The Supreme Court decision to curtail federal courts’ ability to block presidential orders weighs heavily on my mind—and should on yours too.
While the ruling doesn’t explicitly target birthright citizenship, it undermines one of the judiciary’s most critical tools for safeguarding our constitutional rights. It clears a path for executive power to act swiftly—even unconstitutionally—without meaningful checks.
That’s why I wrote about it in depth on Substack. This moment demands more than discussion—it demands bipartisan engagement.
Instead of deciding whether or not the executive order was unconstitutional, the Court simply decided that it doesn't matter whether or not it's unconstitutional, because Daddy can do whatever he wants and nobody can stop him.
Can parents challenge whether religious propagandists can indoctrinate your children by bringing up their socially damaging dogma in class or by including their delusional books in school libraries?
Fk SCOTUS bigots who voted in favor of the “religious” parents here in Montgomery County, MD. Religious, my ass. Fking bigots. I have been fighting against them starting when my now 37 year old daughter was in HS- trying to get something like honest sex education into the curriculum , then fighting for marriage equality in our state and against county bigots against our transgender community.
I was born in the US 71 years ago, but my mother was born in France. How do I prove my US citizenship? My father was born in the US but I don't know where to find his birth certificate. I guess it's off to El Salvador if they find out.
I’m completely convinced that this country is not worth saving. No amount of protesting and voting will prevent its inevitable and deserved collapse. It was doomed failure from the start, built on hypocrisy and lies that was only intended to benefit a select few rather than humanity as a whole. It’s people, who are selfish, greedy, and proudly stupid, also deserve the coming pain and aguish that is to come.
The fact that not only did they reelect him, they gave him a majority vote…
The fact that not only does our so-called “opposition party” seems content to cower in the face of obvious fascism, but they’ve themselves moved so far to the right that they’re throwing the marginalized under the bus and lambasting actual progressive politicians to appease the hick-trash bigots in fly-over county to keep their useless seats…
The fact that the SCOTUS is controlled by Catholic, fascist hanging judges who are green-lighting this horror…
The fact that the press is willing to carry water for the right…
…that is why we are doomed.
Capitalism made us greedy. Religion made us superstitious. Our ill-gotten “success” on the world stage made us arrogant. Our desire for “freedom” made us selfish and paranoid. Those who strive for progress will always be loathed because not only do the rabble don’t think we need to change, but any change is a threat to their precious “American Dream” (whatever the fuck that is).
I’d find somewhere more civilized, but I’m too freaking poor to emigrate. Not only that, the other civilized nations of the world are also falling under fascism’s spell. Soon, nowhere on Earth will be safe for us. It would be nice if there was some habitable, unpopulated region on this planet where we can start a new civilization based on secular, democratic, socialist values, but the cancer that is Homo sapiens has spread to the point where all the good real estate is occupied.
I don’t do “hope.” I deal in objective reality and the reality is they have the money, they have the cops, they have the military, they have the courts, and they have millions of heavily-armed civilian goons chomping at the bit for “The Day of the Rope.” Passive resistance and nonviolent protests won’t stop a bullet and majority of Americans will cheer on our eventual slaughter.
I’m a 50-year-old, unemployable, overweight, mentally ill, loser. I won’t last long when the final tyranny comes. All I know is that I will probably die horribly.
🤔 I think pretty soon I won't be considered a US citizen anymore. On my father's side of the family, my great-grandparents were Irish immigrants (you know, disgusting, unwelcome scum rejected by so many) who were not yet citizens when my grandmother was born to them so, obviously my grandmother was not a citizen! But, because she THOUGHT she was a citizen, she was never naturalized so my father could not possibly have been a citizen! (I wonder if he would have joined the Marines at age 17 and fought in the Pacific in WWII and in Korea if he had known he wasn't a citizen?). So, I cannot possibly be a citizen just because I was born in KC, MO. My lineage is so tainted I suppose I should be deported, but I guess I'll be sent to some hellhole gulag instead of to County Cork which I would thoroughly enjoy!! 🤬
Am I kidding about this? I don't know. But, on the upside, lots of Trump family members will get deported under the same scenario!!👏✊️💪🤣
So now the courts have had their power to stop Trump's unconstitutional "executive orders" taken away, it appears. These right-wingers on the SCOTUS are going out of their way to smooth Trump's path to a fully fascist regime. Now he can issue an order on anything at all, and it can't be put on hold no matter how insane and barbarous it is. That's how I see it. What I don't see is how these "justices" could possibly be unaware of what they are making possible, and even likely.
Don't put that on the entire court before reading the dissenting opinions (which explain the actual law a lot of people haven't actually read, which is one of the things that brought us to this hellplace).
Put it squarely where it belongs - on the Leonard Leo Siix.
