The terrible Supreme Court will make more bad rulings

They will continue to help Trump.

Overturning NYT v. Sullivan would be terrible

Trump opposes press freedom. He doesn’t like people challenging his lies. I hope the Supreme Court doesn’t overturn NYT v. Sullivan but I don’t have confidence in this extreme right-wing dominated bunch.

BlueSky posts about the bad Roberts Supreme Court

People are asking how to hold John Roberts accountable for making Trump immune. What needs to happen is every time Trump does something that is likely a crime–like getting kickbacks paid to his personal account–there needs to be someone (like @whitehouse.senate.gov) blaming Roberts.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T20:48:08.829Z

On Chief Justice Roberts’ 2024 Year-End Report.. this is superb:open.substack.com/pub/sherrily…
— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) 2025-01-02T20:38:28.889Z

It’s all but certain that by 2029 Trump will have appointed 5 Supreme Court justices, and nontrivially likely that he will have appointed 7.
— Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) 2024-12-25T18:14:32.576Z

Findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis':• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for over a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which weren't disclosed.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2024-12-22T19:51:54.140Z

The Trump White House hindered the Kavanaugh investigation

A new report from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse finds fresh evidence the Trump White House tightly controlled the FBI investigation into the sexual assault claims against Brett Kavanaugh.

The Trump White House never authorized the agency to independently probe the assault allegations.…
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 8, 2024

When I was working on this investigation, an FBI official asked me why Senator Whitehouse was even pursuing it. After all, he observed, Kavanaugh had already been confirmed.

My jaw dropped. Congress shouldn’t investigate FBI cover-ups when they succeed??https://t.co/GAORnEglBC
— Alex Aronson (@alexaronson) October 9, 2024

My newly released report on the Justice Kavanaugh background investigation in a nutshell: pic.twitter.com/jhnFkAZPLi
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) October 9, 2024

The Supreme Court won’t require states to provide emergency abortion services

The Supreme Court is telling women in Texas: your lives don't matter.

By refusing to hear this case, the extremists appointed to the Supreme Court by Donald Trump are allowing Texas to deny women abortion care – even in a medical emergency. https://t.co/95mfFCsW6n
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) October 7, 2024

BREAKING
As of today, thanks to a #SCOTUS ruling, no State is obliged to provide emergency #abortion services, even if the mother might suffer dire health outcomes, even die. https://t.co/8StCyCFRVn
MORE
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 7, 2024

Texas claims it has legal exemptions protecting the life and health of pregnant women, but they're virtually nonexistent in practice.

Story: https://t.co/bU40cFPrKp pic.twitter.com/Pa4qzOJJep
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 7, 2024

College admission diversity is down due to the Republican Supreme Court majority

Just another example of the Republican justices overturning long-settled precedents with Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

MIT is 1st highly selective university to release stas on its freshman class since US SupCt banned affirmation action in college admissions.

Diversity tanks.

Class of 2027 admits v. 2028

Black: 15% —> 5%

Hispanic: 16% —> 11%

White: 38% —> 37%

Asian: 40% —> 47%

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— (((Charles Fishman))) 💧 (@cfishman) August 21, 2024

In fall 2024, UNC admitted fewer percentages of students of color, with percentages of Black students in the class dropping around 25 percent from 2023.

Read the full story: "Students see admissions' diversity impact since affirmative action repeal" https://t.co/sAsy3aGbxl
— The Daily Tar Heel (@dailytarheel) September 19, 2024

Expressly prohibiting schools from having "diverse community" as a factor in admissions decisions means that the acceptance pool benefits the group with the most applicants (i.e. white people) at the expense of ALL minorities?

Oh look, it's the entirely predictable consequences https://t.co/GJh6WNcIEm
— Dan (BlueSky: izzos.us) (@Eodyne1) September 18, 2024

Yet we still have legacy admissions, preference for donors and faculty kids, and side doors for athletes. These "dips" are stolen dreams and forfeited opportunities that undermine the future of our country. https://t.co/5vvKvfy2qG
— Anthony Abraham Jack (@tony_jack) September 11, 2024

Johns Hopkins sees ‘significant setback’ as diversity of incoming class drops sharply https://t.co/CzxOBsifJo
— The Baltimore Banner (@BaltimoreBanner) September 20, 2024

I mean we already knew what they meant with their initial lawsuit but this second one confirms they explicitly wanted to end diversity admissions for us and us only https://t.co/GuiizeZ1aQ
— Janeé (@TheNewYawkr) September 18, 2024

For two more Massachusetts schools, predictions that a Supreme Court decision last year that ended affirmative action in college admissions would result in less diverse student bodies appear to be materializing. https://t.co/HeGKgSG9BI
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 31, 2024

When you focus on diversifying the applicant pool, you don't have to lower the standards. In fact, Duke Medical School's applicants' GPAs INCREASED as the school became more diverse.

