Mastodawn

"The Supreme Court took months to find Trump’s tariffs illegal, as of course they are. Only Congress has the power to tax. It isn’t complicated. Yet the much delayed 6-3 Supreme Court decision is a deeply complicated collection of opinion and dissent. That complexity results from the hash the Roberts Court has made of American jurisprudence."

~ Edwin Eisendrath

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Inside the Roberts Court and its Failures

The Chief Justice humiliated our Constitution when he offered a president a year-long you-don’t-need-to-obey-the constitution card before telling us the obvious about Trump’s illegal tariffs.

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William Lindsey

Feb 25

"That Trump usurped Article I powers to aggrandize himself is cause for impeachment and removal. Simply put, he swore an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, then he violated it, undermined it, and tried to destroy it- all to give himself more coercive powers."

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William Lindsey

"What does it mean for our democracy when the Supreme Court chooses to empower a president to act beyond the limits of our Constitution for nearly a year? Before you answer that, consider that this Court also empowered the president to fire federal employees and to defund scientific research and to allow his ICE agents to engage in racial profiling."

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William Lindsey

Feb 25

"They allowed these acts all while musing that they might later be found to be unconstitutional. They allowed them by issuing unsigned and unexplained rulings through its emergency docket."

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