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 ...
Can you imagine how much the political landscape will have changed before that happens?
Let's wait until after the mid-terms.
The Dems got caught in flagrante delicto aligned with the new crazy wing of their party, exposed to all the unaligned voters, whom both parties court...
“It’s not hard to envision Democrats marching in the streets, demanding that the president and Congress ignore the ruling.”
They probably wouldn’t have to march in the streets. Obama ignored congress and the courts all on his own.
This nothing but fantasy. Dreamed up to make they feel better as they lose.
Most of the liberal agenda has been passed by going directly to the courts ignoring the wishes of the people. They are afraid they will lose this back door to their UTOPIA.
If RBG dies and Trump gets to name her replacement, that's when a real conservative majority could emerge...so expect the fight over her seat to be even nastier.
Good point. The bureaucracy is the heart and soul of the deep state.
That is called Secession and it will be put down.
Kind of reminds me of these quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958
"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
By the President of the United States of AmericaUpdate the specifics and the states in rebellion.
A ProclamationWhereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue can not be effectually executed therein conformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires duties to be uniform throughout the United States; and
Whereas a combination of persons engaged in such insurrection have threatened to grant pretended letters of marque to authorize the bearers thereof to commit assaults on the lives, vessels, and property of good citizens of the country lawfully engaged in commerce on the high seas and in waters of the United States; and
Whereas an Executive proclamation has been already issued requiring the persons engaged in these disorderly proceedings to desist therefrom, calling out a militia force for the purpose of repressing the same, and convening Congress in extraordinary session to deliberate and determine thereon:
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, with a view to the same purposes before mentioned and to the protection of the public peace and the lives and property of quiet and orderly citizens pursuing their lawful occupations until Congress shall have assembled and deliberated on the said unlawful proceedings or until the same shall have ceased, have further deemed it advisable to set on foot a blockade of the ports within the States aforesaid, in pursuance of the laws of the United States and of the law of nations in such case provided. For this purpose a competent force will be posted so as to prevent entrance and exit of vessels from the ports aforesaid. If, therefore, with a view to violate such blockade, a vessel shall approach or shall attempt to leave either of the said ports, she will be duly warned by the commander of one of the blockading vessels, who will indorse on her register the fact and date of such warning, and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter or leave the blockaded port she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable.
And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any person, under the pretended authority of the said States or under any other pretense, shall molest a vessel of the United States or the persons or cargo on board of her, such person will be held amenable to the laws of the United States for the prevention and punishment of piracy.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 19th day of April, A.D. 1861, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-fifth.
Emotion has overcome logic for the progressive wing of the democrat
party. Hopefully the dems find out the hard way that they need to move toward the center in the upcoming mid terms.
These bastards really want war don’t they ?
I only partially agree with this. Their big wins have been when the Supreme Court makes up laws, e.g., Roe v Wade and the pervert marriage law. Also, their power comes from a press that lives on selective distortion and omission.
And see my previous quote from "The Russian Revolution".
I don’t see the Supreme Court changing things much except for reining in a few lower judges who think they are dictators.
Abortions will be available in New York and many other leftist states until a constitutional amendment outlaws it nationally.
Trump has let Congress spend every dollar it voted for.
Slate.com is a WAPO joke.
No, I believe my statement still stands. These are effects, not causes. Fed.gov massive spending and massive debt support both of the powerful interest groups and the political structure of the nanny state and permanent bureaucracy who thrive on these issues. Planned Parenthood did not appear overnight - they became a powerhouse over the last 50 years, especially after the start of the welfare state.
I am a sound-money believer. A printed, fiat currency, with manipulated interest rates, and with massive debt it enables will always benefit statist/collectivist schemes and centralized power and coercion.
People are making predictions assuming things will remain the same. I will predict that things will not remain the same.
We still have the Muller investigation as well as the corruption in the DOJ and FBI.
President Trump appears to be playing with the left... I think he still has a few cards up his sleeve.
The leftists have so harassed certain Republican senators that they have come to realize they have to confirm Kavanaugh to prevent their lives from becoming constant hell.
The only “legitimacy” question, if there is one, will be with the brainless Left that is incapable of handling facts. Slate is doing what the Left always does, projection — i.e., accusing others of doing what they are, have, would or will do.
Oh, but the confirmations of Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor did not?
I have been predicting exactly this outcome.
Just as they only accept the result of elections if they win, now they will not accept judicial decisions that don't go their way.
This means war, but unfortunately these people will not offer us an Army of Northern Virginia to contest in the open field.
Instead, they will offer decentralized, leaderless resistance which will have to be rooted out house to house and block to block.
States in open rebellion, like California and New York, will have to be confronted.
They have been allowed to get away with their "resistance" for too long. The time of decision is at hand.
That's why Amy Coney Barrett had to wait a little longer. A woman, but also a solid conservative.
The progressive/socialist democrat party will no longer exist in 4 years.
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