This piece a thousand times over! The old Dems and their mania for the status quo have to go—reform or retire. The opportunity to fight the fascists won’t last for much longer. We need to push back now against the massive grift, the abhorrent pedos, the growing autocracy, and the newly reinstated Jim Crow regime. That fight starts with the sort of reforms in this post.
This version of SCOTUS is a nightmare for democracy, with six ruthless racists who think they're invulnerable.
The first step to reform is brutal hearings. Get experts in to testify about the damage they've done, their utter lawlessness, their corruption, and their lack of accountability.
One or more of them have to appear at at least one budget hearing. They should be interrogated harshly, but not by politicians. Instead, ambush them with talented lawyers who put the nation first. Confront them with the testimony from the hearings.
Ask them if they support the race to gerrymander Black people out of power, Trump's corruption, the war on Iran, the murders in the oceans and the partial destruction of the White House. In public. Make thm squirm.
This all looks good on my phone but we seem to always have outlier dems such as Fetterman or Sinema with scuttling power. This means there must be a significant majority in the senate and that may be very difficult to achieve. That said, you’re correct, we must try as hard as we can.
Should and shoulder. Two words that go together, should lays out a plan, shoulder, as in to shoulder a burden. Anyone who has lugged a heavy load knows that carrying involves pain and the burden must be put down from time to time to rest or to have someone else take it up. Many hands make light work, would that enough can be gathered.
In the City of Winooski Vermont, I have single-handedly constructed a timber frame pavilion from 180 year-old hand-hewn timbers from a house that was torn down. The frames sit on saw horses in Landry Park, waiting for shoulders other than mine to come and erect them. I know that help is coming for that just as I know that everywhere across the country people are taking on burdens that must be carried through to the finish line.
“Winning elections b/c Rs suck” is not the same as sustaining democracy. Dems could run on a national agenda of Affordability through Accountability. Accountability for the Court and this Cabinet, sure. But also for healthcare CEOs and oil executives and social media data brokers. For crypto scammers. For market manipulators and private equity liars. For racists and sexists. For the Epstein class. For oligarchs who abuse the system. For coup instigators and election manipulators. For AI. For environmental abusers.
Accountability through the law and the tax code. In other words, The People deserve a government that protects them (& the planet) from the repeated abuses of capitalism. The abuse is built into our (now captured) institutions.
The People want access to healthcare, education, banking that doesn’t financially abuse them. They want a living wage. They want to work and play. They want to run their own businesses. They want a home and the freedoms to just live life. Even if “Corporate Dems” do win in November, we will not get this message nor even *the least* of these results. No need for an autopsy in 2029. Congress has the authority to act on all the issues mentioned here, including ignoring The Court until they can expand it. Under the Constitution, The People possess all political power. We can elect Reps who are committed to accountability.
The SCOTUS that crashed and burned democracy and set the US back 100 years in voter rights will be the legacy of the 6 justices. They will live the rest of their lives in disgrace and disgust among their families and the rest of the world for the their blatant racism.
agree wholeheartedly. Republicans have been cheating my entire life, always saying they respect the constitution while tearing it down. Originalism? What a bunch of bullshit! I am sure the founders would be appalled at the duplicitous Roberts and how he has denigrated the institution. The SOTUS is the first place to start reform.
Excellent map for going forward. I firmly believe that once the sock puppets (I'm using the most polite language for public discourse) on the Supine Court realize their lifetime jobs may not be so lifetime, they'll switch sides in a hurry because they're motivated by the basest aims and are not courageous people. And the reforms of the Court should go on regardless.
One thing to—Congressional Democrats and everyone else—is to become more methodical in our thinking by sorting possibilities and tactics into action buckets. For example, things to be done when Democrats:
* Hold neither house of Congress (e.g., attack members of the Court by name)
* Hold one house of Congress (e.g., hold corruption hearings)
* Hold both houses but not the presidency (e.g., pass popular reform legislation such as a Code of Ethics or term limits and dare Trump to veto it)
* Hold both houses and the presidency (e.g., engage in jurisdiction stripping, court expansion, pass legislation that reins in judicial review)
There’s no point in flailing.
Also, any chance that activists and pundits can coalesce around an ultimate goal? For example, should that goal be expansion? Or will expansion have the end effect of giving more teeth to a beast that needs defanging? Judicial review is not in the constitution; it’s a power that the court took for itself in Marbury v. Madison (1804). Sure, it’s established precedent, but since when does the Roberts court care about precedent?
Virginia Governor Spanberger, do you really need to be told to proceed with a law that would set a new retirement age for state supreme court justices, so that "a new court [could] rehear the redistricting case," as Paul Waldman suggests? Have you ever even read your state motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannis"--"Thus Always to Tyrants"?
The VA idea of new age for Supreme Court is correct and must be done but Jeffries at fed level isn’t thrilled with idea along with other Dems. And this is why these pussies must be removed. Did rethugs care about what they’re doing after scotus gave them ok to go all whitey? He’ll no, the dove head first and did it, who cares what the people think. Dems have to stop bringing plastic knife to nuclear weapon fight.
The fallacy of white superiority is proven by the choice of its example: Donald J. Trump, liar supreme, a loud infant demanding attention by tantrum, the very summit of stupidity—really? To quote the poet, “Sad.”
