r/50501California

For all of Donald Trump’s continued tantrums about the justices blocking his tariffs, the October 2025 term has mostly seen right wingers getting their usual ransom payments from the hijacked Supreme Court. It happened again this morning with a 6-3 majority vastly expanding presidential power over independent commissions.

They’ve ignored their own precedents, their claims to loyalty to the original meaning of the Constitution, history and common sense, but they’ve served well in the exact role that Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo intended as they’ve captured this institution: the judicial arm of the Republican Party. For the sake of progressive values and our democracy, we need our leaders to take action to rebalance and rebuild the Supreme Court, as soon as possible.

That work can start right now.

Congress is currently considering the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for the next fiscal year. They’re asking for a 10% funding boost in this year’s Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 8495). 🗣️ Congressional Democrats can and should push back against this request and oppose this bill if it does not cut the Court’s budget. 🗣️

🗣️ We can find call scripts and email language to use with our members of Congress here and here, or text SIGN PAUAUS to 50409 to send this message via Resistbot. 🗣️

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Given where we are in the appropriations process, the sheer number of other battles to fight in government spending, and the reality that no one’s seriously considering it yet, it’s not at all likely it will happen. But we should ask for it anyways. Why?

• It’s a useful test for how serious individual Democrats are about the change we need to fix the Court
• It’s an opportunity for us to communicate to Democratic electeds that we’re damn serious about it
• If it gains elite support, it’s a form of pressure on the justices themselves
• It helps reset the expectation in our politics that the Supreme Court will be treated as a political actor

I wrote a lot more about this you can read here.

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Some of the greatest accomplishments of the Biden Administration were in getting clean, safe water for America’s families. The chemical industry was not happy, and with many of its employees now in leadership positions in the administration their work is being torn up.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed unraveling key protections against unsafe levels of four types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” in drinking water. It also allows water systems to delay compliance with standards for two more. These new rules are a handout to polluters disguised as public protection and if implemented would threaten the health of more than 100 million Americans.

These rules are currently open for public comment on the Federal Register through July 20th. 📝 Let’s make our voices heard against this giveaway to polluters and for safe drinking water. We can submit our comments here, find guidance on how to write an effective public comment here, and find talking points and sample language to use from the Plastic Pollution Coalition here, from the National Resources Defense Council here, from Food & Water Watch here, from Earthjustice here and from the EPA itself here and here. 📝

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🎤 There will also be a virtual public hearing on this proposal on July 7th, where the public will be able to provide verbal comments. We can register to attend and comment by July 1st here. 🎤

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