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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

The Administration Can’t Even Take a Hint from the Chief Justice

Will No One Rid Us of This Turbulent Musk?
harrylitman.substack.com/p/the

"Musk’s response was far worse. Yesterday, he made the maximum allowable donations to the seven #Republican members of #Congress who have filed or vocally supported the #impeachment of the #judges. The intent is unmistakable. He is showing #contempt for #Roberts and the #Court"

Text from article(edited for length): Trump... dismissed the scolding by saying Roberts “didn’t mention my name in his statement.” That’s like a 3rd-grade schoolchild getting beaten up & trying to save face by claiming the other guy didn’t lay a glove on him. It can’t thrill Roberts & the Court—who obviously felt strongly that some extraordinary gesture was warranted—to hear that Trump assumes they weren't even addressing him. But Musk’s response was far worse. Yesterday, he made the maximum allowable donations to the 7 Republican members of Congress who have filed or vocally supported the impeachment of the judges. The intent is unmistakable. He is showing contempt for Roberts & the Court, and doing it in his signature crass way—by throwing his money around. He is telling them: Yes, you may have earned the reproach of the highest court in the land, but never fear—you’re doing the right thing, & others should follow suit. This charade with Musk has gone on far too long. If he wants to be a rich benefactor of the administration... let him. But he has no business, and no expertise, to simultaneously run the govt & make radical, slap-happy cuts whose human costs he doesn’t begin to understand. And all this, of course, while the administration is claiming in court that he is some kind of amorphous senior adviser & that DOGE is actually run by a person nobody has heard of—one Amy Gleason—whom we just learned is officially listed on the government rolls as an HHS employee.
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#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭

“To his credit #Roberts avoided joining with #Trump expressly, but the meaning of his speech act was plain: it was a public correction, if not a contradiction, of the president of the United States. It was a public rebuke.” #Trumpland #USCorruption emptycity.substack.com/p/makin

The Empty City - a law and polity blog · Making sense of the Trump-Roberts exchange about impeachmentBy d. a. t. green
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janhoglund

“…his [Trump’s] suggestion that any judge with whom he disagrees should be removed…sparked pushback from Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts… Roberts wrote the Trump v. United States decision of July 1, 2024, establishing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of their official presidential duties, and it seems likely that Trump did not expect a rebuke from him.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 18, 2025
#trump #donaldtrump #roberts #johnroberts #usa

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Chuck Darwin

Project 2025 ex-director condemns Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’

The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as #Project2025 is
👉condemning what he sees as
“violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President #Kevin #Roberts
and 🔸calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD #Vance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book.

“If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, we have to do our part as well,” #Paul #Dans, who led Project 2025 until July, said in an interview.

“There’s no place for this sort of violent rhetoric and bellicose taunting, especially in light of the fact that President Trump has now been subject to not one but two assassination attempts.”

Roberts, who took over Washington’s preeminent conservative think tank in 2021, declared ⭐️a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be,”
during an appearance on a pro-Trump podcast in July, before a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

That same month, Roberts started marketing his book,
💥whose cover proposed “Burning Down Washington” and featured an image of a match.

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Project 2025 ex-director condemns Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’By Isaac Arnsdorf
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Chuck Darwin

Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America’s rickety democracy
-- in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.

Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy:

if Donald #Trump, rightwing courts, #gerrymandered state legislatures and an extreme Republican #caucus in the US House of Representatives create constitutional #chaos over the certification of this presidential election, 👉two men cleared the path.

The single-minded determination of #Leonard #Leo built a conservative supermajority on the US #supreme #court and ♦️stacked lower and state courts with Republican #ideologues that have pushed the nation to the right via the least accountable branch of government.

#Chris #Jankowski masterminded the partisan #gerrymanders that ♦️tilted state legislatures and congressional delegations across the south and the purple midwest toward extreme Republicans,
♦️ended Barack Obama’s second term before it started, and ♦️rendered elections in Wisconsinand North Carolina all but meaningless over the last decade and a half.

Leo and Jankowski understood, separately, that the courts and state legislatures were undervalued and often undefended targets for a deliberate strategy aimed at capturing important levers of power that sometimes float under the radar.

