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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The backlash from the dance with fascism better result in amendments to fix the court, on top of making corporations subordinate to living humans in another amendment.

Capitalism only works with strong regulations to keep capital out of public services. Mind your own godamn business.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Congress is the real problem in all of this. They've abdicated all of their power.

Congress should have impeach Trump. They should have impeached at least Clarence Thomas for the blatant bribery. Merrick Garland should have been on the bench. They shouldn't have allowed most of this.

If there's one defective branch of government, it's Congress. They were supposed to be the balance vs the other two.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If they feared voters and not donors, that gets solved quickly. They're still gerrymandering because they dont want to have to listen to voters.

Edit: I supposed I forgot to mention i mean that citizens united needs to be addressed specifically in an amendment to keep corporate and billionaire interests in check.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Congress should have impeach Trump.

They did, twice. Lot of good it did when all spineless sycophantic R’s vote against it.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

The republican traitor filth must be dealt with.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I remember when Roberts was nominated by W.

He was a piece of shit... A young piece of shit and I knew we were fucked for decades.

Regan > W > Trump

The three worst presidents in history in order in terms of damage they have done.

Although Trump is gunning for W's spot.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Andrew Johnson started this whole ball rolling by letting the Confederacy get away with it.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump is going to exceed W’s American citizen death list pretty soon but not the Iraqi one; that’s hard to beat.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Trumps already done that with COVID. The US had 50% of the COVID deaths worldwide. Totalling well over a million American citizens. Which is more dead Americans than from all the wars we've ever fought in combined.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It was weird when Bush nominated him because until then, Bush had a list of completely awful pics for a variety of positions.

So when the Roberts nomination came up, I looked at his credentials, and surprisingly, he was qualified for the Supreme Court!

Oh... Chief Justice... no. Just... no. I had assumed (wrongly) that Roberts would just fill the vacancy and an established judge already on the court would be made Chief Justice.

Nope. Not how it works.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

"Picked a side" wrongly implies that he wasn't always a partisan hack.