#Justices

Lynn V

lynnv378

We are where we are because folk stayed their asses home in 2010 & 2014. This is what the GOP has done in one decade! McConnell did this shit in

Heather

LitMoth

Kavanaugh tried to argue that because Indian Territory was 60% white by 1890 it was only "nominally" Indian territory. He is trying to use a history of violent, illegal settlement

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

In poll after poll, we find the Americans no nothing. They don't know when the Civil War was fought. They don't know whether we should bomb Agrabah. They can't name

Eric Soufer

EricSoufer

I know "court packing" sounds like a tough issue for the Biden campaign, but it doesn't need to be. [short thread] I spend a lot of my day pouring over

]intheMatrixxx[

intheMatrixxx

Midnight Judges Act was to provide for the more convenient org of the Courts. Was an effort to solve issue in the U.S. Supreme Court during the early 19th century.

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

Increasingly looking more as if this November we're going to discover not whether or not Trump will win re-election (he won't), but whether our political/legal infrastructure has been degraded enough

Brian Rosenwald

brianros1

1/There are smart points in here. But the timeline of the Court wars isn’t fair or accurate imho. The timeline is more like this imho: Conservatives turned Abe Fortas’s nomination

Charles Rhodes Jr. 𓁭𓅆

RhOVOdes

I’m in no way an American historian or political scientist but like damn shouldn’t we at least look at the office of the presidency and ask why it needs all

PunisherPatriot

PunisherPatrio1

New intel/Message Of Hope from one of my insiders:"Ok in a nutshell. This is going to the Supreme Court. Where they will rule that the election is invalid due to

Sarah Rumpf

rumpfshaker

I am the child of a teenage mother who gave me up for adoption and I am regularly told that I want to murder babies by people who have never

Makenzy Storm

makenzystorm

so I’ve seen this asked a lot and to put a long story very very short James Madison originally wanted this thing called the Council of Revision to make sure

Abby

AbbyCScience

Back because I can’t tear myself away from the news. Here’s what needs to happen:- you need to assume that the Republicans are going to nominate someone and you need

MovieBob Productions

the_moviebob

The "left" (by which I really mean the entire ACTUAL anti-fascist side of American politics, so... Green Party, "libertarians" and people who still care about Assange - STFD/STFU) is going

Vic

lxthal

The fact that Justice Thomas grew up in deep poverty in Southern Georgia, spoke a slave dialect until the age of 6, (hence why he rarely speaks from the bench),

Dan McLaughlin

baseballcrank

Not sure this is a good decision, but it was basically a reaction to the District Court. As in Bush v Gore, things get dicey when SCOTUS is asked to

Robert Patrick Lewis

RobertPLewis

Some quick thoughts on conservative trolling & shitposting. I know that a lot of people feel that we should “rise above” or that “we’re better than that” when it comes