To paraphrase Hillaire Belloc on the Maxim machine gun...
Whatever happens, we have got Trump, and they have not.
Posted on 10/05/2018 12:49:08 PM PDT by DeweyCA
By all indications, Brett Kavanaugh is about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.... His confirmation ... will plunge the Supreme Court into a legitimacy crisis that could weaken its power over the long term. This crisis will become particularly acute if Democrats retake Congress and the presidency but find their reforms stymied by a reactionary judiciary. The broad consensus over the court’s authority to interpret the Constitution will crumble. (...)
(...) But what happens when Democrats take back the legislative and executive branches? What if Democrats pass Medicare for All, and the Supreme Court strikes it down, with Kavanaugh casting the decisive fifth vote? It’s not hard to envision Democrats marching in the streets, demanding that the president and Congress ignore the ruling.
(...) Blue states may be pressured to disregard his decisions. And the president could decline to compel them to follow the high court’s rulings.
In 2003, Justice Stephen Breyer referred to the “miracle” of national compliance with the court’s edicts, even in the wake of “controversial decisions” like Bush v. Gore. There is nothing inevitable or self-sustaining about this “miracle.” (...) The truth is that we haven’t seen massive resistance to the Supreme Court since the segregation battles of the 1950s and ’60s. And despite two presidents’ celebrated efforts to integrate schools with the help of the National Guard, the South’s resistance succeeded in slowing the pace of desegregation.
This precedent is appalling. But it demonstrates that the playbook can work. Progressives should recognize the danger in adopting the tactics of segregationists. (...) But if he leads the court into a frenzy of reactionary jurisprudence, progressives may feel they have no other alternative.
No matter the end result of liberal defiance, it will likely transform the Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis into a full-blown constitutional crisis. (...)
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
There is no “constitutional crisis” brewing.
Legislated due process is followed.
Don’t like the balance of the court? advocate election of representatives who, when a vacancy arises, will seat someone of your liking.
A “constitutional crisis” only happens when X occurs, and the Constitution simultaneously deems it can _and_ cannot happen.
As long as all they do is march, that is fine. They can demand in one hand and poop in the other....................and probably will.....................
Still, I think I need an extra magazine for my car gun.
Amazing how Democrats oppose democracy.
If they don’t win, they seek to invalidate the outcome by any means from abuse of law to outright violence.
Whither “accept the outcome of the election”?
Well, as long as they don’t advertise any upcoming softball games....
(My personal favorite sport to play)
Sixty.
Roger that. I don’t see a downside to that result.
Hmmm - seems like the ruling by liberal judges against Trump's policies. But THAT is A-OK.
To paraphrase Hillaire Belloc on the Maxim machine gun...
Whatever happens, we have got Trump, and they have not.
They say that as if it were a BAD thing.
By all indications, Brett Kavanaugh is about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court... His confirmation... will plunge the Supreme Court into a legitimacy crisis that could weaken its power over the long term
This is simply one more in a long line of pipe dreams the left has concocted over the last thirty years.
They have at one time or another trashed the National Anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Second Amendment, the U. S. Constitution itself, the Presidency, and now the SCOTUS.
These people have a severe distaste for our nation. The institutions are not perfect, but they are our institutions and for lack of a better way to govern a nation, these people need to grow up, act like adults whose faculties are in tact.
This isn't the third grade where you go home to your mommy and complain about how unfair things are.
The glaring fact is, the majority of our populace can't stand the Democrat's and their hatred for this nation. They reject them time and again.
It's also why the Democrats can't even run on a firm platform, they're so far outside the mainstream. Instead they have to attack their opponent based on charges of a personal nature. They destroy rather than build up.
Salon, you stink like an eighteen month old used foot pad.
Dems are blowing hot air on Kavanaugh impeachment, but if they decide it is politically expedient to do it, and somehow had the votes, they could do it under the guise of sexual assault/attempted rape.
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My humble guesses:
Kavanaugh confirmed.
Progressives stage temper tantrums.
Calls for Kavanaugh to recuse on every case.
Absolute freak out when Kavanaugh casts deciding vote on
natural born citizen status of Kamala Harris.
Dats when de stuff gon get real.
Just speculating.
yep an a few thousand more rounds of ammo just in case
The Supreme Court has become too big for its britches anyway. If the libs refuse to honor Supreme Court orders, then that makes it easy for conservatives, doesn’t it?
One of the problems with relying upon an oligarchy of 5 out of 9 unelected lifetime appointed Justices to rule over every aspect of our lives is that a different 5 out of 9 Justices can always decide to rule differently.
Can you imagine how the democrats are going to react when President Trump gets to replace Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg?
It really puts into perspective what the consequences have been of empowering the Supreme Court.
After this crisis we will forget NOTHING.
So how did it work out for democrats when they fought against the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions in the 1950s and 60s?
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