I HAVE BEEN TELLING EVERYONE I COULD that the Roberts Republican-fascists were going to directly AND ACTIVELY try to rig the election for their Republican-fascist party way back when that election was the last one. With the oral arguments the other day, it couldn't be more obvious that the entire, Federalist (fascist) Society, Republican-fascist six Republicans on the Court are doing exactly that. I'm beginning to think our only hope is that the Republicans fuck up the economy so badly that it will be a landslide election of the kind that put LBJ or the on that put FDR in the presidency and one which will give Democrats a majority in the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate but we can't depend on that.
I have also been telling everyone for far, far longer that the Supreme Court, despite the Nina Totenberg style lore surrounding them IS AND HAS BEEN THE MOST CORRUPT BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT GOING BACK TO WHEN JOHN MARSHALL WAS THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Then, as now, race and partisanship was central to the corruption of that Court, I've gone into and over the record of the Court and subsequent ones. I have leane very heavily on one of the current best historians of the Court, Paul Finkelman and that previous one, Louis Boudin to make what I say is an irrefutable case that the Court, certainly after the unconstitutional Marbury power grab by John Marshall, after the infamous pro-slavery decisions - a whole host of those during the Marshall years, including the infamous Prigg decision penned by the official oppoent of slavery on the court, Joseph Storey and every decision that Marshall authored which sided with even those slavers who broke federal law passed to outlaw the importation of slaves. That was only the begining.
The Roberts Court is certainly the most openly white supremacist Supreme Court during my lifetime. Though one that doesn't need to imply the "N" word to make it the spirit of its rulings. And that certainly includes that monument of psycho-pathology, Clarence Thomas. It is probably the most consequentially white supremacist since the Plessey Court THOUGH THE TOTALITY OF ITS RULINGS PUTS IT MORE IN THE SAME CLASS AS THE TANEY COURT OF 1857. The ruling which they will hand down allowing Republican-fascist dominated states and very likely, before November, in a case in which the Republican-fascists in the Congress and the Trump regime will blatantly violate the Constitution as written to ratfuck elections around the country marks, in addition to Trump v USA and other decisions and indecisions that rig things for Trump and Republicans have certainly, already, earned them the same role in history that Roger Taney and his colleagues have earned themselves.
If that miracle of a Democratic watershed election happens, against the certain resistance of the ilk of Chuck Schumer and other establishment lawyer-Congressmen, the Supreme Court has to be finally and definitively cut down to size, whether by packing the bench with those who reject such atrocities as the Marbury-Dred Scott power the court gave itself to nullify duly adopted federal laws and the even worse practice that not only the Roberts but other Courts have taken on itself TO NULLIFY SUCH THINGS AS THE ANTI-INSURRECTION PROVISIONS OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT have to be done.
Trump AND THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE CONGRESS AND ON THE SUPREME COURT have laid bare the fatally, anti-democratic nature of the Constitution and our entire legal framework through their knocking down those flimsy and makeshift "norms and practices" that have been the only things that have not caused our alleged democracy to be exposed for the oligarchic tyranny that it has been just under the surface. Among other things, that has cost, almost certainly permanently, the position of world leadership that the United States achieved during the 20th century. That Joe Biden almost saved that from the effects of Trump I only to have the free-press and the regime of lying with impuity that the Warren, Berger, Rehnquist and Roberts Court started and maintained sink Biden who was the most domestically successful president since LBJ. Thout the media addled American population may not realize that, the world has no choice but to face that reality. Unless the Constitution of the United States is drastically changed to prevent another Trump or Bush II or, I'd say even going back to Nixon, I hope and pray the world never trusts the United States ever again. No one should trust a system that, having produce Trump I would then produce Trump II. The Roberts Court was central to that happening as was the free press as was the billionaire oligarch class even more so that Putin and the Saudis and the others who the Court allowed the power to sway our politics WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THOSE ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY FOREIGN AS WELL AS DOMESTIC FAVORE THEIR REPUBLICAN-FASCIST PARTY.
If Democrats have any chance of crushing the Roberts Court they must do it or that loss of faith that America force onto the world will have to be the hard reality of even the most idealistic of Americans. By that I don't mean those who fall for the civics piety of Sorkin or Burns or Miranda or even those whose naive faith in America is based on something more real. I mean those who are idealistic enough to face the hardest of reality who still understand that anything but government by the consent of an informed majority who vote out of good will on an egalitarian basis. If Democrats don't defeat the lawyers who have so much invested in the system as it has been and is to overturn what has produced this situation, starting with radically changing the Supreme Court, then I'd suggest we will have to dump that party as well and try something else. Not trying is not an option. Not facing the hard reailities of what will waste our efforts is also not an option. Dump Schumer. He's more of an obstacle than Fetterman is, at this point.
If Democrats only take the House they should zero out the budget of the Court except for the Constitutionally gurarnteed salaries of the "justices." They should defund the Supreme Court's fascist-marble palace, not allowing it to keep the lights on or to have internet access. They should definitely get rid of the clerkships and other perks and hold hearings on the corruption of the members of the Court. I don't care if all three of the Democratic appointees of the Court are upset and discomforted by that, I don't especially care about any members of the Court as compared to the damage they've done to us all. Cut it down to the size of a Supreme Court in a modern democracy, one which doesn't ratfuck things for oligarachs and against justice. Tear down the obscene lie over the door of that fascist-marble palace, that place doesn't produce "equal justice under law." They produced Trump II.
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