As context:
-Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett were all on 2000 Florida Recount team for GWBush
-Kav, Gorsuch, Barrett all appointed by Trump
-Last Dem prez to appoint a chief justice was Harry Truman 1946
-Most of today's Americans have never lived w/ Dem-appointed Scotus majority. (Changed 1969)
-Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett were all on 2000 Florida Recount team for GWBush
-Kav, Gorsuch, Barrett all appointed by Trump
-Last Dem prez to appoint a chief justice was Harry Truman 1946
-Most of today's Americans have never lived w/ Dem-appointed Scotus majority. (Changed 1969)
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Jonathan Ladd
I try to be as clear eyed when thinking about SCOTUS as possible. Avoid wishful thinking. What is actually in evidence? Roberts and Kavanaugh have been strong Trump supporters for several years. Occasionally, they give him a half loaf. But no real difference between them and Senate Republicans.
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It's been rigged.
And lawyers are trained to be zealous advocates who first take a position and then make the strongest arguments they can in favor of that position.
Is it any wonder that our judicial system is so fucked up?
- increase size to 36 (to increase bandwidth)
- term limits (to keep court fresh)
- minimum and maximum # of appointments per presidential term (to decrease stakes)
- random set of nine justices hear each case (to curb court shopping)
- enforce strict ethics rules (for obvious reasons)
Also, Kavanaugh was Ken Starr's right hand man in the Monica Lewinsky investigation and wrote much of the salacious final report.
(He noted Ginsberg as the lone exception).
We are now estranged after I posted a George Floyd era video featuring other brutality incidents with the flag as backdrop.
Damn if these mediocre white men aren't focused on controlling ALL OF US.