterms/
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I will ride the #NewScientist article wave, (re!)read the constitution of an org that I chair and at least draft my rousing AGM speech and agenda, work on my research, and join a brainstorming session (or two) on-line...
I'd be unconvinced that I'd really managed any of the &…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThis judge's decision is, to my mind, moldy rubbish - and I hope the appeals courts feel the same way.
The judge threw out Virginia's redistricting (election just yesterday) - on the grounds of the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.
The clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; …
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats just suffered a major setback in their plans to counter Republican redistricting gains before the 2028 elections.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that all five proposed redistricting ballot measures in the state
— three led by Democrats and two led by Republicans
— violated the state’s constitution,
preventing either party from implementing new maps by undoing the independent commission that currently controls the process.
Colorado’s eight Hou…
@almad@fosstodon.orgTime to sell your #AI stuff and buy some quantum computing instead!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/ushering-in-the-…
@cdarwin@c.imMissouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has spent months telling voters that the state constitution is under threat from
“out-of-state special interests”
using ballot initiatives to bypass the Republican-controlled legislature
and enact major policy changes.
The measures have included legalizing recreational marijuana,
expanding Medicaid
and restoring abortion rights.
That argument is at the center of Kehoe’s support for Amendment 4,
a measure in the Aug. 4…
@servelan@newsie.socialBlocking traffic at SeaTac and other airports because of sanctuary city policies kinda violates the Constitution...
Trump official's 'actively insane' new plan to punish Dem cities flabbergasts experts - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/markwayne-mullin-international-travel/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution CEO Andrew Morse steps down after a three-and-a-half-year tenure, to be succeeded by Cox Media executive Paul Curran (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/11/nx-s1-5818208/ajc-andrew-morse-leaving
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialIt seems to me that it is time to begin to organize a "People's Tribunal" to try the criminals in the Federal administration.
This would not be an Article III court because such a court would a) be tainted by the maga/trump appointees and b) be constrained by procedures and laws designed for run of the milll criminals.
Our Constitution does not have provision for such a tribunal apart from the words of the Preamble that declare that "We the people" have es…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Supreme Court Doesn't Own the Constitution (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/opinion/constitution-supreme-court-popular-sovereignty.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pFA.BsPU.MESvFbvSYYmI&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p32#a260610p32
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaAmerica deserves the truth. The regime has created concentration camps. This intentional cruelty is an insult to the Constitution and we must shut it down.
Source:
#ice
@cdarwin@c.imA judge in Delaware
—a state with more registered business entities than people
—ruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz ruled that the town of Fenwick Island, population 400, did not violate the state Constitution by permitting business entities
—which make up 12% of the town’s “population”
A—to vote in municipal elections,
as case plaintiff the ACLU of Delaware ha…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated to ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/
"For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in thi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJustice Department Concludes EEOC Disparate-Impact Guidelines Violate the Constitution (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-concludes-eeoc-disparate-impact-guidelines-violate-constitution
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p97#a260609p97
@servelan@newsie.socialGreece, birthplace of democracy, seeks to put humanity ahead of AI in updated constitution | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/greece-birthplace-of-democracy-seeks-to-put-humanity-ahead-of-ai-in-updated-constitution/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialHere is another in the line of "Corporations are people" line of rubbish logic...
When will the nonesense that corporations get civil rights from the Constitution be repaired (see my proposal, "Redressing the Distortion of Elections and Political Speech by Corporations", 2nd URL below.)
One may ask - when will AI systems get those same "rights"?
"US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case"
@annsev@troet.cafeThe war that Darth #Trump is waging against #Iran is unconstitutional; it is a violation of international law and a war crime.
If the military—which is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the president—carries out the announced massive military strikes against “Iranian civilization,” then the entire militar…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s Religious Liberty Commission takes aim at church-state separation
The Trump administration took aim at the separation of church and state Friday,
issuing a draft report from the "president’s Religious Liberty Commission"
that says the separation concept is a legal error
and that Americans should view religion as an “essential support”
and always remember “the Creator who made us and bestows our rights.”
The 224-page report recommended the…
@emd@cosocial.caTo be honest, this doesn't sound like a horrible way to govern.
No political parties, but house and senate approval needed to pass anything.
