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Roger Loeb's avatar

Quote of the century, "...a Court that now treats the Constitution like it is a suggestion box at a Mar-a-Lago brunch buffet."

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Another clever Michael statement! I can remember when SCOTUS was making serious decisions, and were highly respected.......

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

That’s definitely a description for the ages!

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Xplisset's avatar

Reading this like yeah, you can gerrymander a map but you can’t gerrymander an empty fridge or a shutoff notice. Voters might not track every court case, but they feel who’s in charge when the bills hit and the cart gets smaller every week. Man, keep running it down this plain, because this is exactly how we carry the story from the courtroom to the kitchen table. www.xplisset.com

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

Yes, the fascists in black robes have once more screwed the country. Remember, they have already proven the Constitution is irrelevant by elevating Demented Donnie Two-Dolls to the status of king. Next up, obviously, is to declare birthright citizenship (AKA 14th amendment) unconstitutional. Go for it, Boys!

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Susan Booth's avatar

And after citizenship the White christian Nationalists, otherwise known as The Heritage Foundation, wants to abolish the vote for women. Yep. It's coming sure as shit.

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Sadly, I think it will happen. Constitution? What the hell is that?

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

We The People are tired of the Supreme Court thinking the American people are stupid. We are not!!! There are some on this court that need to be replaced because they no longer uphold their oath to the Constitution.

Michael, great writing. Thank you.

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Toni's avatar

They need to be impeached!

And we need term/age limits and an expanded court, and ethics reform. The more justices on the court the harder it will be for one President to stack it with compliant ideologues.

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

I absolutely agree with you!

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chev_chelios's avatar

I think the ( Despicable 6 ) on the SCOTUS should be redistricted .....to let's say someplace like El Salvador ?

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Toni's avatar

Despicable Six! Love that! 👏🏻🎯

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Chris L's avatar

I hope some of those gerrymandered red districts actually flip blue just to piss the GOP off!

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Toni's avatar

They might, because some of them contain a large number of Latino voters, who have swung back to the left as of the November elections. And no wonder! It would be such poetic justice if that cost Repugnicans more seats than they gain!

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Hope springs eternal. I believe people vote their hate and prejudice before they vote their economic best interests.

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James E Kent's avatar

Makes you wonder who all was redacted from the Epstein files.

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Toni's avatar

Thomas being in there wouldn't surprise me at all!

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Penny Thibeaux's avatar

So, when is everyone going to protest the corruption in the Supreme Court. 6 of which should be removed. There must be a way to rid ourselves of the crooked, bastards, the corruption is in our faces Shoved down our throats.

When do we, the people rise up , and demand the 6 sellout bastards, leave. They have proved they are so unworthy

And

TRAITORS TO THE UNITED STATES !!!

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Jax's avatar

Perhaps have them charged with sedition along with the rest of this Nazi regime!

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

It would be tough to get rid of them short of impeachment, which seems unlikely. They could resign, retire or become unable to serve, but surely would be replaced with people as bad or worse and much younger, so able to serve far longer. But that is not the end. Congress can add a sufficient number of Justices to silence their voices. See Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution and this analysis. (“In addition to setting the size of the Supreme Court, Congress also determines the time and place of the Court’s sessions.”)

Source: Constitution Annotated https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S1-8-3/ALDE_00013559/

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Linda Myers's avatar

Once maga is thrown out, the once Supreme Court, now the flunkies of maga, will have to be dealt with.

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CanadaIsNotForSale's avatar

I hope the people of Texas see through this power grab and vote in their best interests. But I fear many are stupefied from the Kool-aid they've been served to drink for a very long time in them parts.

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Cathy's avatar

Great write-up.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Fine analysis, Mr. Cohen. Well written, concise, supported nicely … plus, a good read. IMO, one of your best posts, drafted so tightly and spot-on that it makes your point and assigns responsibility to those who earned it and now revel in the mess they made.

And yet, TX apparatchiks and the (presumably) six rodeo clowns forget this from 1871 by Helmuth von Moltke “No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces” and what later became “every dog will have its day,” as voiced by Hamlet in Hamlet 5.1 (1599-1601): “The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.” Voters will vote their wallets and will take no notice of artificial, fabricated and meaningless district lines of division drawn in red.

More cheating will follow.

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Amanda's avatar

Thank you, MTN. Your steadfast commitment to our Constitution has provided a measure of reassurance during this challenging period. Ben, you are fierce!😁

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Ramona Jeffery's avatar

Fascists in high power positions are not new to the US. There are documentaries about why the US was so slow to help Europeans with Hitler. It will curl your hair.

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Jax's avatar

In the lost history of Nazis, many forget that they were started in the United States, then adopted by Germany.

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Kay G's avatar

😳

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Jax's avatar

Yep.

There was a huge gathering at Madison square gardens of Nazis. I don’t recall exactly what year but somewhere late 1920’s to early 1930’s…

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Rick N's avatar

We need to remember that the current makeup of the SCOTUS was a long-term plan of the GOP and its think tanks to curb what they visualized in the 1990s as a trend of the country going liberal. The Federalist Society began vetting appointees rather than the ABA. The five justices appointed in the 2000s all fit this bill. The chief justice began work to eliminate the Voting Rights Act while in the Reagan administration. The other justices all have similar agendas to undo liberal government. I'm not sure they will always vote in Trump's favor, but if his cause of entrenching an autocratic government aligns with theirs, there well always be a majority vote.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

[The vision was put into play earlier] President Reagan nominated Bork for the Supreme Court on July 1, 1987, to replace a retiring Lewis Powell. Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with a public statement that quickly drew political battle lines over Bork’s nomination.

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy,”

Senate Democrats brought up legal writings from Bork dating back to 1963, when he wrote a New Republic article opposing the proposed 1964 Civil Rights Act. Bork’s opponents were critical of his opinions about the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Source: Senate rejects Robert Bork for the Supreme Court October 23, 2023; National Constitution Center https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-senate-rejects-robert-bork-for-the-supreme-court

[How wrong was Kennedy about what he foresaw as the GOP’s long game? Not at all.]

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Jerri Peake's avatar

I hope you are right about how people will vote but I know people(like my mother in law) who would NEVER vote for a Democrat, no matter what!

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Jax's avatar

Yes, you can’t cure stupid!

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