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fundamentally being in the majority on Trump v US is immediately disqualifying for a supreme court justice. it declares yourself in opposition to the foundations of the American project of democracy and limited government. all six of them must be impeached and replaced.
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john roberts, clarence thomas, samuel alito, brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch, and amy coney barrett must be impeached and replaced
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To be delicate, by declaring a Presidential Purge, those six have eliminated any obligation to go through the formal process of impeachment.
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Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law? More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
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Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
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Republicans do not understand the power they're playing with they imagine that there's going to be a total constitutional rupture that leaves them in charge and then after they'll add a "no take backs" clause to the constitution what we libs are waking up to is: two can play this game.
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sulla comes to mind. once you march on Rome once putting in a law that says "no marching on Rome" isn't going to be enough
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One can only hope. In a way I don't understand why Biden still haven't made a warning shot in the air for the right-wing crowd, just to give them the idea. Do something obviously NEW, then give a press-conference and say: your candidate just enable that. Do you like it? Not for him, but in general?
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There were lots of juicy takes the first day, like, drone-strike this, or torture that, but I'm sure one can find something that is simultaneously not unethical, previously impossible (illegal?), but also not-social-collapse-inducing. Literally a warning shot. And publicly name Trump as enabler...
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Yeah. And like: that snide "faithful execution" remark Roberts put in there implicitly acknowledges legal interpretive powers for the president. So: why would the autocrat they're hoping for really even need to keep them around?
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