We’re doomed.
I suppose once Trump’s new pick is in place the SCOTUS can trade in their black robes for white ones.
Expect more retirements.
The right wing is going to pack the SCOTUS with young Tea Party activists.
If an electoral disaster for the right appears inevitable in November, expect at least one more “justice” to retire and be quickly replaced before the election can be held.
Heck they may do this in November-December after the election if they lose control, before the new congress can be seated.
The Fascist coup in America proceeds apace.
Small consolation, but we were doomed on 11/09/2016. We can hold out some small hope for an action plan. First, we need to get back control of some of the actual levers of power. Then, we need to make sure that Trump gets the treatment he deserves. Then, we will probably need some kind of action that does not really fall within the constitution, which will be the most important and dangerous step (and no, I don’t really know what they might be).
I hope Kennedy lives to be one-hunderd and five cogent years old and watches as the right wing minions he has empowered wreck what we think of as civilization here in the US. His name will be worthless. Except to the Koch Brothers and other underwriters of this fiasco.
Is the place even worth saving when the financial bottom falls out?
The already wealthy will do what they always do in times of panic: buy cheap.
How about no frigging replacement? Sounds fair to me. Obstruct everything as far as I’m concerned.
I really do wonder if we’re going to have to have it out with these right wing criminals in the streets.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned the question of abortion rights is no longer a state-by-state issue. Without Roe as a controlling precedent, nothing could stop Congress from passing a national ban. In a scenario where both houses of Congress and the White House were controlled by Republicans I have no doubt they would try to pass it. If they didn’t have 60 votes in the Senate it wouldn’t surprise me if they nuked the filibuster all together in order to pass a ban.
A national ban on abortion before the end of the Trump administration is not impossible.
Ralph? Bernie? Jill?
Crickets…
What about the environment? http://legal-planet.org/2018/06/27/what-does-justice-kennedys-retirement-mean-for-environmental-protection/
this is ugly and it’s going to get uglier
When Democrats get control of the government, it is time for the pack-back! Dems needs to appoint an extra 4 Supreme Court justices to fix the Republican court packing. The seat they stole from Obama and the judge
Republicans can now appoint due to Russia’s Presidential election assist.
What a f*cking nightmare. Watching them dismantle our democracy is gut-wrenching.
It’s not easy—and it’s been tried, ending in failure.
Dear Robert Mueller:
I appreciate your diligence and hard work and integrity throughout your investigation into Donald Trump.
I wish you could have worked quicker, because now, it may not matter to the future of this country.
Anyway, if the little cockweasel ends up in chains over it, I will at least have that to appreciate (of course our future SCOTUS will negate it all anyway).
Signed:
Americans who remember America once upon a time.
Allow me to suggest some other key legal issues that need to be on the front burner:
–Separation of Powers
–Libel and slander laws
–Executive overreach
–Standing to sue the executive for actions such as emoluments violations
Because as sure as they are going to nominate someone who is hard right, anything that comes out of the Mueller investigation is going to end up in the Supreme Court.
We already know that they’re going to try to end Roe, reduce LGBTQ rights, enshrine Gerrymandering, interpret the 2nd amendment as meaning no limits whatsoever, and eliminate any campaign finance regulation. We need a court that will at least hear the evidence that Mueller brings forward.
Sadly, kids who are teens and younger won’t have any experience with that America we remember where the good guys prevailed in the end.
We need to stop Trump from being our Nero or Caligula. We need to make him our Marie Antoinette.