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Supreme Court is dropping the rest of its biggest decisions in one final swoop

Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY
Thu, June 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT4 min read

WASHINGTON ? The final day of the Supreme Court term is going to be a big one.

Six major rulings related to President Donald Trump and birthright citizenship, LGBTQ+ schoolbooks and online porn will be released in one final decision drop on June 27.

Most anticipated is whether the court will allow Trump to enforce his changes to birthright citizenship while his new policy is being litigated. The ruling could make it harder for judges to block any of the president's policies.

Other decisions will determine if health insurers have to cover certain medicines and services, like HIV-preventive medication and cholesterol-lowering drugs, and whether a federal program that subsidizes phone and internet services through carrier fees is constitutional.

The Supreme Court still has to decide the last of three cases brought this year by religious groups. The justices will say if parents should be allowed to remove their elementary school children from class when storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters are being read.

The court's pending opinion on Louisiana's congressional districts could impact the 2026 elections as well as affect states' ability to consider race when drawing legislative boundaries.

The court has already issued major rulings on guns, treatments for transgender minors, "reverse discrimination," South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood, and how the Americans with Disabilities Act does or doesn't protect retirees and help students who need specialized learning plans.

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Dora Hates You

Cowards. Apparently birth right citizenship, specifically and clearly spelled out in the 14th Amendment to the CONSTITUTION these supposed originalists love so much is now a technical matter that lower courts cannot block. They aren't even practicing law at this point.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Sad.

But, when the worm turns there are going to be a lot of Maga tears.


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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Typical Scotus last minute cut-n-run right before a holiday week.

Sad.

the worm will most certainly turn

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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..

Hopefully, this will inject some anger into the Democrats. It's time to stop playing by the rules. It's obvious the SCOTUS are nothing more than paid off shills and that means it is time to stack the courts. Taking their power away is the only answer.

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I was right.

This is insane. The hack that replaced RBG wrote for the allegedly conservative 6-3 majority that federal district courts reading, interpreting and applying the law is a constraint against the executive branch. The law really cramps the president's style so they have absolved him of it. Until it gets to them. The SCOTUS has castrated their own checks and balances and they have left open their own back door where they alone can make rulings with no appreciation for how long that process would take and the discretionary nature of which cases the SCOTUS picks. They have given Trump a crown.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The real test is when they actually decide on birthright citizenship.
They didn't want to look that in the eye now so they kicked the can down the road.

On one had gotta give credit to the Project 2025 folks, they had a long game and used Trump to stack the SC.
On the other hand gotta wonder what happened to our senate for confirming a couple of them who were obviously lying about things like beer and roe vs. wade during their confirmation hearings.




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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Trump is done in three no matter what. President Newsom will enjoy these freedoms.

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I was right.

This concludes our story "The US supreme court and how it folded"

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It was fun while it lasted.

They literally ruled that an executive order cannot be legally stopped until it gets to them at the Supreme Court level. They have just given Trump the legal authority to make any executive order enforceable even after a federal trial court rules that it's unconstitutional. This is the SCOTUS response to "nationwide injunctions" on cases where the constitutionality of the executive orders have been ruled on by a district court judge and bind the district courts to follow that precedent. The 6 justice majority believes that the president should be allowed to continue with his agenda despite a lower court ruling against him. Now they have ordained themselves as the only judges with the power to decide these agenda questions, the same way they did with presidential immunity. For people who claim to use precedent as their basis, this sets a terrible precedent to a terrible president.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The report I heard said (paraphrasing), "so, long as they don't appeal the order, they can keep doing it". WTF?

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It was fun while it lasted.

Edited: 06/29/2025 at 08:11 AM by gdudewe

The president now outranks the Constitution.

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I was right.

The love letters from 6 of the 9 Justices are absurd. Law schools must be looking at this year's textbooks and wondering if they should even bother.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

I was wondering if this can funnel down to the normal cases?



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I was right.