They tipped the balance of power and made themselves irrelevant. Bunch of idjits.
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Dictators are known for keeping potential threats to their power around after they've outlived their usefulness so surely things will be fine, right?
// might keep 1 or 2 around in custody to attempt to prop up legitimacy later if needed.
Even the Trump appointees seem like the sort of people who would want to defend the rule of law at least to preserve their own (and therefore the court's) power, so I wonder how each of the six "conservative" judges was convinced to rule the way that he or she did. I don't imagine all of them doing it for the same reason. Maybe some were rewarded for their votes and others wanted to see Trump wreck things (Alito and his flag come to mind) but did some actually think that it was a good idea or the correct legal decision?
They thought they were the high priests of fascism, but they forgot there's only room for one person at the top of that pyramid.
Agreed. Everyone thinks they will be in the inner circle, until the inner circle shrinks to just 1.
The Mad King was obsessed with it. He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn't like. He burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere. So he had his pyromancer place caches of wildfire all over the city.
Where’s Jaime
The courthouse can be a Spirit Halloween this October.
So we got that going for us.
Couldn't resist.
Wow. I admit I don't always click the articles I comment on, but this one is powerful... Read it.
Congress and the judicial branch have fast tracked themselves on a course to redundancy for the past 85 days.
Let's just say, hypothetically, SCOTUS had the best intentions when granting POTUS the free hand cause no one reasonable would misuse that right? Well, they're now in the FAFO stage cause Trump has no bottom to how much he would misuse power.
Even for a justice on that court that might be all-in for donvict, that was such a fucking stupid move on their part. Utterly brainless.
What shall we call this country when the United States of America as we once knew and loved it no longer exists?
IDK what we call the corpse of the USA but I think Founding Farters might work for the pieces of shit that have brought us here.