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If you want to build a democracy that works for everyone, you must have an honest judiciary. If you want an honest judiciary, you #TakeBacktheCourt.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the list below to reform the Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS is incomplete without expansion. Pass it on.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We would like to thank House Republicans for their valuable service to the court expansion movement.
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Future Democratic majorities in Congress — perhaps starting as soon as January — should make repairing the court and reforming the judicial branch a priority to make sure it does not continue to operate as a partisan and retrograde institution." This is the way.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“This conservative court is out of control—blatantly partisan and ideological, the six-member majority scarcely even pretends otherwise anymore. ... Democratic presidential contenders will have to answer the question: What do you plan to do about the Supreme Court?” newrepublic.com/post/212399/...
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Dems Must Talk Seriously About Supreme Court Expansion
The smart and totally justified way to do it: Increase the number of judicial circuits.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Supreme Court reform is important because you can’t have democratic self-government with this Court’s corruption. That’s the main reason to do it. It also teaches a lesson. Don’t spend too much time creating a big corrupt shiny object. Because the Constitution creates the tools to break it."
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We have to take building democracy as seriously as the MAGA Supreme Court takes dismantling it. That starts with expanding and rebalancing the court itself.
RIGHT-WING SUPREME COURT STRIKES FATAL BLOW TO VRA



“Dismantling the Voting Rights Act has been John Roberts’ life’s work,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, president of Take Back the Court Action Fund. “Defenders of democracy need to take their work as seriously as Roberts and his MAGA colleagues take destroying democracy – and that requires swiftly and decisively rebalancing and reforming the Supreme Court when the opportunity arises. Without that, no meaningful democratic reforms will survive this court.”
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The public has long been ahead of policymakers when it comes to Supreme Court reform. Court expansion has net positive public support even without significant support from Democratic elites. Significant room for growth once leaders start to ... lead. bsky.app/profile/gell...
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
TBTCAF’s @liptonlubet.bsky.social on today’s SCOTUS tariff decision: “We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme.”
February 20, 2026

Today, the Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless tariff scheme. In response, Take Back The Court Action Fund released the following statement: 

