Predictably, #ClarenceThomas sounds most open to the #Trump admin’s position.

Thomas recounts that the aim of the 14th amendment was to make citizens of the freed slaves. “How much of the debates around the 14 Amendment had anything to do with immigration?”

#law #SCOTUS #intimidation #MafiaState #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy

In its opinion released Wednesday, #SCOTUS said a company was not liable for “merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights.”

Writing for the court, Justice #ClarenceThomas said a provider like Cox was liable “only if it intended that the provided service be used for infringement” & if it, for instance, “actively encourages infringement.”

#law #music #copyright #IntellectualProperty #internet #business

Justice #ClarenceThomas, writing for the 5 conservative justices, said the federal #law that generally shields the #PostalService from lawsuits over missing, lost & undelivered #mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”

In dissent, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor wrote that while the protection against lawsuits is broad, it does not extend to situations when the decision not to deliver mail “was driven by #malicious reasons.” Justice Neil #Gorsuch joined his 3 liberal colleagues in dissent.