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lees1975

(6,695 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 11:22 PM Jun 30

The Supreme Court has become as much of an existential threat to American democracy as Trump has been.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-supreme-court-has-become-as-much-of.html

Trump has used the same standards of incompetence and character flaws to make his Supreme Court appointments as he has to build his cabinet. So we have this wonderful gift, from the past two Republican Presidents of the United States, a Supreme Court made up of individuals who not only did not possess the credentials in the federal judiciary or legal field to advance to a job with the kind of Constitutional responsibility as the Supreme Court, but who seem almost deliberately inept and incompetent, as if they think their job is to sabotage the court, upset the carefully crafted balance of power in the Constitution and throw the government into confusion, by undermining it.

America's founding fathers operated under the impression, which has, in modern times become an illusion, that the individuals who would be considered for appointment to these kinds of public office would come from among those who had studied the law and the constitution, and had a respect for its principles and for the limits and balances that it placed on government power and its use. They clearly did not expect its members to be driven by partisan politics or personal ambition, but by a desire to serve the public, defending the most vulnerable and enforcing the guarantee of equal individual rights for every single person within the boundaries of the United States of America.

Considering those ideals against the backdrop of decisions made by this Roberts court makes them look like some kind of sick joke.

But, what do we expect?
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The Supreme Court has become as much of an existential threat to American democracy as Trump has been. (Original Post) lees1975 Jun 30 OP
The five most important parts of our democracy, markodochartaigh Jun 30 #1
Remember when W. nominated Harriet Miers? BWdem4life Jul 1 #2
The Trump Supreme Whorehouse made Trump 2.0 possible dalton99a Jul 1 #3
They were right. lees1975 Jul 1 #4

markodochartaigh

(3,368 posts)
1. The five most important parts of our democracy,
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 11:34 PM
Jun 30

the presidency, the legislative branch, the judiciary, the people, and the media, have all either performed poorly or outright failed in their duties towards maintaining democracy.

BWdem4life

(2,569 posts)
2. Remember when W. nominated Harriet Miers?
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 01:19 AM
Jul 1

In retrospect she couldn’t have been worse than Alito, nobody could. Too bad we can’t go back in time…

lees1975

(6,695 posts)
4. They were right.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 09:10 AM
Jul 1

By "they," I mean everyone who was calling on Pelosi and Schumer, back in 2020, to pack that damn court. We had enough of a majority to do it, and if we had, we wouldn't have had a second Trump presidency, we'd have saved Roe, and overturned citizens united.

Might be why a lot of younger voters didn't show up for us in 2024. All talk, no action.

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