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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: SCOTUS OKs a fascist state. Don't expect better future rulings. [1]

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Date: 2025-09-09

POLITICO:

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on ‘roving’ ICE raids in Los Angeles The ruling blocks a lower court’s order that found the enforcement operations were based on impermissible factors. The justices, who apparently divided 6-3 along ideological lines, put on hold a federal district judge’s order that reined in what critics called “roving” raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That judge had found the tactics were likely unconstitutional because agents were detaining people without probable cause at car washes, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots based on stereotypes. The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.

Washington Post:

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow freeze on billions in foreign aid The emergency request could set up a major test of the president’s assertion that he has the unilateral authority to block spending budgeted by Congress The emergency filing in the rapidly moving case comes after a federal appeals court declined to block a preliminary injunction requiring Trump officials to spend the money for food, medicine and development assistance before it begins to expire at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Since beginning his second term in January, President Donald Trump has claimed broad powers to refuse to spend congressionally allocated money for transportation projects, health research, education, “sanctuary cities” and more, saying the spending was wasteful or not aligned with the administration’s values.

x Hispanics are -34 for Trump. This would count as the shortest political honeymoon in history. pic.twitter.com/LsdZysT2K4 — Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) September 8, 2025

New York Times:

Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll. A federal appeals court on Monday upheld an $83.3 million jury award against President Trump for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, after she accused him of a decades-old rape in a Manhattan department store — an attack for which he was separately found liable for sexual abuse. The court also rejected Mr. Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision last year affording presidential immunity for official acts barred a finding of liability in Ms. Carroll’s lawsuit. The unsigned ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan was unanimous.

x Gov. Josh Shapiro: "What the president is doing is wrong. It injects chaos in communities...We're prepared should they try to deploy the National Guard against my will in any community across Pennsylvania." pic.twitter.com/EpygByDa5C — The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) September 8, 2025

Washington Post:

RFK Jr. considers critics of coronavirus shots to join key vaccine panel Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary,” noting Jesus touched lepers. “Choosing people because they are hostile to coronavirus vaccines is choosing them by bias and not by expertise and is not a good way to populate an expert committee,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California College of the Law at San Francisco, whose research focuses on vaccine law and policy.

x So does John Cornyn, a former attorney general of Texas and a judge, accept this? Does Joni Ernst, who was abused, accept this? What about Susan Collins? Or Lisa Murkowski? Or Mitch McConnell? Or Bill Cassidy? Does James Lankford, who is a pastor, accept this? https://t.co/ThoDmdS6Bb — Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) September 9, 2025

Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark:

x The Founding Fathers would not recognize the Legislative Branch of today pic.twitter.com/Vnwic6BeBC — Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) September 8, 2025

Jonathan V Last/The Bulwark:

Well here’s a blast from the past: In October 2024, the Hill published this piece by Derek Hunter: Opinion - Kamala’s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you Oops. Now I bet you’re wondering what Derek Hunter had to say about Trump’s threat against Chicago? Well here it is: [a retweet of someone else] That’s it. The guy has tweeted roughly 9 million times over the last 48 hours and his only response to being catastrophically, hilariously wrong is to retweet someone else saying that Gavin Newsom isn’t allowed to complain about Trump doing what Harris warned about because something-something COVID. What Derek Hunter has been tweeting about since Saturday, is crime. Dozens and dozens and dozens of posts about crime. Not just in America, but in other countries, too. Why would that be?

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