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Open endorsement of racism by SCOTUS wasn't actually on my bingo card. Thought they would be more subtle.
Also, when did SCOTUS decide to throw out a massive number of decisions without deliberation? Are they really that in favor of a Trump dictatorship?
when did SCOTUS decide to throw out a massive number of decisions without deliberation?
When their only job became clearing the way for the trump admin. This shadow docket shit is becoming a real problem for lower courts too because SC keeps ruling without elaborating their decisions. Its difficult to find judgement in line with this precedence without understanding how they're reaching these conclusions.
Apparently they got tired of making shit up like during their last session.
They don't have to justify their decisions. They've gone full authoritarian and are aggressively, flagrantly arbitrary. "Because we said so and you can't stop us" is their only reason. Fucking pigs.
Thankfully some of the lower courts are wising up to this shit. The thing about shadow dockets is they aren't actual rulings. They provide no legal guidance. So what some courts are doing is only applying them to the exact specific question they ruled on. If a party in the case submits a plea worded slightly differently than the one SCOTUS ruled on, the lower courts are perfectly free to ignore the SCOTUS shadow dockets ruling. Only actual written briefs carry any kind of weight of precedent.
A problem with decisions that are only made to kiss Trump's ass is that it's hard to fabricate even a weak chain of reasoning to support them.
In favor or fearful of ....
They wouldn't have anything to fear if they weren't enabling it to happen.
Seems like Constitutional protections are meaningless if you look or sound Latino.
they’ve been meaningless since day 1; right away there needed to be “amendments” for instance. and depending on who is in power, more amendments come and go…
Amendments aren't tied to presidents though. They are tied to 2/3rds votes of representatives (or a bunch of states demanding a convention and then passing one without it being able to be blocked)
I think what they are saying is that depending on who is president, amendments can be temporarily interpreted by the Supreme Court to not exist at all
Yeah these judges seem to be straying pretty far from past rulings, but it seems to be a recent problem. It seemed rare for the supreme Court to hear something they had already made precedent on before until the last decade, but maybe that's just because I've paid more attention the last 10 years
true but they are tied to “regimes” on the whole combined with an ever moving Overton Window…
It seems to be going (has gone) that way. The stand out Amendment there might be the 22nd. Where Republicans majority voted to put 2 term limits on the presidency when it was a sitting Democrat. (Granted it was promoted by FDR I believe once he got his 4 election wins)
I've had burritos more supreme than this court
Here's the thing:
All of them are scared of Trump
Everybody in the world should be scared of Trump. Likewise, Trump should be scared of everybody in the world.
He’s such a pathetic little man that I still do not fear him
The man himself, no; but the power he wields and the manner in which he does so?
Nah, I just feel shame that people handed it to him. I feel disgust but not fear.
Supposedly the rule they were going with was four pieces of "evidence" for detainment: 1. Race, 2. Language/Accent, 3. Location, 4. Occupation; and the lower court said that's not enough evidence (although for whatever reason seemed ok with racial discrimination being used with the rest?). They put a hold on ICE doing this, and the SCOTUS blocked the hold, but didn't technically rule on the procedure itself (yet, anyway).
Still not good news, just clarifying based on what I heard on an NPR interview earlier. ICE isn't even following the procedure laid out, as far as I can tell (picking people off the streets lacks location or occupation) and they've partially ignored the court ruling anyway. For instance, there's very clear laws that officials must identify themselves for citizens (with a few exceptions), and you can legally call the police on them if they don't. Obviously that rule has been largely ignored.
They had sharply reduced random detainments in California, in part due to the injunction. A lot of people are going to be needlessly jailed because of this.
I mean it's basically Stop and Frisk, like they had in NY. It's just much worse because they don't even release you immediately. It also always sucks to be profiled by appearance.
Family guy skin chart meme just became legal, apparently
Skin chart's canon irl
"Duh... This is America you're guilty until proven innocent! What do you mean gaslighting? Of course it's gas, we don't use electric here like some commie scum!"
"Roving patrols" coming to a city near you
They didn't wait long to start
The number of reported arrests is relatively few, but immigrant rights advocates said the operation appears to mark a shift in ICE tactics. Before this operation, local activists said, agents had been targeted in their tactics, presenting warrants at specific homes or detaining people at immigration court. Stopping people on the street in what appeared to be a fairly random fashion is new, they said.
Don’t forget about the conservative minorities who want this and voted for it to happen. This isn’t a strictly Caucasians-only problem.
Ah que la chingada!