Moonbats: SCOTUS Decision On Judges Not Being All Powerful Is Like The Dred Scott Decision

This is so stupid it’s possible that Ketanji Brown Jackson and her Gen Z interns actually wrote it

Opinion – The Supreme Court’s injunctions decision returns America to the constitutional horrors of Dred Scott

In ordinary times, someone could read the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of so-called “universal injunctions” as just the latest example of an old dispute: the proper way to interpret the Constitution and the jurisdiction of federal courts. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion saying the federal district courts do not have the authority to issue such injunctions is a classic in the genre of “originalism.”

In contrast, the dissenting opinions by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson read the law through the lens not just of its origins but with an eye to how an interpretation would affect the world beyond the courtroom. They understand that these are not ordinary times and do not want to disable the judiciary from responding when fundamental rights are at stake, in the face of an ongoing assault on the rule of law itself.

To put it simply, with its decision in Trump v. Casa, the court has become an accomplice in President Trump’s ongoing assault on our constitutional republic. The decision has effectively removed the federal courts as a check on the Trump administration.

BTW, this decision could help future Democrats from being the recipients of nationwide injunctions. But, here we go

But it also does grave damage to the court itself — Trump v. Casa now takes its place among the high court’s most infamous rulings. As Stephen Lubet says, it returns us to the world of its discredited Dred Scott decision, which found that the rights of Black people depended on where they lived. Just like Blacks in the antebellum world who had one status in free states and another in slave states, immigrants and others may now find themselves in a legal nether land.

To thoroughly appreciate the impact of Trump v. Casa, it is important to remember that “universal injunctions” allow courts to grant immediate relief that benefits not only the party who requests them but also anyone harmed by an action of the government. Individuals or organizations can go to court seeking such orders while they pursue further legal action.

Except, that is not the way the U.S. Constitution is set up. What if, say, a Republican federal judge in Alabama decided to rule against abortion on demand and instituted a federal injunction, saying that abortion is now illegal in the entire U.S. until such time as a higher court rules differently? Or that every citizen 18 and up now has the right to concealed carry? Or that environmental reviews on projects are no longer necessary? You’d be fine with that, right, Democrats?

As Sotomayor argues, the majority now holds that “No matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.” Sotomayor condemns her colleagues’ attachment to a “rigid historical test” that allows “a grave and unsupported diminution of the judicial power of equity,” and chastises the majority for its “complicity” in the president’s “‘mockery’ of our constitution.”

We’re either a nation of Law, based on the Constitution, or a nation of Men, based on feelings. Also, this is why the federal government shouldn’t have so much damned power over states and citizens, something the Constitution never called for and never wanted.

Her opinion conjured the jurisprudence of the Dred Scott era when it warned that the court’s new decision creates a “two-tiered scheme” in which someone’s citizenship status depends on whether they live in a state where an injunction has been issued or a state where no court ruling has been made. Jackson echoed Sotomayor in her worry that the court is acquiescing in the administration’s desire “to operate in two different zones moving forward: one in which it is required to follow the law (because a particular plaintiff has secured a personal injunction prohibiting its unlawful conduct) and another in which you can choose to violate the law with respect to certain people (those who have yet to sue).”

But, citizenship is not determined by federal judges, it is determined by the laws as passed by the duly elected Congress. Birthright citizenship is not settled: if you are a member of a foreign diplomatic group, any child you have born in the US will not be a US citizen. That was determined by US law, pretty much following the way most Western nations viewed it prior to the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, the latter of which was never meant to apply to foreign citizens visiting the US who are subject to the jurisdiction of being citizens of another country.

Regardless, there is no authority given to these judges to implement nationwide injunctions because they do not like a president’s policies, and, you know Democrats are losing badly when they have to trot out comparing it to Dred Scott, a case that ended in 1857, when times were vastly different. Doesn’t mean it was a good decision, just a different time. And 99% of US citizens have no idea about the details, just that It Was Bad.

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If All You See…

…is a very hazy day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on Greater Idaho.

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Bummer: Jew Hating Rap Group Has U.S. Visas Cancelled

The U.S. is under no obligation to let just anyone in, and when it comes to people who support Hamas and want Jews killed, bye!

U.S. revokes U.K. band’s visas over anti-Israel chant at Glastonbury

The BBC has said it regrets not pulling down its live stream of a performance at the Glastonbury music festival over the weekend that included what the broadcaster calls “utterly unacceptable” chants against Israel’s military.

The taxpayer-funded BBC said in a statement Monday that it regrets not cutting short its live streaming signal after punk-rap duo Bob Vylan started leading a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” during their Saturday performance, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.