Constitutional Crisis - Brought To You by Not Reading It
Agreed. We sometimes speak of SCOTUS as a block these days because the three liberal justices have no influence with the current supermajority. But the minority does something valuable, which is to preserve a semblance of justice in the stinging and clear dissents they issue. Sometimes “dissenting opinions” have quite an afterlife.
So the Leonard Leo Six ruled that nationwide injunctions are bad, even when they’re against an executive decree that is blatantly unconstitutional. I’m sure that’s a decision that won’t bite republicans in the ass sometime in the future.
Just a thought about the parental book ban ruling: if a state decided to require schools to teach that the only acceptable life choice is heterosexual marriage with the goal of producing children, would parents be able to opt out of that?
On the other hand, there are absolutely parents who find the theory of evolution morally objectionable; will they be able to opt their kids out of biology classes?
Or if you want to get silly, what if Mister and Misses Liebniz find calculus immoral because they think great-great-…grandpa deserves the credit and not that jerk Newton?
1) don’t be silly. The Constitution clearly says that states have a compelling interest in bringing all kids to Jesus. Just ask the Oklahoma state superintendent of education.
2) of course. Evilution is a godless communist plot to encourage kids to do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.
3) yes. The court will also rule that indigo is just dark blue and not a separate color that Newton just added to the spectrum because he wanted to make it seven.
They aren't saying its never wrong to have a nationwide injunction just "likely" wrong to do so. So they can jist deny cert on cases claiming the 5th circuit courts granted and upheld overbroad injunctions while using this case to hammer any liberal ones
The Supreme Court decision to curtail federal courts’ ability to block presidential orders weighs heavily on my mind—and should on yours too.
While the ruling doesn’t explicitly target birthright citizenship, it undermines one of the judiciary’s most critical tools for safeguarding our constitutional rights. It clears a path for executive power to act swiftly—even unconstitutionally—without meaningful checks.
That’s why I wrote about it in depth on Substack. This moment demands more than discussion—it demands bipartisan engagement.
https://open.substack.com/pub/billadmans/p/opinion-the-supreme-courts-decision
Ta, Dok. I also miss our Constitution. The only thing Supreme about two thirds of this court is the depth and breadth of their corruption.
Instead of deciding whether or not the executive order was unconstitutional, the Court simply decided that it doesn't matter whether or not it's unconstitutional, because Daddy can do whatever he wants and nobody can stop him.
*puts hands on Magic 8-Ball*
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They will:
1. Run the constitution through a shredder,
2. Set fire to the shreds,
3. Take a shit on the ashes,
4. Some previously unheard-of bullshit from the 1300s bringing back the stocks and flogging.
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Did I guess it right?
Can parents challenge whether religious propagandists can indoctrinate your children by bringing up their socially damaging dogma in class or by including their delusional books in school libraries?
Fk SCOTUS bigots who voted in favor of the “religious” parents here in Montgomery County, MD. Religious, my ass. Fking bigots. I have been fighting against them starting when my now 37 year old daughter was in HS- trying to get something like honest sex education into the curriculum , then fighting for marriage equality in our state and against county bigots against our transgender community.
I was born in the US 71 years ago, but my mother was born in France. How do I prove my US citizenship? My father was born in the US but I don't know where to find his birth certificate. I guess it's off to El Salvador if they find out.
If the founding fathers wanted there to be an FCC or affordable broadband, they would have included those things in the Constitution
If Alito retires Sir will replace him with a cassette player looping Sir saying "Whatever Alito would say, Whatever Alito would say, etc"
Constitutional Crisis - Brought to You By Not Reading It
https://bsky.app/profile/djnoneya.bsky.social/post/3lsk3cqavk22o
I’m completely convinced that this country is not worth saving. No amount of protesting and voting will prevent its inevitable and deserved collapse. It was doomed failure from the start, built on hypocrisy and lies that was only intended to benefit a select few rather than humanity as a whole. It’s people, who are selfish, greedy, and proudly stupid, also deserve the coming pain and aguish that is to come.
There's a lot of truth to that, but I am going to protest until the bitter end anyway.
The fact that not only did they reelect him, they gave him a majority vote…
The fact that not only does our so-called “opposition party” seems content to cower in the face of obvious fascism, but they’ve themselves moved so far to the right that they’re throwing the marginalized under the bus and lambasting actual progressive politicians to appease the hick-trash bigots in fly-over county to keep their useless seats…
The fact that the SCOTUS is controlled by Catholic, fascist hanging judges who are green-lighting this horror…
The fact that the press is willing to carry water for the right…
…that is why we are doomed.
Capitalism made us greedy. Religion made us superstitious. Our ill-gotten “success” on the world stage made us arrogant. Our desire for “freedom” made us selfish and paranoid. Those who strive for progress will always be loathed because not only do the rabble don’t think we need to change, but any change is a threat to their precious “American Dream” (whatever the fuck that is).
