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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“I thought we “won” the cold war against communism...”
Not quite...Red agents have been embedded in the USA starting in the 1930’s.
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.
Thanks for that great info-—now I can make better arguments. :-)
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I’ve always wondered how hard it is to get all of that spittle out of a keyboard.
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/
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.
It WILL NOT be the final blow....Jack ass!!
He says that like it's a bad thing!
Where do they find these creatures?
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.
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More fake news, Scott LemieuxIdiot?
Another Communist spews his hate.
Speaking of spittle, Chrissy Matthews is having a grand mal meltdown on MSNBC.
Bat chit cRaZy over the Kennedy retirement.
Waaaaa, femmocroats cry
Another white sissy wannabe “expert” opining with stupidity
No wonder he has to hide in a University setting.
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
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