The Supreme Court's Double-Whammy Blow Against Human Rights

It's an old story and part of the playbook - strip human rights by state then work toward going national.

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There’s a pattern here. And if it feels familiar, it should.

We’re watching it happen in real time with abortion. Now it’s happening again—with immigration, due process, and even birthright citizenship. This time, the stakes are just as high—and the strategy is even bolder.

Two Supreme Court rulings in one week laid it bare: the right-wing legal machine is working to strip away federal protections, weaken the judiciary, and turn the concept of rights into a red-state versus blue-state roulette wheel.

But don’t be fooled. This isn’t just about weakening the judicial system. It’s about eliminating national standards—so that only some Americans have rights at all.

This Week’s Two-Pronged Supreme Court Attack

Case #1: Deportation without hearings.
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed Trump a massive win: the power to deport migrants to third countries—countries they’ve never lived in—without notice, without a hearing, without due process.

The lower courts had blocked this. The Supreme Court overturned those blocks. Not because the policy was legal—but because, they claimed, courts didn’t have the authority to stop it.

Source: The Guardian, June 23, 2025

Case #2: Citizenship by geography.
Today, the Court struck again in Trump v. CASA, Inc.. This time, they didn’t rule on whether Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is legal. They dodged that question entirely. Instead, they ruled that federal judges can’t block it nationwide.

Source: SCOTUSblog, Trump v. CASA case page

Translation? The executive order can now take effect in red states where no court has ruled yet—even if it’s blatantly unconstitutional. One child born in Texas might be denied citizenship. The same child born in New York might be protected. And if the child born in New York moves to Texas? Who knows. A right that should be universal is now a patchwork lottery.

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The Strategy: Make Rights Optional

This is bigger than immigration. These rulings are rehearsals for authoritarian governance—with a playbook straight from Project 2025 and the abortion rollback.

Think about it:

• With abortion, they claimed it should be “left to the states.”

• Now with immigration, they're saying enforcement should depend on geography.

• And with both, they gutted the courts' ability to stop abuse.

They’re not just stripping rights. They’re making it impossible to defend them at scale.

The Court is taking tools away from federal judges—no more nationwide injunctions, no more sweeping blocks, no more legal shields that apply coast-to-coast. What that means in practice is this:

If you want human rights, you’d better live in the right state.

We literally fought a civil war to stop this stupid shit, and yet here we are again.

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Don’t Call It New

This “states’ rights” rhetoric is the same lie wrapped in a new flag.

It’s what they said to defend slavery.
It’s what they used to fight desegregation.
It’s what they leaned on to block voting rights and abortion access.

And now it’s being used to decide who deserves to live safely, who counts as American, and who the courts can protect.

Here’s the truth: The Civil War wasn’t fought so some states could be free and others could be cruel. It was fought because a nation cannot survive when justice depends on geography. That was true then. It’s true now.

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Where This Is Going

Let’s be very clear about the endgame.

• If red states can deport migrants without hearings,

• If they can deny children citizenship based on where they’re born,

• If the federal courts are stripped of the power to stop it...

Then we are no longer operating under one system of laws.
We are operating under two Americas.

And once that split is normalized, it’s only a matter of time before the red-state version of rights becomes the national standard.

That’s the strategy. That’s the plan.

And it’s working—unless we name it and fight back.

Take care all and keep resisting,

Rosie

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