@rbreich Roberts in 2005:
"I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law.”
https://www.comicsands.com/john-roberts-immunity-confirmation-president-2668669644.html
@rbreich almost seems as though the Biden admin should put those powers he just gained to good use.
But I'm aware it's far too much when asking a Dem authority to wield power. Even if the world is burning down.
@rbreich .. WHO is PROTECTING America against the TREASON of TRAITORS ?????
WHO ? WHO ?? WHO ???
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The #SCOTUSTraitors seem to think they have an unlimited god-like power of unconstrained judicial review.
#Biden #debate #DirtyTricks Could it be that Biden's poor performance at the debate ws because someone slipped him a mickey? These things happen in politics sometimes. See: https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/02/06/how-mainer-edmund-muskies-tirade-a-half-century-ago-may-have-cost-him-the-white-house/ "Muskie’s address seemed so bizarre that some of his aides thought somebody might have slipped LSD into the coffee he drank before taking the stage, former staffer Martin Walker wrote in The Guardian in 1996. A CIA officer, Miles Copeland, wrote in his 1978 memoir that some of his friends at the intelligence agency were convinced that a Nixon operative, probably one of the ex-CIA men who worked for the president’s reelection committee, slipped LSD into Muskie’s drink 'before he played that famous weeping scene.'" https://retronewser.com/2022/02/26/emocratic-presidential-favorite-edmund-muskie-appears-to-break-down-while-attacking-newspaper-publisher/ ". . . fear of Muskie’s alleged unstable emotional condition led some New Hampshire Democrats to defect to George McGovern."
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They are not originalists. They are origami experts. They bend and twist the pages before them to come up with creatures entirely new and heretofore unknown.
@MartyLemert @rbreich "Give me all your money & I'll make some olrigami honey." -- Colurtney Barrett
Whol knew she was singing abolut the Supreme Court?
@rbreich
If I were an #Optimist, I'd say that now there is now ABSOLUTELY NO WAY DONALD T**** WILL EVER BE PRESIDENT. 👍
If #Biden wins, no worries. #democracy continues.
If #Biden loses, he now has the authority to arrest, deport, whatever #TheOrangeMenace or at the very least "refuse to step down" (send our own #FakeElectors; foster a #riot to disrupt the #certification, etc) to a #ClearAndPresentDanger like Donald T****. #TrumpVsUS #AboveTheLaw #Immune
@nottrobin @rbreich
"If #Biden wins..."
The chances he will abuse his authority are slim to none.
There is a strong possibility the next @Potus will get as many as 3 #SCotUS picks. We've seen what a Court with just THREE T**** appointees can do to rip up the #Constitution. Imagine a Court with SIX T**** appointees! 😱
Biden with a Dem controlled #Congress will codify #Roe and he will sign it.
We've already seen what T**** was willing to do when he was still constrained by the law. Imagine.
Thanks
One thing I was thinking of was what does the path look like for undoing this ruling? Can it only be achieved by taking over the supreme court? Or can it be achieved through legislative means?
He would only need 2 picks technically to get to a 5-4 democratic court right?
@nottrobin @rbreich
Well, one of the likely #SCotUS opening is Sotomayor, so if she's one of the 3 openings, it doesn't change the balance of the court (unless she's one of three.)
That leaves Congress.
If Congress fails to be an option, that just leaves trust that #Biden won't abuse his power (as T**** most assuredly will.)
Then the problem is put on hold for 4 more years. #TrumpVsUS #Immunity Ruling
@rbreich Forget the hypocrisy, (hyperbolically speaking, but not really) this is the start of the Republican Coup.
Remove Trump, we still face:
- MAGA
- Project 2025
- Conservative #SCOTUSTraitors super-majority who disregard precedent
What happens when Republicans nominate someone who is savvier, more articulate, and maintains message discipline? Worse they win? Do you think the Republicans will ever relinquish power?
"Few knew that when the Republican Party declared a war on culture many decades ago, they meant a war on the culture of American liberty itself.
As they now facetiously exclaim that America has always been an autocracy, and we just never noticed."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave - The Enemy Within, 2005
It is ironic that the constitution, designed to promote a democratic form of government includes a two part poison pill, the electoral collage and the unelected, lifetime tenured, above the law Supreme Court
#usconstitution #SupremeCourt #electoralcollege #irony
@rbreich I can only dissent with my vote and voice but I too dissent. In November you choose between a President or a King. It is simply that existential. If you vote for a President you can vote them out in four years. If you vote for a King (or abstain from voting) you will never get the chance to elect another President again.
Do you protect the United States Constitution millions of Americans died to protect or do you throw away the Bill of Rights?
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