The problem with counting on popular sentiment to rein in a Supreme Court Justice is that A) a large number of Americans couldn’t name a Supreme Court Justice if they had to, and those people aren’t going to debate legitimacy or do anything about it. And B) There’s basically sweet FA anybody can do about it. Just like Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, she’ll fade into the background noise, a note in an opinion here or there as she does her part to create Gilead.
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I hope if the Democrats win the Senate, Biden during his inaugural address which should have the biggest crown second to Obama’s, says “damn straight I’m going to pack the court, just like Moscow Mitch did!”
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By every means available. The Germans always thought God was on their side.
Wehrmacht belt buckle
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Biden will have a 2 down and a 3 face up. And tell the dealer he’s standing pat. Typical Dem play of the hand.
Sadly, the ACA without the public option fell short of the mark. Nobody liked the for-profit individual insurance mandate. If our new right-wing partisan Supreme Court clears it away, perhaps a new Democratic-controlled Congress and White House will finally realize Medicare for All is what people want and need. Particularly in the middle of a pandemic that has exposed the stupidity of tying health insurance to your job.
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Obama had a crown?
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I’d query that one word.
The rest of it … I appreciate!
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Scalia didn’t get away with it but he sat on a 5/4 Court with a swing Kennedy among the 5. Barrett is going to sit on a 6/3 Court with a potential swing in Roberts that will not change a thing. As of today the Court will be incapable of compassion, empathy or understanding. It will be driven by religious zealots who can see no wrong in their cruelty because Jesus wants it. But that will come with a price. No way America allows that to exist for “generations” as some media clowns say it will. It will change by procedure or violence but it will change.
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I certainly hope you’re right about [2].
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We can start referring to it as the Torquemada Court™.
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Joe Lieberman (D?-CT) certainly liked it. He is the one who essentially killed the public option. Of course, he was only protecting his constituents, the insurance companies of Hartford.
Nicknamed the “Insurance Capital of the World”, Hartford holds high sufficiency as a global city, as home to the headquarters of many insurance companies, the region’s major industry.
Hartford, Connecticut - Wikipedia
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You’re not a woman.
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I’m not sure what that means but I imagine it’s based on the certainty Barrett will issue rulings that deprive women of their current rights. She will for sure and people should bellyache about that when she does that. My point is bellyaching about her confirmation was a frivolous effort as that was a forgone conclusion and inevitable. She’s there. I think it’s important when she starts her religious bullshit that all of us, men and women, raise hell about it.
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The upside is enraged women voting for Democrats.
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We knew Barrett was likely to be confirmed
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We knew what she was placed on SCOTUS to do
Voter security, getting ballots to be counted before election day, voting in large enough numbers to avoid the HorseRace…things like these are all we can do to combat the threat before us
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So we should have just passively taken it and not made a fuss. Good to know.
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And Alec writes legislation for right wing state legislatures to enact which then forms the basis for challenges to existing law. Red states have been enacting strict anti-abortion laws, including outright bans, in anticipation of this Court.
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Was there “bellyaching” the day after Trump was elected? Was it a “frivolous effort”?
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Not by me…it was over. I’m not sure that a whataboutism ever adds a thing to any argument.
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I never said anything like that. You are deliberately abusing my point. Read what the fuck I wrote.