The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren't Real

[Celerity]

The Roberts court majority seems bound and determined to end the American constitutional order.

https://newrepublic.com/article/198007/supreme-court-education-department-trump

https://archive.ph/vJxez


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To cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that was created by Congress, given duties and responsibilities by Congress, and funded by Congress to carry them out.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, a pro-wrestling promoter and sexual-abuse lawsuit defendant, made no secret of her goals after taking up her current job. In a speech in March, she declared that the department was to carry out its “final mission”: executing a mandate from President Donald Trump to shutter the department and transfer some of its functions to other agencies. Project 2025, the administration’s de facto policy blueprint, also said the department “should be eliminated.”

A week after taking up her post, McMahon put that plan into action by ordering a “reduction in force,” or RIF, of roughly half of the agency’s employees. The state of New York and other plaintiffs sued McMahon to stop the RIF by arguing that it was a back-door means to end the department’s statutory responsibilities by eliminating the staff responsible for carrying them out.

This was not particularly difficult for the plaintiffs to prove: Trump administration officials publicly described the RIF as part of the “final mission” in alignment with an executive order that directed McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education” while also “ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely”—two obviously contradictory goals.

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[Bayard]

1. New name:

The Rubber Stamp Court.

[love_katz]

2. I call them the Extremes.

The majority of this misnamed court are clearly extremists, hell bent on destroying our democracy and creating a theocracy, with a one party dictatorship.

[ancianita]

3. So now The New Republic and Techdirt agree.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016409002

Complete text link:
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/15/the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-has-become-a-lawless-explanation-free-rubber-stamp-for-trumps-authoritarian-agenda/

Now that media see that the USSC is a rubber stamp for a fascist dictatorship,
what are these media trying to tell The People?

That they're helpless to do anything?

[progressoid]

5. I honestly don't think they'll stop until there is another

United Heath Care / Luigi Mangione incident.

[ancianita]

8. Nah. They won't stop there, either.

Big Pharma isn't behind all this. Big Fossil is. This is a war between fascist oiligarchs and the lawyer class of this country.

[Scalded Nun]

4. The scotus majority is truly corrupt to the core. Interesting to see what happens when they get their turn in the barrel

[ancianita]

9. What makes you assume they'll "get their turn in the barrel"?

[Scalded Nun]

11. Everyone connected to Trump eventually gets their turn in the barrel

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[Mr.Bee]

7. Just Think

trump can appoint more justices in the next three years!
A MAGA Majority Supreme trump Court!

[ancianita]

10. It's already a MAGA court, anyway.

[Mr.Bee]

13. Now Imagine

NO dissenting justices
today there are three.
It's a 6-3...

[Kid Berwyn]

12. We need to make SCROTUS not real.

Seeing how Congress is led by co-conspirators in treason under King Taco, perhaps an equally radical solution can come from the rest of the Federal Judiciary — document how the 6 are corrupt and demand their resignation in order to reinstate and enforce the Constitution.

[LS0999]

14. So does this mean secession is okay?

What about our rights to not want to live under a piece of shit fascist tyrant?