The corrupt Supreme Court. It's part of the reason that we are now a banana republic -- a very big part of the reason. There is so very little justice in this country anymore -- go read Rebecca's "some justice at last" for one good ruling. But it's not from the Supreme Court. No, that body's corrupt and has now made clear that it will not right itself.
One decision after another delivers a blow to our democracy and to our Constitution. At the Brennan Center for Justice, Michael Waldman writes:
The 14th Amendment guarantees that all children born in the United States are citizens. It aimed to undo the notorious Dred Scott ruling, which held that some people born here — Black people, to be precise, free and formerly enslaved — nevertheless were not citizens. As you’ll recall, just hours into his term, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship. The order was, and remains, unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court chose this case, out of all the possible cases, to strip judges of a key power used to stop illegal actions.
Instead of ruling on the merits in Trump v. CASA, the justices chose to rule on the legality of universal injunctions, among the strongest tools that lower courts use to block flagrantly unconstitutional policies like these from taking effect while cases play out. These injunctions grant relief not only to the person who brought a lawsuit, but to all affected by the ruling. Instead of every soon-to-be parent affected by the order having to bring a lawsuit to secure citizenship for their baby, only one litigant would have to obtain a universal injunction — guaranteeing relief from an unconstitutional order for all. The six justices of the conservative supermajority decided that such rulings go beyond the power of federal courts when they’re not necessary to give the plaintiffs themselves full protection of the law.
By allowing Trump’s order to partially take effect in 30 days absent further action by the lower courts, the Court has effectively resuscitated Dred Scott, at least for some people, at least for now.
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned, “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.”
We at the Brennan Center are still analyzing the ruling. It’s vague at key points. In some respects, it is as great a gift to executive overreach as last summer’s ruling on presidential immunity. On the other hand, alternative avenues to obtain nationwide relief from illegal conduct remain.
Let me share several thoughts.
First, and most obviously: This is one more example of the Supreme Court enabling executive overreach at a time when checks and balances are profoundly strained.
These nationwide injunctions pose complex issues. I have warned about the damage a single judge can do with a gavel and a grudge. Nationwide injunctions blocked key Biden administration initiatives, such as on student loan relief and climate change, and many of Trump’s actions in his first term. Oddly, the Supreme Court had never before ruled on the practice, despite many opportunities to do so during the Biden administration. One could have imagined a decision now that set out sharp limits. Instead, with this decision, these justices have once again gone much further than the case required.
Second, the Court purports to give litigants other ways to broadly challenge illegal actions — but these may be flimsy, even sneaky. People can file a class action lawsuit, for example. Maybe. I was a class action plaintiffs lawyer before I came to work at the Brennan Center. Those lawsuits are cumbersome, expensive, and slow, and they must overcome barriers erected by very conservative judges (and the business lobbyists who backed them for their jobs).
Then there is the question of which judges have had their power stripped. The ruling seems to apply only to lower court judges . . . but does it? For example, if the administration were to defy the Supreme Court, would the Court itself still have the legal authority to enforce its own orders to protect everyone affected? That would, after all, require a universal injunction.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion, which sought to reassure: Of course the Supreme Court could still take bold action when needed. Some read that as reassuring. Others note that he is just one justice. There’s a reason this appears in a concurring opinion. Kavanaugh may not have been able to bring any of his supermajority colleagues along with him. Even if true, as Ruth Marcus explained in The New Yorker, that means the Court “sided with Donald Trump over the judiciary.”
All of which brings us to the third point: The courts, alone, will not save us. In banning universal injunctions, the Supreme Court relied on an originalist interpretation of the Judiciary Act of 1789. (Sotomayor noted that it amounted to “freezing in amber the precise remedies available.”)
Congress, in other words, wrote the law being interpreted — and could write a new law to clarify what powers federal judges hold when confronted by executive branch lawlessness.
Need more? Because everyone's begun to notice. That's why 51% of Americans no longer have trust in the Supreme Court. The justices don't give a damn. They're not trying to follow the law to reassure Americans. Precedent has been thrown out the window. It is a corrupt Supreme Court. If I were in Congress, I would be moving to impeach the bulk of the justices on the Court. David Smith (THE GUARDIAN) reports:
J Michael Luttig, a conservative former federal judge, has said how he is “disappointed” in his friend John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, for an “unforgivable reticence” about Donald Trump.
