i think it is great that we have an unelected supra-legislature that is completely unbound by precedent or public opinion or tradition or text and that effectively cannot be disciplined or checked by any other political actor in the system
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Jonathan Ladd
"The Supreme Court has effectively replaced a very high bar for allowing insurrectionists into federal office — a supermajority vote by Congress [as specified in the 14th Amendment] — with the lowest bar imaginable: congressional inaction." www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/o...
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This is partisanship plain and simple
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2024/03/its-got-electrolytes-satans-sermons.html
Everybody enjoy their last chance to vote for something.
And it will have to be done through Congress. And that means we need to elect more Democrats.
Once again wishing we had had someone other than Joe "Nothing Will Fundamentally Change" Biden who might, IDK do literally anything about it.
But I also remember people sneering that she was not going to scare them from voting for a third-party Putin suckup candidate.
Think about Colorado ignoring SCOTUS and keeping Trump off the ballot.
Would that be a win for democracy or a loss?
No, I don't know the answer.
Jack Smith isn't saving the day there?
Huh. Funny, that. 🤔
They don't see anything wrong with telling America that they're getting another one. Even if it means electing a rapist and tax fraud for president.
new Constitution (and, no, I don't mean in any sense amending this one...Article V is very much part of the problem).
But things are already getting much worse under our current system, which is itself aiding the fascists.
of practice.
Let's bend their logic and make some conservative heads absolutely explode.
I mean, it's a nice idea, but it will not work.
The best thing we can do is vote to make sure Trump doesn't win again--like we did in 2020.
And as for the current situation on the SC--that's due to 2000 and 2016, when too many brushed it off.
Who controlled the House and Senate in 2020?
Democrats retained control of the House and gained control of the Senate.