I’d find somewhere more civilized, but I’m too freaking poor to emigrate. Not only that, the other civilized nations of the world are also falling under fascism’s spell. Soon, nowhere on Earth will be safe for us. It would be nice if there was some habitable, unpopulated region on this planet where we can start a new civilization based on secular, democratic, socialist values, but the cancer that is Homo sapiens has spread to the point where all the good real estate is occupied.
I don’t do “hope.” I deal in objective reality and the reality is they have the money, they have the cops, they have the military, they have the courts, and they have millions of heavily-armed civilian goons chomping at the bit for “The Day of the Rope.” Passive resistance and nonviolent protests won’t stop a bullet and majority of Americans will cheer on our eventual slaughter.
I’m a 50-year-old, unemployable, overweight, mentally ill, loser. I won’t last long when the final tyranny comes. All I know is that I will probably die horribly.
So you tell me, what should I do? What can I do?
I don't have any easy answer, but in the meantime if you keep telling it like it is, the world will be better off for it.
🤔 I think pretty soon I won't be considered a US citizen anymore. On my father's side of the family, my great-grandparents were Irish immigrants (you know, disgusting, unwelcome scum rejected by so many) who were not yet citizens when my grandmother was born to them so, obviously my grandmother was not a citizen! But, because she THOUGHT she was a citizen, she was never naturalized so my father could not possibly have been a citizen! (I wonder if he would have joined the Marines at age 17 and fought in the Pacific in WWII and in Korea if he had known he wasn't a citizen?). So, I cannot possibly be a citizen just because I was born in KC, MO. My lineage is so tainted I suppose I should be deported, but I guess I'll be sent to some hellhole gulag instead of to County Cork which I would thoroughly enjoy!! 🤬
Am I kidding about this? I don't know. But, on the upside, lots of Trump family members will get deported under the same scenario!!👏✊️💪🤣
Samsies. How many of our ancestors came and were never formally naturalized?
So now the courts have had their power to stop Trump's unconstitutional "executive orders" taken away, it appears. These right-wingers on the SCOTUS are going out of their way to smooth Trump's path to a fully fascist regime. Now he can issue an order on anything at all, and it can't be put on hold no matter how insane and barbarous it is. That's how I see it. What I don't see is how these "justices" could possibly be unaware of what they are making possible, and even likely.
Don't put that on the entire court before reading the dissenting opinions (which explain the actual law a lot of people haven't actually read, which is one of the things that brought us to this hellplace).
Put it squarely where it belongs - on the Leonard Leo Siix.
Constitutional Crisis - Brought To You by Not Reading It
https://bsky.app/profile/djnoneya.bsky.social/post/3lsk3cqavk22o
Agreed. We sometimes speak of SCOTUS as a block these days because the three liberal justices have no influence with the current supermajority. But the minority does something valuable, which is to preserve a semblance of justice in the stinging and clear dissents they issue. Sometimes “dissenting opinions” have quite an afterlife.
Oh they’re aware. They laugh about it during their billionaire funded vacations.
So the Leonard Leo Six ruled that nationwide injunctions are bad, even when they’re against an executive decree that is blatantly unconstitutional. I’m sure that’s a decision that won’t bite republicans in the ass sometime in the future.
It'll only do that if Democratic "leadership" has the guts
They could do it to Kacsmaryk on the Fifth Circuit right now if they had the guts
But that's a big "IF"
Just a thought about the parental book ban ruling: if a state decided to require schools to teach that the only acceptable life choice is heterosexual marriage with the goal of producing children, would parents be able to opt out of that?
On the other hand, there are absolutely parents who find the theory of evolution morally objectionable; will they be able to opt their kids out of biology classes?
Or if you want to get silly, what if Mister and Misses Liebniz find calculus immoral because they think great-great-…grandpa deserves the credit and not that jerk Newton?
Answering your questions in order:
1) don’t be silly. The Constitution clearly says that states have a compelling interest in bringing all kids to Jesus. Just ask the Oklahoma state superintendent of education.
2) of course. Evilution is a godless communist plot to encourage kids to do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.
3) yes. The court will also rule that indigo is just dark blue and not a separate color that Newton just added to the spectrum because he wanted to make it seven.
3.) That's worse than the Pluto decision.
Don't speak that mess into existence, please
As others have speculated, wouldn’t the Trump v. CASA decision also apply to rightwing injunctions like the mifepristone case?
They aren't saying its never wrong to have a nationwide injunction just "likely" wrong to do so. So they can jist deny cert on cases claiming the 5th circuit courts granted and upheld overbroad injunctions while using this case to hammer any liberal ones