How John Roberts Empowered a Lawless Presidency
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-john-roberts-has-empowered-a-lawless-presidency
non-paywalled: https://archive.fo/ZTWTS
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114116538936742746

SCOTUS Chief Justice’s role in fostering Trump2 fascism

"In fact, your old fellow-traveler Ed Whelan has been tweeting his displeasure about the goings-on, leading me to the uncomfortable realization that I sometimes agree with Ed Whelan. Strange bedfellows, indeed.

But I digress. I’m writing today to ask one simple question:

Are you okay with this?"

#Musk #Trump #Nazi #Catholics #LeonardLeo #Vance
/7

"I know you have some connection to VP Vance through the Catholic networks, but he is, and has long been, an open fascist. Trump, a yooge fan of Hitler, promised to be a dictator on Day One and is doing his level best to keep that promise.

All of these things are objectively true, and are really taking place."

#Musk #Trump #Nazi #Catholics #LeonardLeo #Vance
/6

As a New Jersey-raised Catholic of Italian descent, Greg Olear asks Leonard Leo, a New Jersey-raised Catholic of Italian descent with enormous political power through the Federalist society, if he's okay with what he and other right-wing Catholics have now set in motion:

"Although the legacy media is reluctant to say so, Musk has outed himself as a Nazi."

#Musk #Trump #Nazi #Catholics #LeonardLeo
/5

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-leonard-leo-concerning

As Trump Dodges Court Orders, Samuel Alito Suggests Obeying Judges Optional
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/samuel-alito-lower-courts

SCOTUS justice touts flouting democratic norms after taking part in a decades-long efforts to weaken democratic rights

#TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #PresidentialImmunity #SCOTUS #Alito #JudicialMisconduct #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #whiteSupremacism #Christofascism #transgenocide

Background: Transphobia, transgenocide
https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

@Nonilex

#LeonardLeo's #UnitaryExecutive raises its ugly head

Again

@heidilifeldman

" I understand Roberts as attempting to simultaneously reassure Trump about that while also seeming to stand firm on behalf of federal judges."

I'm seeing it as a pure PR play on #JohnRoberts part to buff the cred of #SCOTUS

Anyone who is paying any attention knows that #LeonardLeo's implementation of the #SupremeCourt is designed for one purpose only:

To enshrine the #UnitaryExecutive as #UnitedStates #Constitutional fact

@emptywheel.bsky.social
The Federalist Society is #LeonardLeo's baby. Anyone who wants to know about it should check out #Propublica's and #WNYC's series #WeDontTalkAboutLeonard

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-podcast

Charles Koch Spent $91M in 2023 to Influence Higher Education
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/03/koch-spent-91-million-to-influence-higher-education-in-2023
https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-koch

* poured $90.8M into 127 university/college recipients in 2023 to promote business/policies

Comment: your billionaire dollars at work. I suggest you read Jane Mayer's Dark Money
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112810230899017402

#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism #CharlesKoch #KochIndustries
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS

CDC ordered to remove research papers that use terms "LGBT," "pregnant people" & more
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/03/ordered-to-remove-research-papers-that-use-the-terms-lgbt-pregnant-people-and-more

* advisers to CDC say move has yet to be explained

#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #2SLGBTQIA+ #TitleIX
#CDC #HHS #DHHS
#Trump2 #Trump #GOP #fascism #Project2025 #censorship
#ChristianRight #CatholicChurch #OpusDei #LeonardLeo #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Christofascism #theocracy #transgenocide
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #misogyny #sexism #paternalism #SelfDetermination

Will Scharf: Man handing executive orders to Trump
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-staff-secretary-will-scharf-7b9b6ca8ff99e4d79b743999bf560f62

* W.H. staff sec. Will Scharf
* running narration on what Trump's signing
* times leaning into microphone at Trump’s direction
* co-founded Jews Against Soros
* worked w. Leonard Leo to confirm Trump1 SCOTUS Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett

#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #WillScharf #SCOTUS
#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism
#ChristianRight #antiabortion
#Christofascism #transgenocide

/3
If we want to prevent a Nazi/fascist gesture f. becoming a
repetition of one of the bleakest periods of human history, the citizens
and residents of the U.S. must take seriously our moral responsibility to
oust this regime and its leader.

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113873400294677662

#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #SCOTUS #fascism #antiLGBT
#authoritarianism #Project2025
#DarkMoney #StatePolicyNetwork #LeonardLeo #ALEC #ModelActs
#capitalism #billionaires #Musk
#Christofascism #misogyny #transgenocide #WomensRights

[thread] Texas, abortion
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110697509011152834

Matthew Kacsmaryk mentioned, e.g.:

Texas Senate Democrats Call Out Justices Kacsmaryk, O’Connor
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110697538942779713

#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination #abortion #mifepristone #PlannedParenthood
#GOP #Trumpism #Trump1 #Trump2 #fascism #FarRight
#FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #Kacsmaryk #MatthewKacsmaryk #ReedOConnor #Texas #GregAbbott #antiLGBT
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #Christofascism #transgenocide

[Aug 2024] Leonard Leo’s Effort to Gut Planned Parenthood Threatens Myriad Health Services
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112984048595838373

* case in fed. court in TX wh. Matthew Kacsmaryk only judge
* Federalist Society member (Chair Leo)

#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination #abortion #mifepristone #PlannedParenthood
#GOP #Trumpism #Trump1 #Trump2 #fascism #FarRight
#FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #Kacsmaryk #antiLGBT
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #Christofascism #transgenocide

@Nonilex

"who previously asked for the hearing to be postponed until after the election that Trump maintained he would win. After making that request, the judge said Trump could NOT now credibly say that winning the election makes him #immune from #sentencing."

The problem here is that this is exactly how and why the current #SCOTUS was constructed by #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety

Points of law, the entire logic of existing law, are meaningless

The Supreme Court of the United States exists only to do what is needed to advance the far-right agenda

All references to #Textualism and #Originalism and the meaning of the law as it exists are a fraud

Not that any of that matters