Worst *Supreme* Court in history of US.
Kingmaker: 'Roberts writes that “with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute.”' – @theatlantic.com July 1, 2024 www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober…
— John Vaillant (@johnvaillant.bsky.social) October 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
[image or embed]
This week, SCOTUS decided to leave racially unfair voting maps in Texas in place that, out of season, were demanded by Trump to gerrymander Texas. Supposedly maps are supposed to be created after the 10 year census, but oh, no, Trump wants to put his thumb on the voting scale and pack and crack districts. Here was Lulac’s perspective on that LULAC FEDERAL CASE BEGINS CHALLENGING TEXAS REDISTRICTING THAT DILUTES VOTER POWER OF LATINOS AND BLACKS And here is the decision of the US Western District in League of United Latin American Citizens v Greg Abbott. (PDF)
Yesterday: Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP 5 more House seats. Note that the order was unsigned, part of the *shadow docket.
After holding a nine-day hearing in October, that panel found challengers of the new map are likely to prove in a trial that the map violates the Constitution by discriminating against voters based on race.
In its majority opinion — authored by a Trump nominee — the panel cited a letter from the Department of Justice and multiple public statements by key Republican state lawmakers that suggested their map-drawer manipulated the racial demographics of voting districts to eliminate existing districts where Black and Latino voters together make up the majority. For the next year’s midterms, the panel ordered Texas to keep using the congressional districts the state’s GOP-controlled legislature drew in 2021.
But in Texas’ filing to the Supreme Court, the state claimed the lawmakers were not motivated by race and were focused instead on drawing new districts that are more likely to elect Republicans.
here’s justice kagan’s dissent PDF
SCOTUS just handed Texas a license to racially rig its elections. They know this map silences Black and Latino voters; that’s the point. This is the Supreme Court putting its thumb on the scale for Republican power and calling it democracy. Corrupt. We need a Dem majority to impeach them.
— Jennifer C (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
[image or embed]
— Freethinkers United (@freethinkersunited.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
John Roberts you’re a complete piece of shit You deserve zero respect You’re a partisan hack You’re not a well respected individual let alone a Supreme Court justice
— Thanatos (@thanatosredux.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
[image or embed]
The most corrupt Supreme Court in history
— Pat Bagley (@bagleycartoons.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
[image or embed]
Pat Bagley WHY SCOTUS LETS TRUMP DO WHAT HE WANTS —
— Cindy Phyillaier (@cphyilla.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
[image or embed]
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
[image or embed]
As others have pointed out, the founders never foresaw a corrupt president (which we have) abusing the pardon power to absolve all criminals and miscreants for any reason, nor did our Daffy Duck Supreme Court ever think it might not be a good idea to put said president above the law.
— Bill Sheehan (@marsisblu.bsky.social) November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
[image or embed]
