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@nemobis@mamot.fr
2026-02-20 21:16:04
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How cute: #JusticeGorsuch helpfully compiled a list of recent cases where #SCOTUS rulings did not follow common sense (or "commonsense principles of communication").

Congress au- thorized the FDA to regulate “drugs,” which Congress de- fined expressly and broadly as “ ‘articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.’ ” Id., at 126. As a matter of common sense, nicotine qualifies as a “drug” based on this statutory definition, as it might even as a matter of everyday speech. West Virginia, 597 U. S., at 721–722 (noting the “colorable textual basis” for the executive branch’s interpretation in Brown & Wil- liamson). St…
@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-10 01:32:31

A Slew of Interesting #Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Mississippi's Argument That It Can Count Timely Postmarked Ballots Arriving After Election Day in #SCOTUS Watson Case - Election Law Blog
electionlawblog.org/?p=153773

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-01-08 22:59:35

#SCOTUS conservatives and esp #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts must be so proud of what they have accomplished.
I, on the other hand, am horrified.
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-01-08 22:59:35

#SCOTUS conservatives and esp #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts must be so proud of what they have accomplished.
I, on the other hand, am horrified.
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-24 22:36:40

Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissented, disgusting as they are.
Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh somehow doing the right thing.
Wonder how long we can keep this up without Trump rage-ordering a nuclear strike on some poor, non-white country.
#trump #SCOTUS