Philip Bump: It's useful to remember that the court that granted Trump immunity is heavily a product of non-majority power in the first place. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's useful to remember that the court that granted Trump immunity is heavily a product of non-majority power in the first place. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The minoritarian power imbalance that gave Trump immunitywww.washingtonpost.com The way the system works is that five members of the nine-person Supreme Court can be nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote when they first ran and that four of them can be confirmed by se...

so comforting...

Yes, but it doesn't really matter, does it? Even worse – this is similar to what is happening in Germany: a coalition partner w a mere 4% of votes (!) in the entire country is blocking EVERYTHING. You can have built a great landscape in the sand – one dumb kid w a stick is enough to ruin it all.

Sigh. I really, really wish it was useful. The circumstances just make me angrier & more frustrated. 😣

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