Well the problem is, because elected Democrats have to be attached to reality, their proposals have to exist in the realm of achievability. They can't—for example—loudly proclaim that they can just take over the territory of allies, or come up with grandiose schemes.
Of course there is the other issue with the Supreme Court, of course...and the judicial system. And it's that there's wide deference to the champions of the unreconstructed in it. This is now twice we've seen that the plain language of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the regime we're subjected to.
Why pursue incremental half measures? Congress can abolish the Supreme Court by repealing the Judiciary Act of 1789, which created the Supreme Court. Article 3 of the constitution only calls for a supreme (lower case) court. The US Courts of Appeal can optimally and democratically fulfill that role. Vote accordingly.
I’d like to see justices feet put the fire for outright lying over what they supported. Women and marginalized people in the country have been irreparably harmed by being willing to go back to “simpler times. When women were women (the lesser sex) and men were men”. When the Black folks knew their place. A court should not go backwards. The justices should not be able to undo rights so hard fought. And rights that are key to a more just and fair society and reflection of what is moral and humane.
Topic adjacent, because it concerns Mitch McConnell, who, more than anyone else, created the monster that is this Supreme Court. Well, only 67% of it is a monster, as Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are normal human beings, but the other 6, who are cons, are indeed monsters. Since 67% is greater than 33%, that makes this court monstrous. Back to Turtle McConnell - no one has stated which hospital he's at, which is odd. They say he's still in DC, which must have more than one hospital. Also odd - what's his diagnosis? Why won't they say? Now, cons claim to have spoken to McConnell (not with, so if he's brain dead as some claim, yeah, they could speak TO him). Some are saying that whatever the truth is about McConnell, the cons are keeping up the pretense that he's alive and his brain is functioning, until August 8, so that there won't be a special election to fill out his term that ends in January. There is no dignity with these people.
The problem with our 33% is by being there and playing along like it’s a legitimate court, they help preserve the illusion that SCOTUS is something more than a GOP super Senate.
It would be nice if the general public would pay attention to any of this. But I fear it's just us political junkies that are even aware of the problems with the judiciary.
I take the usual Dem response of using generalities to be their way of retaining flexibility. But I like the idea of just adding 100 justices to fuck up this Court that has gotten out of hand. My more radical approach is just to announce you’ve decided the Court is no longer legitimate and you will now be treating it as a merely advisory body. No more judicial review. Sorry Alito, but you broke it. The only real power the Court ever had was this sense from the other government bodies that it was the final say on the law. SCOTUS gave up any right to say on the law by leaning into corruption for the sake of Trump. It’s insane now to treat the Court as anything other than contempt.
It’s over, folks, another institution that was imperfect but ultimately sullied by Trump.
Well the problem is, because elected Democrats have to be attached to reality, their proposals have to exist in the realm of achievability. They can't—for example—loudly proclaim that they can just take over the territory of allies, or come up with grandiose schemes.
Of course there is the other issue with the Supreme Court, of course...and the judicial system. And it's that there's wide deference to the champions of the unreconstructed in it. This is now twice we've seen that the plain language of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the regime we're subjected to.
Why pursue incremental half measures? Congress can abolish the Supreme Court by repealing the Judiciary Act of 1789, which created the Supreme Court. Article 3 of the constitution only calls for a supreme (lower case) court. The US Courts of Appeal can optimally and democratically fulfill that role. Vote accordingly.
I’d like to see justices feet put the fire for outright lying over what they supported. Women and marginalized people in the country have been irreparably harmed by being willing to go back to “simpler times. When women were women (the lesser sex) and men were men”. When the Black folks knew their place. A court should not go backwards. The justices should not be able to undo rights so hard fought. And rights that are key to a more just and fair society and reflection of what is moral and humane.
Topic adjacent, because it concerns Mitch McConnell, who, more than anyone else, created the monster that is this Supreme Court. Well, only 67% of it is a monster, as Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are normal human beings, but the other 6, who are cons, are indeed monsters. Since 67% is greater than 33%, that makes this court monstrous. Back to Turtle McConnell - no one has stated which hospital he's at, which is odd. They say he's still in DC, which must have more than one hospital. Also odd - what's his diagnosis? Why won't they say? Now, cons claim to have spoken to McConnell (not with, so if he's brain dead as some claim, yeah, they could speak TO him). Some are saying that whatever the truth is about McConnell, the cons are keeping up the pretense that he's alive and his brain is functioning, until August 8, so that there won't be a special election to fill out his term that ends in January. There is no dignity with these people.
The problem with our 33% is by being there and playing along like it’s a legitimate court, they help preserve the illusion that SCOTUS is something more than a GOP super Senate.
Republicans have given Americans no other choice.
It would be nice if the general public would pay attention to any of this. But I fear it's just us political junkies that are even aware of the problems with the judiciary.
I take the usual Dem response of using generalities to be their way of retaining flexibility. But I like the idea of just adding 100 justices to fuck up this Court that has gotten out of hand. My more radical approach is just to announce you’ve decided the Court is no longer legitimate and you will now be treating it as a merely advisory body. No more judicial review. Sorry Alito, but you broke it. The only real power the Court ever had was this sense from the other government bodies that it was the final say on the law. SCOTUS gave up any right to say on the law by leaning into corruption for the sake of Trump. It’s insane now to treat the Court as anything other than contempt.
It’s over, folks, another institution that was imperfect but ultimately sullied by Trump.