“The BBC respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence,” the statement from the broadcaster said. “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves… The [BBC broadcasting] team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen.”

Oh, please, the BBC has been, like most leftist media outlets, on the bandwagon of hating on Israel, which turns into hating on Jews. Don’t forget, all Israeli citizens must serve a term in the IDF, so wanting to kill the IDF is wanting to kill all Israelis.

The reaction from the Trump administration appeared to be significantly harsher, with Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau saying in a social media post on Monday that U.S. entry visas already issued to Bob Vylan’s members had been revoked “in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants.”

The band’s website shows more than a dozen scheduled tour dates in the U.S., from coast to coast, starting in late October.

“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,” Landau said in the post.

Hamas and Hezbollah are US State Department designated terrorist groups. If they want to support them, they can do it elsewhere

On Sunday, Bob Vylan posted a lengthy statement on their Instagram page, with the caption: “I said what I said.”

In other words, they’re proud of wanting to kill Jews.

Local police have launched an investigation into the chants to determine whether any criminal offenses may have been committed.

Really? What will come of it? Many people have been prosecuted and jailed for mild ant-Palestinian memes. Will these two scumbags get the same treatment? The rap duo hides their real names, one going by Bobby Vylan and the other Bobbie Vylan, but, the singer’s name has been uncovered, being Pascal Robinson-Foster. Will other Western nations also ban the group for their pure hatred?

Meanwhile

Zohran Mamdani says mayors shouldn’t ‘police speech’ when asked to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’ slogan

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee in New York City’s mayoral race, on Sunday again sidestepped an opportunity to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” saying that mayors shouldn’t “police speech.”

“That’s not language that I use,” Mamdani said when asked if he condemns the phrase, which is widely viewed by Jewish groups as offensive and antisemitic, on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.”

Mamdani added, “Ultimately, that’s what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that have meaning, have to be applied to all people, and that includes Israelis and Palestinians.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has no condemnation for those calling for the murder of Jews. That’s who New Yorker’s are potentially electing a mayor. If they do, the rich folks will leave and be replaced with poor Islamic extremists. It’ll soon look like fallen London.

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Electric Bikes Are Causing “Lime Bike Leg”

It’s a small price to pay to save the world from global boiling, you know

Rise of ‘Lime bike leg’: That’s the epidemic of shattered limbs and mangled knees caused by the 86lb bikes. Now doctors and victims reveal the danger and say: ‘I’m NEVER going on one of those again’

On a warm Saturday afternoon in west London, Theo thought he had found the perfect shortcut home to avoid waiting for the bus from Paddington station.

Minutes later, he was lying on the pavement in agony – not a victim of a traffic accident but of the electric bike he’d hired for £1.
‘I was hurtling down what I thought was an empty and quiet residential road,’ he told the Mail. ‘I could hardly see the scooter when it pulled out from the corner of my eye just ahead and I panicked.’

Theo, 27, grabbed the brakes and tried to swerve. He remembers skidding along the road then toppling to the ground, followed by a searing pain as the neon-green Lime bike – all 86lb of it – landed on his legs.

Residents heard the crash and called for help, after which Theo was ‘hauled into an ambulance and taken to St Mary’s Hospital. After many painful hours and scans, it emerged I had fractured my tibia’.

I certainly hope the ambulance was an EV and the hospital ran on wind and solar

This particular injury – now popularly referred to as ‘Lime bike leg’ – is among dozens of serious traumas being linked to a surge in e-bike use across the capital and beyond, as the green revolution sweeps towns and cities from Cambridge, Manchester and Milton Keynes to Nottingham, Slough, Liverpool and Derby.

What initially began as an initiative for clean, convenient transport has become, for a growing number of users, a one-way trip to A&E.

In orthopaedic wards across London, surgeons are seeing an increase in otherwise healthy young people arriving in emergency units with tibia and femur fractures, mangled knees and crushed wrists. (snip)

‘E-bike injuries are in general very common now – we are seeing them on a daily basis,’ [Jaison Patel, a trauma and orthopaedic knee consultant] says.

‘I see broken bones, wrist fractures, collarbones, femur and a few tibia fractures as well as open fractures (when the bone has come through the skin). It definitely feels like an upward trend – a lot of my colleagues have mentioned that they too have seen an increase.’

We’re saving the planet, Jaison. Might want to focus on that, instead of all the broken bones. Sheesh!

Oh, and, being a Daily Mail piece, the broken bones and injuries keep going on and on.

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Heartache: Trump DOJ Sues Los Angeles Over Sanctuary Policies

Democrats should be grateful that the Supreme Court ruled that federal judges/courts cannot implement nationwide rulings, as an LA loss could have meant all sanctuary jurisdictions ended

Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary policies

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over its immigration policies, the Justice Department announced Monday, claiming sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities clash with federal law.

