He is following orders from Putin.

there would be no Rump today. Thank the Rehnquist 5 and their anti-democracy, unconstitutional Bush vs Gore ruling that took away Florida's constitutional right to conduct its election in 2000.

a selected few areas.

That being said, O'Connor paid a price for that. In a 2013 interview she expressed regret in her decision, saying that the court should have never accepted the case. Perhaps KARMA also intervened when she also expressed second thoughts about her retirement, largely to care for her spouse's deteriorating health.

As for this issue with the sociopath trying to eliminate mail-in ballots by executive order, even this SC would have great difficulty going along with that. It would require a Constitutional change.

did not allow for a statewide count of the ballots. The Gore campaign followed Florida election law to the letter. IN @)!#< O'Connor offered too little and it was too lat. The catastrophic damage to our country had already been put in motion because of O'Connor and her anti-democracy colleagues. I'm not holding my breath on the current maga SCOTUS majority. They've already given Rump immunity to do whatever he wants.

He must nor want to embarrass Biden with his wealth of evidence. He's so considerate. He doesn't even want to release the Epstein files because he's afraid a Dem will get hurt. A class act through and through.

Schumer went on to declare that “Senate Democrats will make sure that any and every measure that would make it even more difficult for Americans to vote will be dead on arrival in the Senate and will continue to fight to protect our democracy.”

that this "fighting to protect democracy" was no where to be found in 2000.

As I posted a long time ago...

The Supreme Court, "packed" since Bush appointed John Roberts as Chief Justice, has continued Republican oligarchs' scheme.

John Roberts is, long term, a Republican hack.
Those of us with long memory know what he did in 2000.
Because of Roberts and the Republican Party, we eventually got Trump.

As of 2024, out of the court's 800 rulings, Roberts voted conservative 82.7% of the time, second only to Alito.

As 538 puts it, he’s made five liberal rulings. THAT’S IT.

" When we get rid of those cases where he sided with at least two members of the conservative bloc,
the list of Roberts’s liberal “swings” drops to five cases. Five liberal-leaning decisions where Roberts joined his liberal colleagues and actually changed the outcome by doing so.”

As John Roberts strengthens corporate control of this government, John Roberts has made the SCOTUS their tool.

John Roberts has helped his Republican Party clear away all impediments to unrestrained corporate participation in electoral politics.

He has allowed the corporate “right to lie.” in the Nike v California case. Look it up.

Roberts has been no friend to average working Americans. If anything, he has been the most radical judicial right wing activist appointed to the Court in more than a century.

He’d worked most of his life in the interest of the rich and powerful, and chomped at the bit for a chance to turn more of America over to his corporate friends. See Jeffrey Toobins’ [iNew Yorker article, “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”]

The Roberts Court voted for the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, using its five-vote majority to totally rewrite the face of politics in America, rolling us paycheck Americans back to the pre-1907 Era of the Robber Barons.

Since Bush rewarded John Roberts for helping win his presidency, Roberts has served the Republican end of selling out rule of law to corporations that front for robber baron oligarchs -- to capture this government.

The Roberts court has weakened the Supreme Court by his weakening the U.S. Constitution, written explicitly to expand the rights and freedoms of “We the People” humans, not fictional personhoods.

I certainly agree with everything you said but there would now be no Roberts court now if the Rehnquist 5 hadn't shredded the U.S. constitution to stop the legal Florida vote count and install W against the will of the people.

