2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Roberts’ Court's Shelby County Power Play Could Backfire [View all]calimary
(81,323 posts)Glad you're here! Your last sentence was the most powerful:
"It is a tragedy, however, that as we approach the 50th anniversary of Selma, the Chief Justice is comfortable with an American where they still have to."
AMAZING - we STILL have these big messes to clean up. Citizens United, and now this too. I keep praying that scalia or thomas will finally get tired of it and want to retire, but I don't hold out much hope. These bastards will hang on for dear life as long as there's a Democrat in the White House - in both their cases I think - JUST FOR SPITE.
Another reason why, and I'm sorry to say this, we ALL - ALL OF US on our side of the aisle - have to be one-party voters for awhile. It is URGENT that we keep the White House in Democratic hands, and it is EQUALLY CRITICAL that we start putting more governors' mansions and state legislatures in Democratic hands, and send more Dems to the House of Reps and Senate. We're just gonna have to outlast the bad guys - til we can turn the Supreme Court around.