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The five fascist Supreme Court justices are Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch and Barrett. They don't give a rat's ass about precedence, the law, justice, the Constitution, or the American people. They're appointed for life and don't care about public opinion. All they care about are their own demented opinions which are in line with the most wingnut Republicans, and will destroy American democracy.
They'll soon have an abortion case in front of them. Raise your hand if you think they'll let Roe v Wade survive. And there will also be a case about gun rights, (a NY case about who can carry a gun, where, when and how), and voting rights. Keep in mind that these five don't give a shit about human rights.
So even if we can hold onto the House, the Senate and the Presidency, we still are faced with people in power who probably thought that Hitler had some good ideas. How do we overcome them? Only two ways: Impeachment and conviction, or five more justices added to the court, appointed by Joe Biden, and approved by the Senate. Yeah, I'm holding my breath for that.
(Chief Justice Roberts isn't as crazy as the five fascists and will occasionally vote with the three sane justices -- Breyer, Sotomeyer and Kagen.)
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)In 2022 and 2024 or just give the country over to a bunch of unAmerican asswipes?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)America permanently.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)still VOTED FOR HER
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)resulting in MILLIONS not voting.
Or lots of folks voting and leaving prez blank, I mean why vote when they are both the same, which is what that shit convinced people of.
It was up to US not cons to protect this country, cons dont care about this country, but those of us on the left who RELENTLESSLY trashed her and some of them still do.
Jesus.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)would have made more people vote, or would that have left us as obvious bs artists who could then not be allowe to REASIN wuith people.
RFCalifornia
(440 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)enough with the "We're effed no matter WHAT we do" lamentations.
Cyrano
(15,063 posts)ignore the hurdles we face in trying to hold onto our freedoms and our democracy.
And I guess I should also apologize for using written themes designed to wake people up to the multiple threats that face us, are real, and could destroy us.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)then be my guest.
Mad_Machine76
(24,438 posts)defeatism isn't helpful. We solve one problem and then we move on to the next one.
onetexan
(13,062 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)slater71
(1,153 posts)Just another reason to take it to the street.
Bettie
(16,129 posts)will help us win in 22 and 24 and allow us to increase the court, public opinion is not with what they are very likely to do.
The majority of the US does not see Gilead as a dream.
(Jeez, that sounds really hopeful for me...maybe I'm sick...)
maxrandb
(15,360 posts)Let the fascist 6 on the Supreme Court play with their own poop.
Thomas Jefferson had a great quote on the court.
You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps ... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
They are a co-equal branch.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,659 posts)Expanding the court to at least 15, preferably 21 justices will put a dent in the neofascists shadow docket agenda.
pwb
(11,292 posts)We all live and die. A lifetime Judicial appointment does no guarantee life?. The Universe exists to take us all. It does seem like pukes think they will never die.