Arun Gupta on Flashpoints-
“He's been a terrible president, right?

He, first of all, he totally sabotaged the Supreme Court reform. And so we've had all these horrendous decisions that have basically gutted, you know, first of all, of course, abortion rights, affirmative action, the regulatory state. You know, it's the Democrats who are in charge, yet the Trump, Stephen Bannon wish list is being fulfilled under the Democrats and Biden sabotaged the Supreme Court reform.

What has he done in terms of policy? It's mainly giveaways to corporations. It's the Chips Act that's giving tens of billions of dollars to companies like Intel that then turn around and do stock buybacks and dividends, and they're totally mismanaged.”

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Flashpoints Correspondent Arun Gupta Reporting Back From The DNC

Today on the show: A live report from the democratic convention and the streets of Chicago: Special Flashpoints correspondent and media analyst, Arun Gupta is o

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if you are a borrower in an income-contingent repayment plan, Friday’s order appears to block the government from doing virtually anything to forgive your loan while the injunction remains in place.
The Eighth Circuit’s ruling was an expansion of a lower court’s preliminary injunction, which blocked the Education Department for forgiving loans under the SAVE program during litigation but denied other relief.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/student-loan-save-eighth-circuit-injunction?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

An appeals court blocked a Biden student loan plan — after another one had let it go forward

The Eighth Circuit issued an unsigned order Friday blocking the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, student loan program — and other related relief.

Law Dork

#SettlerColonialSCOTUSIsAntiLaborAndCorrupt: conservative court can easily conclude — no deference needed — that a conservative-led agency reached the “single, best meaning” of the law, as Roberts put it. The same conservative court can easily conclude progressive agency actions do not represent the “single, best meaning” of the law. With no real statute of limitations at play and no deference to the agency needed unless it has been specifically and appropriately — as decided by the judiciary — delegated to the agency, the court can do what it wants.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/the-spinelessness-of-john-roberts?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

The spinelessness of John Roberts

Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead. He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.

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Supreme Court Puts Countless 'Lives at Risk' by Ruling Against Clean Air | Common Dreams

"With this decision, the Supreme Court has abandoned any pretense of neutrality in cases involving environmental regulations," an expert said.

Common Dreams

We live in this most violently gun-addicted industrialized nation on Earth for one reason, and one reason alone: Republicans control our Supreme Court

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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-bump-stocks-ruling/

The Supreme Court Wants More People to Die in Mass Shootings

This is the only possible conclusion after their decision striking down the federal ban on bump stocks.

The Nation

In an emergency motion filed Tuesday, the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued they were “ethically compelled” to ask Judge Ryan Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to recuse himself because the WJC trip was “explicitly designed to influence U.S. judicial opinion regarding the legality of ongoing Israeli military action against Palestinians.”

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https://theintercept.com/2024/06/05/israel-trip-federal-judge-ryan-nelson-recuse/

A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case.

Activists suing the Biden administration over Gaza policy are demanding that Judge Ryan Nelson recuse himself over the sponsored trip to Israel.

The Intercept

"Climate protest is being systematically criminalized in the U.S. and even in Europe and the U.K.," said Guenther. "And these authoritarian, anti-First Amendment tactics are not only deployed by the right. Yes, the right wing is targeting climate protests. But Democrats are deploying the same tactics to prevent direct action in support of the lives of Palestinian civilians in Gaza."

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The Plan To Take Out Voting Rights

Conservatives are launching a new battle to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

The Lever

https://www.fox21news.com/news/national/ap-a-hawaii-ruling-cites-the-wire-in-rebuking-a-us-supreme-court-decision-that-expanded-gun-rights/

“We believe it is a misplaced view to think that today’s public safety laws must look like laws passed long ago,” Eddins, of the Hawaii high court, wrote. “Smoothbore, muzzle-loaded, and powder-and-ramrod muskets were not exactly useful to colonial era mass murderers. And life is a bit different now, in a nation with a lot more people, stretching to islands in the Pacific Ocean.”
Bruen “snubs federalism principles,” Eddins wrote, asserting that under Hawaii’s constitution, there is no individual right to carry a firearm in public.
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Elite Mystal for the Nation: At the very least, if bad-faith political maneuvers are a thing the court now cares about, it might try applying that standard to its voting rights and gerrymandering decisions first, instead of only suddenly becoming concerned about this when an insurrectionist runs for president. The “not an officer” argument is ridiculous…something that conservatives have since bandied about as a potential way out for the court… unpersuaded by the overwhelming historical evidence that the writers of the 14th Amendment obviously did not think that a president who engaged in insurrection could ever run for president again.

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