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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow do you stop the SCOTUS from the crime of conspiring to subvert the constitution?
This is essentially what they are doing on behalf of extremist right wing ideologues. Its not just the orange anus they are protecting, they are projecting into the future their desire to piecemeal disassemble the constitution. Machiavelli would be proud of their machinations on behalf of creating a dictatorship. A dictatorship in which they will serve as high priests guarding the gates of privilege against the swampish filth of humanity they so despise.
The right wing understands the danger they face in the shifting demographics coming at them like a freight train. They are on the cusp of never winning another election again
especially for the presidency. Republicans, as opposed to freakishly malevolent and ignorant MAGATs, are leaving congress in literal droves. The handwriting is on the wall
and the small minded reactionary wanna be dictators are circling the wagons in preparation for their ideological doomsday.
These ruthless SCOTUS creeps are seeing themselves as the final frontier in their defense against any who are not like them
.which is pretty much everyone
.or will be in the near future.
jimfields33
(16,050 posts)Silent3
(15,422 posts)We dont need to wait to see a decision to know this whole process is corrupt.
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Silent3
(15,422 posts)(Replying to myself now because a message I was replying to was deleted, a message that tried to characterize the SCOTUS's handling of Trump's immunity claims as "normal".)
And they sure moved damned fast when it was about keep Trump on the ballot. Apparently keeping Trump on the ballot is an emergency. A speedy trial for Trump (which is normally considered a benefit, not a bane, for a defendant), and for the American people to have a decision before voting, is apparently not an emergency. Gosh, I wonder why?
Even if the SCOTUS, instead of properly dealing quickly with only the particular case issues before them, wants to go the extra mile and create elaborate tests for private conduct versus official duties of the President, it could still quickly rules on the particulars before them and let Trump's various federal trials continue.
Are you honestly so willing to grant a generous unearned benefit of the doubt to the clearly politically-motivated conservative majority? This is open, naked power politics, not some intellectual stratosphere of lofty, objective judicial decision making.
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)impeachment is the sole remedy. Neither one is likely.
bucolic_frolic
(43,423 posts)You write EO's, and dare lawsuits to intervene. When they do you write another EO.
You defy them. Texas is doing it. So can we.
You hold them up to public scrutiny. You laugh at them and ridicule them. They are diminishing their branch of government. Marbury v. Madison is not cast in stone. It's not in the Constitution, and even if it were, SCOTUS is ruling that means little, daily.
You grab Congress and hold it. Investigate and write counter legislation.
But you don't want to destroy the institution either. You want it intact for a future liberal majority.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,125 posts)Public opinion may turn against it, though theyre already despised by the majority, but the right-wing extremistsThomas and Alito especiallyjust thumb their noses at the public and enjoy their power to wreak the Constitution and the country. We the public have no power against them.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)So we just sit and wait for the other shoe to drop.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,260 posts)MineralMan
(146,341 posts)You can also help get others to the polls to vote for Democrats. After the election, it is too late to complain. You have to act before the Republican gets elected. You'd think people would understand that.
GoreWon2000
(107 posts)Had all of the uncounted Florida votes been counted in 2000 as Florida law required, W would've been sent back to Texas and our country wouldn't now be in this nightmare. W was too big of a coward to allow all of the votes to be counted because he knew that he would loose so he and his crime family got together and made sure that all of the votes weren't counted..
MineralMan
(146,341 posts)Ralph Nader. Had he not been on the ballot and had people not voted for him, the issue would not have arisen at all.
Elessar Zappa
(14,108 posts)Voting for Democrats up and down the ballot is the number one thing people can do to affect change.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,260 posts)"they face in the shifting demographics coming at them like a freight train."
et tu
(932 posts)and see what biden can do in 4 more years
with sheldon whitehouse's awesome indepth
probe of the lying corrupt supremes~
GiqueCee
(644 posts)... but the balance of power in Congress would have to shift dramatically for that to be even a remote possibility.
orangecrush
(19,655 posts)Came very close to installing a dictator, they did install a Supreme Court by their prospective dictator that is relentlessly stripping away our rights. This is undeniable.
But all their planning failed to take one very obvious fact into account. It's kind of funny, in a way, like building a skyscraper on top of an earthquake fault.
The American people will never lay down and accept the form of government they are trying to transform democracy into.
Ain't gonna happen.
I believe that down in my bones.
ananda
(28,890 posts)Take to the streets in large numbers and
don't give up.
GoreWon2000
(107 posts)Congressional dems with the exception of the Congressional Black Caucus did nothing to stop SCOTUS in 2000 and here we now are. The Congressional dems failure to act and hold the election stealing GOP accountable for their election stealing emboldened the election stealing GOP to keep stealing elections and that's what they're now doing, I have no idea how we fix this. The GOP will only undo any dem SCOTUS expansion so I don't know what the answer is.