• (Opinion) How Brett Kavanaugh could harm the legitimacy of the Supreme Court
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-constitutional-crisis.html TLDR: Brett's creation of a mostly unbreakable five person majority could lead to massive rollbacks of reforms not seen since the early 20th century. Liberal states and the next Democrat President may feel they have the ability to ignore court rulings, Gorsuch wasn't the trigger as he is relatively normal, but Kavanaugh is a partisan blowhard, and a large majority of Democrat believe he sexually assaulted people. The last time where was such resistance to court rulings was by segregationists during the progressive Warren court.
With this confirmation, the USA can no longer be considered a functioning democracy.
Blue states will be fine ignoring congress and the courts, red states will have it rough.
citizens united isn't totally to blame for all that dark money, the laws governing super PACs and PACs in general permit the darkness even if the court allowed for the flow.
Its wild how the USA fucking balkanizing seems pheasable
The continued existence of the Supreme Court is now on John Roberts, he has voted in the past based on preserving the integrity of the court, and he will definitely be there to witness court packing by future presidents.
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This is only partly about the allegations. Kavanaugh has literally stated several times statements as far back as 1998 that confirm how much of a partisan asshole he is. Someone like this being on the court was unprecedented until a few decades ago, and the last one to be this bad, Robert Bork, was rejected.
epic
at this rate they'll get him to retire so they can pack another 50 year old conservative demegogue on the court next year.
Brett's creation of a mostly unbreakable five person majority could lead to massive rollbacks of reforms not seen since the early 20th century. Liberal states and the next Democrat President may feel they have the ability to ignore court rulings, Gorsuch wasn't the trigger as he is relatively normal, but Kavanaugh is a partisan blowhard, and a large majority of Democrats believe he sexually assaulted people. The last time where was such resistance to court rulings was by segregationists during the progressive Warren court. Liberal states ignoring supreme court rulings, because what we really need is to give Trump a reason to send in the national guard to enforce the law.
Hot to commit forum suicide the stupid way
This post will go down as similar to wickedplayer levels of stupidity The man fucking lied under oath and people like you still cannot fucking fathom that is in and of itself why we all want him disqualified. read a thread for once cause I know for a fact this has been explained to you in detail before.
It's referring when a Democrat wins the presidency but the current court cockblocks everything. FDR had the same issue and tried to pack the courts but failed.
I suggest you take a step back and reexamine Kavanaugh in a way that doesn't involve "owning the libs".
confirmed for a lifetime appointment to one of the most powerful positions in the government until proven guilty
Kavanaugh's Senate Testimony, artistic rendition https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/112373/480fe211-4ba5-4809-8cb0-33021ab5f1fc/Background copy.png
What a disastrous post.
Straight from the_donald too. Uninformed and willfully retarded, as per usual of content befitting that sub.
Then stop doing it.
I wish I could miss the point this thoroughly. It would give me a huge amount of peace of mind.
Hey, do you think Kavanaugh should be confirmed for the highest court in the land, despite perjuring himself and showing explicit political bias?
I've been contemplating moving out of the country for a bit if things don't start to turn around. I have valuable skills and certifications so I don't need to be stuck here. But as it stands people in this country have had a taste of fascism and like it, which is terrifying.
Rural America didn't survive 2008, desperate poor folks turn to people like Trump and others.
I'm keeping my options open. Come the end of university I'll have a degree in computer engineering and probably some internship experience in one company or another. If things go downhill I take some solace in the fact that I'll be able to book it.
If the midterms fail to bring the expected resilts, then from an egoistic standpoint, you should leave. The longer Republicans are in power, the faster a crash will come around. From an altruistic standpoint, you should stay. The more intelligent people the country loses, the worse the situation will get.
What if I'm someone who's well aware that the Republicans are awful and wishes for a more progressive country but is also not super intelligent or coherent himself?
You're such a bad poster.
it would depend on entirely what they were defying, say the scotus rules that all 300,000 people in the temporary assilum program have to get the fuck out including their children, trump sending the army in to round up people in states that ignore that ruling would probably be met with the national guard blocking them teeing up a potential armed clash states ignoring some kind of pro corporate ruling would be met with fury and not much else.
lol if Trump ordered the army to start rounding dissenters up there would be fucking riots across the north. Trump is a complete dumbass, but he's also a coward and would (hopefully) never use the army to push his agenda
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