I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
Everyone knows that you’ve got to wait until you’re a major party presidential candidate before you can get away with that sort of thing.
Anyway, if a President can try to use fraud and incite violence to overturn an election, get re-elected anyway by people who are fine with that, and use re-election to nullify the case against him, at what point do he and his supporters lose the expectation of being protected by the rule of law?
It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to shut down El Paso Catholic nonprofit after it resists immediately handing over migrant client records
Annunciation House, a network of shelters that serves migrants, sought relief from the attorney general’s demand to immediately release information about its clients. Paxton accused the religious gro…
This sort of charade does serve a purpose, other than publicity, whether it means to or not: sustain the illusion of superfunctional AI for long enough to ensure everyone on the creative side of creative industries loses their job & can be rehired for peanuts on zero hours as a “content generator”
one of the strangest things about this piece if you read it is that it takes for granted the idea that trump’s election somehow represented the public will. it also rests on the idea that trump did not try to overturn the results of the previous election through illegal & extra-constitutional means
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OPINION | The Supreme Court Should Overturn the Colorado Ruling Unanimously
[HIGHLIGHTING BEGINS] The truth is that this country has to be allowed to save itself. [HIGHLIGHTING ENDS] The Supreme Court must act, but only to place the burden on Mr. Trump’s political opponents to make their case in the political arena. Not just to criticize him for his turpitude, but to argue that their own policies benefit the disaffected voters who side with a charlatan again and again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreicvfjvfqhpqgyoqrw3euqv5gbde54gbmi7f7whvxwwbetvhscezay@jpeg)
No, Bluesky, I do not want to see a "Possum Every Hour" or ever.
TX Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding Seattle Children's Hospital turn over medical records of any transgender Texas resident under 18 who has accessed gender-affirming care at the WA-based clinic. SCH has sued Paxton who has no authority to prosecute care accessed outside of Texas.
The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related…
