Can someone please explain to me the logic behind allowing states to redistribute their districts every few years? The problem isn’t that the GOP redistricts in a way to oppress black voters or that the Dems redistrict to support them, it’s that we allow these shenanigans at all. Why are we allowed to have these battles in the first place? There has to be a better solution.
Imagine if RBG retired, DWS and HRC didn’t cheat the primaries in 2016, and Harris didn’t get coronated as candidate in 2024.
The Democrats make their own shitty problems and get in their own way every cycle and wonder why they keep losing to carnival barkers like Trump.
It’s entirely their fault we are in the situation we’re in now.
As designed
For sure they’re to blame, but the situation would be substantially less shitty if the right weren’t literally hitler
Yeah. I feel like it’s really important to point out just how fucking stupid Dem leadership is, and it feels like it goes without saying, but the GOP are fucking pedophile Nazis and they suck at everything expect being stupid ass pedophile Nazis that are destroying the U.S.
Fuck the Guardians Of Pedophiles.
Idk. I dont think expanding and accepting the corrupt scrotus judges as equal to the others is enough.
I think the argument needs to be made that the words of the constitution “shall serve on good behavior” means litterally that, and that therefore all the current R appointees abdicated their positions long ago and their rulings are invalid.
When the judges try to rule that they are still judges and that they say it takes impeachment, it should be pointed out that, as regular citizens, they A, have to argue that in court as a plaintif, and that B, attempting to rule on a standard they directly benefit from is intrinsically corrupt behavior that constitutes having quit according to the exact words of the constitution.
We honestly should organize as a citizenry, and encourage them to abdicate.
Speaking to Emerge, Harris raised the idea of Supreme Court reform “including the notion of expanding the court.”
That’s coming out swinging? Maybe if she releases a signed public statement saying she supports court expansion and if she thinks an un-filibuster-able bill would be an appropriate way to do so regardless of what the Senate Parliamentarian says I’d believe it, but this seems so vague it’s meaningless.
You don’t decide, the black votes in the south will decide.
Not after the recent SCOTUS ruling, they won’t!
spoiler
(Yes, I’m aware gerrymandering doesn’t apply to the presidential election. It’s a joke.)
Yes, they literally will. It’s a private primary. The DNC literally dosent have to follow that SCOTUS ruling.
Well, if we’re talking literal, there’s also the issue that your comment was factually-incorrect and also kinda racist, so maybe you don’t wanna go there.
I thought for sure you’d be a banner-waving Harrisitarian after that article.
(/s, obvs.)
I would rather see them impeach Alito and Thomas for blatant corruption, but neither will ever happen, so
I agree completely, but the next best thing is making them irrelevant
What’s the process for impeaching a US supreme court justice?
Same as any other office holder. Impeach in the house, convict in the Senate.
Worth knowing:
Unlike other impeachable offices, SCOTUS judges serve for an unlimited term that is subject to an undefined “during good behavior” rule.
A future administration with sufficient votes to reform SCOTUS can and should take this to impose a meaningful code of conduct on judges that can boot them from the bench without needing the senate to go through a political process.
Basically the same as presidents and other political officers iirc
Throw them in prison.
Making the system even larger is stupid. Make accountability instead.
I get and agree with the pessimism. but if she advocates for this as part of her campaign, along with many other necessary counters to the damage that has been done to our democracy, I support that! I’ll prefer someone else for as long as i can, but if she ends up somehow being the nominee I won’t be mad that this is part of her platform.
thing is, saying and doing are different things. we desperately need someone who is MORE aggressive at fixing everything that’s been broken than Trump has been at destroying.
You can burn a building down in a day. Building a new one takes somewhat longer.
Which would make you think there would be more checks involved in burning down those metaphorical buildings, but welcome to America.
“Comes out swinging”
Aka not doing a single thing about it that matters.
It’s true, I’ll only vote for a primary candidate who brings this up with a serious plan of action.
But I’d like to go much farther left than Harris. We need systemic reform or we’ll never recover from this last (four and a half!) decade(s) of ruinous policy.
Sounds like someone is thinking about the 2028 primaries.
If only we had some evidence of whether she actually would support this in the general election, instead of reverting to bland right-acceptable talking points!
DNC starting/continuing to play cards against the rising popularity of AOC as a 2028 candidate. “Just how palatable to the progressives and real leftists do we have to make one of our controllable people be to derail a real leftist shifting the inertia of the Democrat base away from us?”
Oh wow, swinging?!? She’s so brave. Surely she’ll stick to her guns if she ever gets nominated…right??
ffs get these establishment dems far, far away from the next election.
In another binary choice, who would you choose? Another trump, or harm reduction?
(Count the people for whom evolution is confusing)
That’s a false choice.
We don’t have to be stuck with Harris as the only alternative to Trump. We could just as easily nominate someone who doesn’t suck.
If we have the misfortune of once again being forced to choose between Trump or harm reduction, we will all know it’s because the Democratic leadership forced that choice on us. I don’t think they would be forgiven for that betrayal.
“just as easily” if and only if the DNC doesn’t nuke the progressive option and force the Republican in sheeps clothing to take the nomination
They literally can’t if you don’t let them.
The issue is and always has been, you let them.
Definitely her over Trump, but she has to get past the primaries first, and we cannot forget that she ended up being a supremely feckless candidate on all the core voter issues that gave her momentum at the beginning of her abridged campaign.
STFU about that until after the primary. It’s 100% inappropriate right now.
Flashback to everyone telling Hillary to go back into the woods
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So she wants a seat? Sorry but you’re not progressive enough unless you can replace the RV dipshit tomorrow.
From 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-packing-expansion-democratic-bill-13-justices/
Several Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans Wednesday night to introduce a bill to add four more justices to the Supreme Court, which would bring the total number of justices to 13. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swiftly said 12 hours later that she would not bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
What do the French call this? L’esprit de l’escalier?
I’m not really sure if Mesprit and Escavalier make a good team in doubles…
