Ohio Republicans have unlocked a secret of subverting their state’s constitution: Simply ignore your state’s Supreme Court when it tells you things you don’t want to hear.
Simply ignore your state’s Supreme Court when it tells you things you don’t want to hear.
This is an easy solution when you know that appeals to SCOTUS are gonna go your way, too.
When you’re a star, they let you do it.
Ignoring Supreme Courts is a Republican thing. Trump’s second favorite Prez, Andrew Jackson ignored a US Supreme Court order to leave Cherokee and Seminole landowners alone. Jackson blew the Court off, stole the (court protected) farms and marched the Cherokee and Seminole people on the long and horrible Trail of Tears to Oklahoma reservations. This is Republican DNA.
Is this the “law” or the “order” Republicans are always claiming to love?
Can an Ohio voter sue because the map is invalid per the Ohio SC rulings? Asking for a friend.
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” ― John Steinbeck
Gedanken Experiment.
What would be the likely reaction if a group of Democratic state pols did this?
Following Andrew Jackson’s example, after all how many divisions does the Ohio Supreme Court has…
So all it takes is a few bad man to ignore the law. And they used to whine that they were the ‘Law and Order’ party!?
Someone better report this breach to the Mark Levins and Ben Shapiros. They got a setios mess on aisle Constitution.
Why does it seem like any small chance of fairness keeps getting thrown away? Both Florida and Ohio are stomping over the redistributing reforms their own states passed in order to preserve power and now there seems to be no legal consequences for their actions. I’m so damn sick of this.
Democratic institutions are not holding.
The Big Lebowski, circa 2022: “This aggression will stand, man.”
“Republicans have unlocked a secret of subverting their state’s constitution: Simply ignore your state’s Supreme Court…”
“Check and balances”?
The GOP’s blown more checks than Jim Jordan on a legislative junket to Prague.
“Order” comes from the top down, as in “orders have come down from the top.” Order is essentially authoritarian. If the law is generally recognized as the authority, then order can emerge organically, and be compatible with democratic institutions. For the GOP, as for Putin and authoritarians/fascists in general, the “law” is what the maximum leader says it is. Order cannot emerge organically, since it depends on the whim of the leader, and so is replaced by violence. It’s why fascists celebrate violence.
Here the GOP is, again, explicitly rejecting the concept of generally recognized law, upheld by democratic institutions. Folks, the Slasher is inside the house. As Josh suggests on the front page today, the GOP has more or less openly aligned itself with Putinism, if not, superficially, for now at least, Putin himself. This should be maximum red alert, klaxons blaring, people (leaders of the Democratic party, our national media) running to emergency positions. Ah, well, nevertheless
Strategy: Running Out The Clock
A. Pass an unconstitutional law that benefits only you.
B. Claim its constitutional to your dying day.
C. When a court says stop doing it, keep doing it.
What are you going to do about it?
They’re pushing it all to the hilt. It will inevitably backfire, but how long we all must endure until that happens is anyone’s guess. There will be a backlash, and a big one, but perhaps not in our lifetimes.
“Whatever I order, is the law.”
– Any tin-pot caudillo anywhere
Haha… look at what happens to democrats when the economy is great, demand is high and unemployment is at record lows… focus on the resulting inflation.
Can the GOP ‘leadership’ be held in contempt? THIS is something I don’t get.
Czech Mate!