Ok, everybody had their fun saying Biden should just disappear his political enemies because it’s allowed now. It’s a new day, and those jokes are all old now, and also they’re cynical and stupid and counterproductive.
Democracy is on the ballot. Stop fucking acting like it’s already gone.
Because if you and enough people decide it’s already gone, it is. It’s like watching Peter Pan where you, the audience, have to clap and say you believe in fairies for them to exist, except it’s real.
My concern is this: if Roberts is willing to do this, we have to consider that he's willing to invalidate election results that support Biden.
Maybe he is and maybe he isn't. But the risk is enough that I think we have to find any way to reform the court before the election.
Well, SCOTUS just gave Biden the tools.
EO that says: 4 new seats. Recess appointment 4 justices in. Hope that Congress is too broken to stop when they reconvene.
But of course, that means not clapping for the fairy. At least for a little while.
I know we’ve been saying that SCOTUS has made presidents kings, and maybe that’s given people the wrong impression, but what SCOTUS did is immunize presidents from criminal prosecution. It hasn’t functionally expanded their powers.
That EO would just be ink on a page. None of the lower courts or states would consider those justices anything other than cosplayers. They wouldn’t get sworn in. A judge without recognized authority is just a person in a robe.
Right. What it’s done is given license to use those powers expansively and corruptly without consequence. Like Trump could direct his DoJ to conduct explicitly political witch hunts of his enemies and give preemptive blanket pardons to the department and he and they are immune for all of it now.
