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Tonight, an extraordinary order, opinion, and dissent make explicit that the ongoing cold Second American Civil War is raging at the U.S. Supreme Court, as it is throughout the U.S. 1/ #LawFedi
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On the heels of the awful substantive Supreme Court ruling and opinion in _Callais_, Louisiana’s governor sought to cancel an ongoing election, House primaries, which had begun before the decision was handed down. He ordered cancellation even before the Callais judgment was made final, “certified”. There is a Supreme Court rule which delays certification for 32 days, allowing time for a party to request rehearing. 2/

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There are almost no times when the Supreme Court has not followed this rule. But the Callais plaintiffs applied to the Court to have the judgment certified right now and tonight the Court ordered this to happen, trying to quash ongoing lawsuits filed to prevent Louisiana’s governor from cancelling the election, a result in no way required by Callais itself. 3/

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All of this has happened on the shadow docket. So the Roberts Court has ok’d election cancellation without merits briefing, oral argument, etc.

This would be extraordinary and pernicious enough. But because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and pointed out how exceptional and dangerous the Court’s order is, Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, wrote an opinion basically calling her uppity. 4/

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So far I’ve talked about how tonight’s order and opinion from Sam Alito and the Roberts Court take sides on white supremacy and patriarchy, two major issues in the current cold civil war in the US. The third big issue Alito and those justices who did not oppose his order take a side on (for sure Gorsuch and Thomas, who explicitly concur, and presumably the others in the Callais majority) is endorsement of authoritarian executive power. 14/
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Remember: tonight’s order from the Roberts Court makes it almost impossible to reverse or stop the Governor of Louisiana from cancelling an ongoing election. Doesn’t get much more authoritarian than cancelling elections. But when done in service to white supremacist, patriarchal Republican Fascism - a palpably anti-democratic, authoritarian program - the Roberts Court is all for it. 15/

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@msbellows here's the unrolled thread: mastoreader.io?url=https%3A%2F…

Next time, kindly set the visibility to 'Mentioned people only' and mention only me (@mastoreaderio). This ensures we avoid spamming others' timelines and threads unless you intend for others to see the unrolled thread link as well.

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John Breen

I of course appreciate your attention to the normal process of Socratic Method, but I'm a simple kind of man, who both appreciates details but also lists noise reduction as a skill.

This is the Dred Scott Decision and the Fugitive Slave Act. Happening again. For the same reasons.

There can be no response but to shut it down. No reasoning with it. No trying to understand their point of view.

Shut it down. Or it gets worse. IMHO.

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@Beachbum While it's not my business -- not my #SupremeCourt -- it seems to me that fixing the court must be a priority OVER everything else, because until the court is fixed it is likely to be practically impossible to fix anything else.

And although I know you have no specific legislations that says that Supremes may not be corrupt, I feel sure that personal prosecutions can and should be brought against them for corruption under more general legislation.

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@simon_brooke Yes, fixing the Supreme Court is essential. And though we don’t have legislation against it, judicial corruption is absolutely a high crime or misdemeanor, the constitutional ground for impeachment. If we had a functioning Congress, Alito and Thomas and possibly Gorsuch would be impeached. @Beachbum
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Nadia/Надя/नाडिया/娜迪亚/ نادية

Perhaps a better name for the country would be something like „The Biblical Patriarchy of the Confederate States of Apartheid America“ which I'm sure Musk & Thiel would adore. They might even want to induct Jan Smuts, Daniël François Malan and Ian Smith into the ranks of „founding fathers,“ which I'm sure they can bribe/lobby into reality. (Do usanians have any idea how cultish the „founding fathers“ talk sounds to the rest of the world?)
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🦩 Plastic Garden Fauna 🦩

the Civil War was a frozen conflict nobody won. Everyone lost with the possible exception of war industry oligarchs. And yeah, it's thawed.

Shareholder owned prisons equalized who can become a slave while the financial services industry restructured endentured servitude as the default for all but the intergenerationaly wealth. Sharecropping with a cellphone.

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