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#SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded

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Gladwyn d’Souza<p>When six legal scholars refuse to acknowledge the direct connection between “partisan” and “racism,” and how one fuels the other; they are engaging in verbal parsing to favor Donald Trump, upend Constitutional protections, and their own precious “originalist intent.” As if Republican ideology and policy since Ronald Reagan has nothing to do with racism.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/supreme-christian-nationalism.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2024/05/supreme-c</span><span class="invisible">hristian-nationalism.html</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Elie Mystal- The Supreme Court must be made to pay a price—a political, institutional, professional price—for its ongoing political thuggery lightly disguised as jurisprudence. Its members will never stop acting like the only nine Americans who matter until we stop them from doing that. And the only way to stop them is to limit their power, their budgets, and their unearned belief in their own supremacy.</p><p>The problem is aided and abetted by the elected branches of government. The Supreme Court has no army, but all presidents (except the last one) are willing to enforce the court’s rulings, even when those rulings are unmoored from reason or logic or fundamental fairness.</p><p>But the court’s greatest institutional accomplice is the media, which largely insists on covering the nine law shamans as they wish to be covered, instead of as the unelected, unaccountable poison that enfeebles the rest of American democracy.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CorruptRobertsCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorruptRobertsCourt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-supreme-court-must-be-stopped/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/archive/</span><span class="invisible">the-supreme-court-must-be-stopped/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman were threatened after the 2020 election. In December 2023, a judge ordered Donald Trump associate Rudy Giuliani to pay the pair $148 million in damages after he falsely accused them of election fraud in 2020.<br />the Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act would create criminal penalties for threats of violence to intimidate voters or election officials</p><p>Other initiatives include the Right to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Advancement Act, and advocating for more funding for state and local governments for the security and administration of elections.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JohnLewisVotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnLewisVotingRightsAct</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndTheFilibuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndTheFilibuster</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/03/15/us-sen-jon-ossoff-introduces-legislation-protect-election-workers-polling-places" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gpb.org/news/2024/03/15/us-sen</span><span class="invisible">-jon-ossoff-introduces-legislation-protect-election-workers-polling-places</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a>: “Homelessness is growing not because cities lack ways to punish people for being poor, but because a growing number of hard-working Americans are struggling to pay rent and make ends meet,” the National Homelessness Law Center said in a statement shortly after the SCOTUS announced that it would hear the case.<br />An unhoused person is 11 times more likely to be arrested than a housed person.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GenocideTaxForeverWarDivestsFromYouthHousingFoodCleanAirAndWaterMedicareForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenocideTaxForeverWarDivestsFromYouthHousingFoodCleanAirAndWaterMedicareForAll</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-criminalization-of-homelessness/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nonprofitquarterly.org/the-cri</span><span class="invisible">minalization-of-homelessness/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HousePeopleNotCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HousePeopleNotCars</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.truthdig.com/cartoons/do-the-right-thing/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">truthdig.com/cartoons/do-the-r</span><span class="invisible">ight-thing/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>White Supremacist’s Patriarchy whittles the Fourteenth into a corporate bulwark, humans need not apply: the men wrote into law limits not just on whether states can enforce Section 3 against “federal officeholders and candidates” but also how the federal government can do so. </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CorruptRobertsCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorruptRobertsCourt</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ruling?r=39z3o&amp;utm_medium=ios" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei</span><span class="invisible">dner/p/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ruling?r=39z3o&amp;utm_medium=ios</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-salmon-dam-removal-18296fb0f8438faa77269cfe015b7fb7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/california-</span><span class="invisible">governor-newsom-salmon-dam-removal-18296fb0f8438faa77269cfe015b7fb7</span></a> </p><p>&quot;The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/salmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>salmon</span></a> community has been poked in the eye way too many times and the plan conflicts with what the Newsom Administration has been doing for years to devastate California’s most important salmon runs,” the Golden State Salmon Association said.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SiblingBeingsOfLifesCycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SiblingBeingsOfLifesCycle</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BiPartisanWeaponsComplexGivesAShitAboutPovertyHumanRightsSegregationClimateAndInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BiPartisanWeaponsComplexGivesAShitAboutPovertyHumanRightsSegregationClimateAndInequality</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TragedyOfEnclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TragedyOfEnclosure</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Last election’s other boogie man takes another bow. </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BidenIsComplicit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BidenIsComplicit</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/usps-delivering-for-america" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/usps-del</span><span class="invisible">ivering-for-america</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Elite Mystal for the Nation: At the very least, if bad-faith political maneuvers are a thing the court now cares about, it might try applying that standard to its voting rights and gerrymandering decisions first, instead of only suddenly becoming concerned about this when an insurrectionist runs for president. The “not an officer” argument is ridiculous…something that conservatives have since bandied about as a potential way out for the court… unpersuaded by the overwhelming historical evidence that the writers of the 14th Amendment obviously did not think that a president who engaged in insurrection could ever run for president again.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GenocideJoeWasFineWithTheLoserOfThePopularVoteAppointingThreeJustices" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenocideJoeWasFineWithTheLoserOfThePopularVoteAppointingThreeJustices</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-supreme-court-wont-to-save-us-from-trump/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/politics</span><span class="invisible">/the-supreme-court-wont-to-save-us-from-trump/</span></a> </p><p>NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> that unanimously backs qualified immunity finds CRT isn’t history: And it will likely do it on the strength of a unanimous, 9-0 ruling, with all the justices joining together to shout “prank caller” at the 14th Amendment and its clear calls to exclude insurrectionists from office.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GenocideJoeWasFineWithTheLoserOfThePopularVoteAppointingThreeJustices" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenocideJoeWasFineWithTheLoserOfThePopularVoteAppointingThreeJustices</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>But the Supreme Court justices seemed entirely averse to discussing the fundamental issue of what happened on January 6.<br />For most of the hearing, it was truly Hamlet without the prince, with endless hairsplitting over legal technicalities, and no discussion of the January 6 insurrection and the wider threat to American democracy.<br />In one exchange with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Mitchell conceded that Trump is&amp;nbsp;arguing that a state has no power to penalize him for the January 6 insurrection, that the only remedy is federal prosecution, but at the same time he is arguing, in a separate case now also headed for the Supreme Court, that as a former president he is immune from federal prosecution. In other words, he is completely above the law.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CorruptRobertsCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorruptRobertsCourt</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>14ThAmendmentWasInterpretedForCorporatePersonhood</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/09/rifp-f09.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/0</span><span class="invisible">9/rifp-f09.html</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/27/police-reponse-mass-shooting-reports-questions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texastribune.org/2023/12/27/po</span><span class="invisible">lice-reponse-mass-shooting-reports-questions</span></a> </p><p>And then there’s the coke can at Emanuel AME: Despite the U.S. facing more than 120 mass shootings in the past two-and-a-half decades, ProPublica, the Tribune and FRONTLINE found that there is no agreed-upon national standard for who conducts after-action assessments of law enforcement’s response, what they should examine or whether the resulting findings should be released.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/corruptrobertscourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corruptrobertscourt</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ItsTheGuns" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ItsTheGuns</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/2ndAmendmentPatrols" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>2ndAmendmentPatrols</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cointelpro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cointelpro</span></a></p>
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