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Supporting Supreme Court expansion is pretty close to a litmus test for me for a 2028 Democratic candidate.
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I said this would be the Republican justices play. Let Texas use the racist maps now. Later they’ll say it’s “too late” to change them.
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I am taking the next few days off from writing to prepare for a Supreme Court argument. If you want to support Democracy Docket during my pause, here is there link. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Two things the Democrats shouldn’t be shy about saying plainly these days: the Supreme Court is illegitimate and Pete Hegseth is a psychopath.
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
How do you see hope in him? Never has the world’s worst person engendered such loyalty from people he openly despises. I will never understand this.
A Somali immigrant who campaigned for Trump responds to Trump calling Somalis “Garbage.”

“We see hope in you. Please differentiate between good, bad and evil… We’re getting killed out here.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Once again, this is all John Roberts' fault.

Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social on why Trump owes all his corrupt and abusive reign to the chief justice.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Honestly, how has anybody convinced themselves that this whiny, crybaby snowflake is an alpha?
Trump rants about the "rigged election" at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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special shout-out to the Bernie bro who told me in 2016 that the Supreme Court wasn't all that important, and Hillary's picks would be just as bad as Trump's
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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In the VRA case, it's gonna say that using race to remedy illegally racist maps is unconstitutional. That's after saying in the Texas case that the constitution permits racist gerrymandering to maximize political gain.

The common theme? Perpetuating Republican power no matter the people's will.
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps

apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The Roberts Majority is gonna follow this up by gutting the Voting Rights Act in the coming weeks or months, all to preserve Republican political power no matter the people's will
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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"Mad kings in robes" might be more accurate.
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Gotta update the old "politicians in robes" adage because honestly most politicians would hesitate to light their own perceived legitimacy on fire the way this Court has.
December 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court.
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:

"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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just an utter joke of a court.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.

If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.

The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”

Via Jeremy Barr

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so."

This Court is undermining that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony.

Those judges are pissed.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM