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Kennedy's retirement .. an enabler of Trump's pro-business, racist, anti-woman agenda
NBC "News" ^ | June 27, 2018 | by Scott Lemieux

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dncpropaganda; fakenews; journalism; media; progressives; scotus; trumpscotus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

41 posted on 06/27/2018 1:58:50 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: JPJones

“I thought we “won” the cold war against communism...”

Not quite...Red agents have been embedded in the USA starting in the 1930’s.


42 posted on 06/27/2018 1:58:53 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The higher-education-industrial-complex bubble needs to be popped.

It lives solely on massive debt, both government and private, in our printed money at low interest rates.


43 posted on 06/27/2018 1:59:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Vigilanteman

Thanks for that great info-—now I can make better arguments. :-)

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44 posted on 06/27/2018 2:03:33 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve always wondered how hard it is to get all of that spittle out of a keyboard.


45 posted on 06/27/2018 2:04:16 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Vigilanteman
My favorite retort to this moaning is to ask them to list the countries who elect their national leader by direct popular vote. They usually give me a blank stare and I tell them there is one country on the list, but there used to be two. The one country is North Korea, the second (former) country is Iraq under Saddam.

The rest of your post is great but this point is not accurate, at least according to PEW, there's 33 countries with a combined head of state and government (as in the U.S.) that elect that person by direct popular vote:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democracies-u-s-stands-out-in-how-it-chooses-its-head-of-state/ft_16-11-21_headsofstate_bar/

46 posted on 06/27/2018 2:05:08 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

Please explain how, with most state legislators controlled by the GOP, that a 'court packing' amendment would have a snowball's chance in hell of passing. What a tool.

47 posted on 06/27/2018 2:05:42 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scott Lemieux is a fat gheyboi with a bad combover.
48 posted on 06/27/2018 2:05:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
After a Supreme Court term that saw one conservative victory after another, the final blow fell on Wednesday afternoon:

It WILL NOT be the final blow....Jack ass!!

49 posted on 06/27/2018 2:09:11 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Menehune56
"...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..."

He says that like it's a bad thing!

50 posted on 06/27/2018 2:14:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where do they find these creatures?


51 posted on 06/27/2018 2:15:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Dr. Sivana; Menehune56
...”which wasn't even particularly close (18,000 votes, versus 11,000 margin for Carter in ‘76). “

Think you had a typo, Bush 43 won Ohio by 118,000 votes in 2004, not just 18,000 votes against Kerry. Carter was very close to Ford in 1976, with the 11,000 vote margin you mentioned.

dvwjr

52 posted on 06/27/2018 2:15:18 PM PDT by dvwjr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Owwwww! A poli-sci "ex-spurt". Sorry "chum" but this is NOT the final nail. A lot more hurt headed in that general direction. It's called WINNING! 👹🖕🏻
53 posted on 06/27/2018 2:15:35 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More fake news, Scott LemieuxIdiot?


54 posted on 06/27/2018 2:16:03 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Lurker
So, maybe when he said "final blow" he meant his significant other is bailing on him? 👬
55 posted on 06/27/2018 2:17:30 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another Communist spews his hate.


56 posted on 06/27/2018 2:18:07 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: dirtboy

Speaking of spittle, Chrissy Matthews is having a grand mal meltdown on MSNBC.

Bat chit cRaZy over the Kennedy retirement.


57 posted on 06/27/2018 2:21:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Waaaaa, femmocroats cry


58 posted on 06/27/2018 2:22:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another white sissy wannabe “expert” opining with stupidity

No wonder he has to hide in a University setting.


59 posted on 06/27/2018 2:22:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Call RedHen (540) 464-4401 and make no-show reservations)
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To: Menehune56

Ask the turd burglar who wrote this idiotorial about the Clinton co-presidency’s mandate in a 3-man race...

‘Not chosen by the people’

Waaaaaaaaa


60 posted on 06/27/2018 2:24:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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