“We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, president of Take Back the Court Action Fund.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States” -- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
TBTC President @liptonlubet.bsky.social notes the Roberts Court’s own corruption plays a role in its willingness to embrace Donald Trump’s corruption: “You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The ethics scandals could explain some of Roberts' and his colleagues recent decisions, like how they've consistently torn down public corruption law on the premise that bribery is just a part of politics. "The eager embrace and encouragement that you've seen from the Roberts court for Trump's lawlessness is just marinating in the right-wing justices' belief that rules don't apply to them either," Lipton-Lubet says. "Justices who are comfortable taking essentially undisclosed bribes from fellow ideologues end up deciding that the president they support is above the law. They've created this culture for themselves of accountability-free corruption, and that extends, I think, to the way that they view the administration." She adds, "You can only live in a rule-free environment for so long before it cooks your brain."
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them. Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025
Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/noem-...
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Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Mister Trump Asks For It
Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 09/09/2025
The Trump administration’s racist terror campaign against Black and Brown communities has been given the greenlight by a compromised, out of control Supreme Court. There can be no second-class citizens in a free America.
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SCOTUS tells ICE it can target people based on race
ICE gets the go-ahead for indiscriminate immigration stops in LA.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Today’s SCOTUS ruling puts farm workers — and every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant — in greater danger,” said @ufw.bsky.social President Teresa Romero. ufw.org/u-s-supreme-...
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay in L.A. Raids Case
Decision lifts temporary order barring DHS from unlawful stop practices
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Shorter Brett Kavanaugh: "Papers, please"
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/09/2025
Just listened, via Morning Edition, as a woman with learning disabilities broke down crying while recounting how ICE agents racially profiled her in Washington, D.C. Even brief questioning — especially by unidentified agents with sidearms and mask — can be traumatic, Brett.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"So you're saying if you don't like [kids reading picture books about inclusivity], you gotta get involved in politics and change it that way, is that what you're saying?!" Alito snears disparagingly. Also Alito, this time justifying Dobbs: "Women are not without electoral or political power." 🤔
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We’re sorry* the government secreted you away to a foreign torture prison, but you used the wrong heading on your paperwork, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Best of luck not being renditioned before you can file a new complaint! *Alito, writing separately to note that he is in no way sorry.
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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Unconscionable injustice dressed up as "law."
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 26/03/2025
We created a Starter Pack for climate and democracy organizations! 🌎 ⚖️ All of these groups are fighting for a sustainable planet and just democracy and against Trump and Musk's attacks on essential programs and our communities. REPOST and FOLLOW! 💚
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In 2023, John Roberts' #SCOTUS shocked all of us by not making the worst possible decision in a voting rights case. On Monday, it will hear arguments in a "nearly identical" case — with potentially major consequences. More from @imillhiser.bsky.social:
vox.com
The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case
Several federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s congressional maps.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The last day to vote in @credomobile.bsky.social's grantee election is TODAY! Support our work to fight for a #SupremeCourt that serves the American people instead of ruling over us: www.credodonations.com/organization...
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What makes this month’s @credomobile.bsky.social election special? Well, it’s one election the right-wing Supreme Court can’t rig. And it’s a way for you to support our work to reform and rebalance the court for FREE! Voting closes tomorrow. Make your voice heard!
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Vote for Take Back the Court Action Fund to help increase their grant from CREDO
Every month, CREDO donates to the progressive causes you care about most.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Just a few days days left to vote for us in @credomobile.bsky.social’s election & support our work to build a robust court reform movement (for free)! 🗳️ Cast your vote here: www.credodonations.com/organization...
Idyllic future society scene with the words "SOCIETY IF SIX RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS WEREN'T DECIDING WHO IS ALLOWED TO HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS" overlaid in bold white text.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Have you voted in February’s @credomobile.bsky.social election yet? If not, now’s the time! Here’s why: [🧵 1/3] www.credodonations.com/organization...
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 05/02/2025
So Elon Musk has the same ethics rules as the Supreme Court: none.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/02/2025
NEW: Using the radical independent state legislature theory, the RNC asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allows voters to cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots were rejected.
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RNC Asks SCOTUS To Take Up Appeal To Restrict Provisional Voting in Pennsylvania
Read more here.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's *finally* February — and that means you can cast your vote for us in @credomobile.bsky.social's monthly nonprofit grantee election! Vote here to support our work to reform the Supreme Court without spending a dime ⬇️
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Vote for Take Back the Court Action Fund to help increase their grant from CREDO
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Here's me on what Trump 2.0 means for trans people, a group of 2 million Americans being targeted by a President who just declared us deceitful by nature
truthout.org
How Is Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Being Used? Here’s What We Know.
Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/01/2025
Wrote about a Supreme Court case that could start a nationwide rollback on birth control rights. Braidwood v. Becerra is nominally about insurance coverage, but as we witnessed with abortion, making reproductive healthcare less accessible is a stepping stone to bans. My first in @democracydocket.com
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The Supreme Court Could Gut Access to Birth Control This Year
Opinion | With Trump back in the Oval Office, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Well, here we are. Historically, Comstock enforcement never targeted legal abortion, which Anthony Comstock himself insisted upon. So this kind of enforcement is using the Act in a way that is new. They are making it up.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/01/2025
BREAKING: In a victory for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court denies an appeal from Montana officials seeking to reinstate two voter suppression laws. The state wanted SCOTUS to use the radical independent state legislature theory to overturn a decision from the Montana Supreme Court.
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SCOTUS Declines to Hear GOP Request in Montana Voter Suppression Lawsuit
Read more.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I am sure it’s all just small talk …
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
ICYMI: The right-wing Supreme Court took up a case that could threaten countless people's access to cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds, and other lifesaving health care services. @imillhiser.bsky.social with the details:
vox.com
A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it harder to get screened for cancer
Becerra v. Braidwood Management threatens to make your health insurance worse.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/01/2025
"Imagine a Supreme Court with a full majority of Trump-appointed justices....not a single Supreme Court precedent would be safe...Every Senate Democrat must stand ready to protect our courts and the very notion of 'equal justice under law.'"
democracydocket.com
The Resistance We Need From Senate Democrats Under Trump 2.0
Opinion | Of the harms Trump can and will do over his next four years in office, the judges he appoints will have the most lasting effect.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Here's a 74 year old Supreme Court Justice weighing in on an internet case
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
New: The right-wing Supreme Court majority is now looking to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act’s policy that makes cancer screenings, heart statins, and HIV prevention free.
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Supreme Court to review Obamacare’s no-cost coverage of cancer screenings, heart statins and HIV drugs | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s no-cost coverage mandates for certain preventive care services, putting the landmark health care law in ...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Clarence Thomas repeatedly broke the law and no institution with enforcement authority is going to do a damn thing about it. A long sigh with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
And the standards here are so simple! All we’re talking about is disclosures! The law does not stop justices from accepting gifts; it just says that they have to disclose those gifts to the public, and Clarence Thomas wouldn’t even do that. Now the Judicial Conference has said it doesn’t think it has the power to make a referral to the Justice Department over his lapse, even though Congress explicitly gave it this power in the statute. Conrad wrote that “any effort to grant the Conference such authority would raise serious constitutional questions.” This strikes me as the Judicial Conference doing a lot of what the Supreme Court did in the Trump immunity case—to say, “well these guys are so powerful and so important that their conduct must be assumed to be unpunishable and above the law.”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/12/2024
People sometimes ask me when it was that I lost it my confidence in the integrity of the Supreme Court; was there a tipping point? Indeed, there was. 🧵
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18/12/2024
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether states can kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid even for non-abortion services like birth control and STI testing / treatment The South Carolina case is called Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So... just to clarify... it's fine for Supreme Court justices to act unethically, but calling them out for that ethical misconduct is against the rules?
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Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito During Flag Flap
An investigation concluded that it was an ethics violation to question the ethics of a Supreme Court justice.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Trump and his right wing goons are planning an all out assault on birthright citizenship with a strategy in which they are hoping MAGA justices in Robert’s far right #SCOTUS deliver them the win. Planning an all out attack on the Constitution in broad daylight.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
"In two months, Americans will watch Chief Justice Roberts swear Trump in for a second term that is, in meaningful part, the product of Roberts’ handiwork." New from our friends @alexaronson.bsky.social (@courtacctability.bsky.social) & @thelisagraves.bsky.social (@truenorthresearch.bsky.social):
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Alex Aronson and Lisa Graves: How the Roberts Court Eroded Democratic Institutions and Brought Back Trump
From campaign finance to immunity, the Roberts majority has accelerated democracy's decline and empowered authoritarian forces.
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