Luttig was long considered a possible supreme court nominee himself. He shepherded Clarence Thomas through his contentious supreme court confirmation hearing in 1991 and was a mentor to the Texas senator Ted Cruz.
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The former judge has now put both friendship and convention aside to condemn Roberts for failing to take a robust stand against Trump’s attacks on the courts and increasing threats of violence against judges.
“John, my friend, is one of the smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Luttig told historians Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz on their Court of History podcast. “There is nothing that John Roberts is not aware of and, at the top of that list, is self-awareness. He knows everything that’s going on and that’s why I’ve been so disappointed in him.”
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Critics argue that Roberts’ rulings have enabled Trump’s expansive view of presidential power, creating a tension between his institutionalist stance and his judicial philosophy. Last week he joined the conservative majority in deciding to curb the power of federal judges to impose nationwide rulings impeding his policies.
Luttig, who served on the US court of appeals for the fourth circuit from 1991 to 2006, said on the podcast: “I understand the two issues that plague him. One is the internal workings of the court itself, and I’ll say no more, but you know what I’m talking about.
“And then his unforgivable reticence to speak out directly against the president of the United States of America when he knows, and the rest of the world knows, that this is the president of the United States of America.”
He added: “It was unforgivable, in my view, for the chief to continue to make these broad statements, meaningless statements, and attribute the misconduct to all of us. All of us. Obviously, the chief justice has said you, the Democrats, are every bit as responsible for this as the Republicans. That’s offensive.”
Again, everyone's noting.
We're noticing other things too. Like the Gaza Freaks who moved on from Gaza even though the killing continues.
So THE TIMES OF ISRAEL has an article stating Hamas is happy that the US plans to start talks to end the assault on Gaza.
What did you accomplish, Rashida Tlaib?
Nothing.
Rashida and Jill Stein and Butch Ware and Norman Solomon and Margaret Kimberely and all the other liars, Amy Goodman, don't forget that liar.
You worked to defeat Kamala Harris.
And you put Chump in office. Back in the White House. The Convicted Felon.
When exactly, Rashida, do you and your gang of losers intend to issue an apology for your actions?
When?
You helped destroy this country. That's on you. No one else.
Immigrants and citizens are terrorized by Chump.
He's getting ready to sell off our public lands.
He's destroying protective agencies like the EPA.
At what point do you apologize for the damage you inflicted on this country?
"Her people!" That's what her stupid defenders said at the time.
"Rashida's defending her people!"
Um, is she not an American citizen? Americans were supposed to be her people.
And she betrayed Americans and America.
Not a day goes by where Chump does not make things worse.
And Gaza?
The killing continues. He was sworn in back in January. It's now July.
Rashida and company could scream at Joe Biden but they don't do a damn thing about Chump. Gaza does not matter so much to them now that Chump's not in office.
Rashida needs to drop to her knees and beg this country's forgiveness.
She won't though. She's a liar and she doesn't care about this country.
She's made that very clear.
As Trina noted last night of the discriminatory verdict regarding children's books in public school, "That ruling was a slap in the face to democracy. The Supreme Court is corrupt and we are going to have to address that. We could be doing that right now, in fact. Kamala Harris would have addressed it and followed up on the recommendations made to Joe Biden. We could be addressing it right now; however, the Rashida Tlaibs and Jill Steins knew so much better what the country needed -- or thought that they did."
As much as the Supreme Court screwed this country oer, so did Rashida Tlaib, Jill Stein and the other garbage.
Be sure to check out Marcia's "Dr. Phil loses like the loser he is," Mike's " Because Chump can't get an erection anymore, the whole world has to suffer" and Ruth's "The country is turning on President Chump."
"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Thursday, July 3, 2025. Donald Chump sweats as his disaster bill has yet to pass the House and as the Labor Dept is about to release a jobs report, he continues his war on immigrants, Cuban Americans need to wake up and grasp that the MAGA controlled GOP is no longer their party and that they have been betrayed, plus much more.
This Navigator Research report covers the latest perceptions of President Trump and Congressional Democrats and Republicans in the House Battleground.
