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never again take conservative thought seriously

What is on paper and what is reality are 2 different things. jefferson wrote all men are created equal while owning hundreds of slaves.

Imagine where we'd be today if the 15th used the classic phrase "shall not be infringed"

Can we sue the court?

They made something concrete and clear, something now obfuscated and contravening. ##shameonyou

a bunch of faux-legal bullshit argle bargle. they might as well have printed out the constitution and wiped their asses with it

But, but, but John Robert's is smarter than all those folks, including the founding fathers. Heck, they couldn't even see the need to set the President above the law, kind of like a king. But JR knows better.

Ah but you have forgotten who the REAL racists are, and Sam Alito is here to remind you

“but they’re actually anti-racial gerrymanders now” - guys deliberately misinterpreting stuff

Transparent horseshit is the story of the Roberts Court. Balls, Strikes, and Horseshit

If a former (?🤷‍♀️) heroin addict can be secretary of HHS an former felon should be able to vote.

The courts keep stripping rights away, and before you know it people will be ripping the justices from their seats.

Roberts, CJ life's work: ACHIEVED

Your changing the locks idea is solid. Im in.

we currently have one branch of federal government: Donald Trump

On the other hand, doing so would require abolishing the blue slip system, which seems impossible

It's a lot harder for the Republicans to add whole new Circuits as opposed to adding a handful of SCOTUS justices. And even if they do counter-pack, they still wouldn't be guaranteed a specific panel for any case.

a good start!

lol that's good

1/x Agree w you on a proportional parliamentarian government, & w Justin on doubling the entire judiciary, but I disagree w you both that sortition is better than (un)packing. (long thread)

a big reason being that SCOTUS supremacy is a priori tyranny and even liberal judges are not very reliable. McConnell vs. US which legalized a ton of political corruption was *unanimous* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonne...

Republicans packed the Court in 2016 & 2020 -violating norms. But it’s time to Pack the Court for the 2 Seats Republicans STOLE.

Yeh, the current system of the SCOTUS is really not working. You have the usual out-of-touch establishment saying how it's such a good system and just needs some tinkering, but the SCOTUS looks utterly unaccountable and blatantly partisan. This looks like a better system!

yep

Agree!

There should be 99 Supreme Court justices. We’ve had 9 since the 1800s and now we’re 10x as populated and even more litigious. We need more than 50 cases per year being reviewed. We could have panels. The 9th CA has 27 judges and it works fine. No Constitutional Amendment required to just expand

It’s that the term has been changed to “peaceful protest”. It should be neither of those things. It should be “nonviolent resistance”. Americans are using mainly ineffective and outdated 1960s tactics. They need to be reading Sharp, Chenoweth, Popovic, et al.

The Roberts/Thomas/Alito Neener doctrine boils my blood

And taking lots of "tips" to rule in their buddies' favor

What do you do with a Supreme Court that does not abide by the Constitution

But it's not a racial gerrymander, it's a partisan gerrymander! Nevermind the racial disparities in party support, it's totally fine

“The Civil War Amendments do not actually mean what the plain words state.” — SCOTUS for 150 years.

But Roberts wants to impose the Confederate Wish List

scotus is the highest law in the land over and above the constitution itself lmao love my country

They’re not taking away anyone’s vote (yet), they’re just making sure it doesn’t count, or get us representation.

Also noticed that the 15th amendment basically endorses making the District of Columbia a state

Simply and eloquently put.

"Transparent horseshit" is what the Roberts court does best.

New court, new interpretation.

like insurrection clause is relatively simple statement and converted into nullity

Except D.C. Dems have zero goals outside of asking us for money and maintaining their seats. Republicans goal is to lord over us like monarchs and Dems goal is to allow it but speak meekly against it once in a while while going to their next cocktail party.

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You can vote it just won’t ever lead to representation

Maybe they forgot to read that one... I thought judges were suppose to be bipartisan.

Why can’t we just say we’re doing it politically? Isn’t that what they said????

all we need is a trifecta and the will to power

the law, in its majestic equality, allows white and black alike to vote in gerrymandered districts, to pay for voter ID, and to accept the representation that results

Oh hell yea, he's the whitest black dude on earth. He's made hundreds of millions from white billionaires.

Then they are on board with calling it the Jim Crow Court.

Shelby County was particularly egregious with ignoring the 15th

Well, then, we're in luck. Transparent horseshit is exactly what the court likes best. /s

not if location is largely coterminous with race, which it is in this case