As you’re probably aware, the United States Supreme Court made some monumental decisions yesterday that almost unilaterally benefit the Trump administration.Most notably, the birthright citizenship decision and the decision on lower court injunctions.The legal analysts over at MSNBC are taking the news as well as you’d expect, which is to say, not well at all.NewsBusters reports (emphasis is theirs):
University of Michigan assistant law professor Leah Litman’s jaw literally dropped when the rulings were released (pictured above, she’s wearing the green jacket). To take a break from clutching her pearls, she touted the belligerence and hyperbolic dissent from the liberal activist justices:
I just want to note the Democratic appointees’ strong dissents in this case. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calls the court’s decision, “an existential threat to the rule of law.” Justice Sotomayor’s dissent says, “no right is safe in the new legal regime the court creates.” She calls the court, “complicit in a grave attack on our system of law.”
“The reality is the Supreme Court’s Republican justices took away lower courts single powerful tool – the most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration and holding them accountable to the law,” Litman decried…
Further in the show, legal correspondent Lisa Rubin touted how liberal attorneys general had “predicted” how the conservative Supreme Court would supposedly strip away our civil rights, particularly touting New Jersey’s Matt Platkin, who claimed blue states were better places to live:
Attorney General [Matt] Platkin in New Jersey told me, and I’m reading from our transcript, “I think it’s fair to say, today, your rights and privileges as an American citizen vary based on what state you live in. So, if you want to be free from gun violence, if you want to make sure you have access to reproductive health care, if you want your kids to get a quality public education, all of those are meaningfully different depending on whether you live in a state, frankly, with attorneys general like us, or if not, so that when they created the Constitution and gave power to the states on law enforcement, on education, and a whole range of areas health care, this is what happens when the federal government gets out of that space, and we are standing up for those rights.”
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They seem even more panicked now than they did after election day.
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