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3 hours agoSince FDR stacked it to push through the New Deal, if not earlier.
Your friendly reminder that the Democrats helped to set up the levers of power that Trump and his fascist ilk are now cheerfully pulling.
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Instability in my WIndows NT 4 development machine. I’d been using Linux as a hobbyist for several years, but switched to it at work so I had a machine that didn’t crash every few hours.
You don’t win elections by appealing to your opponents.
If there is just one lesson non-Republicans should take from Trump winning two elections, it should be this one!
42·5 days agoSpeaking as a non-American with an interest in politics and philosophy: I really hope that if (if!) you have free elections again, and if the Democrats win, that you start taking your Constitution seriously for the first time in a century.
That means no more going to war without Congressional approval. No more extrajudicial executions of American citizens. No more commerce clause loopholes to regulate that which clearly shouldn’t be a matter for the Federal govt. to regulate. No more executive orders as an end-run around Constitutional limitations, instead of Constitutional amendments.
Someone will always argue that it’s just pragmatic politics. That you couldn’t have had the New Deal, or the EPA, or Obamacare, or the War on Terror, whatever, without court-stacking, executive orders, illegal invasions, etc.
But you know what? Every time you did that, every time you got what you wanted despite the Constitution and laws in the way, you weakened the system, and you weakened respect for it amongst voters and their elected representatives.
In the end, you got Trump and MAGA wielding power that you helped to normalize.
Please don’t make that mistake again.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she said.
But the current President is one of those rich powerful men raping the trafficked. What did she expect would happen?
Jesus that does go back a while.
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Huh. I always sort of assumed, as a non-American, that that was the one of the main purposes of the Supreme Court.
It does seem like a good idea, though, to have some court responsible for deciding the Constitutionality of laws.