I DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE EXPECTED was going to happen when the Republican-fascists started packing the court and took full advantage of every defect in the Constitution and the subsequent development of the power-grab by the courts. We've been on this trajectory to them re-nationalizing the bodies of women of childbearing age for decades. Bush v Gore, the Supreme Court working hand in glove with the Bush crime family - Jeb Bush run Florida - to put the loser of the presidential election in place and the Federalist-Society-Mitch McConnell plan to pack the judiciary, including the Supreme Court so they could govern from the bench when the corruption of elections doesn't work for them.
Other than the extra-Constitutional and outrageously self-granted power of the Supreme Court to, by even a split court, to overturn the judgement of the Congress and Executive, all of the flaws turned into schemes by the Republican-fascists are right there in the Constitution. The anti-democratic protections of, first, slavery and finance, the anti-democratically constituted Senate and the bastardly abomination of the Electoral College, the rigging of congressional districts by corrupt partisan means, and a series of other purposely instituted corruptions of government of, by and for The People for those with means and no morals have been there in operation for the whole time. Only the conventional pieties of that vile conception of Sandra Day O'Connor "civic religion" that deify those crooks and slave masters who wrote the Constitution and maintain its status as holy writ, espcially as seen on TV and in the movies, doesn't allow us to tell the truth about that.
I looked in at the wailing and gnashing of teeth on some of the lefty blogs I used to frequent and they were trying to identify who was to blame. Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in for some criticism and, yes, she should have resigned when she had some reason to believe Obama would put someone less bad than a Republican would on the court. Though considering his last nominee, I wouldn't necessarily think that was as sure a thing as we might have thought. I do think she is to blame for what she did but no more than Stephen Breyer who doesn't even have the excuse of not having that example to instruct his indecision to die on the court during a Republican-fascist administration or when the Republican-fascists can hold the seat open like they did when Garland was nominated to be replaced by the son of a criminal, Gorsuch.
The problems of the United States Constitution that can be fully exploited by a well-funded and totally dishonest and corrupt pack of gangsters, advised by such jurists as the late and vile Louis Powell are what brought us here. That and such idiot lefties who would so often say "you can't blackmail me about abortion rights into voting for the Dems." Ralph Nader and the Green Party are at least as much to blame as the legendary RBG ONLY THEY AREN'T WOMEN SO THEY AREN'T EVEN BEING MENTIONED. I would put The Nation magazine on the list of the guilty and, to a lesser extent others such as In These Times who did their part to knee-cap Democratic candidates on behalf of idiotic third party play time. The Nation in the 2016 seemed to me to be attacking Hillary Clinton on behalf of the husband of the owner, the weird pro-Putin ex Sovietologist whose connections in Russia I'd really like to know a lot more about.
More than any others outside of the Federalist Society and its associated crime gangsters, the New York Times is high in the list of those who brought us here. I have long wondered if there was some kind of social snub against the family that controls that over-rated rag during the Clinton years or, maybe, it was the declasse small-state Southern connection that gave her the cooties with that set. The 24-7 cabloids helped to bring us here, too. American "journalism" is a treacherous bunch of invested creeps, mostly. You can add the Warren Court for beginning to use "The First Amendment" to let the media lie about people like Hillary Clinton with impunity, starting with the rag that sandbagged her with lies about an impending indictment in the final weeks of that campaign. In so many ways this has the name "Sulzberger" attached to it.
Then there is the boy scout James Comey who did so much to put Trump in office, breaking all kinds of the kinds of DoJ norms and policies to sandbag the girl so a boy of his party could slip into the presidency through the fucking Electoral College. His treachery masked by the most vilely cloying piety is especially galling considering how, when Trump turned on him, he tried to profit from an aroma of sanctity when he stank as much as any of them. Perhaps those norms are far from the safety switches they're supposed to be because Merrick Garland using the very same norms and policies as an excuse for nonfeasance in protecting us from Republican-fascism. The entire legal culture of this country is in need of a complete change to serve egaligarian justice and the truth and not the interests of clients and, as we are finding are even as malignant in the impact serving "institutions" instead of equal justice, equality and government of The People and not the corporations and billionaires.
We change the Constitution or we get Republican-fascism in as bad a form as it can be got. The piously praised Georgia Secretary of State, Raffensperger wouldn't commit to not voting for the man who tried to corrupt him so as to steal an election, so we know there is no bottom beneath which those thugs and gangsters will go.
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