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The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the Colorado presidential ballot in 2024 is inconsistent with critical facts in the timeline of events that occurred on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The Court’s conclusion that Trump incited an insurrection is largely based on words that Trump spoke after the barricades at the Capitol were first breached.

The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Biden administration.

The Supreme Court and the Constitution Some background may help you understand why a radio show aired before I was born caused me to share it with folks who may have no interest. I amuse myself by listening to the radio shows we listened to before television. I discovered that many of the old radio shows I enjoyed were available on the Internet. Shows like The Shadow, Inner Sanctum, Mysterious Traveler, and many more. Additional enjoyment came from discovering the radio shows that I didn’t know about or wasn’t interested in. This is from a 1936 America Town Meeting on...

With a wary eye over the future of the federal courts, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned Sunday of the perils of artificial intelligence (AI) when deciding cases and other important legal matters. His remarks came in the annual year-end report issued by the head of the federal judiciary, which made no mention of current controversies surrounding his court, including calls for greater transparency and ethics reform binding the justices. Noting the legal profession in general is "notoriously averse to change," Roberts urged a go-slow approach when embracing new technologies by the courts. "AI obviously has great potential to...

MADISON, Wis. - The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday told the new liberal majority in a scathing email that they had staged a “coup” and conducted an “illegal experiment” when they voted to weaken her powers and fire the director of state courts. Chief Justice Annette Ziegler, in two emails obtained by The Associated Press, said that firing and hiring a new state court director was illegal and ordered interim state court director Audrey Skwierawski to stop signing orders without her knowledge or approval. “You are making a mess of the judiciary, the court and...

Less than one day after being arraigned on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential race, former President Donald Trump on Friday called for the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the 2024 contest. Trump, the top contender in the Republican presidential primary, claimed that dealing with numerous ongoing legal battles amounts to “election interference” — the very thing he is accused of conspiring to do in his latest indictment. “My political opponent has hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which require massive amounts of my time & money to adjudicate,” Trump...

resident Biden should find ways to defy the rulings of "MAGA justices" for their "gravely mistaken" constitutional interpretations, law professors urged in a letter on Wednesday. Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin penned "An Open Letter to the Biden Administration on Popular Constitutionalism" to respond to what Biden has called "not a normal court" following high-profile cases. "We urge resident Biden to restrain MAGA justices immediately by announcing that if and when they issue rulings that are based on gravely mistaken interpretations of the Constitution that undermine our most fundamental commitments, the...

Boston University School of Law students were offered therapy after three controversial Supreme Court decisions this week about affirmative action, religious freedom and student debt forgiveness. The BU Law Student Government Association's (SGA) statement, sent out to law students Friday afternoon, denounced the three Supreme Court decisions of the week: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 303 Creative LLC. v. Elenis and Biden v. Nebraska. In an email obtained by Fox News Digital, the student board began by lambasting the Supreme Court's decision in the Students for Fair Admissions case, which declared race-based affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional....

resident Joe Biden on Friday charged the Supreme Court with misinterpreting the U.S. Constitution when it struck down his $400 billion student loan forgiveness program and accused Republicans of snatching away people's hope with their hypocrisy on the issue. In remarks at the White House, Biden said he was 'angry' about the decision but outlined several executive actions he was taking to help make it easier for borrowers to pay off their debts. He said his new plans would save borrowers $1,000 a year, cap monthly payments at 5 percent of discretionary income a month, and forgive loan balances after...

The Supreme Court will take up a major gun rights case next term when it considers if banning people under domestic violence restraining orders from having weapons violates the Constitution. The justices decided Friday that they will rule on 1994 federal law that forbids abusers from possessing firearms in what could be the third major Second Amendment decision since 2008. They took up the case on the last day of the term, where the struck down President Joe Biden's $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan. Justices will hear cases again when the court's next term begins in October. The bench...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says Senate Democrats don’t have any jurisdiction over the Supreme Court’s ethics and should “stay out” of the court’s business, after ProPublica reported conservative Justice Samuel Alito accepted a luxury fishing vacation from wealthy benefactors. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the chairman of a key Judiciary subcommittee, said in response to the report that they will mark up Supreme Court ethics legislation. But McConnell sent a strong signal Wednesday that any Supreme Court ethics reform bill is not likely to get enough Republican support to overcome a...

