The Shameful 6

🗞️ "Supreme Court Dismantles Protection Against Presidential Overreach" – NYTimes, June 28, 2025

⚠️ WHAT JUST HAPPENED

The Supreme Court just gutted the legal brakes on presidential overreach - opening the door for a future president to dismantle birthright citizenship, with fewer ways to stop it in time.

In a 6–3 ruling, the justices limited the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions. The immediate context: Trump’s executive order attempting to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants.

But instead of ruling on whether the order itself was constitutional, the Court sidestepped. They said courts can only block policies for the people suing - not for everyone affected.

That means the policy can go into effect piece by piece, state by state, while lawsuits crawl through the courts.

🔍 TRANSLATION: WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS

"The courts can’t stop a president from violating your rights until he’s already done it to you."

"You can’t stop a fire until you’re already on fire."

"The president can break the law - as long as you haven’t been personally crushed yet."

This ruling kneecaps the judiciary’s ability to prevent harm. It hands future presidents a green light to test-drive unconstitutional policies with minimal resistance. It overturns decades of precedent where courts could halt executive overreach before the damage was done.

🧱 HOW RULE OF LAW BREAKS DOWN

This isn’t judicial restraint. It’s strategic abdication.

They didn’t say “the president is above the law” - they simply removed the brakes and said: “Let’s see what he does with it.”

They’ve handed the next strongman tools to erase rights piece by piece - while pretending the courts are still a check on power.

🗣️ HOW TO TALK ABOUT IT

This ruling isn’t just about immigration. It’s about whether the courts can protect anyone from unlawful executive action.

Put it in human terms:

• "The Supreme Court just ruled that if a future president wants to take away your kid’s citizenship, the courts can’t stop it until after it happens."
• "They ruled the president can break the law - as long as you haven’t been personally crushed yet."
• "They’ve made it legal to test-run tyranny."
• "If this court were around in 1930s Germany, they'd have said: 'We can't stop him from building the camps. No one’s died yet.'"

🛡️ WHAT WE CAN DO

We’re still protected (for now) by the First Amendment. You can call this what it is:

• Traitors
• Enemies of the people
• Unaccountable oligarchs
• Collaborators in creeping fascism

Say it plainly:

"This is not a court - it’s a shield for authoritarianism." "They’re not interpreting the law - they’re standing between the Constitution and the people it’s meant to protect."

And if someone tells you you're being overdramatic?

Show them the ruling [ Opinion – Trump v. CASA (June 27, 2025) ]. Show them what it actually means.

🔥 THE LAWFUL MISERY CAMPAIGN: HOW TO MAKE THEM QUIT

Supreme Court justices don’t face reelection. But they do crave legacy. Prestige. Applause. Let’s make public life unbearable for them - within legal, nonviolent bounds.

1. Public Shaming (Protected Speech) Boo them in public. Restaurants, events, campuses - heckle like it’s your job. Signs, chants, satire. Protest outside their public appearances. Make it loud.

2. Targeted Boycotts If businesses or institutions support or host them - boycott, pressure, and shame those venues. Make it unprofitable to be seen with them.

3. Calls and Letters Flood their chambers with postcards, phone calls, and public records requests. Let their clerks feel the heat.

4. Shame by Association Track who invites them to galas, panels, lectures. Then pressure those institutions to disinvite and disown them. Guilt by association works.

5. Dig Deep (But Stay Legal) Support watchdogs and journalists. Financial improprieties, undisclosed gifts, ethics violations - make it impossible for them to hide behind their robes.

6. Cultural Consequences Billboards. Hashtag campaigns. Op-eds. Teach-ins. Let the tide turn against them in the court of public opinion.

🚫 WHAT’S NOT LEGAL (DON’T DO THIS)

• Threats of violence
• Protesting at their homes (that’s a federal offense)
• Publishing private contact info
• Inciting harassment or trespassing
• Blocking access to courthouses

Stay sharp. Stay within bounds. That’s how we win.

🏛️ BONUS ROUND: INSTITUTIONAL PRESSURE

Want to erode the fortress that protects them?

• Demand enforceable ethics standards from Congress
• Push for term limits or court expansion
• Fund movements, not just outrage

Even long shots move the Overton window.

⚖️ FINAL THOUGHT: TURN THE TABLES

Supreme Court justices don’t need your vote. But they need your silence. Your deference. Your belief in their legitimacy.

Take it away.

Make them pariahs in every elite circle they value. Make them feel the shame they earned. If they can’t show their face at Harvard, Aspen, or the Kennedy Center without boos and banners - they just might tap out.

If it feels like treason to you? Say it.

"Call them traitors to the Constitution." "Call them robed collaborators with fascism." "Call them the black-robed boot stomping on your kid’s face."

Because this wasn’t a ruling. It was a refusal to rule - knowing exactly what kind of regime would pick up that broken tool and swing it at the people.

They know.

Make them answer for it.