It's a hell of a gamble on the Supreme Court's part, and I can't tell if it's coming because they genuinely think they're going to get their thousand year reich or because they're terrified they won't
The safer and arguably more effective move here was to write an opinion saying "presidential immunity? hmm. Much to consider. Very serious. We would like the lower court to consider these questions but otherwise we are taking no position"
Like, the last thing you want to do in the situation is scare liberals into mobilizing against you *again* on top of what they did with Dobbs, and it would have been pretty easy to soft-pedal rescuing him in a way that doesn't make you look overtly and contemptuously in the tank for him
And by allowing "the lower court to consider these questions," they've effectively delayed any possible trial even longer. If the lower court decides Trump's actions were NOT 'official conduct,' you know Trump would appeal that to SCOTUS.
Yeah. All they really had to do was send the thing back down the pipe if they wanted to bail Trump out this year and take no other position on the matter. That is...not how Roberts has decided to play it
The only piece missing is the enabling act, control of the Senate and presidential election. You are one Election Day away from a dictatorship with global war possibilities. I can’t believe our nation is half filled with people with the average intelligence of a cabbage.
i just don't know how to get people to care. the republicans are spectacularly unpopular and have been for my entire life. if everyone who doesn't like them would bother to show up and vote they would be annihilated from public office
We have to contact who we can, & communicate as well as we can, & trust in the voters. We don't have much more than that. The only way to make them care is for bad people to do bad things, which might well be what happens but I'm not going to encourage or count on it.
I don't know, I think they're waking up. But the Dems need the courage to explicitly run against the court, or it will come off once more as so much thumb-twiddling.
There is a fatally wrong belief, which I have great sympathy for, but can no longer tolerate, that if we obey not only laws but norms, maybe the right will retreat from its thuggery. They won't - they can't. So our obligation is to use the laws aggressively to protect law itself.
It will only be so if the D nominee wins. Anyone advocating a vote that isn't for the D nominee in November is, if not a fascist cheerleader then a fascist booster selling fascist popcorn in the concession stand.
The Republican Party is the white nationalist party, an ideology that is slowly suffocating for various reasons like the steady diversification of America and just general civil progress. (Extinction)
As a result, they respond by doubling down on what people hate about them. (Burst)
Since this actually resulted in them winning in 2016 due to electoral college bullshit, it resets the progress a little, but they’re still being pressured towards extinction.
But the main connection is “when they’re actually beginning to lose power, they will lash out”, which the SC is doing.
Ok, got it. I thought that’s what you might be getting at, but there were some complex phrases in that wiki article that were a bit heavy for me since I have limited education in that area and I was worried I was misunderstanding. Thanks again!
If Roe isn't enough (anti-abortionists LOST in Kansas of all places) then nothing will be.
But if it is, yes, absolutely, they are history and will have to form a new (somewhat) sane party after a 49 state loss!
