Looking forward to the Scotus opinion that simply says “White Power!” signed by Uncle Clarence.
“Cobbles together” is exactly the right phrase here.
At this point (and not really coincidentally) the SC is pretty much like most of the blindly partisan assholes one might encounter online. They rather obviously don’t analyze facts and arrive at conclusions - instead, they start with a preferred conclusion, then assemble whatever rhetoric, diversions, fallacies and bullshit might seem to maybe sort of justify it.
If the US was a place of sanity and order, they’d be impeached, disbarred and denied every benefit of their (former) positions, since they’re brazenly violating every single oath they’ve ever sworn.
The same fucking map that called unconstitutional like 10 years ago? Their name will go down on history as next to trump as the worst America had to offer.
Guillotines were used in the french revolution.
They have opened an obvious side door. By utilizing “presumption of legislative good faith” in their rulling, for a case where it is demonstrably obvious that the legislator was not operating in good faith, they give a future court a super easy out for overturning this, and a whole lot of other rulings.
Now overall, they have a tiny point. Proving intent is hard most of the time. And the reality is that the voting rights act is extremely tough to enforce. Soo much so that it probably shouldn’t exist. Further, without it, the current system can’t possibly be fair. So that leads to what seems obvious to all of us. The system where the state legislature decides the map needs to be abolished. They have neither good faith, nor intent to represent the will of the population.
The whole concept of districts just doesn’t work at the current scale. The idea was that the representative actually knew the people they represented, and could make decisions based on what those people wanted. But at the scale we are now, there is no chance of that. Nor that a given district even has a cohesive opinion on most subjects.
We need to do away with districts, and represent people opinions, not where they live.
They don’t fear the populace nearly enough
Why should they? We’ve given them no reason to fear us. My district can’t even vote out our congressman who is owned by Israel and AI companies, we definitely can’t organize a movement large enough to threaten the Supreme Court.
We need 13 judges and term limits yesterday.
Term limits would require a Constitutional amendment. That’s a generational project.
The corruption in this court will consume it. For example, it’s only a matter of time before a POTUS realizes that the immunity granted by the court could be used to legally assassinate judges who rule against you. Why add to the court when you can subtract?
Wasn’t there a way to effectively impose term limits by placing judges on a backup list where they stay for life after they have done a fixed number of years?
The immunity isn’t some absolute rule; I don’t seriously expect that the Republicans on the court think it applies to Democrats.
2 years ago.
And fuck the assholes who were like “but we have to play by the rules or they won’t!” Cuz they haven’t been for decades.
The current situation came from using “norms” instead of “laws with actual enforcement mechanisms” in politics. There’s probably no saving those norms anymore, they’ll have to be reforged as laws.