The filing marks an escalation in the Trump administration’s feuding with California over immigration, and is the latest strike by DOJ against sanctuary-city laws in various states.

“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in the press release. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”

The filing, which names the city, Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council, follows a wave of protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids targeting farms and businesses. It comes as the Trump administration is locked in separate litigation with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued the administration to block the deployment of the National Guard in the city in response to the upheaval.

The latest lawsuit argues that the city’s “refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities” has led to “lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism.” Los Angeles had lifted a curfew placed in response to the protests after a week as protesting died down.

The filing also said that the city’s policies are “designed to and in fact do interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,” an argument the administration has long used in its attack on sanctuary-city laws.

It’s assigned to an Obama appointed federal judge. I guess we’ll see. But, according to previous lawsuits, such as Obama suing Arizona over SB1070, the federal government has primacy, and, states/cities must follow federal law when it comes to immigration.

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Eight Countries Plan To Tax The Rich For Flying Or Something

How soon till “rich” means “everyone”?

Eight-country coalition aims to tax luxury air travel

Countries including France, Kenya, Barbados and Spain on Monday launched a coalition to push for taxes on wealthy air passengers to help poorer nations respond to climate change, the French presidency said.

The coalition, which also brings together Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone and Antigua and Barbuda, said it would work to increase the number of countries taxing plane tickets, including business-class travel, and private jets.

The air industry is a major source of the polluting emissions that contribute to global warming, which inflicts its worst impacts on vulnerable developing countries that are least responsible.

Ahead of November’s UN climate summit in Brazil, the French presidency said in a statement the group would work on making the aviation sector contribute more to funding climate adaptation.

Are people dying to fly to the failed state of Somalia? Benin? Can anyone locate it on a map without doing a web search (it’s a tiny nation on Africa’s SW coast, not exactly somewhere people are going)? Sierra Leone has a State Department travel advisory, the same as with Somalia and Benin. Barbados, Barbuda, and Antigua depend on tourists coming in on fossil fueled flights. France? Well, remember that France bannedshort-haul flights of under 2 hours, except for private jets.

Hey, I wonder if the taxes apply to the government employees and elected officials who fly upper class and on private jets?

France, Kenya and Barbados have previously lobbied for such “solidarity levies” to raise money for climate action, suggesting taxes on shipping, fossil fuels, plastic and cryptocurrency.

The group has suggested levies on flying could raise up to 187 billion euros ($220 billion) if they were applied across the board.

See, they want the taxes on all passengers.

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If All You See…

…is a horrible fossil fueled boat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Grist, with a post on sheep at solar farms (I don’t agree with the scam stuff, but, having sheep grazing is good).

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Usual Suspects Upset U.S. Not Participating In Global Redistributing Conference

The UN is playing games with 1st World vs 3rd World, and the Trump admin is refusing to participate. They want to take lots and lots of money from the rich to give to the poor. But, first

Britain ‘can no longer ignore’ ballooning national debt

Britain is among Western nations threatened with a fiscal crisis as state spending balloons and investors lose their appetite for government bonds.

In a veiled warning to Sir Keir Starmer after his about-turn on welfare cuts, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), said highly indebted countries can no longer keep borrowing vast sums to help plug funding gaps.

Given the threat of slow growth, high borrowing costs and geopolitical turmoil, Agustin Carstens, the BIS chief, said: “High levels of public debt are a significant vulnerability that governments can no longer ignore.”

Western nations are spending huge sums of money bringing in 3rd world people from around the world, people who are burdens to the state and do not assimilate. Next

Nations are meeting to drum up trillions to combat poverty — but the US isn’t going

Many of the world’s nations are gathering starting Monday in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor nations and try to drum up trillions of dollars needed to close it. The United States, previously a major contributor, pulled its participation, so finding funding will be tough.

The four-day Financing for Development meeting in the southern city of Seville is taking place as many countries face escalating debt burdens, declining investments, decreasing international aid and increasing trade barriers.

“Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his opening comments at the conference.

For all that money, how many of those poor countries are actually developing? How much has been dumped into those countries since the start of the Cold War

The U.N. and Spain, the conference co-hosts, believe the meeting is an opportunity to reverse the downward spiral, close the staggering $4 trillion annual financing gap to promote development, bring millions of people out of poverty and help achieve the U.N.’s wide-ranging and badly lagging Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

Oh, so, they’re also linking it to the climate scam, despite dumping massive and absurd amounts of money into 3rd world shitholes via “climate change’.

