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Judge-shopping has been a core strategy of the Heritage Foundation and one of their top priorities. They've been quietly paving the road leading to the current fascist mess by appointing extreme-right, extreme-right-adjacent and corrupt judges for years.
And now the trap has sprung. There is no justice in this country anymore.
As a lawyer, this is very, very, very well-put.
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump … in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today’s order is the 7th with no explanation at all.
The explanation is very simple - the conservarive majority is so entirely corrupt, compromised and lawless, and their rulings such a direct reflection of that, that they can't even manage to pretend that there's any legitimate basis for anything they do.
We need another Luigi
Nothing will change until people stop hoping for another one and start planning to be another one
John Roberts should be forced to sit on a cactus.