Trump’s standing has declined slightly among battleground constituents and persuadables — even in a sample that leans slightly more Republican than the national electorate. In February, his favorability was roughly even; today, he is four points underwater (48 percent favorable – 52 percent unfavorable). This decline mirrors his approval on the economy, which now sits seven points underwater (46 percent approve – 53 percent disapprove).
The U.S. economy continues to send mixed signals. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will report job figures for June that may help clear up the picture.
Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal forecast that 110,000 new payrolls were added in June. That would be the fewest since February, and it would be the fourth monthly decline in the past six months. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, was expected to have climbed to 4.3%, the highest since October 2021.
President Trump's immigration crackdown is hitting key pockets of the economy, disrupting workplaces and communities around the country.
Why it matters: The sharp fall in immigration this year threatens to slow down economic growth, particularly in the sectors and cities that relied on newcomers to the U.S. in recent years.
What they're saying: With the push against immigration, "the economy will find itself slightly diminished in the long run and inflation will run a touch higher," economist Bernard Yaros writes in a report for Oxford Economics.
- There will be fewer workers to produce goods and services, slowing down growth and putting pressure on wages.
On a typical weekend, 20,000 people stream through the metal gates at Broadacres Marketplace, thronging the aisles of the outdoor “swap meet” to hunt for the best deals, savor snacks and sip micheladas under the desert sky.
Until late June, Broadacres’ familiar bustle had cemented its place as the heart of this city’s Latino community. That has been replaced with an eerie quiet. Hundreds of booths stand barren behind a chain-link fence, mostly stripped to their skeletal remains and covered in fabric or tarp.
Save for one security guard at the main gate, there’s no one in sight.
Broadacres Marketplace announced that it would temporarily close on June 21 because of the threat of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a statement online, the market’s management said the decision to close was made “out of an abundance of caution and concern for our community.” Broadacres’ owner, Greg Danz, is president and CEO of Newport Diversified Inc., a company that also owns two other swap meets in California.
“We don’t want any of our customers, vendors, or employees to be detained at our business or for us to be a beacon of shopping and entertainment while our federal government is raiding businesses and detaining its people,” the statement read, adding that management does not yet have a planned date to reopen.
In the state of Washington, a festival's been cancelled due to the assault on immigrants. B-TOWN BLOG reports:
The organizers of the 4th annual Pacific Northwest Folklórico Festival – set for Saturday, July 26, 2025 at Burien Town Square Park – announced they are canceling the 2025 event, citing immigration enforcement activity and a broader political climate they say threatens the safety and wellbeing of immigrant communities.
In an email to supporters, including The B-Town Blog, Joyas Mestizas, the Burien-based folklórico dance organization announced the decision to cancel its upcoming event “in light of the current political climate,” citing strong opposition to recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
“We are angry at the ICE raids and racist immigration policies that tear families apart, and in canceling our event we commit to prioritizing the safety of our community,” the group wrote.
And we should all be angry at these raids -- carried out by a secret gestapo force -- using private contractors and unleashing on the streets of America -- allowing them to be masked. US House Rep . Pramila Jayapal has angered the Murdoch Outrage Empire by calling these people "terrorists." Guess what, she's exactly right. This is not how we do law enforcement. And we expect trained people, trained in the rights that people have in this country, to be law enforcement. Instead, Kristi Noem and Donald Chump are hiring bullies and telling them to do whatever, to violate any law, that it doesn't matter and that they're masked so they can be punished later on. Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos (CAL MATTERS) explain:
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by civil and immigration rights groups accuses federal authorities of unleashing an unconstitutional siege by snatching workers and U.S. citizens off Southern California streets and denying them food, water and the right to speak with an attorney.
The federal class action lawsuit aims to immediately stop immigration agents from conducting military-style raids across L.A. that prioritize “numbers, pure numbers,” according to the complaint. It also seeks to get access to counsel for those arrested who are now being held in overcrowded “dungeon-like” facilities where the conditions are deplorable and unconstitutional, the filing says.
Federal agents in combat gear, some masked and armed with rifles, have stormed swap meets, car washes, bus stops, and churches since early June, grabbing people off sidewalks and dragging away mothers, workers, day laborers, and U.S. citizens without explanation, the complaint alleges. Civil rights groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, say the raids have been part of an illegal mass-arrest campaign driven by the Trump administration’s nationwide deportation quota policy.