And here's the thing: Even though the % of nonwhite students increased… pic.twitter.com/KR9doVeTCl
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) March 20, 2024

The immunity decision is worse than the “experts” expected

At this point, I assume the worst for anything the Supreme Court does. They work for the Republican party that installed the majority.

This is so much worse than I expected. It is a carte blanche for presidents to abuse power. So long as they conspire with other government officials, they will be immune.
— Wendy Weiser (@WendyRWeiser) July 1, 2024

I don’t know if there’s a stronger Court (non-court) academic critic than I am, if you’re out there show yourself, but this decision is much worse than even I thought it would be.
— Eric Segall (@espinsegall) July 1, 2024

Today’s Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s immunity claim is far worse than anything I imagined…

Effectively giving a president immunity for any crimes committed while in office as long as that president can plausibly claim the action was taken in some form of official…
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 1, 2024

ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR ORDERING SHAM INVESTIGATIONS. HOLY SHXT THIS IS WORSE BY THE SECOND. pic.twitter.com/Z7NwTHl0F3
— Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵 (@DirkSchwenk) July 1, 2024

It’s even worse than I imagined. No President, Democrat or Republican, should have the type of power and immunity SCOTUS has granted. Ironically, the Court has eliminated the rule of law and created the opportunity for a legal dictatorship. https://t.co/vXYzq8ZR6H
— Timothy Schorn (@tjon95) July 1, 2024

The immunity decision is so much worse than any headline will be able to fully convey. Just devastating to the rule of law. A crushing blow to democracy.
— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) July 1, 2024

"This is worse than Dred Scott. This is the darkest day in the long and infamous history of this institution. Richard Nixon’s claim that if the president does it it’s not illegal is now official Supreme Court doctrine" https://t.co/vCsf3vzA78
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court's Trump immunity decision is much worse than I thought it would be. I did not think them so reckless.https://t.co/L3yPnUUM1D
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court’s terrible immunity ruling

The extremist Republican Supreme Court majority continues to help Trump with disgraceful rulings. The immunity ruling delay and the terrible decision ensures a delay in one of the trials.

I don’t see any way to change the direction of the court other than expanding it.

🚨New expert survey data from Bright Line Watch🚨

93% of experts surveyed before the ruling (since June 20) say SCOTUS upholding Trump’s immunity claim threatens democracy

60% say it represents an extraordinary threat
27% say it represents a serious threat

(Report next week.) pic.twitter.com/ECuP7FQXr6
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) (@BrendanNyhan) July 1, 2024

Justice Sotomayor's dissent is one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I've ever encountered—she lists the criminal acts that presidents can now take with immunity and says "the president is now a king above the law." https://t.co/ovLYlcsF4s pic.twitter.com/6mx4nP0SHE
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 1, 2024

I just want to take a step back and say that I think the Supreme Court just fundamentally altered the structure and nature of democracy in America. It awards the president the measure of power and immunity that is much, much closer to a king or emperor than an elected official. https://t.co/HB0Tvb9qvS
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 1, 2024

Our democracy has been gravely wounded

The Trump immunity decision says: a president CAN VIOLATE THE CRIMINAL LAW if he acts within his broadly defined “constitutional authority”

Absurd and dangerous

There is no basis in the Constitution for this Court constructed…
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 1, 2024

Today’s Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s immunity claim is far worse than anything I imagined…

Effectively giving a president immunity for any crimes committed while in office as long as that president can plausibly claim the action was taken in some form of official…
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court invented a new standard for Trump "absolute" immunity for "official" acts. Then left no real way to prove a president acted "unofficially."

One man now exists firmly above the law, and it ain't you or me.

My latest in @thenation https://t.co/jBvJ9OMc36
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 1, 2024

On re-reading the decision, I’m all the more convinced that the blow is a devastating one — a “5-alarm fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 that threatens to consume democratic self-government,” to quote Justice Jackson’s powerful dissent. https://t.co/HfYHhxiXWL
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) July 1, 2024

Why should Thomas stop being corrupt?

His behavior is appalling. I am a retired federal employee. I remember that when some of us went to lunch with contractors during meetings, we always made sure to pay for our own food.

Since nobody is holding them accountable, the corrupt justices have no incentive to change. Roberts is worthless, Republicans don’t care and Democrats are weak.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 15, 2024

Clarence Thomas copied material from a gun extremist group for his bump stocks opinion

Clarence Thomas’ SCOTUS opinion on bump stocks includes copy and pasted illustrations from a gun extremist group that sells t-shirts on its website that say, “Abolish the ATF” and “Stack Up or Fuck Off.” https://t.co/QaICKVPe2z
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 15, 2024