Citizens United was the biggest early step that brought us to where we are today. Under the GOP and a corrupt compromised #SCOTUS, the power of our government shifted DRAMATICALLY from We The People to the Epstein-File-Wallowing Cesspool of oligarchs and big corporations.

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There's a lot in Judge Heytens's majority opinion that strikes me as right (and good), including about why the plaintiffs have standing and why efforts to turn likelihood of success into a mixed probability analysis is bonkers. It's treating the three-paragraph #SCOTUS order as precedent that's not.
There's a *lot* to process. Among other things, yet again, we see a largely ideological divide over whether/to what extent #SCOTUS needs to explain itself if it expects its rulings on emergency applications to have downstream precedential effects (and the validity of critiques of it not doing so).
By what is effectively a 9-6 vote, the en banc Fourth Circuit has vacated an injunction blocking DOGE from accessing Social Securit data (that #SCOTUS had previously stayed). Much of the drama is over the precedential effects of #SCOTUS's June 2025 intervention: georgetown.box.com/v/AFSCME-CA4...

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State Supreme Court QUICKLY BLOCKS MAGA Election Scheme. Via @meidastouch #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #SCOTUS

State Supreme Court QUICKLY BL...
State Supreme Court QUICKLY BLOCKS MAGA Election Scheme

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#Trump exposed ! Trump caught ! Trump commits fraud ! Trump corruption ! Trump inside trading ! Victim accuses Trump of rape! Trump steals taxpayers' money! Trump lied !
yes... YES, YES ! EVERYONE knows it !
not only in the #USA
but ALL over the world !
but as long as there are #MAGAs in #Congress and #SCOTUS to protect him
...
only 'titles'
not even breaking news
just the same ol', same ol'...
Reasons to impeach #Trump are countless
Reasons to impeach #Hegseth > war crimes
Reasons to have impeached #Bondi > having covered up investigations into pedophiles to protect Trump
Reasons to impeach #SCOTUS judges > demonstrated corruption
and... so on
has anyone been impeached? ...
NO
why?
because the #MAGAs #Congress is DEEPLY corrupt
either you get rid of the MAGAs in #Congress
or #USA will remain a cesspool of corruption.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a lone dissent, and she took the extraordinary step of reading her dissent from the bench, a gesture reserved for rare, vehement disagreement with the majority

#SCOTUS #KetanjiBrownJackson #Dissent #politics #IranWar https://newrepublic.com/article/208798/iran-trump-hegseth-military-standards-debased

How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began | Robert Reich

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled fearmongering to bring you this important message:

SCOTUS rules that ordinary Americans do NOT owe income tax!

https://youtu.be/bTLYcr-JuDc

SCOTUS just contradicted a century of circuit courts and their malicious rulings subjecting Americans to the income tax. Will anyone notice?

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Dr Champion shows you the astounding words of a recent US Supreme Court decision, in which the Court explains why Americans need not pay income tax! The Court also bitch-slapped half the US Circuit Courts of Appeal in the process. A truly phenomenal decision! (Recorded December 4, 2024.)

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#Taxes #IncomeTax #IRS #SCOTUS #courts #law #legal #money
SCOTUS rules that ordinary Americans do NOT owe income tax!

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