By one accounting, the disruption of overseas food and drug shipments from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including life-saving HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria treatments, has already caused nearly 350,000 deaths (and they continue at an estimated rate of 103 per hour).
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
Contributions from oil and gas political action committees (PACs) to Republicans were more than five times greater than those to Democrats in the last election cycle. And that doesn’t include funds from individual donors connected to the fossil-fuel industry or various forms of “educational” soft money, let alone “dark money” channeled through issue-oriented nonprofits that don’t report their sources. There can be no question that total expenditures by fossil-fuel interests in the 2024 election far exceeded that sector’s $219 million in traceable investments.
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/E01/2024
“The Court’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,” Justice Jackson declared in her dissent. She said the Trump administration’s “bid to vanquish so-called universal injunctions is, at bottom, a request for this Court’s permission to engage in unlawful activity.”
the ruling renders constitutional guarantees “meaningless.”
“With the stroke of a pen. The president has made a solemn mockery of our Constitution,” Sotomayor wrote. “The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution.” She declared that “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” She said the ruling robs the lower courts of their power to protect people even in the face of plainly unlawful policies.
A Lawless Free Zone.....a mad scramble
People born in the U.S. are no longer citizens.... unless they are in states that are part of class action lawsuits.... Despite the 14th Amendment's clear guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in this country, Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship can now move forward in much of the country.
Representative Pramila Jayapal said in response to the ruling, "We will have a patchwork of rulings that means one person's constitutional rights may be protected, while another's are not — depending on their zip code."
The ACLU similarly warns that the decision "puts thousands of U.S.-born children at risk of being denied their constitutional rights based on the citizenship status of their parents."
This is even more broadly dangerous than many people realize.
The Court just told Trump he can move forward with nearly any executive order — cutting funds to sanctuary cities, ending refugee resettlement, blocking access to healthcare for transgender Americans — and the courts can't step in unless you're one of the few who sues.
One ruling at a time. One person at a time. The highest court in the land gave Trump permission to be an authoritarian.
this court has handed a power to the current administration that was never available to any prior president in history.
A new class action just filed for Citizen Birthrights of the Constitution
Birthright citizenship is the principle that every baby born in the United States is a U.S. citizen. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantees the citizenship of all children born in the United States (with the extremely narrow exception of children of foreign diplomats) regardless of race, color, or ancestry. Specifically, it states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
Today’s lawsuit charges the Trump administration with flouting the Constitution, congressional intent, and longstanding Supreme Court precedent, and it is national in scope.
“Every court to have looked at this cruel order agrees that it is unconstitutional,” said Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and lead attorney in this case. “The Supreme Court’s decision did not remotely suggest otherwise, and we are fighting to make sure President Trump cannot trample on the citizenship rights of a single child.”
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