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 OConnor in 2006) announced his retirement. It is almost impossible to overstate the significance of this.
Anthony Kennedys legacy could have been as a conservative respected for providing key votes to uphold a womans right to choose and the right-to-same sex marriage. Instead, he shall be remembered as one of the most important allies of Donald Trumps pro-business white nationalism.
Whats 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 Kennedys ultimate legacy may be the destruction of the court as we know it.
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He is every bit of that!
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"This has the possibility to create a constitutional crisis......"
Ding Ding! We have this week's constitutional crisis courtesy of this grease ball libtard.
This guys an idiot.
Kennedy will be remembered almost certainly for the same sex marriage ruling above all others... For good or ill.
Him whining that other rulings since then didn’t go the way he wanted is just crap on a cracker.
You numbskulls have got to learn that being pro-business is not a bad thing. Evidence: Look at the economy under Obama; possibly one of the most anti-business Presidents in the history of this Republic, yet welfare roles and minority employment increased. Do the 1-percenters get richer? Yes, but so do all of the others who now have jobs.
You clowns think the only way to become better off is to take it away from someone who has more. Why not try the Republican view that grows the economic pie? Even if your share of the pie doesn't increase, you still have more to eat! A rising tide lifts all boats and you idiots can't see that.
Neither got a majority of the popular vote and Scott Lemieux wouldnt deem them not chosen by the prople.
Minority Presidents are typical in our country. Now Democrats want to rewrite the rules because they hate Trump.
People with 15 inch necks should not be wearing shirts with 17 inch collars.
“MAGA could last 30 or 40 years. Go DJT. MAGA some more.”
Trump winning was divine intervention, no doubt in my mind. God is giving us one more chance to fight back the Sodom and Gomorrah crowd. And we are finally winning.
The Hooterville World Guardian has more credibility .
He looks like he's so fat he buys an XXXXL shirt to cover the blubber.
Wait till Buzzie and Sotomeyer drop. Chuckie wants to wait till next year. He is hoping for more senators. We now have the reason for voter turnout. This is the reason and way we trumpers save the Republic. Now we can rock with DJT.
Right, because anything could happen at any time with Ginsburg.
Now push back from the dinner table, Scott, and GFYS.
We the people. I believe we have free choice. We make good moral decisions, the blessings follow. A little help doesnt hurt either.
Let the insane rants begin. Why does this “male” care about women’s agenda? Oh, I know.
Trump is going to nominate, and the Senate is going to vote to accept, and democrats are going to be popping xanax.
I have been triggered by Scott Lemieux’s leftist propaganda.
I think I’ll hunt him down and...
Throw a pie into his face.
Okay, what did you think I was going to say?
5.56mm
Eff the writer and the source.
Only in liberal bubbles like newsrooms or college campuses.
Wow, if this guy is right, this is awesome!
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.
I then tell them that if we followed the Parlimentary system practiced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and most of Europe, then George Bush would have been voted out of office in 2006.
They get this big silly smile on their face before I add "And Obama would have been voted out in 2010."
Scott was able to “marry” his “partner” due to Kennedy, what’s he complaining about?
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