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Why is SCOTUS Illegitimate? Because 6 Naked Political GOP Operatives Work There 10-19-22 The Village [1]
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Date: 2022-10-19
Pucker up ROSCOTUS. Roe overreach?? Dems- Roe your vote.
Why is SCOTUS illegitimate?
It’s not because we disagree with your decisions, Johnny Roberts.
Though we do.
It is you who live in a minority thought bubble & don’t even know it.
5 of the 6 GOP Justices were nominated by 2 Presidents who lost the popular vote.
— W Bush, who lost the 2000 election popular vote, but became president because of the treacherous political greed of Antonin Scalia, nominated John Roberts & Samuel Alito.
— Donald Trump, who lost the 2016 election popular vote, but became president, nominated Job Thief Neil Gorsuch, Beer Boy Brett Kavanaugh, & Handmaiden Amy Coney Barrett.
It is SCOTUS who disagrees with the majority of the American people.
Not the other way around.
The majority of SCOTUS does not reflect the American public & our opinions.
But, but, but there are no GOP Justices says Johnny?
They’re all non-political. Just following the law.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
Pull the other one.
x John Roberts wants the public to see #SCOTUS as above politics. He's also engineered a series of 5-4 party line decisions, like Citizens United & Shelby County, on cases that set the basic rules of politics. In the #Census2020 case those priorities collide
https://t.co/zKbAbtIYIT — Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 25, 2019
x Money in political discourse poisoning our politics, that's on John Roberts.
Members of #SCOTUS closely linked to participating in "legitimate political discourse" for money, also on John Roberts #EndCitizensUnited — Belvis (@realbelvis) March 30, 2022
Ever since naked political operative Antonin Scalia told FL to stop counting ballots in 2000,
Republicans on the US Supreme Court have ruled for greed, power, & ideology.
The judgements of the Roberts court consistently put:
party over law
party over precedent
party over country
And we all know it.
Don’t care ACB? You will when we reform SCOTUS to mute the illegitimate justices.
Don’t like being called political John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, LemonPuss Alito, & Beer Boy Kavanaugh?
Get used to it. 3 current SCOTUS Justices stormed FL to keep Gore out of the WH in 2000.
That’s Roberts, Kavanaugh, & Barrett.
Did you think we forgot?
Illegitimate SCOTUS decisions—
Overturning Roe v Wade
Alito wrote that if we didn’t like their decision, we could vote. Okay, you’re on.
Half of voters motivated by demise of Roe Half of all voters say that they are more motivated to cast a ballot in the midterms because of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Wednesday. Why it matters: Three-quarters of those who say the decision is motivating them say they intend to back candidates who support abortion rights, compared to 17% who plan to vote for candidates who want to limit access. By the numbers: 50% of 1,534 adults KFF polled between Sept. 15–26 say they are more eager to vote in the midterms due to the fall of Roe, up from 43% in July and 37% in May following the leak of a Supreme Court decision draft on Roe. 51% of voters in states with abortion bans are more motivated to vote, compared to 32% in states that protect abortion access.
In anti-abortion states, 74% of Democrats or Democratic-leaning voters are more eager to vote, versus only 35% of Republicans or Republican-leaning voters.
53% of women say they are more motivated to vote and 46% of men say they are more motivated because of the Supreme Court decision. www.axios.com/...
Overturning Voting Rights
In 2013 the supreme court gutted voting rights – how has it changed the US? The supreme court struck down a formula at the heart of Voting Rights Act – now voters who are discriminated against bear the burden of proving they are disenfranchised... In a 5-4 vote, the court struck down a formula at the heart of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 law that required certain states and localities with a history of discrimination against minority voters to get changes cleared by the federal government before they went into effect. It’s hard to overstate the significance of this decision. The power of the Voting Rights Act was in the design that the supreme court gutted – discriminatory voting policies could be blocked before they harmed voters. The law placed the burden of proof on government officials to prove why the changes they were seeking were not discriminatory. Now, voters who are discriminated against now bear the burden of proving they are disenfranchised. www.theguardian.com/...
x Another Supreme Court case could further gut the landmark Voting Rights Act and make it harder to protect the political power of voters of color — this one centering on the question of who counts as "Black" in redistricting.
https://t.co/aI4YgMQN2O — NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) October 18, 2022
Up Next?
Birth Control
x A reminder that 195 Republicans voted against YOUR right to birth control after Justice Thomas called for the Supreme Court to reconsider that right. — Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) October 18, 2022
Marriage equality
x If you think the Dobbs decision doesn’t affect you, think again. Justice Thomas says the quiet part out loud: he thinks the Court should revoke protections for contraceptive care, sexual intimacy, and marriage equality. This radical Court can’t be trusted to protect your rights.
https://t.co/snbBcTZaDS — Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) June 24, 2022
They want it all, and more—
If the GOP gains control of Congress, they will come after Social Security & Medicare
The Roberts Court will support them all the way.
The third rail Republicans can’t stop touching Social Security and Medicare are wildly popular. So why do GOP Senate candidates keep talking about privatizing them? ...In Arizona, GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters in June floated the idea of privatizing Social Security during a candidate forum: “We need fresh and innovative thinking,” Masters said. “Maybe we should privatize Social Security. Private retirement accounts, get the government out of it.” ...In Ohio, Republican nominee J.D. Vance this summer clarified that he no longer agrees with comments he made roughly a decade ago calling for major cuts to both programs. Now, Vance said, his position is that “privatizing Social Security is a bad idea.” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, meanwhile, has taken heat for suggesting that funding for Medicare and Social Security should not be automatically renewed each year, but instead become discretionary spending subject to annual congressional review. www.politico.com/...
x BREAKING: Steve Scalise, U.S. House 2nd in command acknowledges GOP plans to CUT Social Security & Medicare.
They're NOT even trying to hide it and with 3 weeks until Midterms. TELL EVERYONE!
https://t.co/aeRIFhKSeG — Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) October 17, 2022
Hyperbole?? I think when stare decisis doesn't matter, it doesn’t matter for any laws.
Gloom and Doom? F*ck no.
Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote
Get others to Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote
x For all of those voters who think the current Republican candidates back pedaling on abortion is their real position. Remember that Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, Robert’s, Thomas, and Alito all testified under oath that Roe v Wade was ‘settled law’.
They’re liars. — Griffin214 (@Greeble214) September 9, 2022
The newest Justice is excellent, but she is one voice in the minority
We are the ones who must respond.
This is our hour to answer democracy’s call.
x I live in central Wisconsin. I do a lot of back roads driving central/northern WI. In the past, strictly R signs. This year, huge amount of D signs in places never seen before. Roevember is coming. Women have not forgotten. — Susan Eaton (@susan_j_eaton) October 18, 2022
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