“Such seizures look less like lawful arrests and more like brazen, midday kidnappings,” the lawsuit states.
Exactly.
On TABITHA SPEAKS POLITICS, Tabitha likes to play a clip of Florida Hispanics -- largely Cuban Americans -- dancing around before the 2024 election while singing, "I will vote for Donald Trump."
And how did that work out for them? Cuban Americans are being targeted too. So much so that you have two Republican members of the House now calling out the targeting of immigrants. Elizabeth Kuebel (WSSU) reports:
Right now, the family of a Cuban immigrant doesn't know what will happen next, as he sits in an ICE facility.
Yandy Gomez Rodriguez was detained when he showed up to his ICE appointment in downtown New Orleans.
It comes at a time that the federal government is cracking down on illegal immigration. But Yandy's wife and attorney argue that he has really been trying to do everything right.
"We've reached a dead end where we don't know where else to turn, because at this point I can't say for sure what's going to happen to him," said Robert W. Goeke, with Casey Cowley attorneys.
Goeke says the Kenner resident has been in ICE custody for more than a month now, since May 16th.
"He was scheduled to show up to ICE on the sixteenth of May, he showed up to that appointment, as he had done close 10 times in the past, and ICE chose to take him in," Goeke said.
Goeke says 8 years prior, Yandy arrived at the border. He's since married a US citizen, who applied to get him legal status, and together they have a two-year-old daughter.
Yandy has no criminal record, per his attorney, and worked in the heating and AC business.
"My daughter is asking all the time, when is my daddy coming, or when she's talking to him, she says, 'oh come on daddy, come on, come take me,' or things like that," said his wife, Dianna Heredia.
It's time for Cuban Americans to grasp that MAGA is not their friend. Maybe they can fight to take control of the Republican Party and send MAGA back to its on inbred trailer park, but MAGA is not their friend and will never be their friend. Again, I'm not asking them to come over to the Democratic Party. But I am pointing out that Cuban Americans across the country -- but especially in Florida -- have turned out repeatedly for the Republican Party and now that the MAGA wing has seized control of that party, Cuban Americans are being spit on.
For your own families, you need to stop voting MAGA -- they are not the Republican Party that appreciated your support. Latinos across the country are grasping that and should be grasping it. But, again, Cuban Americans have given the Republican Party Florida. Year after year. And now MAGA spits on them, spits on their family. Fidel Castro may be dead, but Cuban Americans continue to see relatives coming to the US. And in their minds, people leave Cuba due to being persecuted. When Fidel was alive, the GOP was happy to use and platform Cuban Americans in their was with Castro. Castro's dead and MAGA doesn't give a damn about Cuban Americans or Cubans coming to this country. I can't think of a bigger betrayal by a political party then what the MAGA wing has done to Cuban Americans.
Again, all Latinos are aware of the targeting taking plce. Gustavo Arellano (LOS ANGELES TIMES) offers:
MAGA appreciates no one. They make that clear with the budget plan from Donald Dearest.
Here's Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC last night.
As of right now, Donald's bill has still not passed. It is an ugly bill that will destroy lives, that attacks the poor and working people, that attempts to decimate whatever's left of the middle class while handing out huge give aways to the already rich. It does so many horrible things. Matthew Chapman (RAW STORY) reports on one thing it will do that I haven't seen covered elsewhere:
The vote is in the House now. The bill has yet to pass. Here's Senator Tammy Baldwin's office on why the senator voted against the bill
In Wisconsin, the bill will terminate at least 250,000 people’s health care, reduce or eliminate 90,000 Wisconsinites’ food assistance, and threaten to close rural hospitals
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released the following statement after she voted against the Republicans’ budget bill:
“Today, I voted against rigging our tax code in favor of the biggest corporations and ultra-wealthy – all on the backs of working families who are just trying to get by and want a fair shot at success. As I travel across Wisconsin, I hear from families who are worried about paying for groceries, covering the cost of their medications, and keeping the lights on. Instead of standing up for these working families, my Republican colleagues jammed through a bill that guts Medicaid, kicks 17 million Americans off their health insurance, shutters rural hospitals, and takes food from families in need. And why? All to rig our already unfair tax code even more to help the rich get richer. This bill does not solve the problems that Wisconsin families are facing – in fact, it makes them worse. I am disappointed. I am disgusted. But, I am also fired up and ready. Ready to keep fighting alongside every Wisconsinite who believes we can do better to give hard-working families a fair shot and stop tilting the scales for the wealthy and well-connected. It’s not the people in Washington with power; it’s the people across this country. The people who keep speaking up and speaking out, who are emailing and calling, who are marching in the streets, and who are telling their stories. This fight isn’t over, and together, we can still beat this thing.”
