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SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship case
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The Trump administration will also likely continue to be barred from enforcing the order – which will not go into effect for 30 days – against the individual pregnant plaintiffs who had challenged it. But the court’s opinion, by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, left open the prospect of additional litigation in the lower courts about how much more the injunctions should be narrowed, as well as the possibility of class action litigation to challenge the order on behalf of groups of plaintiffs who were not part of the litigation before the court but would be affected by the order.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion that she read from the bench – a signal of her strong disagreement with the majority’s ruling. She stated that the majority had ruled that, “absent cumbersome class-action litigation, courts cannot completely enjoin even such plainly unlawful policies unless doing so is necessary to afford the formal parties complete relief. That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit.”
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed a separate dissent in which she contended that the majority’s “decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”
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LAWdork: SCOTUS conservatives end “universal injunctions” in birthright citizenship cases
Justice Barrett wrote the 6-3 decision that created more complications than it provided answers. Stark dissents questioned the ruling’s effect on the rule of law.
Steve Vladeck: What Does the Birthright Citizenship Ruling Portend?
Friday’s ruling in Trump v. CASA will fundamentally alter the relationship between federal courts and other government institutions. How much depends upon three questions the decision left unanswered.
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 27, 2025
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It is actually a historical myth and a willful misinterpretation of the law that the Civil War ended in 1869, that birthright citizenship came out of a case filed on that exact day, and that the “case” was “very obviously” about “the babies of slaves.” But there were indeed echoes of the past in the administration’s position on immigration today. The administration’s announcement that it is terminating Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians, stripping them of their legal status, seems to echo the ancient laws saying only “free white persons” can become citizens.
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John Pavlovitz: I Don’t Grieve His Hatred, Trump Supporter, I Grieve Yours.
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Engadget: Peter Thiel is utterly wrong about Alzheimer’s
He probably knows. And he probably doesn’t care.
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Admittedly, many of these assertions fall squarely into the realm of things that exist within Thiel’s mind palace rather than verifiable facts, with at least one notable exception. Relatively early in their chat, Peter tells Ross the following [emphasis ours]:If we look at biotech, something like dementia, Alzheimer’s — we’ve made zero progress in 40 to 50 years. People are completely stuck on beta amyloids. It’s obviously not working. It’s just some kind of a stupid racket where the people are just reinforcing themselves.
It’s a pretty bold claim! It’s also completely untrue.
“There was no treatment 40 or 50 years ago for Alzheimer’s disease,” Sterling Johnson, a professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Engadget. “What we’ve been able to do in the last 20 years has been actually pretty extraordinary. We’ve developed markers that help us identify when this disease starts, using the using amyloid markers and tau biomarkers, we know that the disease actually begins 20 years before the symptoms do, and that is a critical thing to know if we are going to prevent this disease.”
At the moment, Alzheimer’s remains incurable. But the absence of a miracle cure does not negate the accomplishments thus far in detection and prevention.
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Boing Boing: RFK Jr’s MAGA project funnels millions from public health to private wellness industry
I’ve recently found two essential resources that have helped me understand what, exactly, is going on with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s takeover of public health: (1) episode 259 of the Conspirituality podcast, MAHA is Project 2025’s Trojan Horse, and (2) Conspirituality podcast co-host Derek Beres’ accompanying article, MAHA’s Goal Is Not Health: Robert Kennedy’s Movement Promises More Privatization, which was recently published by the Accountability Journalism Institute.
Slate: The Supreme Court Just Handed RFK Jr. New and Extraordinarily Frightening Power
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NY Times: Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline
The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hurricanes and warn residents of their risk.
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration has said that in the next few days it will stop providing data from satellites that have been helping hurricane forecasters do their jobs for decades, citing “recent service changes” as the cause.
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Daily Kos: Bondi throws press conference to celebrate her human rights abuses
Attorney General Pam Bondi is celebrating a new milestone in her efforts to deport men accused of having too many tattoos. …
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emptywheel: “Egregious Behavior:” Alina Habba Confesses She Must Prosecute Donald Trump
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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