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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social

Judge Thomas Cullen, the Trump appointee in VA sitting by special designation after the admin sued ALL THE JUDGES in MD, has *had it* with these bullshit attacks on the judiciary. Case dismissed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To start, this is “an extraordinarily unusual lawsuit.” United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. 670, 686 (2023). So before explaining the specific reasons for dismissal, the court takes a moment to ground itself in two simple, but fundamental, constitutional precepts that guide much of its analysis. First, the executive branch is not the sole sovereign in the United States of America. Second, the federal judiciary does not have plenary power, unmoored from a justiciable case or controversy or cause of action, to review any allegation of constitutional misconduct. As the Supreme Court has explained, the “Framers of the Constitution sought to provide a comprehensive system” that made the United States of America—not a single branch—the sovereign, by “dividing and allocating the sovereign power among three co-equal branches.” United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 707 (1974). The coordinate branches together form the government of the United States of America, and together they are the sovereign in this Nation.
aug 26, 2025, 2:57 pm • 361 94

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Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social

Get fucked Trump-o

aug 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social

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aug 26, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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mcafee6768.bsky.social @mcafee6768.bsky.social

Hopefully this judge didn’t commit mortgage fraud

aug 26, 2025, 3:10 pm • 3 0 • view
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social

August - Critics accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining judicial independence Israeli government votes to fire attorney general Breaking democracy is hard in Israel too. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Alice. Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice. @rememberalice.bsky.social

Honest question: wasn’t this case already dismissed? Or did DOJ sue all the members of two different benches?

aug 26, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Koehn @noonan66.bsky.social

When SCOTUS nukes this ruling, we have truly lost our democracy.

aug 26, 2025, 3:03 pm • 8 2 • view
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draeh @draeh.bsky.social

"Case dismissed..." for now.

aug 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view