The LuLac Edition #5, 368, June 27th, 2025

 

A SUPREME DISGRACE

OR MAKING 

THE U.S.A. 

RUSSIA LIGHT 

 

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in curbing nationwide injunctions granted against his birthright citizenship order, in a 6-3 ruling with the court’s Republican-appointees in the majority and the Democratic appointees dissenting.

“These injunctions — known as ‘universal injunctions’ — likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in a decision that didn’t decide the underlying legality of President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. Litigation will continue on the issue in the lower courts and individual plaintiffs can still bring additional challenges against the order. In her dissent for the court’s three Democratic appointees, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out the court’s rewarding of the administration’s “gamesmanship.”

She noted that the administration didn’t ask the justices to fully block the lower court rulings against Trump’s policy. “Why? The answer is obvious: To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task in light of the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice,” Sotomayor wrote.

 “So the Government instead tries its hand at a different game. It asks this Court to hold that, no matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the Executive to stop enforcing it against anyone. Instead, the Government says, it should be able to apply the Citizenship Order (whose legality it does not defend) to everyone except the plaintiffs who filed this lawsuit,” she continued, adding that the “gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along.”

In her own separate dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said 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.”

The administration appealed to the justices after several lower court judges blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to restrict birthright citizenship. Those judges did not consider the legality of Trump’s order to be a close question; “blatantly unconstitutional” was what one of them called it. 

So the bottom line here is that this Supreme court is allowing the Executive branch to thumb their noses at the RULE OF LAW.

This Supreme Court has become a jester’s clown court that can be trusted to do ONLY ONE THING: KNEEL BEFORE THEIR god, TRUMP. This court is paving the way for America on the cusp of its 250th birthday, RUSSIA LIGHT! (MSNBC, LuLac)

 

THE NOT SO SUPREME COURTS SCREWS WITH HEALTH CARE

 

States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and cancer screenings, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

These right wing zealots who are pro life now decide that other options for that child and mother after the journey through the birth canal can’t get basic health care. So cancer screenings go bye bye because of this court that is beholden to their lord and savior Donald Trump.

Can I blame them? Sure but in a political sense they are doing what political animals (and we are all that no matter whether we wear a robe or not) do to survive. I put the blame squarely on Democratic voters who “just didn’t care for Hillary” and put Trump in office. If I hear women whining and crying about this who picked Trump in ’16 or worse yet stayed home, you just reaped what you sowed.

The 6-3 opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives was not directly about abortion, but it comes as Republicans back a wider push across the country to defund the organization. It closes off Planned Parenthood’s primary court path to keeping Medicaid funding in place: patient lawsuits.

The justices found that while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court. The court split along ideological lines, with the three liberals dissenting in the case from South Carolina.

Public health care money generally cannot be used to pay for abortions, but Medicaid patients go to Planned Parenthood for other needs in part because it can be difficult to find a doctor who takes the publicly funded insurance, the organization has said. (AP, LuLac)