Post by @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

2026-10-01 06:11 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117363288170708374 The Roberts 6 lifted an administrative stay granted by the 6th Circuit so it could consider Christa Pike’s appeal of being sentenced to death. In other words, they refused to allow a pending claim for relief to be heard, allowing tonight’s horribly botched attempt to kill Pike. They are ethically bankrupt, corrupt, and lawless. Unless and until they are removed by impeachment or disempowered by court reform, the federal judicial branch is compromised. 1/ #LawFedi

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 2026-10-01 06:13

Here’s Justice Sotomayor’s dissent, joined by Kagan and Jackson from the per curiam order from the Roberts 6. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a428_4f15.pdf 2/

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@Dhmspector@mastodon.social 2026-10-01 13:36

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social Remember: this is prime “Scalia-ism”. None of the petitioner’s claims matter in the Scalia Death Penalty universe. In the view of the right wing of the court, as espoused by the Sainted Antonin Scalia nothing the petitioners say matter, even if she had actually been innocent of the crime (not the case here, clearly) or if the abuses she suffered as a child was a mitigating circumstance because “she had a process.” https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/justice-antonin-scalias-rebuke-of-innocence/

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