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Biden says Supreme Court 'misinterpreted the Constitution' in rejecting student loan relief

Just some of the things the John Roberts court has done:

Overturned Roe v Wade https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/19-1392

Ended race based affirmative action https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/20-1199

Blocked student loan forgiveness https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/22-506

Approved LGBTQIA+ discrimination https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-476

Prevented New York from enacting gun laws https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/20-843

Allowed forced prayer in school https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/21-418

Prevented the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/20-1530

Further protected dark money in politics https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/19-251

Made it easier to give minors life without parole https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/18-1259

Evidence of innocence isn't enough to prevent death penalty https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/20-1009

The death penalty can be painful and torturous https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-8151

Allowed Trump's muslim travel ban https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/17-965

Undermined unions https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-1466

Sanctioned voter suppression https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/19-1257

Police can violate your Miranda rights https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/21-499

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Record contributions from dark money groups and shell companies flooded 2022 midterm elections

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But more dark money is pouring into federal elections with less disclosure, and 501(c)(4) nonprofits that don’t disclose their donors reported less than $25 million in spending to the FEC during the entire 2022 election cycle — the lowest total since the **Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision **rolled back restrictions on corporate political speech. Months later, the Supreme Court’s SpeechNow.org v. FEC ruling —which effectively paved the way for super PACs — ushered in a new era of massive donations and groups spending unlimited sums on independent expenditures.

I can't help but notice that the Supreme Court is really leading the way with "bribes are cool" decisions here. It's almost like they are a corrupt group of people getting lavish gifts.

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Nobody Can Come Up With A Good Defense of Donald Trump

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Seriously, that's no exaggeration.

"Hey, Kid Rock, check out this cool map of our nuclear installations."

The videos of them hauling boxes out of Mar-A-Lago, from a legal point of view, are like videos of Donald Trump chopping up people with an axe. All these discussions of "did he commit a crime?" are absurd. His lawyers quit for a reason.

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The whole reason we're in this problem in the first place is that the legislative branch has basically ceded its power. People in Congress don't want to be responsible for changing laws so they just have the Supreme Court do it for them. There was no way any kind of anti-abortion legislation was ever going to make it through Congress, so they just legislated from the bench and had the Supreme Court take away women's rights.

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A Tennessee RNC member says vote to expel 2 Democratic lawmakers over a gun control protest hurt the GOP brand: 'You've energized young voters against us'

To be fair, there are a number of reasons that young people are now energized against the Republican Party. Young people get shot, Republicans rally to protect the guns. Hell, a little while ago they held an event to protect gas stoves. Republicans don't give a damn about kids being shot. And when those kids get old enough to vote Republicans come out and try to prevent them from voting with voter restriction measures. Young people go to school, Republicans make sure they pay through the nose for it while forgiving debt for all kinds of other things.

Young people are the demographic that Republicans want to make pay for everything while they get rid of taxes on old wealthy people. Fuck the GOP.

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The DOJ Tried to Give Trump a Pass. He Wouldn’t Take It.

Pro-Trump conservatives are therefore faced with the daunting task of explaining why it is actually good for an ex-president to illegally keep U.S. atomic secrets lying around his club, show off secret military plans to friends as if they were souvenirs, and then refuse to return those documents upon the government’s request.

I have great confidence that they are up for this task. They're going to do the most outrageous verbal gymnastics to defend this slime ball.

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They determined the previous ruling, which was actually so terrible RBG actively spoke against it and told the Dem's they needed to codify RVW, was incorrect. And they were right. There's absolutely no way judges, outside of activist judges, could have ruled RVW implementing term limitations for abortions.

And yet, during their confirmation hearings these judges were asked about RVW and they all disagreed with everything you said, calling it established precedent and settled law that has been set for 50 years. I wish at least one of the conservative judges had not lied about how they feel about precedent and RVW during their confirmation. But of course they had to lie in order to acquire the power to do what Congress is unwilling to do.

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