“The government of Spain believes that this summit is an opportunity for us to change course, for us to raise our voice in the face of those who seek to convince us that rivalry and competition will set the tone for humanity and for its future,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told the delegates as he inaugurated the conference.

The government of Spain has been bringing in 3rd World Muslims, allowing them to slowly take over the nation and turn it Islamist.

High-level delegations, including more than 70 world leaders, are attending in Seville, the U.N. said, along with several thousand others from international financial institutions, development banks, philanthropic organizations, the private sector and civil society.

At its last preparatory meeting on June 17, the United States rejected the 38-page outcome document that had been negotiated for months by the U.N.’s 193 member nations and announced its withdrawal from the process and from the Seville conference.

Trump is done giving unaccountable money to the UN, banks, and NGOs, who siphon it off, with a pittance making it to the intended poor folks. He is done giving 3rd world nations money with no strings attached. And he’s rather done with the UN, with its Jew hatred, support of Islamists, and America hatred.

Among the proposals and actions, it calls for minimum tax revenue of 15% of a country’s gross domestic product to increase government resources, a tripling of lending by multilateral development banks, and scaling up private financing by providing incentives for investing in critical areas like infrastructure. It also calls for a number of reforms to help countries deal with rising debt.

Can 1st World nations afford that, with their own ballooning deficits? Trump won’t do that. And it would require, at a minimum, Senate approval, and that won’t happen.

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Could Maybe Alter The Flavor Of Your Gin And Tonic

Just to ruin the start of the week for all you gin and tonic lovers…or, heck, anyone who drinks gin (which tastes like paint thinner to me)

How climate change could alter the flavour of your gin and tonic forever

The flavour of gin and tonic may never be the same again due to climate change, a new study has suggested.

Scientists have found that volatile weather conditions, could change the taste of juniper berries – the botanical that gives the spirit its distinctive taste.

It could make the drink less floral, sweet, citrus, woody, earthy or musty than its current flavour, according to scientists from Heriot-Watt University’s International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD).

The same species of berry grown in different parts of the world contain different flavour compounds, just like wine. This is dependent on rainfall and sunshine, according to the study, published in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing.

Researchers put this to the test by distilling berries from different regions across Europe. This included Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Italy all from varying harvest years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They grew grapes and made good wines in the U.K. during the last Holocene warm period, the Medieval Warm Period. The climate is always fluctuating. Growing cycles change, growing areas shift. Such is life on Earth.

The spirits were analysed by separating the compounds of the gin using gas chromatography to measure the levels of key flavour compounds.

It confirmed that each region had its own distinct chemical profile, which impacts the overall flavour of the gin.

Do they actually think juniper berries for gin are currently grown in once place? Well, yeah, because they are cultists.

That’s where they are growing. Heck, I could go the State Farmer’s Market and buy some. And make gin. I wouldn’t, again, nasty.

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Iran’s Top Cleric Issues Fatwa For Trump, Netanyahu, And Basically Every Non-Muslim World Leader

You already have Ayatollah Ali Khamenei making threats, including against US troops. And now

Top Iranian cleric issues ‘fatwa’ against Trump, Netanyahu

Iran’s top Shiite cleric issued a religious decree against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday, an act some experts called an incitement to terrorism.

The fatwa from Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi called on Muslims around the world to take a stand, according to the New York Sun. It states that any individual or government that challenges or endangers the leadership and unity of the global Islamic community (the Ummah) is to be regarded as a “warlord” or a “mohareb,” defined as someone who wages war against God. Under Iranian law, those identified as mohareb can face execution, crucifixion, limb amputation, or exile.

“Those who threaten the leadership and integrity of the Islamic Ummah are to be considered warlords,” Makarem said in the ruling. He finished with a prayer asking for protection from these “enemies” and for the swift return of the Mahdi, a messianic figure in Shiite Islam.

Don’t forget, so many, most, really, of Iran’s top leadership believe in the whole twelfth Imam stuff, a bit more out there and extremist than others

British-Iranian commentator Niyak Ghorbani condemned the fatwa, describing it as a state-endorsed incitement to global terrorism.

He posted on his X account that the Islamic Republic’s aggression is not limited to domestic dissent but signals broader international ambitions for religiously motivated violence.

“The West must realise: the Islamic Republic is not only targeting its own people — it is preparing for global violence in the name of religion,” he wrote in the post.

Click the tweet for the full translation of the fatwa

But, liberals/leftists/Modern Socialists play the whole diversity/multiculturalism game, and won’t listen. There are plenty of those on the regular right in the 1st World who won’t listen, either. They do not understand that the extremists are at war. It is a religious war for them. They aren’t stopping. They are spreading. They’ve been spreading.

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