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BREAKING:Donald Trump now faces 13 Articles of Imp£achment—marking the highest number ever filed against a sitting or former U.S. president.
BREAKING:Donald Trump now faces 13 Articles of Imp£achment—marking the highest number ever filed against a sitting or former U.S. president.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor publicly SLAMS her conservative colleagues for turning the Court into Trump’s personal rubber stamp!
In a rare public rebuke, Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the 6-3 conservative majority for giving the Trump administration preferential treatment on emergency motions and allowing Trump to bypass normal appeals and get favorable rulings with little commentary.
“We’ve done it to ourselves,” Sotomayor said. “The newspapers are filled with reports about how many emergency motions we are receiving. It’s unprecedented in the court’s history.”
The Trump administration has filed roughly 30 emergency applications in just 15 months – far more than previous presidents – and the conservative justices have sided with Trump over 80% of the time.
Sotomayor recalled that the Court used to focus on whether regular people would suffer “irreparable harm” from a bad ruling.
Now, the conservatives have flipped the script: they assume the executive branch (i.e. Trump) will be irreparably harmed if any of his policies are blocked, making it much easier for him to win on fast-track emergency orders.
She took an especially sharp swipe at Brett Kavanaugh, saying his claim that immigration stops are “typically brief” shows how out of touch he is with working people who live paycheck to paycheck.
At the same time the court that was bending over backwards to help Trump push his agenda, it was also slow-walking or blocking accountability from the administration, the Justice said.
Sotomayor is absolutely right. The highest court in the land must not be a rubber stamp for one man’s revenge and power grabs.
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