#CanPoli
![Eswatini's government is an absolute monarchy, the last of its kind in Africa.[22] The country has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986.[23][24] Elections are held every five years to determine the House of Assembly and the Senate majority, but political parties are prohibited from running.[25] Eswatini's constitution was adopted in 2005.](https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/518/247/443/464/526/original/117063ad22d0656d.png)
@relcfp@mastodon.socialNewberry Seminar on Religion and Culture in the Americas, June 5, 2026
https://ift.tt/S6JzZuF
Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@steve@s.yelvington.comWhy is it that violating the Constitution is just business as usual, but following it is "creating a constitutional crisis?"
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI see nothing in the US Constitution that blocks Presidents N 1 et seq from revoking Pardons and Commutations made by Presidents N and before.
Now, many will claim that historically pardons/commutations are a one-way ratchet. But I would answer that that such a belief is merely inertia because the question has never been clearly faced, much less clearly answered.
It seems to me that when we (if ever) get to begin reconstructing the US after trump that we will have to face some s…
@servelan@newsie.socialThe Constitution says 1 justice per district; we have 13 districts...do the math, GOP
US House GOP attacks proposals to expand Supreme Court and counter conservative majority • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/21/repub/expand-supreme-court/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution
to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/23/trump-pr…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"Our Constitution begins with an aspiration: “We the people”—a promise to secure liberty and justice for everyone. That promise endures and survives only when our institutions act to defend it. If local police hold the line, our democracy still has a chance. If they do not, erosion and fear will accelerate. And history will not ask whether this moment was comfortable. It will ask whether our local police leaders did their duty when it mattered most."
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration wants to give white South African “refugees”
an arrival gift bag with an American flag, an Android tablet, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,
and hagiographic literature from PragerU minimizing the history of slavery and apartheid in the country and falsely accusing the South African government of “favoring the Black population.”
This is the latest effort to woo the Afrikaner population, descended from 17th-century Dutch, German, and…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOur patent system, like our copyright system, has become a monster in which the "monopoly" period granted to patent (and cop;yright) holders far, far exceeds what is granted by our US Constitution.
The Constitution requires that patents and copyrights (but not trademarks) be for "limited times". That is not defined, but it must be interpreted in the context of the Contitution's goal to "promote scientific and artistic progress".
The following ra…
@cdarwin@c.imH.J.Res.54 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights protected and extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/54
@buercher@tooting.chSormanni a été mis sous pression par l’UDC pour voter pour le projet nucléaire. Il se plaint. Selon la Constitution, les députés devraient pouvoir voter sans instructions.
@cdarwin@c.imNext week, a little-known law that allows the government to sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens is set to expire.
Congress should let FISA’s Section 702 die, but we fear some Democrats could join Republicans in reauthorizing this civil liberties disaster.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBrian Kemp signs law making many metro Atlanta races nonpartisan (Greg Bluestein/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/05/brian-kemp-signs-law-making-many-metro-atlanta-races-nonpartisan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p112#a260512p112
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am a bit lost on the status of the el cheato "settlement"...
Has the judge approved the settlement agreement?
Last I heard she was creating a panel of legal experts to chime-in on whether this is a contrived case and thus fails the cases or controversies requirements of Article III of our Constitution.
Has that panel been created? Is it working? Has it rendered an opinion?
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated again to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/
Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much money as I spend on myself this year to protect us from those threats to our way of life.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caFrance is on its 5th Republic.
Perhaps it is time for serious citizens of the United States of America to start thinking about the successes and failures of the USA’s first republic and start working on a constitution and system of government for the 2nd American Republic.
It could be argued that this is a natural cycle for all democracies. France went back and forth from Republic to Empirical Fascist half a dozen times in 200 years before landing on its fifth iteration in 1958.
Many other countries (Spain, Germany, Austria) have had similar progressions.
#usa #theAmericanFascist #democracy #republic
@cdarwin@c.imVirginia Democrats are looking for a way to overturn the state Supreme Court’s Friday decision invalidating the constitutional amendment temporarily adopting new congressional districts that a majority of voters ratified last month.
They have a simple—and lawful—solution:
Send the entire court into early retirement.
Article VI, Section 9, of the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature unlimited authority to set the retirement age for judges.
It specifies, “The …
@cdarwin@c.imOn Thursday, Trump said in a press conference that “it would be a disgrace” if the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship.
“Twenty to 25 percent of the people coming into our country will come in through birthright citizenship;
they’ll become citizens through birthright citizenship,” he said,
grossly exaggerating the amount of children born in the U.S.to undocumented people or temporary visitors.
