Posted on 06/27/2018 1:30:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After a Supreme Court term that saw one conservative victory after another, the final blow fell on Wednesday afternoon: Justice Anthony Kennedy (who has been the median vote on the Supreme Court since the retirement of Sandra Day O’Connor in 2006) announced his retirement. It is almost impossible to overstate the significance of this.
Anthony Kennedy’s legacy could have been as a conservative respected for providing key votes to uphold a woman’s right to choose and the right-to-same sex marriage. Instead, he shall be remembered as one of the most important allies of Donald Trump’s pro-business white nationalism.
What’s particularly disturbing about this is that Republicans have gotten its firm hold on the Court despite lacking a popular mandate. The Republican Party has lost the popular vote in 6 out of 7 presidential elections, and is relying more and more on the race-baiting of Donald Trump and his allies to bring supporters to the polls because its domestic agenda is highly unpopular. The party is also relying increasingly on vote suppression of non-conservative racial minority groups rather than attracting voters to stay in power, most recently with the assistance of a Supreme Court that is at war with the Voting Rights Act and unwilling to overrule even the most egregious partisan gerrymanders.
This has the possibility to create a constitutional crisis. If the next Democratic Congress is prevented from enacting much of its agenda by a partisan Supreme court, this may lead to court-packing or other serious retaliation against the judicial branch. By handing a president not chosen by the people a second Supreme Court nomination, Anthony Kennedy’s ultimate legacy may be the destruction of the court as we know it.
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Yup, those are my thoughts upon first blush.
I can only handle reading Democratic Underground in very measured amounts. While it is funny for a bit to read all the brokenhearted snowflakes screaming their angst, it gets old when you realize these silly libtards are actually serious about the lies they regurgitate ad infinitum. You just wish their mothers would hurry and call them out of the basement for dinner?
Trump may decide to put up a woman, to make it harder for them to attack her. Then again, being a woman did not shield Sarah Palin, and being black did not shield Clarence Thomad
Good god I can’t believe this is low even for mainstream news.
A catcher, I’d guess.
Yes, but Trump won the most counties.
I’m melting...
With black and hispanic unemployment at historical lows, I have to ask have they realized that he’s either not racist or the most incompetent racist ever?
At what point do they stop with these lies? When we’re all in “reeducation camps” with yellow stars for conservatives?
Seriously. What is their end-game? Our deaths?
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