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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMay be a dumb question but why hasn't the Supreme Court ruled that unmarked
Federal folks cannot take over cities and states. It is all illegal.
When does this become an emergency.
DemMedic
(576 posts)To see what it can get away with.
malaise
(293,094 posts)Democracy for the Few, Gramsci s Prison Notes and Lenins Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism best describe the American political system. I may add Ralph Milibands The State in Capitalist Society.
SamKnause
(14,739 posts)Their job is to curtail our freedoms not to increase or hold the line on the few freedoms we have.
6 of them are Christian Nationalists so they agree with what is happening.
Some of them are bought and paid for.
Money is not speech !!!!!!!!!!
Corporations are not people !!!!!!!!!!
malaise
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at the highest level
The Supreme Corrupt.
Cloudhopper
(166 posts)as in 'he ran to daddy again.' Or SCORRUPTUS
debsy
(771 posts)But the ones in power dont share this basic, decent human rights oriented world view. Therefore, those of us who are decent are also fucked.
OldBaldy1701E
(10,275 posts)Shrek
(4,393 posts)samnsara
(18,724 posts)Vinca
(53,390 posts)rubbersole
(11,005 posts)...he would have asked his "friends" Harlan and Leo for a private jet in addition to the motor home. Chump change to those manipulating fuck-wads. The Federalist Society and its benefactors (Koch brothers) need to be first up at the Tribunals.
markodochartaigh
(5,066 posts)You can buy as much justice as you can afford.
Just ask Clearance Thomas; Have gavel, will travel. No job too large. *Offer not available to the poor, the tired, the huddled masses, or those yearning to be free.
hadEnuf
(3,534 posts)Or at the very least they don't care one whit about it as long as the means justify the ends.
Their goals have been made very clear since their appointments and then the fascist takeover of the court.
GiqueCee
(3,451 posts)... that to impose ethics rules on the SCOTUS would purge all the conservative justices. Or at least that what the meme said, so it must be true, right?
Roberts, along with John Bolton, was one of the assholes that stopped the counting of "hanging chads" in a Florida precinct before Rehnquist's crew even handed down their ruling. He's been a skeezy weasel all his miserable life.