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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.

It turns out that Samuel Alito (r) is pro-choice…when it comes to flags

29 Wednesday May 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Fascist pig, judicial ethics, recusal, right wingnut, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court

[….]A Justice [pdf] should not allow family, social, political, financial, or other relationships to influence official conduct or judgment. A Justice should neither knowingly lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of the Justice or others nor knowingly convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the Justice. [….]

[2022 file photo]

[2020 file photo]

Apparently.

Alito rejects calls to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases because of flag controversies

[….]

….’As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,’ he wrote in nearly identical letters to Democrats in the House and the Senate.

He had previously explained to the newspaper that his wife put up the flag as part of a nasty neighborhood dispute.

The flag at his beach house was also hoisted by his wife, Alito wrote, noting that the house is in her name and was bought with money she inherited from her parents.

‘My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not,’ he wrote….

[….]

We’re fond of judicial ethics and The Constitution, he is not.

[2020 file photo]

[2021 file photo]

Samuel Alito (r) has made his decision, now let him enforce it

21 Friday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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dissent, Fascist pig, Mifepristone, reproductive health, Samuel Alito, stay, U.S. Supreme Court, womens' rights

ALITO, J., dissenting
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 22A901
DANCO LABORATORIES, LLC v. ALLIANCE FOR
HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
No. 22A902
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, ET AL. v.
ALLIANCE FOR HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[April 21, 2023]

Temper tantrum.

…Our granting of a stay of a lower-court decision is an equitable remedy. It should not be given if the moving party has not acted equitably, and that is the situation here. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has engaged in what has become the practice of “leverag[ing]” district court injunctions “as a basis” for implementing a desired policy while evading both necessary agency procedures and judicial review…

…and here, the Government has not dispelled legitimate doubts that it would even obey an unfavorable order in these cases, much less that it would choose to take enforcement actions to which it has strong objections…

2-7, apparently.

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