The Supreme Court is finished: Republicans have killed it. Now it's time to fight back

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Trump and McConnell have corrupted the Supreme Court and th judicial branch for a generation. Time to fight dirty

LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 12:00PM (UTC)

Call it what it already is: Donald Trump's Supreme Court, and it's as corrupt as he is, as cynical as he is, as outright stupid as he is, as racist as he is, as fascist as he is. The Republican Party killed it, and Trump is driving another nail in its coffin with the nomination of arch-conservative Catholic Amy Coney Barrett. RBG is gone, and look at who Barrett will join: Clarence Thomas? A clown. Samuel Alito? A rubber-stamp hack. Neil Gorsuch? A replacement bell-ringer for racism. Brett Kavanaugh? A weepy beer-swilling prep-monster. John Roberts? He wrote the brilliant line, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." Tell that to George Floyd, Johnny boy.

But they know the job they've been put there to do. Trump as much as told them this week when he said, "I think it's very important that we have nine justices. It's better if you go before the election, because I think this scam that the Democrats are pulling — it's a scam — the scam will be before the United States Supreme Court."

There it is, folks, right out in the open. The "scam" Trump is referring to is voting for Joe Biden. He may look like he's contesting the election on the campaign trail, screeching and hissing and sniffling at his rallies, thumbing out his endless apocalyptic fascist tweets, threatening to jail his opponents and throwing other chunks of red meat to his ravenous racist hordes. But don't be fooled. The Republican Party has been counting on the courts to win their elections for decades. Trump's real "base" is his five, and soon six, voters on the Supreme Court.

These cynical bastards have been playing the long game. They have been looking out there on their golf fairways, and they've seen who's riding the mowers and trimming the bushes and grooming the greens. They have looked at the workers on the floors of their chicken factories, and manning the counters of their fast food empires, and they have walked past their own housekeepers and nannies who are watching over their own children. They are surrounded by brown people and Black people, even in their own homes and in their own businesses. They know what's coming. The Republican Party is out of the closet as the White Party in a country that is inexorably turning browner and blacker and more Asian, peopled with more, not fewer, immigrants. How else do you account for the rise to power of Stephen Miller and Ken Cuccinelli and their ilk? They're in government to do the bidding of their masters, to slow down the brown horde, to throw sand in the gears of a demographic machine that is slowly grinding their political future into electoral hamburger.

https://www.salon.com/2020/09/26/the-supreme-court-is-finished-republicans-have-killed-it-now-its-time-to-fight-back/

LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives on the East End of Long Island and spends his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better. He can be followed on Facebook at The Rabbit Hole and on Twitter @LucianKTruscott.

[Buckeyeblue]

1. I agree...especially if Kennedy was "talked into" retirement.

As we have discussed, if Barrett is confirmed, the last three justices will have been nominated by representatives of a minority of Americans.

The court simply does not represent the will of the country.

I think those reasons--along with the way Republicans have politicized the courts--give Democrats a mandate to vastly change the court. We need a court that represents the make up of the country. The last three nominees have been two white men and a Karen.

Let's make this election count. Expand the court, add DC and PR as states, shore-up ACA so the SC doesn't have grounds to overturn it, implement real environmental standards to fight climate change, a national policing/justice reform act to address racial injustice, a common sense and fair tax reform so the top 2% pay their far share, immigration reform, restore our good standing in the world, etc.

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2. Guess that would make him the grandson of Lucian Scott, Jr.

Decorated war hero, CIA dirty warrior...normally would sound like a pedigree that would make one vote Republican. He's also the great-great-great-great grandson of Thomas Jefferson...he was the guy that invited the descendants of Sally Hemings to the family reunions from 2000 onward.