They could be Moneyball-ed, to borrow the term Michael Lewis used in his book about how the Oakland A’s made an end-run around large-market teams by understanding value that their opponents overlooked.

What Leo and Jankowski built separately would soon reinforce the other’s creation (with, of course, crucial assists from chief justice #John #Roberts), tightening the knots around meaningful elections, pushing policy to the extreme right and 💥making it nearly impossible for voters to do anything about it

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Two men have re-engineered the US electoral system in favor of RepublicansBy Guardian staff reporter
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SLCW💥

The #Roberts opinion was so focused on the risks to the vigorousness of the activities of future presidents that could come from the threat of future prosecutions that it was willing to ignore the current threat to #democracy from #Trump’s actions in 2020, not to mention his continued insistence that he won the last election.

#GOPfascists #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsATraitor #wannabeDictator #TrumpIsAFascist #TrumpIsAFelon #TrumpIsHumanGarbage #SCOTUSIsCorrupt

alternet.org/election-2024/jac

Alternet.org · 'Judicially executed cover up': Experts say Jack Smith filing 'major indictment' of SCOTUSBy David Badash
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Chuck Darwin

Through his role in securing the nominations of Clarence #Thomas, John #Roberts, and Samuel #Alito to the Supreme Court,
#Leonard #Leo’s political cachet began to grow.

An avid networker, he cultivated friendships with other members of the court,
spending a weekend in Colorado hunting with Judge Antonin #Scalia
— himself a devout Catholic and, like the Corkerys, close to #Opus #Dei.

Surrounded by such religious zeal, it didn’t take long for their example to reawaken his own Catholic faith, and Leo soon began tapping his network of #darkmoney #backers to support religious causes.

He twice bailed out the #Becket #Fund, a nonprofit named after a twelfth-century English martyr, that officially worked to protect religious freedoms,
especially those that were important to conservative Catholics.

He reveled in his reputation as the financial savior of this important community.

Soon afterwards, President Bush picked Leo as his representative to the "United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,"
a federal agency set up to police religious freedom around the world.

Despite its lofty aims, the commission had a tiny budget and its commissioners were unpaid.

Within Washington circles, many saw it as nothing more than an office for amateurs who meddled in foreign policy.

Undeterred by the skeptics, Leo made the most of his time at the commission to push his own Catholic agenda
— traveling to places like Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, and Vietnam to investigate allegations of religious persecution.

His own faith seemed to grow during that time,
with Leo occasionally reprimanding his staff for putting him in a hotel too far from a church,
making it difficult for him to attend Mass.

Some colleagues began to note a particular bias in the way he carried out a role that conflicted with the commission’s stated aim of championing the freedom of all religions.

He became embroiled in a lawsuit after one former colleague accused him of ❌firing her because she was Muslim.

Several staff members resigned because of the controversy,
and Leo was fired not long after.

Despite the scandal, his time at the commission deepened Leo’s faith and helped him cultivate his image as a serious political figure.

By the time of the #Federalist #Society’s twenty-fifth anniversary dinner in November 2007,
his influence was clear.

Leo shared the stage with the president and three sitting Supreme Court Justices
— Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito.

Chief Justice John Roberts sent a video message.

“Thanks in part to your efforts, a new generation of lawyers is rising,” President Bush told the assembled members.

At the time of this dinner, Leo was still recovering from the sudden death of his daughter Margaret just a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday
— an event that had a profound impact on him.

Margaret had been born with spina bifida and used a wheelchair.

Events around her death had reinforced Leo’s faith.

The previous summer, during a family vacation, Leo had promised Margaret that he would try to go to Mass more regularly.

Over the years, Margaret had developed an obsession with anything religious, and would nag her parents to take her to Mass.

She especially loved angels
— and priests, insisting on a hug every time she saw one.

The day after they returned from vacation, Leo got up early to go to Mass
— as promised — and looked in on Margaret.

As he was walking down the hall, she started gasping for breath and died shortly afterward.

“I will always think that she did her job,” he later said. “She did her job.”

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