Trump then declared that birthright citizenship costs the U.S. ino…
@servelan@newsie.social"the idea that “individuals are merely a means to be used toward the achievement of the ends of the collective nation state” remains “as fundamental to the Chinese Communist Party as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are to us as Americans.” Welcoming that model to our shores would be a catastrophe for the United States. The U.S. auto industry is Exhibit A.-
Opinion | Is Trump About to Invite In the Biggest Predator in the World? - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/kPYyk
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSamuel Alito Gutted More Than Just the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito-callais-opinion-voting-rights-act-fifteenth-amendment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p85#a260504p85
@cdarwin@c.imA national majority vote for president is one step closer to reality after the Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberger, signed the national popular vote bill into law,
joining an interstate compact with 17 other states and the District of Columbia.
Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, states would assign their presidential electors to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of the results within the state.
The compact takes effect when states representing a …
@servelan@newsie.socialHungary’s Tisza plans to amend constitution to block Orbšn comeback
https://tvpworld.com/92467859/hungarys-tisza-seeks-to-block-orbn-comeback-with-pm-term-limits
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFulton County officials are racing to block a federal subpoena seeking personal information about thousands of election staffers, poll workers and volunteers ... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/05/fulton-seeks-to-block-federal-subpoena-targeting-2020-election-workers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p53#a260505p53
@buercher@tooting.chNotre Constitution prévoit un référendum obligatoire avec double majorité lorsqu’il est question d’une «adhésion Š une communauté internationale». Le référendum facultatif avec majorité simple est prévu pour tous les autres traités internationaux, s’ils revêtent une certaine importance. Il faut tout de même une bonne dose de mauvaise foi ou d’imagination souverainiste pour soutenir que les accords bilatéraux III représentent une adhésion Š l’Union européenne ~Mahaim
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/bilaterales-iii-un-train-qui-menace-de-derailler-a-tout-instant
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialEl trumpo is apparently distinguishing between things like tariffs and fees collected for entry into national parks from tax revenue.
He feels that the former is his to spend as he pleases and that Congress has a role only in the other.
Yet it strikes me that things like those fees and tariffs ought to land in the treasury, not in any trumped-up "presidential" slush fund.
n any case *all* expenditures, no matter the source are covered by Constitution Article I, S…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s war against Iran is widely regarded as a serious breach of the U.N. Charter,
in addition to the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution.
As Tess Bridgeman and Oona Hathaway have described it, this is a triply illegal war.
The State Department has tried to address some of those criticisms,
but, the official position is legally unpersuasive and analytically confused.
Regardless of those discussions, the U.S. military’s enforcement of the ongoing nav…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMisleading headline, again.
Here's the original headline:
"Trump orders DHS to pay all employees despite shutdown"
Here's what it ought to say:
"Congress allows Trump to cut off its balls, again, by giving away its Constitutional power over spending our money"
The R-party has pretty much given up on our US Constitution and has become merely a new court of Versailles dedicated to nothing more than kissing King Donald's ample bottom…
@cdarwin@c.imWho will win the House?
The scales are shifting.
The map is becoming so tilted that a four-point Democratic win might not be enough for a majority
The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision that last month’s redistricting referendum violated the state’s constitution has predictably sent Democrats into a frenzy.
Democrats are going to be even angrier in November if
— as now appears possible
— they win the national popular vote by a large margin but don’t capt…
@cdarwin@c.imHungary is hardly a democracy at all.
It’s an autocratic, kleptocratic mafia state,
where all the levers of power are controlled behind the scenes by a single man.
Since returning to power in 2010, Orbšn has rewritten the constitution and amended it fifteen times,
changed the electoral laws to give his party structural advantages,
captured the top layerof the judiciary,
occupied the chief prosecutor’s office to protect his cronies and prosecute his enemi…
@cdarwin@c.imMexico cuts workweek,
bans after-hours contact,
and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut
in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation
https://techfixated.com/mexico-cuts-wo…
@cdarwin@c.imAs many expected,
the Trump administration has persisted in waging its war on Iran without congressional authorization.
In doing so, the White House continues to act in violation of not only the U.S. Constitution and the UN Charter,
but also the 60-day deadline on unauthorized hostilities imposed by the War Powers Resolution (WPR).
What’s new is the White House argument in a May 1st letter to Congress that the WPR’s 60-day clock stopped because the “hostilities that…
@cdarwin@c.imAt first, sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas just wanted to put up a modest ad above a garbage can in the back of a New York airport terminal to advertise her law firm's services.
It read:
“When HR called it harmless flirting … we called it exhibit A."
But when the airport authority rejected the ad copy and asked her to tone it down, she filed a lawsuit claiming her free speech rights under the U.S. constitution had been violated
A judge agreed,
and …
