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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

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

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

Trump asks SCOTUS to permit mass firing of federal workers
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/turned-the-constitutional-structure-upside-down-trump-admin-asks-scotus-to-halt-indefensible-court-order-and-permit-mass-termination-of-federal-workers/

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

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-…

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 appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

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.

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.

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…

This Week: SCOTUS Punts and Authors Fumble
SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. One more step toward getting the pool up. Authors make mistakes with gen AI. And so it goes.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/this-week-scotus-p…

This Week: SCOTUS Punts and Authors Fumble – Bob Mueller
SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. One more step toward getting the pool up. Authors make mistakes with gen AI.

#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.

Watch as the Supreme Court’s newly elevated “major questions doctrine” suddenly melts away in the next round of SCOTUS decisions. Just watch. https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/114606283686912236

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

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.

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

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/

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

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…

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!

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/

#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authorit…

Court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs
Trump imposed tariffs on most of the countries in the world in an effort to reverse America’s massive and longstanding trade deficits. He earlier plastered levies on imports from Canada, Chin…

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.

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

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…

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

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

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…

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/

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

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/

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

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 …

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.

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

'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

Good news: The Oklahoma Supreme Court decision barring religious charter schools stands.
Bad news: Because SCOTUS tied on their vote. That's uncomfortably close to overturning it. I don't know which way Justice Barrett would have voted. She's Catholic, but she's surprised people in the past.

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 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.”

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

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 agrees with #DJT admin , orders new decision to limit authority of federal #judiciary, increase #Presidental powers.
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Supreme Court liberal delivers blistering dissent after hit to its 'reputation' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/scotus-2672407149/

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

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/

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 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

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.

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/