Goddamn, why can’t a meteor hit that f*cking kangaroo court next time it’s in session, during the 6 smug religious maniac ‘judges’ hurling lightning bolts of ‘justice’ upon us all-maniacs that were anointed for life by ‘Presidents’ who lost the popular vote.
Roberts is Taney, Republicans are the Confederacy.
For me personally, the decline of our government institutions is the scariest part of the rapid entrapment of fascism. And nothing is scarier than our present supreme (small s for sure) court. I never really thought that our commitment to the rule of law could decline into oppression and be used to actively support biased political action. Corporations are not people! Fake claims of religious discrimination, elevating the Second Amendment to supersede our right to life, taking away autonomy over our own bodies, reshaping and amplifying the “rights” of violent, hateful, misogynist people over the needs of women and children, and blurring the lines between Church and State.
The justices are taking advantage of the Constitution’s archaic language and applying such twisted beliefs that we no longer can feel confident that we will be protected by its tenets. Should the worst former president in history occupy the White House again will our government fail us, will the oligarchy squeeze us without any legal relief and will we be faced with how to physically protect ourselves?
I want to feel confident that we can avoid Republican domination but millions of Americans have been transformed into zombies. Such a scam, because tRump isn’t the answer he’s the gasoline on the fire. There will be unfathomable regret and shame and the death of democracy for generations to come.
The Supreme Court has been at 9 justices since the year 1870. There were only 37 states at that time, and only 39 million people in the census.
Here we are 155 years later, there are now 333 million people in this country.... and still only 9 justices!!
This country is long overdue for Supreme Court expansion and term limits..... and an Ethics Doctrine that they will live by plus an oversight committee.
Every other developed country on this planet has modified their constitution keep up with the times, the relevance of the 21st Century the population, the culture, etc - - but not the US.
I know that was the consensus interpretation, while historians also generally note that the Court generally stopped meddling in the New Deal legislation thereafter. To me it seems like residual rear end pain from the people angry that it worked.
Goddamn, why can’t a meteor hit that f*cking kangaroo court next time it’s in session, during the 6 smug religious maniac ‘judges’ hurling lightning bolts of ‘justice’ upon us all-maniacs that were anointed for life by ‘Presidents’ who lost the popular vote.
Roberts is Taney, Republicans are the Confederacy.
For me personally, the decline of our government institutions is the scariest part of the rapid entrapment of fascism. And nothing is scarier than our present supreme (small s for sure) court. I never really thought that our commitment to the rule of law could decline into oppression and be used to actively support biased political action. Corporations are not people! Fake claims of religious discrimination, elevating the Second Amendment to supersede our right to life, taking away autonomy over our own bodies, reshaping and amplifying the “rights” of violent, hateful, misogynist people over the needs of women and children, and blurring the lines between Church and State.
The justices are taking advantage of the Constitution’s archaic language and applying such twisted beliefs that we no longer can feel confident that we will be protected by its tenets. Should the worst former president in history occupy the White House again will our government fail us, will the oligarchy squeeze us without any legal relief and will we be faced with how to physically protect ourselves?
I want to feel confident that we can avoid Republican domination but millions of Americans have been transformed into zombies. Such a scam, because tRump isn’t the answer he’s the gasoline on the fire. There will be unfathomable regret and shame and the death of democracy for generations to come.
The Supreme Court has been at 9 justices since the year 1870. There were only 37 states at that time, and only 39 million people in the census.
Here we are 155 years later, there are now 333 million people in this country.... and still only 9 justices!!
This country is long overdue for Supreme Court expansion and term limits..... and an Ethics Doctrine that they will live by plus an oversight committee.
Every other developed country on this planet has modified their constitution keep up with the times, the relevance of the 21st Century the population, the culture, etc - - but not the US.
I would agree, but FDR tried that in the 1930s, and it nearly wrecked the New Deal.
I know that was the consensus interpretation, while historians also generally note that the Court generally stopped meddling in the New Deal legislation thereafter. To me it seems like residual rear end pain from the people angry that it worked.
Yes, that is exactly what it was.
Also, several conservatives on the Supreme Court retired, and FDR filled their slots with guys like Felix Frankfurter and Robert Jackson.