Senator Baldwin introduced the following amendments to the bill to block cuts to Medicaid that would rip away health care from Americans and also close a tax loophole that allows Wall Street investment managers to often pay almost half the tax rate compared to most other Wisconsin workers:
- Preventing seniors from having their health care ripped away, including those in nursing homes;
- Preventing children from having their health care ripped away, including those on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP);
- Preventing health care for those battling addiction and substance use disorder from being ripped away;
- Preventing cuts to funding for rural Americans, including essential funding for hospitals;
- Preventing pregnant women from having their health care ripped away; and
- Closing the carried interest loophole that benefits wealthy money managers on Wall Street, something that President Trump also supports.
The Republicans’ bill, which passed the Senate by a vote of [51-50], will terminate health care for 17 million Americans, including 250,000 Wisconsinites. In Wisconsin, Medicaid provides care for more than 1.2 million people, including four in seven nursing home residents, one in three children, and one in three adults with disabilities. While over 12 million rural Americans rely on Medicaid for health care, severe cuts to Medicaid will also jeopardize rural hospitals and clinics’ ability to keep their doors open.
The legislation also makes the largest cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history. Approximately 700,000 Wisconsin residents rely on SNAP for food assistance.
Over the past several months, Senator Baldwin has been speaking out against the harmful impact this bill will have on Wisconsinites – in the press, on the Senate floor, and in Wisconsin communities.
- Senator Baldwin hosted roundtables in La Crosse, Milwaukee, Wausau, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Racine, Waukesha, Superior, Beloit, and twice in Madison, convening Wisconsinites whose health care coverage is in jeopardy under the Republicans’ plan to slash Medicaid to pay for corporate tax breaks.
- VIDEO: Senator Baldwin spoke on the Senate floor, condemning the Republicans’ budget bill.
- VIDEO: Senator Baldwin held a virtual press conference with impacted Wisconsinites ahead of Senate Republicans bringing up their bill for a vote.
- VIDEO: Senator Baldwin highlighted Congressional Republicans’ efforts to barrel ahead with a bill that defunds Planned Parenthood on the Senate floor.
- Senator Baldwin slammed republicans’ planned cuts to Medicaid, which will devastate our country’s fight against the opioid and fentanyl epidemic and jeopardize treatment for thousands of Wisconsinites.
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Stephanie Ruhle did a good job covering the bribery aspects of PARAMOUNT's payout to Chump last night on MSNBC -- again, they haven't posted anything from her two hour broadcast last night. We'll note this from Senator Eliabeth Warren's office:
Warren: “This could be bribery in plain sight.”
“I will soon introduce new legislation to rein in corruption through presidential library donations.”
Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the news that Paramount Global (Paramount) settled President Trump’s “meritless” lawsuit against 60 Minutes for $16 million paid to his future presidential library, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement:
“With Paramount folding to Donald Trump at the same time the company needs his administration’s approval for its billion-dollar merger, this could be bribery in plain sight. Paramount has refused to provide answers to a congressional inquiry, so I’m calling for a full investigation into whether or not any anti-bribery laws were broken."
“This settlement exposes a glaring need for rules to restrict donations to sitting presidents’ libraries. I will soon introduce new legislation to rein in corruption through presidential library donations. The Trump administration’s level of sheer corruption is appalling and Paramount should be ashamed of putting its profits over independent journalism.”
In May 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to Shari Redstone, Chair of Paramount, with concerns regarding whether Paramount may be engaging in potentially illegal conduct involving the Trump Administration in exchange for approval of its megamerger with Skydance Media (Skydance).
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Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Loves The Stink Of Him" went up last night and the following sites updated:
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