And John the Pirate Roberts did just that -- he was the lead trainer on the legal team that argued before the Rehnquist court to stop the FL count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts

IMO, it was, overall, a bad faith argument that the court's liberals just didn't see; because of his style and approach, Roberts' contempt for liberal scholars was lost on them at the time. Which, imo, was not their fault, since most scholars didn't see the wider ranging ramifications of neoliberalism at the time.

to the SCOTUS had the will of the people prevailed in 2000. Roberts has spent his entire career attacking voting rights and stopping the legal Florida vote count in 2000 was what made it possible for him to get on the SCOTUS. Robert's SCOTUS appointment by the Rehnquist 5 appointed W is a classic quid pro quo. W rewarded Roberts for helping him kill American democracy in Florida in 2000.
The Rehnquist 5 made no bones about what they were doing. Scalia admitted when he issued the stay to stop the legal Florida vote count in 2000 that he was doing it to protect W. The Rehnquist 5 along with the entire world knew that the uncounted Florida votes were located in the biggest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida. This realty favored Al Gore and the Rehnquist 5 were determined to prevent that at all cost, the U.S. constitution and Florida election law be damned. Since 2000, Scalia called the Bush vs Gore ruling, "Shit" and in 2013 Sandra Day O'Connor admitted that the SCOTUS should never have taken the case. Ya think? The Rehnquist 5's Bush vs Gore ruling was a judicial coup d'état that put Roberts on the SCOTUS that our country will never recover from.

We can thank the dishonest Sandra Day O'Connor for hustling the court together to make its ruling faster than a NY minute.

No, we haven't recovered. Yet. I wouldn't say never as long as we do what Newsom exhorts and implores other blue states to do. Don't give up over what they did to us 25 years ago.
We voters still have to fight like hell to get to the point of winning every election as if it's our last chance for democracy. People across the country are finally figuring that out. I know you can tell.

There would be no Roberts on the SCOTUS without the Rehnquist 5'sstopping of the legal Florida vote count and installing W against the will of the people. Sandra Day O'Connor is Exhibit A for why a highly partisan state legislative leader should never be a SCOTUS judge.

Without John Roberts' pseudoarguments, the Rehnquist 5 wouldn't themselves have made those arguments up to justify their decision. We'll never know if they'd have decided differently, either. Politically motivated or not, the political consequences of today were beyond their ken at the time.

And no amount of arguing hypotheticals will change the facts of what happened. At least we agree that our party's been on the right side of history and easily more honest than not.

Scalia admitted in broad daylight in his ruling that counting all of the uncounted Florida votes would harm his candidate W so he shredded the U.S. constitution and Florida election law to stop the legal Florida vote count to prevent W from being harmed. That had nothing to do with Roberts. In addition, judge Sandra Day O'Connor had been very public about wanting to retire and not wanting Al Gore to pick her SCOTUS successor. That also had nothing to do with Roberts. The Rehnquist 5 knew their decision was bogus because they all refused to sign their names to it. Al Gore is the one who was on the right side of history by fighting to have the uncounted Florida votes counted. The rest of the party leadership adopted a roll over and play dead strategy which is why our country suffers so terribly today. Had it been W with the uncounted Florida votes not being counted been repug votes, you can be sure that the Rehnquist 5 would've ruled to count the uncounted Florida votes and the repugs in Congress would not have rolled over and played dead

...that voting isn't a federal matter?

our country would not now be living in this current Rump nightmare.

we should help him. Then we'll always have a paper trail we can go count again if necessary.

But IMHO, the mail ballot IS the "paper trail". When they switched to the new touchscreen here in Philly in fall 2019, I HATED it and when the no-excuse absentee ballot option became available for the first time in spring 2020 for the primary (any every election since), I used that and haven't gone back!

That's how it would go down.

Republican officials want their party’s voters to cast their ballots through the mail. The president’s rhetoric is undermining his party’s message.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-crusade-mail-ballots-isnt-republicans-favors-rcna225844


In Texas, vote by mail is a key part of the GOP GOTV efforts. A larger percentage of GOP voters are older and vote by mail. trump may be hurting GOP GOTV efforts

The mid terms are more than a year away.!

Harassing anyone of the wrong color.

That's why he doesn't want mail in.

The most courageous thing you could do for us is to retire.

I hate this Bashing of our Democratic Leaders.

Around 5:00 PM CT, Zero Removes...

In case you were getting discouraged.

Things changed.

Thanks, progree

Chump never votes in person ...at least not since he became a famous celebrity by way of "The Apprentice."
Before that, nobody paid attention.