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The SCOTUS is making Congress powerless when they are supposed to be co-equal
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Posted 2025-September-11, 10:47
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Posted 2025-September-12, 13:52
barmar, on 2025-September-11, 10:47, said:
How?
Since the current Congress has little interest in checking Trump's power grabs, I don't think it really matters what the Court does.
Since the current Congress has little interest in checking Trump's power grabs, I don't think it really matters what the Court does.
If is indeed a two-headed beast.
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Posted 2025-September-22, 17:42
Chief Justice Roberts may have delivered a fatal blow to the republic when he created a new constitution in order to keep Trump out of prison.
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Posted 2025-September-24, 10:32
WasWinM, on 2025-September-22, 17:42, said:
Chief Justice Roberts may have delivered a fatal blow to the republic when he created a new constitution in order to keep Trump out of prison.
That got me thinking: Could any of the conservatives on SCOTUS be planning a presidential run, but first they want to erode all the checks on POTUS? That's playing the long game!
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Posted 2025-September-24, 20:17
I really doubt it. These are true believers in hierarchy, with the president on top. The unitary executive theory on steroids.
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Posted 2025-September-25, 02:52
WasWinM, on 2025-September-24, 20:17, said:
I really doubt it. These are true believers in hierarchy, with the president on top. The unitary executive theory on steroids.
The 6 Convicted Felon Trump cult members in the MAGA supermajority in the Supreme Court don't really believe in a unitary executive. They believe in a MAGA dictatorship. If Harris had been elected president, they would have done everything in their power to limit her authority and power. And when the next Democrat is elected president, expect the MAGA cult members to do a Roe V Wade style flip-flop and reverse their previous rulings that made Convicted Felon Trump more powerful.
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Posted 2025-September-25, 12:59
What the SCOTUS is doing is making law irrelevant, just another tool the authoritarian can use to compel compliance.
These are the birth pangs of revolution.
These are the birth pangs of revolution.
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Posted 2025-September-25, 21:03
The Daily Show, John Stewart and Jacinda Ardern on A Different Kind of Power and some humour.
Jacinda Ardern , "just doing the right thing".
I've said before, I don't understand USA Politics but as I watch what is happening, I wonder if the USA can ever return to the kind, empathetic leadership Jacinda refers to or if we have reached a tipping point and the worldwide decline of Democracy will continue.
Jacinda Ardern , "just doing the right thing".
I've said before, I don't understand USA Politics but as I watch what is happening, I wonder if the USA can ever return to the kind, empathetic leadership Jacinda refers to or if we have reached a tipping point and the worldwide decline of Democracy will continue.
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Posted Yesterday, 18:54
Who could have imagined that Trump's plan to stay out of foreign wars was intended to save troops to invade Portland.
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a_user, on 2025-September-27, 18:54, said:
Who could have imagined that Trump's plan to stay out of foreign wars was intended to save troops to invade Portland.
Poland is low on the priorities for the US military. First, Convicted Felon Trump needs all the troops available for invading US cities and occupying city parks and streets, anywhere where people might protest his US dictatorship. Then Convicted Felon Trump also needs troops on standby to invade Greenland, the Panama canal, and Canada.
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Posted Today, 02:45
It didn't take Convicted Felon Trump long to turn the USA into a combination police state and banana republic. I have no sympathy for the morons who voted for him but I feel sorry for all the intelligent citizens who didn't.
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johnu, on 2025-September-28, 02:03, said:
Poland is low on the priorities for the US military. First, Convicted Felon Trump needs all the troops available for invading US cities and occupying city parks and streets, anywhere where people might protest his US dictatorship. Then Convicted Felon Trump also needs troops on standby to invade Greenland, the Panama canal, and Canada.
Poland?
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Posted Today, 15:20
a_user, on 2025-September-28, 07:00, said:
Poland?
Too many places where Convicted Felon Trump wants to send US military troops. Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco ....
Trump offers more US troops to Poland's nationalist president
Good thing Convicted Felon Trump thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Things would be really bad if he didn't care about peace.