The solution to this is to remove the justices, which is something Congress has the power to do and should be exercising.
Need 66 votes which is impossibe
I know but we are in fantasy land already.
The solution to all of our problems is to get rid of the Senate. I feel like we are all missing the real problem here.
Gotta be honest. I read this and wondered by Diana Ross had to do with Mitch McConnell
the centrist forum tone police who would rather cry about fake civility and shit on the left than face the truth.
She def should have retired during Obama and screwed the country with her hubris. Still, Iāll respect her enough to go shit on kaepernick and build a pipeline through native land in her honor
I think the seat filling process is pretty legally questionable when itās systematically denying the majority their say. Mass protests over minority rule seems legit to me
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Exactly this. The President is entitled to nominate a SCOTUS justice, and the Senate has the constitutional power to confirm. This will happen. We can be angry that the Senate played hardball in 2016 and wouldnāt hold a vote on Garland. Unfortunately for us, they had that power and exercised it. They also have the power to hold a vote on Timmy Deplorable, and they will do it. We can be mad, we can ātake to the streetsā, we can call people and complain, you can try to storm the Capitol. But whatever you feel or do, itās coming. There is absolutely zero chance that the Republicans, who have been dreaming of this EXACT moment for decades, are going to pass up a chance to nominate a Supreme Court justice because itāll make us feel better.
And even after this happens, Trump will still stand a solid chance at re-election, because a very, very large number of Americans are getting exactly what they want, and they love it.
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Maybe protest isnāt the right word then, but āFill this seat before inauguration and weāre going to fuck shit upā isnāt necessarily less effective than protesting anything else.
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GET HER!
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So regardless of the number of people that showed up. Nothing would change? I disagree.
if you want a safe space Iām sure there is a twitter thread full of good libs where they are hiding the posts that hurt your feelings
Youāre so edgy!
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From the limited things Iām seeing I think RBGās āsurprisingā decisions are usually good. She had some respect for limiting the power of the federal government and sometimes that had her voting against something that liberals liked policy-wise.
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I think most of the focus is on the wrong thing.
Iām seeing a ton of debate about what Democrats should do after they regain power, when the far larger and more immediate concern is being foreclosed from EVER having power again.
Neil Gorsuch is now the swing vote. I fully understand that he wrote one good decision about Native Americans because of some personal connection, but heās a god damn right-wing monster.
You canāt name me one modern case where a conservative justice voted against political power for conservatives. Ever. This election is going to end up before the Supreme Court and theyāre going to rig it, full stop.
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Yup. Itās over. The election isnāt going to matter most likely because if it looks like Donnie has lost they will legal challenge the shit out of it to the SC and a 6-3 SC never goes against Trump ever.
No Dem ever gets power again and the SC slowly drifts farther and farther right as the few remaining liberals die off.
It will most likely be a joke. I know Iām not driving to Utah, smashing stuff and telling Mittens that if he votes for a new Justice Iāll be back to burn down his office.
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Walking, flying, different state?
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1307329335523790853
When youāre within striking distance of taking the whole thing the mask comes off and everyone just says what everyone knows.
Canāt wait for the balls and strikes rhetoric when the the 6-3 decision comes down that any business regulation is actually unconstitutional because Democrats want it
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Iāve resigned myself to the thoughts that the America I want isnāt happening any time soon. We lost, really a while ago. So thereās no point in fighting the inevitable.
I figure the sooner all the consequences of having a republican president, a stacked right wing supreme court, and a conservative Congress come to fruition the sooner the rest of america might figure out how bad these things are.
The cult wonāt care until theyāre eating cat food, Medicare is ended, social security is ended, and the rich are partying behind their 10 ft walls.
Eventually all of the conservative guns that theyāre threatening to use on protestors are going to be trained on republican politicians.
Might take a few decades, though.
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Iām not getting shot or going to prison for any 99.999% likely futile gesture to help this fucking country. In fact, Iām starting to think that itās time to be more careful about any public criticism of it.
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