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Democracy Docket
@democracydocket.com

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

Photoonist
@photoonist.bsky.social

Interesting Side-effect: If the Democrats don't displace the Republican Congress, the possibility that the current SCOTUS will be expanded and the Supreme Six's power diluted vanishes.

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Fallout76er.com
@fallout76er.com

Even an 18 year term limit would allow a President to replace 2 justices per four-year term on average. Breaking political gridlock in the court both ways potentially.

Photoonist
@photoonist.bsky.social

On average. The problem is that the Senate has to confirm. And so, the Parties can play chicken, e.g. the way that McConnell "stole" a seat and Ruth Ginsberg misguidedly didn't resign to have her seat reliably filled by Obama. The Constitution is now totally hacked,... 1/2

Photoonist
@photoonist.bsky.social

fundamentally broken with no obvious means to fix it. Arguably, the compromises in its design compromised it from the start to accommodate the anti-democratic plantation lords who demanded the right to own and breed other people like cattle. 2/2