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), who is a leading candidate to replace ailing Sen. Dianne Feinstein in California, called Sunday to pack the Supreme Court by adding new seats and filling them with liberal justices. Lee’s call amplifies the effort by Democrats, including House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), to counter the Court’s conservative majority by creating a new, artificial liberal majority. Since extremist groups captured the courts, Justices have thrown out years of precedent to overturn Roe, gut voting rights, strike down common sense gun safety laws & more. It’s past time we expand the court, pass...

I thought my fellow freepers might enjoy this...I was going through the vault on my old podcast clips and found this clip where I drunk dialed Presidential Candidate and New Hampshire nut job Vermin Supreme. Anyways, I promise to post plenty of other stuff on here and not just my stuff...but I thought this was funny and wanted to share with someone who could appreciate it! Enjoy!

According to this tweet Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State defies a Supreme Court order and include undated mail-in ballots in the vote count And according to this article Lawmakers want to know why Pennsylvania sent out 240000 unverified-ballots The Pennsylvania Secretary of State sent out 240,000 unverified mail in ballots after the Supreme court ruled she couldn't. If I defy the Supreme court, or any court for that matter, I get a contempt of court citation which could result in my imprisonment. If I do it more than once, it could result in longer imprisonment. The way I see it,...

Justice Neil Gorsuch said he and his fellow justices could gain more insight on the leak that sent shockwaves across the nation ahead of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. 'The chief justice appointed an internal committee to oversee the investigation,' Justice Gorsuch told the 10th Circuit Bench and Bar Conference in Colorado Springs, according to the Wall Street Journal. 'That committee has been busy and we're looking forward to their report, I hope soon.' It was Gorsuch's first public comment on the matter since the late June ruling. The Trump-nominated justice did not say whether the...

With the repeal of Roe v. Wade, more and more Democrats have begun to view the Supreme Court as illegitimate. Many liberal New Yorkers hope President Biden and the Senate can somehow expand the Court or radically reimagine it in other ways. Such a plan is years from being realized, though, and the 6-3 conservative majority is going nowhere anytime soon. For now, furious activists would be better off directing their energy elsewhere. The good news is that a rare opportunity to shape a different high court emerged on Monday with the news that New York’s most powerful judge is...

The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the executive branch’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, effectively insisting that Congress take back its jurisdiction over environmental regulations and muddying the legislative waters in the last crucial weeks of the summer session. The court’s 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency on June 30 set back President Joe Biden’s climate agenda by curtailing the EPA’s power over the energy sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, meaning Congress will likely have to pass these regulations. The Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers are desperate to pass some form of climate infrastructure bill as time...

The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s powers to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, in a decision that could limit the authority of government agencies to address major policy questions without congressional approval. Elaborating on earlier decisions, the high court said federal agencies need explicit authorization from Congress to decide issues of major economic and political significance, drawing on a principle known as the “major questions doctrine.” In his decision for the 6-3 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said Congress never gave the EPA the authority to change the methods a power plant uses—regulations known as...

Max Boot who is calling for direct US military involvement to defeat Russia and driven them out of Ukraine, is now setting up the argument for a totally different form of US Government. Basically, he's losing his mind over the recent Supreme Court decisions and is tired of small states having equal representation in the US Senate and wants something done about it.

I usually leave my spouse rants to other forums (and on occasion - my ears). But her rant about the latest Supreme Court ruling has received so many digital fist-bumps that I had to share it here. With that said, I humbly present to you - my wife - lady jimjohn (un-redacted). ___________________________________________________________ With apologies to my more delicate friends: I will give you a minute to leave the room before I rant... Ok. To the rest of you: I don’t care what side of this issue you are on…stop with the drama and overreacting. This decision changes very little....