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on the one hand, SCOTUS has ignored precedent, taken away rights, consolidated their own power and declared Donald Trump a special boy who can do all the crime he wants, but on the other hand, we must respect our sacred norms www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Biden Campaign Brushes Off Idea of Reforming the Supreme Courtwww.rollingstone.com Biden surrogates brushed off questions about reining in the court, while emphasizing the gravity of a second Trump term.
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The sacred norms including breaking the original equality between number of Circuits and number of Justices. 5 circuits = 5 Justices at the outset, and the "9 Justices" at present was originally *because* at that time, there were 9 circuits..
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I'll respect norms when they’re normal. This shit? This isn't normal.
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“When they go low, we go ‘…okay.’” - Some More News
Oh Jesus H. Christ. I understood reticence about this earlier and maybe sort of could have been persuaded by those arguments a few years ago. But if these aren't desperate times now, I don't know what are.
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Norms are a lot like a raincoat. They keep you from getting wet until someone throws you in the ocean.
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I'd be more inclined to dump him for this than for the debate.
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Why are they like this? Playing fair only works when the other side isn't flipping the table and pouring kerosene on the fucking floors.
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Insanity. Here’s another email from ol’ Safety First Dick Durbin (my Senator). Sorry Dick, your Act probably won’t pass!
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That’s the most adorable and naive thing I have read in a WHILE.
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Why ask the commander in chief to short track fixing this when you can scab $25 bucks from the public?
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This is the one thing that pisses me off about biden, and democrats on the senate judiciary committe. Complete dereliction of duty.
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He's waiting to see what other goofy shit they're gonna let him get away with & THEN get rid of them. & he can't do that if people keep (says through teeth) puttin' salt in his kool-aid.
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That's not actually what the admin said. They said they didn't have a statement at that time.
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I go for fight fire with fire!