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They said the same old shit about “never being able to overturn roe v wade” but they fucked that up too.
They can do whatever they want at any time doesn’t matter what bullshit law they passed this has been proven time and time again over the years
There is no reason to be against the Voting Rights Act beyond racism. That’s the only possible explanation.
I wouldn’t go that far. There is a lot of quid pro quo in politics. Not sure which is worse sometimes. Being racist because your racist, or being racist because someone has made it worth it for you to be so.
I believe that this assumes precedent matters. The other thing this court has declared is that precedent means nothing. That’s the important take to have if things are going to get fixed.
I was wondering the same thing. They keep declaring the previous supreme court wrong. Why do they get to be the final say then? If they are saying a supreme court ruling can be wrong, why are we even bothering with these idiots.
Technically you’re right, but with the court having skewed the system to favour Republicans so much, it will be very difficult to get more people on to the Surpreme Court who want to overrule this one’s decisions.
The social contract is broken. All bets are off.
It’s interesting that these guys changed the law because they didn’t think it applied anymore. Not cause the law was wrong.
Honestly, with how often they use the emergency shadow docket these days, I was surprised they even tried to give the illusion of merit.
Now Roberts is saying "the public should trust us! ".
Nope. This is what ruling without merit gets you. Distrust.
Sounds like a recipe for Civil War 2
We’ve been fully engaged in a cold civil war since Nixon was made to resign. The heritage foundation with their federalist society judges have people in every key position to literally just take over the government, which is mostly what they’ve been doing. They openly declared they were engaging in a coup on the united states saying the revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it, and it sure looks like the left at large is allowing it.
Balkanize the country then, let the American empire balkanize and die
Hey that’s what Russia and the republicans and the evangelicals want. You with them?
Good. I’m quite done with all the edging.
Get on with it
Let’s get it over with.
Bullshit. The whole point of checks and balances within this system of government (though it’s not working presently) is that Congress can work to override the judiciary when they get it wrong. The Constitution can be amended to enshrine the VRA, etc – of course the states have to ratify which could be a tall order. And since the judiciary gave the president carte blanche to do whatever he/she wants, they could simply sign an executive order at this point to deal with this and say “Fuck you” to the Supreme Court.
Or if the new president has a particularly large set of balls, they can, uh, conduct a re-enactment of the Red Wedding. No EOs required, and the president can pack the court afterwards with their own guys. It aligns SCOTUS term limits with the presidential ones nicely.
Clean sweep.
The Constitution can be amended
Which requires either a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress or a convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states…
…and what part of our oh half century or so of bullshit makes it seem like this is even remotely possible?
Just because it likely won’t happen doesn’t mean it can’t happen. And you seem to have purposefully left out the rest of my sentence: “to enshrine the VRA, etc – of course the states have to ratify which could be a tall order.”
This is the kind of cherry-picking that runs rampant in discourse today and adds literally nothing to the conversation.
Kind of, it opened political gerrymandering to no limit so now just need to ban republican districts
Fall of a nation.
