Country with no military wants to save face by pretending to continue fighting a war they've already lost and can never win.
Is brutal honesty a form of weapon? “I am sorry, we cannot skin surgery because you are still 60% too much fat bitch. You must come back, six month, and be less fat bitch.”
Not going to get a lot of coverage because it's a bit of arcane legal procedure, but SCOTUS just delivered an absolutely devastating ruling today: The tl;dr is that SCOTUS has eliminated nationwide injunctions, which means that when the President does something illegal (like idunno, rounding up citizens who oppose him, just to throw out a totally crazy example that would never ever happen), a federal court can no longer enjoin him from doing so. The cases must be fought plaintiff by plaintiff. This is effectively a permission slip to violate any law he likes, with him being hindered in only a patchwork and occasional fashion.
...also porn is illegal in Texas if you don't show them your ID first. Sorry Dixie, but your access to bushwhacked.com is hereby rescinded.
In a separate case, this part of the ruling seems insanely broad: It could reasonably be read to read a First Amendment violation into basic instruction in physics, biology, chemistry, history, comparative religion, civics, economics, and more.
Genuine question, but isn’t this sort of thing what Trump was complaining about when he was saying all these due process deportation cases would flood the court system?
Trump's position is always "I can't be questioned," so I imagine his ideal outcome is that the district courts can't grant universal injunctions, nor should they bother hearing a bunch of individual challenges to his orders. I don't think SCOTUS has the same issue, and their honest expectation is likely that the number of potential plaintiffs will dwarf the number of actual plaintiffs, as the vast majority of people harmed by Republican illegality wouldn't have the means or opportunity to actual go to court about it.
It's pretty wild that the supreme court's position seems to be, of late, "yes, we were always a monarchy, we just lacked sufficient court cases to prove it."
The Senate just passed Trump's Big Bill. The Vice President had to cast the deciding vote. America is fucked. Maybe not short term, but ten years out after Cheeto is long gone.