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Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Send Haitian Immigrants Back to Their ‘Shithole’ Country

Friday, June 26, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
image of Supreme Court after decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians

The Roberts Court handed Trump two immigration wins, blessing border cruelty and allowing him to target Haitian immigrants. iPINIONS argues this is Taney reasoning in Roberts robes: racism laundered through law. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/supreme-court-rules-trump-can-send Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: eating dogs and cats, Haitians, Justice Kagan, Justice Sotomayor, Roberts Court, Supreme Court, Syrians, Taney Court, Temporary Protected Status

The Supreme Court Just Gutted Voting Rights for Blacks and Latinos

Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Supreme Court voting rights and Clarence Thomas

The Supreme Court just signed the death certificate of what remained of the Voting Rights Act. iPINIONS argues that the Roberts Court has turned democracy into a demolition derby, with Clarence Thomas serving as Pied Piper for a MAGA majority determined to recast protections for Black and Latino voters as racism against Whites. Read my… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: anti-DEI, black voters, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas, democracy, gerrymandering, Latino voters, Louisiana v Callais, MAGA, Roberts Court, Section 2, Supreme Court, Taney Court, Thurgood Marshall, Voting Rights Act

Trump’s State of the Union 2026: BS Overload from the MAGA Overlord

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump State of the Union Address 2026

Trump’s 2026 State of the Union wasn’t a report on the nation; it was a performance. A firehose of lies, stolen slogans, broken promises, and authoritarian threats delivered as if courts, laws, and facts exist only to serve him. From tariffs that punish allies to phantom checks that never came, this was not leadership. It… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: affordability, Iran, State of the Union Address, Supreme Court, tariff, Trump

Handmaiden Coney Barrett Battling Uppity Brown Jackson for Soul of the Supreme Court

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson

Barrett wears serenity like armor. KBJ refuses to play along. This post analyzes the Supreme Court’s most consequential rivalry — one between a MAGA-aligned enabler and a justice dissenting with the clarity of a Nazi hunter. From book tour barbs to courtroom ideology, iPINIONS contends this isn’t just about legal theory. It’s about who will… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Amy Coney Barrett, Birthright Citizenship, iPINIONS, Judicial Dissent, Ketanji Brown Jackson, MAGA, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Trumpism

Trump Deploys National Guard in DC — Laying Groundwork for Coup 2.0

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump deploying National Guard to DC

Trump just deployed the National Guard in DC and told cops “if they spit, we hit”… even as he pardoned over 1,000 Jan. 6 loyalists who spat on and brutalized police. He claims DC is “more violent than Baghdad,” but FBI data shows violent crime is falling. iPINIONS contends that this isn’t about safety; it’s… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Authoritarianism, Coup 2.0, DEI, January 6, Jim Crow, MAGA, National Guard, Supreme Court, Trump, Washington DC

Checks and Balances? Republicans Are Turning American Democracy Into a Trumpian Autocracy

Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Charlie Brown cartoon on Trump's unitary presidency

Sorry, Charlie Brown, but iPINIONS has been warning for years that when it comes to Trump’s America, separation of powers is just another quaint tradition Republicans are all too happy to ignore. Turns out, all three branches weren’t necessary, just one packed with political sycophants and judicial hacks. Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Checks and Balances, GOP, iPINIONS, Judicial Branch, MAGA, Partisan Courts, Republican Justices, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Trump

Trump’s Deportation Policies: Cruel, Careless, and Now Blessed by the Supreme Court

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Collage showing themes of unjust deportation: Kilmar Garcia, Makula Kintu, Duke basketball star Khaman Maluach, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and the phrase 'Uncertain Justice' symbolizing Supreme Court inaction.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘administrative error,’ and zero accountability The Trump administration’s deportation program has always been a cocktail of malice and mismanagement. But its treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reeks of the collateral damage we expect only from autocracies like Russia. It deported him to El Salvador. Never mind that, like hundreds of other deportees,… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: deportation, immigration policy, Khaman Maluach, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Makula Kintu, Marco Rubio, South Sudan, Supreme Court, Trump administration

Chief Justice Roberts Rebuking Trump Is Like Frankenstein Scolding His Monster

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump and Roberts at his second swearing-in ceremony and Jackson and Marshall at his

Justice Frankenstein scolds his monster Once again, Chief Justice John Roberts found himself in the untenable position of rebuking Trump for showing blatant disregard for judicial independence. This time, it was because Trump demanded the impeachment of US District Judge James Boasberg — all because Boasberg ruled that the administration had no authority to summarily… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Chief Justice Roberts, judicial independence, Supreme Court, Trump impeachment threats, Trump judicial attacks, Trump vs judges

Trump Is Insourcing Jobs from China, Outsourcing Prisons to El Salvador, Defying Judges at Home

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
scenes from El Salvador prison for gang members

Trump takes jingoistic pride in forcing US companies to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. If they refuse, he threatens tariffs that would make exporting foreign-made products back to the US prohibitively expensive. And he couldn’t care less if this wrecks the global economy – so long as he can claim he’s making manufacturing in… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: America, Authoritarianism, border crisis, dictatorship, El Salvador, human rights, immigration, iPINIONS, Nayib Bukele, Supreme Court, Tariffs, Trump, U.S. Courts, US manufacturing

Post-Affirmative Action, Black Enrollment Down at Top Colleges. No Sh*t!

Monday, September 16, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
admissions committees on ending affirmative action by continuing legacy admissions

Black enrollment at top colleges is way down, but that should come as no surprise. After all, this was the clear intent of the White supremacist anti-DEI crusaders who made banning affirmative action a political casus belli. So, mission accomplished! Meanwhile, legacy admissions continue to thrive as it has since time immemorial — as  “affirmative… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Affirmative Action, DEI, legacy admissions, Supreme Court, systemic racism, White Supremacists

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