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🤔Senate Republicans just voted to sideline their own wartime powers. Now a conservative Supreme Court could finish the job, striking down the law that limits Trump's ability to wage a war with virtually no limits.
It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness.
When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.
2/2 In Trump v. CASA, the Court’s conservatives were all too happy to prohibit universal injunctions when it served their political agenda. Now, “Kavanaugh’s complaints about the “mess” caused by lawless executive action sound less like prudence and more like selective amnesia.” 🏛️🧠
1/2 ⚖️ In the recent tariff ruling, Justice Brett Kavanaugh lamented that the refund process is likely to be a “mess.” He may be correct - but his dissent overlooks the fact that it was the Court’s conservative majority that caused this mess in the first place.
2/2 “Once the shooting starts, courts are structurally ill-suited to stop it. By the time a case is briefed and argued, bombs have already fallen, troops have been deployed, and foreign policy consequences have rippled outward,” writes @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
1/2 👉The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war - but a long line of Supreme Court decisions has expanded presidential authority to initiate military action without clear congressional approval. @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
2/2 “At this point, there is no longer a moral or ethical excuse to stay on the job. Some have come to this conclusion already: Six lawyers in the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office resigned in January ... At least eight lawyers have left the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago this year.”
1/2 ⚖️DOJ lawyers swear to uphold the constitution - Trump’s immigration policies stand in direct opposition to this oath. “For any lawyer in this position who actually cares about their professional and moral responsibilities, there is a very simple answer: quit.” @rsgat.bsky.social
❌👑The greatest threat to American democracy is not from armies abroad or international threats, it is from constitutional erosion within. The tried and true anecdote? We must use our voices, our vote and our streets to demand that our constitution belongs to US. #NoKings
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🚨🚨Future lawyers, take note: In this moment of constitutional crisis, the path you take has never been more important. You can use your law degree to defend the rule of law & hold power accountable - or you can use it to protect the status quo. The choice is yours.
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In his 1st year back, Trump has attempted to dismantle the checks & balances that have sustained American democracy for 250 years — silencing journalists, weaponizing the DOJ, defying federal judges, bypassing Congress & killing people without accountability.
❌ 👑 No one is above the law
Big Law is facing an ethics crisis. Our Big Law organizing guide offers key questions for lawyers and law students to ask so we can protect the rule of law within firms and during recruitment.
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2/2 👉“Whether by expanding supreme courts, stacking judicial selection commissions, or changing judicial selection mechanisms altogether, these red states have become innovators in ensuring that only Republican priorities receive the protection of the law.” @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
1/2 🏛️🛑Conservative supreme courts have emerged as a surprising obstacle to Republicans’ extreme political agendas. Republican-controlled legislatures are pulling all the stops to bring these courts to heel writes @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
California AG Rob Bonta singled out Paul Weiss in an exclusive roundtable interview for agreeing to do free legal work in line with the Trump administration’s goals. bit.ly/4rOhU96
Paul Weiss Is Still Catching Heat For Selling Out — See Also
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/paul-weiss-is-still-catching-heat-for-selling-out-see-also/
Judges often describe the courts as the last line of defense for constitutional democracy. But a last line of defense that declines to defend is not neutral. It is complicit.
@skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @ballsandstrikes.org
Law students are resisting Big Law's recruitment practices & winning. 🎉 Congrats to the PPP Georgetown Law Chapter & the coalition of law school SBAs who are demanding OCI be moved back to 2L year.
Sign the petition, keep the pressure on Big Law 👇
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I wrote this piece about popular constitutionalism last year, but I truly don't think I could have possibly imagined then that we'd be watching the people claim power over the Constitution like we have for the last few months in Minnesota.
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*If* the federal government actually retreats in Minnesota, I will never, ever let anybody forget that it was the people, not the courts, that made them do it.
The problem with the Supreme Court supermajority is not just one of ideology or politics, but of epistemology. The world as they understand it bears little resemblance to reality www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
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Power concedes nothing without a fight. The news of the draw down this morning is a development that was won by the power of neighbors joining together to keep each other safe. We celebrate the wins.
Yet we know the threat is not over, and so our fight is not over.
Another federal court has rejected the administration’s attempt to detain people incommunicado. The Constitution does not disappear inside immigration detention. 👇
3/3 ⚖️❌“A Supreme Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is not merely conservative. It is untethered from democratic reality.” @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
2/3 🏛️🚨Most alarmingly, the Roberts Court’s parallel universe is abetting Trump’s authoritarianism - shaping major rulings on civil rights, church/state separation, immigration & more. @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
1/3 For most of its history, SCOTUS has been a brake on democratic change, moving only when public opinion makes it inevitable. But as @skennedy2504.myatproto.social writes, in a world of “alternate facts” shaped by Fox News, its disconnect with public sentiment has never been deeper. ⚖️📺🧠
BREAKING: We’re urging the court to force discovery in our case against DOGE in order to fully investigate the extent of their misuse of Social Security data to potentially manipulate U.S. elections.
DOGE is not above the law.
