Mastodawn

What a joke

The chief justice touted #JudicialIndependence & urged Americans to keep faith in the #Constitution in year-end statement

Focusing on the #DeclarationOfIndependence as the nation turns to its 250th anniversary, Roberts said the #founders chafed at the crown’s control of colonial courts & “corrected this flaw” by setting up a #judiciary that would operate without interference from the other branches.

#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/politics/john-roberts-year-end-report

Chief Justice John Roberts pushes for judicial independence in history-heavy report

Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution.

CNN

whisperwatch 6h ago

There they go.🙄Why ιs ιt always a mf wιth an αccent talkιng about crushιng Amerιcan amendments and constιtutιonal rιghts???? 🙄Their Amerιcan co-conspιrators can fck rιght off too. 🤷🏿‍♀️ #firstamendment #constitution #government #socialmedia

Peter 1d ago

Professor Emerita Anne Twomey, discussing the constitutional validity (or otherwise) of the proposed NSW Government law banning the use of certain phrases as chants or slogans. (Length: 16:36)

tldr: Stupid to try. If implemented, it will fail in the High Court of Australia.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WK8ZluRFxNw

#AusPol
#Australia #Constitution #NSW

Prohibiting political chants and slogans

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Rich Stein (he/him)1d ago

I'm sorry, we must be in different simulations.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-john-roberts-trump-judges-caad1b61e25a15315b667de3fbe1fabe
#SCOTUS #Constitution

Chief Justice says Constitution remains 'firm and unshaken'

Chief Justice John Roberts says that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on the horizon. Roberts released his annual letter to the judiciary on Wednesday and said the nation’s founding documents remain firm and unshaken, a reference to a century-old quote from President Calvin Coolidge. It comes after a year in which some raised fears of a possible constitutional crisis amid legal pushback to President Donald Trump's agenda. The Republican administration has scored wins at the Supreme Court, though major rulings on birthright citizenship and tariffs are yet to come.

AP News

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Nonilex 1d ago

#NationalGuard troops had already left #LosAngeles after #Trump deployed them earlier this year as part of a broader crackdown on “crime” & “#immigration” [nonwhites]. They had been sent to #Chicago & #Portland but were never on the streets [though they were on “federal property”] as legal challenges played out.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #military #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

beSpacific 1d ago

#House #Judiciary Committee on 12/31/25 released full #deposition #transcript of former #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith, offering most detailed public account yet of Smith’s rationale 4 prosecuting #DonaldTrump #Jan6 #insurrection rebutting #Republican #GOP #maga claims that investigations were politically motivated. #law #legal #government #democracy #legalresearch #Congress #constitution #violence #indictments #grandjury https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-12/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf See Also 8hrs video testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-bhPzQYUE

🧙🏽‍♀️Nýktıméηı (she, her)1d ago

What This Year Looks Like to a Historian
Heather Cox Richardson
#US #History #Law #CivilRights #Constitution #LiberalDemocracy #TrumpRegime #Kleptocracy #MAGA #Project2025 #whiteNationalism #Christofascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSEV5uuzbq8&t=1678s

What This Year Looks Like to a Historian | Explainer

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William Lindsey

1d ago

"I’ve never seen a case where the government made representations to a judge that were refuted by its own internal communications. It’s exceptionally unusual for prosecutors to have to take the witness stand to defend their own conduct. But Abrego Garcia’s case, which has been highly irregular from the start, may well be the one where that happens."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #migrants #courts #Constitution

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/unsealed-abrego-garcia

Unsealed: Abrego Garcia

The sealed order in the Abrego Garcia case that I wrote about in Sunday night’s “The Week Ahead” column was unsealed today.

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

WIST Quotations 2d ago

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
On Revolution, ch. 4, sec. 1 (1963)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/81083/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #constitution #freedom #liberation #rebellion #revolution

Arendt, Hannah - On Revolution, ch. 4, sec. 1 (1963) | WIST Quotations

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

WIST Quotations

A Citizen's Letters 2d ago

A Moral Imperative: Support H.R. 2487, the Transgender Health Care Access Act

Dear Congressman, I am writing to you today to express my support for HB 2487. I believe we as Christians have a moral imperative to help those communities and groups of people who are downtrodden and looked at as less than they really are. Transgender people are at a higher risk of severe mental health issues because of lack of proper care. We have a Christian mandate as an act of service to the vulnerable as stated in Matthew 25:40 “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the […]

https://kiwiapple879.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/a-moral-imperative-support-h-r-2487-the-transgender-health-care-access-act/

A Moral Imperative: Support H.R. 2487, the Transgender Health Care Access Act

A Citizen's Letters