Posted on 08/23/2016 4:14:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A liberal Court could end long-term solitary confinement. It could mandate better prison conditions in general, making it more costly to maintain mass incarceration. It could conceivably end the death penalty. It could uphold tough state campaign finance rules and start to move away from Citizens United. It could start to develop a robust right to vote and limit gerrymandering. It could strengthen abortion rights, moving toward viewing abortion rights as a matter of equal protection for women.
If Donald Trump wins in November, this is all moot. But if he loses, as polls increasingly indicate, the dawn of a new era of liberal jurisprudence could be upon us.
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As if the Supreme Court that we’ve had over the course of the Bush/Obama years hasn’t been -for all practical purposes - liberal.
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A USSC bench full of Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburgs?
Just shoot me now.
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How ‘bout THEM, instead?
Exactly why there exists a Donald Trump.
The republicans have the power of the purse and can over-ride anything done by the courts.
Sure Obama will veto them, but at least they tried.
The do-nothing but rubber stamp the courts and Obama GOP has everything coming to them that they deserve.
I love how the concern troll media worries about republicans being taken down with Trump.
Nope.
If a republican cannot make the case why we *should* vote for them, they NEED to lose.
I won’t be around much longer. The way I see it, HL Mencken was correct. People deserve to get the government they vote for, and they deserve to get it good and hard.
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