So the question is whether we’re going to continue to grant legitimacy to these institutions even though they fail us, and the obvious answer, looking to history is:
Nah.
Our political ancestors responded to Dred Scott by hiring an antislavery lawyer to the presidency and simply refusing to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act, including using mob violence to reject slave hunters. I feel like we can do better.
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Now is certainly the time to discuss options. When officials impose personal whims to stop laws and plans built by consensus, that's worth talking about how to stop them.
Kathy Hochul would have voted with Roberts.
Sadly it is not something you and I can fix, other than voting and jeepers, no way for me to be happy with even that.
Too many can quash anything at this point
