Supreme Court hands Trump major win, limits judges’ ability to block birthright citizenship order nationwide
Just a moment...
For all those copium-takers who have been saying for months now that "Trump has been losing in the courts" (despite all evidence to the contrary) and that our court system would ultimately protect us......
Now what?
He has lost a lot in courts. The problem is that even 1% of his obviously unconstitutional bullshit winning in courts is disastrous.
A glass of water with 1% shit in it is almost entirely water. But it's still shit water.
But if your goal is to make the water undrinkable, all you need is that 1%.
And that's all Trump cares about. He's made far more than 1% of the water undrinkable shit. But all that means is that even though he lost 99% of the time, he still won in the end because the water is just as undrinkable.
This is a stupid ruling, but it's a stupid PROCEDURAL ruling. Stop being a defeatist and start getting involved.
Sure. Just let me know exactly what your plan is.
We could hold protests.....until Trump sends in the National Guard and has anyone that looks vaguely brown or uppity arrested.
We could petition our elected representatives, who either are not in power or have willingly ceded power to Trump. I'm sure that'll help.
Maybe we could get reliable information from the news, if they weren't already curtailing coverage that's critical of Trump or anything Trump doesn't like out of fear of political retribution or retaliatory political action.
We could sue through the court system, which was just stripped of virtually any ability to do anything about Trump.
I mean obviously, we need to get involved in our next election. Which is only 18 months away. Surely nothing catastrophic could happen in such a short period of time, right? Can't wait to elect deep-blue representatives in my already deep-blue state. I'm sure that'll accomplish a lot. That's assuming elections even take place.
And hey, there's always getting involved locally. Organize a resistance. Go ahead. I'm sure you're more than willing to be the first to stick your neck out there. And I'm sure there's no chance that your group is infiltrated long before it gets to anything resembling a critical mass or manages to accomplish anything noteworthy.
You don't get it, do you?
Trump won. He has full control now. The Supreme Court has now said that not only is Trump legally immune from prosecution, judges don't even have the right to stop him. Congress has willingly ceded their authority and he's already using the national guard to quell anything he deems a "protest". Our educational institutions have bent the knee, businesses are adopting Trump-friendly policies, and the press has severely curtailed criticism of Trump out of fear of retribution.
The only path forward is violence. And even that is a long shot as Trump has control of law enforcement who are chomping at the bit waiting for the opportunity to go full Call-of-Duty on as many brown people as they can. All other pathways have been closed. You wanna be the one sticking your neck out? Go right ahead. Let me know how the weather is in El Salvador. Or South Sudan. Or whatever 3rd world shithole you find yourself taking an involuntary vacation in. But not all of us think that this is a movie where we're just waiting for John Connor to rise from the ashes and lead us to victory.
So, they're limiting judges' ability to...checks notes...uphold the Constitution in court?
They've been relegated to peanut gallery by the supreme peanut gallery.
There is no more rule of law. Don't assume the legal system will deliver justice (it was never great at that, but now it's openly, flagrantly rigged).
SCOTUS: Supreme Corruption Of The United States
Constitution much?
Its time to BURN THE WHOOOOOOLE FUCKIN THING TO THE GROUND. That is all.
This is really bad.
It's bad but it's not over yet. They're using this as a way to give him what he wants with regard to his propagandized concerns about "activist judges" while leaving the door open to siding with the Constitution on birthright citizenship. At least that's how it seems unless someone can set me straight.
I don’t think the birthright citizenship issue would clear a hurdle neatly in this court, but it does seem like they’re arguing in two directions. On the one immediate hand, the majority opinion is how individual cases are being used to blanket stop stuff nationwide (which Biden also disliked); on the other, arguing that stripping birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. The former pertains to the case most directly, while the latter is about what the cases are ultimately concerned with and something down the road, but is not what the Supreme Court case they ruled on was actually about. Will it likely lead to problems with citizenship cases? Oh hell yes. But I’ll agree with you that it’s a form of kicking the can down the road, which they do enjoy.
I think we are going to start hearing about cases where babies are being determined to be foreign nationals and they will use those babies as grounds to force the parents out of the country.
The Supreme Court and the rule of law: