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Joseph Alito (r) shits the bed, and then doesn’t leave

30 Tuesday Jun 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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14th Amendment, as useless as tits on a bull, Birthright citizenship, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Fascist pigs, Joseph Alito, Neil Gorsuch, right wingnuts, U.S. Supreme Court

This morning, DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. BARBARA, ET AL. (2026):

[….]

JUSTICE ALITO, dissenting.

This is one of the most important decisions in the history of the Court, and in my judgment, the Court has made a serious mistake. As interpreted by the Court today, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on virtually everyone who happens to be born in this country, including the children of “birth tourists,” women who come here solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child and then promptly return home. Careful analysis of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the process that led to its adoption shows that it does not degrade the concept of United States citizenship in this way. Instead, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on only those children who, at birth, owe allegiance solely to this country.

[….]

Clarence Thomas (r) vomits 91 pages:

[….]

JUSTICE THOMAS, with whom JUSTICE GORSUCH joins, dissenting.

This Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857), would have permanently denied citizenship to blacks as “a subordinate and inferior class.” Id., at 404–405. After the Civil War, the Reconstruction Congress overruled Dred Scott, first with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, then with the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Both the Civil Rights Act and the Citizenship Clause guaranteed citizenship to persons born and domiciled in the United States regardless of their race. Neither guaranteed citizenship to persons who were not domiciled in the United States.

[….]

Meanwhile, the Court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated and that cannot find support in its text. Today, the Court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.

[….]

“Birth tourists”? Is that like “Einstein Visas”? Just asking. Or maybe ask Melania?

“No Human Being is Illegal”

Just throwing shit against the wall:

[….]

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part.

Executive Order No. 14160 establishes new exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (2025). The Court today holds that the Order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. I respectfully
disagree with the Court’s constitutional holding. In my view, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 U. S. C. §1401(a). Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.

[….]

Hey, Squee wants to know where the post-term party is!

The reviews are in:

jesse ‪@jesseltaylor.bsky.social‬

my god, birthright citizenship was 6-3, with alito, gorsuch, and thomas dissenting, and kavanaugh dissenting as to whether the 14th amendment provides birthright citizenship

the plain language of the 14th amendment survives by one vote

9:36 AM · Jun 30, 2026

Stephen Nuñez ‪@socio-steve.bsky.social‬

Resolved: “the Constitution includes the words that are unambiguously written in the 14th amendment, which is part of the Constitution”

5-4

9:43 AM · Jun 30, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern ‪@mjsdc.bsky.social‬

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

9:43 AM · Jun 30, 2026

ElieNYC ‪@elienyc.bsky.social‬

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn’t really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say “we won” and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

9:43 AM · Jun 30, 2026

Moira Donegan ‪@moiradonegan.bsky.social‬

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

10:00 AM · Jun 30, 2026

Hey, Joseph Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh:

“Resolved: “the Constitution includes the words that are unambiguously written in the 14th amendment, which is part of the Constitution’

5-4”

Law
Editor’s note: NPR retracts Justice Samuel Alito story
June 30, 2026 10:51 AM ET
By NPR Staff

Editor’s note: Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Neither Alito nor the court’s public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.

So, it’s a wash.

U.S. Supreme Court: Fascism is Un-American, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas Dissent

17 Saturday May 2025

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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AARP v Trump, Clarence Thomas, Donald Trump, due process, Fascist pig, Samuel Alito, social media, U.S. Supreme Court

“….The detainees’ interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty. Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster….”

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check. Conviction. Check.

Yesterday, Donald Trump (r) has a temper tantrum:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!

5.94k ReTruths 16k Likes May 16, 2025, 4:12 PM

And:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process, one that will take, possibly, many years for each person, and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse. The result of this decision will let more CRIMINALS pour into our Country, doing great harm to our cherished American public. It will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our Country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go. The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed MILLIONS of Criminal Aliens to come into our Country without any “PROCESS” but, in order to get them out of our Country, we have to go through a long and extended PROCESS. In any event, thank you to Justice Alito and Justice Thomas for attempting to protect our Country. This is a bad and dangerous day for America!

13.4k ReTruths 36.4k Likes May 16, 2025, 4:59 PM

Fascist has to Fascist.

All caps is the Internets equivalent of shouting.

What the U.S. Supreme Court majority (7-2) ordered:

Per Curiam
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
_________________
No. 24A1007
_________________
A. A. R. P., ET AL. v. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR INJUNCTION
[May 16, 2025]

….We have long held that “no person shall be” removed from the United States “without opportunity, at some time, to be heard.” The Japanese Immigrant Case, 189 U. S. 86, 101 (1903). Due process requires notice that is “reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties” and that “afford[s] a reasonable time . . . to make [an] appearance.” Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U. S. 306, 314 (1950). Accordingly, in J. G. G., this Court explained—with all nine Justices agreeing—that “AEA detainees must receive notice . . . that they are subject to removal under the Act . . . within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief ” before removal. 604 U. S., at ____ (slip op., at 3). In order to “actually seek habeas relief,” a detainee must have sufficient time and information to reasonably be able to contact counsel, file a petition, and pursue appropriate relief….

….The Government does not contest before this Court the applicants’ description of the notice afforded to AEA detainees in the Northern District of Texas, nor the assertion that the Government was poised to carry out removals imminently. The Government has represented elsewhere that it is unable to provide for the return of an individual deported in error to a prison in El Salvador, see Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25−cv−951 (D Md.), ECF Docs. 74, 77, where it is alleged that detainees face indefinite detention, see Application for Injunction 11. The detainees’ interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty. Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster. But it is not optimal for this Court, far removed from the circumstances on the ground, to determine in the first instance the precise process necessary to satisfy the Constitution in this case. We remand the case to the Fifth Circuit for that purpose….

….The application for an injunction pending further proceedings is granted. The motion for leave to file a supplemental appendix under seal is also granted. Additionally, applicants suggested this Court treat the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari; doing so, the petition is granted. The judgment of the Fifth Circuit is vacated, and the case is remanded to the Fifth Circuit. In resolving the detainees’ appeal, the Fifth Circuit should address (1) all the normal preliminary injunction factors, including likelihood of success on the merits, as to the named plaintiffs’ underlying habeas claims that the AEA does not authorize their removal pursuant to the President’s March 14, 2025, Proclamation, and (2) the issue of what notice is due, as to the putative class’s due process claims against summary removal. The Government is enjoined from removing the named plaintiffs or putative class members in this action under the AEA pending order by the Fifth Circuit and disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this order shall terminate automatically. In the event the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the order shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. The Government may remove the named plaintiffs or putative class members under other lawful authorities.

It is so ordered.”

Gee, in a Democracy there is no room for an Autocrat, petulant or not.

We’re going to find out.

As opposed to being a wholly owned subsidiary

07 Sunday May 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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Clarence Thomas, Ethics, meta, right wingnut, troll, trolling, U.S. Supreme Court

In the news:

…In two separate copyright infringement cases concerning the publishing conglomerate Penguin Random House, the high court declined to take up the appeals, with the court saying in 2013 that it wouldn’t hear the first case, and the second case being turned away from the court in 2019 and again in 2020. In both cases, the publisher won at the lower court level, and those decisions stood.

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who joined the court in 2009 and has been paid millions of dollars from the publisher over the years, declined to recuse herself in all three instances.

Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who joined the court in 2017 and also has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in book deals with the publisher, declined to disqualify himself from the more recent case when it came before the court for consideration…

…the federal law concerning recusal has long been interpreted as applying to stock ownership on the part of the justice or a close family member…

…Breyer, who retired in 2022, likely recused himself from the cases because he owns stock in a company that for a time had a large stake in Penguin…

Roth, whose group has for years kept track of instances in which justices should have recused themselves from a case, said he could not point to other examples where a justice should have disqualified him or herself from a case concerning their book publisher.

Roth noted that Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson also have books in the works….

Too easy.

As always, we don’t allow ignorant comments out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We see fit.

We’ve been getting more attempted trolling comments submitted in response to Eric Schmitt (r) has serious concerns about the financial dealings of Clarence Thom…oh, wait (May 5, 2023):

And surprise, surprise now we see Sotomeyer has received millions from Random House and refused to recuse herself in their cases! I say so what these Justices haven’t changed the way they would vote on any of these cases! Now if she suddenly voted conservative I would be like wow!

You left out Neil Gorsuch (r). How convenient.

Book contracts and royalties, reported on disclosure forms, or unreported vacations, travel, school tuition, to name just a few, provided by a billionaire. If you’ve got a concern with the former, you should definitely have a serious problem with the latter.

“…Now if she suddenly voted conservative I would be like wow!” As opposed to making a decision based on the law and the merits of the case.

Too easy.

Previously:

Fishing or orchestral? (May 7, 2023)

Eric Schmitt (r) has serious concerns about the financial dealings of Clarence Thom…oh, wait

05 Friday May 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, social media, US Senate

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Clarence Thomas, corruption, Eric Schmitt, Ethics, Fascist pig, gaslighting, grifting, missouri, social media, U.S. Senate

No, no, he doesn’t.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

This is going to become Eric Schmitt’s (r) favorite whine:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
The most recent Democrat campaign against Justice Thomas is about trying to intimidate him and the Supreme Court’s originalist majority, not ethics.
1:15 PM · May 5, 2023

Some of the responses:

Okay so why is the complaints being raised about ethics then?

This is a parody account, right?

Same difference.

Why is it that the lower courts follow and abide by ethical standards but our highest does not? How can we trust him to interpret the constitution when he has been filling out forms incorrectly for years? Why aren’t you pushing for ethical standards?

Not even you believe that, #Schmitthead.

What would you know about ethics?

Yeah, sure, because billionaires always buy everyone’s mother’s house, remodel the house, and let mom still live there rent free (May 1, 2023)

Previously:

Josh Hawley(r) has serious concerns about the financial dealings of Clarence Thom…oh, wait (May 4, 2023)

Former Missouri Attorney General and Self-described “Diehard Cardinals fan” – on the Judicial Ethics of U.S. Supreme Court Justices

13 Thursday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, US Senate

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Clarence Thomas, Eric Schmidt, Fascist pig, judicial ethics, missouri, real estate deal, right wingnut, silence

Nothing. Zip. Zero.

What’s up with that, Eric (r)?

Damn, if we had only known earlier that someone could be bought for just $133,363.00.

Former Missouri Attorney General and Self-described “constitutional lawyer” – on the Judicial Ethics of U.S. Supreme Court Justices

13 Thursday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Clarence Thomas, Fascist pig, Josh Hawley, judicial ethics, real estate deal, right wingnut, silence, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia

Nothing. Zip. Zero.

What’s up with that, Josh (r)?

Damn, if we had only known earlier that someone could be bought for just $133,363.00.

Crooked Clarence

11 Tuesday Apr 2023

Posted by penroseonpolitics in Uncategorized

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Clarence Thomas, Ginni Thomas, Harlan Crow, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Ethics

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): on the U.S. Supreme Court

08 Saturday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress

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5th Congressional District, brazen grifting, Clarence Thomas, court reform, Emanuel Cleaver, judicial ethics, missouri, U.S. Supreme Court

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) [2022 file photo].

On Thursday:

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver @repcleaver
We need a SCOTUS that the American people know will make decisions based on the rule of law, not luxury trips & gifts provided by GOP billionaires.

This kind of brazenly unethical behavior diminishes Americans’ faith in our justice system—and is why we need court reform.
[….]
11:31 AM · Apr 6, 2023

Amen.

Clarence Thomas who?

24 Thursday Mar 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Clarence Thomas, Josh Hawley, Ketanji Brown Jackson, right wingnut, Supreme Court, U.S. Senate

Inconvenient timing.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

In a world full of people like Josh Hawley (r), be a Cory Booker (D) (March 23, 2022)

This is the GOP in the 21st Century (March 23, 2022)

Danforth’s at it again …

23 Wednesday Feb 2022

Posted by penroseonpolitics in Uncategorized

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Clarence Thomas, John Danforth, Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican Party, Missouri Senate Race, Senator John Danforth

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