This piece a thousand times over! The old Dems and their mania for the status quo have to go—reform or retire. The opportunity to fight the fascists won’t last for much longer. We need to push back now against the massive grift, the abhorrent pedos, the growing autocracy, and the newly reinstated Jim Crow regime. That fight starts with the sort of reforms in this post.
This version of SCOTUS is a nightmare for democracy, with six ruthless racists who think they're invulnerable.
The first step to reform is brutal hearings. Get experts in to testify about the damage they've done, their utter lawlessness, their corruption, and their lack of accountability.
One or more of them have to appear at at least one budget hearing. They should be interrogated harshly, but not by politicians. Instead, ambush them with talented lawyers who put the nation first. Confront them with the testimony from the hearings.
Ask them if they support the race to gerrymander Black people out of power, Trump's corruption, the war on Iran, the murders in the oceans and the partial destruction of the White House. In public. Make thm squirm.
That sets the stage for reform.
This all looks good on my phone but we seem to always have outlier dems such as Fetterman or Sinema with scuttling power. This means there must be a significant majority in the senate and that may be very difficult to achieve. That said, you’re correct, we must try as hard as we can.
Should and shoulder. Two words that go together, should lays out a plan, shoulder, as in to shoulder a burden. Anyone who has lugged a heavy load knows that carrying involves pain and the burden must be put down from time to time to rest or to have someone else take it up. Many hands make light work, would that enough can be gathered.
In the City of Winooski Vermont, I have single-handedly constructed a timber frame pavilion from 180 year-old hand-hewn timbers from a house that was torn down. The frames sit on saw horses in Landry Park, waiting for shoulders other than mine to come and erect them. I know that help is coming for that just as I know that everywhere across the country people are taking on burdens that must be carried through to the finish line.
We need Democrats that aren't just ruthless, we need ones that are outright fucking *bloodthirsty*
“Winning elections b/c Rs suck” is not the same as sustaining democracy. Dems could run on a national agenda of Affordability through Accountability. Accountability for the Court and this Cabinet, sure. But also for healthcare CEOs and oil executives and social media data brokers. For crypto scammers. For market manipulators and private equity liars. For racists and sexists. For the Epstein class. For oligarchs who abuse the system. For coup instigators and election manipulators. For AI. For environmental abusers.
Accountability through the law and the tax code. In other words, The People deserve a government that protects them (& the planet) from the repeated abuses of capitalism. The abuse is built into our (now captured) institutions.
The People want access to healthcare, education, banking that doesn’t financially abuse them. They want a living wage. They want to work and play. They want to run their own businesses. They want a home and the freedoms to just live life. Even if “Corporate Dems” do win in November, we will not get this message nor even *the least* of these results. No need for an autopsy in 2029. Congress has the authority to act on all the issues mentioned here, including ignoring The Court until they can expand it. Under the Constitution, The People possess all political power. We can elect Reps who are committed to accountability.
The SCOTUS that crashed and burned democracy and set the US back 100 years in voter rights will be the legacy of the 6 justices. They will live the rest of their lives in disgrace and disgust among their families and the rest of the world for the their blatant racism.
What will Americans do about it? Every Democrat, Independent, and principled Republican has a duty here.
There's no such thing as a principled Republican.
agree wholeheartedly. Republicans have been cheating my entire life, always saying they respect the constitution while tearing it down. Originalism? What a bunch of bullshit! I am sure the founders would be appalled at the duplicitous Roberts and how he has denigrated the institution. The SOTUS is the first place to start reform.
Excellent map for going forward. I firmly believe that once the sock puppets (I'm using the most polite language for public discourse) on the Supine Court realize their lifetime jobs may not be so lifetime, they'll switch sides in a hurry because they're motivated by the basest aims and are not courageous people. And the reforms of the Court should go on regardless.
One thing to—Congressional Democrats and everyone else—is to become more methodical in our thinking by sorting possibilities and tactics into action buckets. For example, things to be done when Democrats:
* Hold neither house of Congress (e.g., attack members of the Court by name)
* Hold one house of Congress (e.g., hold corruption hearings)
* Hold both houses but not the presidency (e.g., pass popular reform legislation such as a Code of Ethics or term limits and dare Trump to veto it)
* Hold both houses and the presidency (e.g., engage in jurisdiction stripping, court expansion, pass legislation that reins in judicial review)
There’s no point in flailing.
Also, any chance that activists and pundits can coalesce around an ultimate goal? For example, should that goal be expansion? Or will expansion have the end effect of giving more teeth to a beast that needs defanging? Judicial review is not in the constitution; it’s a power that the court took for itself in Marbury v. Madison (1804). Sure, it’s established precedent, but since when does the Roberts court care about precedent?
Virginia Governor Spanberger, do you really need to be told to proceed with a law that would set a new retirement age for state supreme court justices, so that "a new court [could] rehear the redistricting case," as Paul Waldman suggests? Have you ever even read your state motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannis"--"Thus Always to Tyrants"?
The VA idea of new age for Supreme Court is correct and must be done but Jeffries at fed level isn’t thrilled with idea along with other Dems. And this is why these pussies must be removed. Did rethugs care about what they’re doing after scotus gave them ok to go all whitey? He’ll no, the dove head first and did it, who cares what the people think. Dems have to stop bringing plastic knife to nuclear weapon fight.
The fallacy of white superiority is proven by the choice of its example: Donald J. Trump, liar supreme, a loud infant demanding attention by tantrum, the very summit of stupidity—really? To quote the poet, “Sad.”