Get ready for the Supreme Court & a handful of GOPers to put Trump, DeSantis, Scott, Cotton or Hawley into the White House regardless of the 2024 election outcome - unless they are stopped now
It would appear that if the Democrats don’t take action to eliminate the filibuster and to increase the size of the Supreme Court before the 2022 elections, we are not only going to become an oligarchy, but also be an apartheid run failed country.
It is has long bothered me that the Court seems to have become ingrown. Every member of the current bench went to either Harvard or Yale Law, except Barrett who went to Notre Dame. This is a pretty typical pattern in recent decades. While there certainly is nothing wrong with going to a fine school, clerking for an outstanding judge on the Supreme or Court of Appeals, and then serving in the Department of Justice before going to the federal judiciary, it seems that such a path narrows one down. Without actual bare knuckle experience working with criminals, family law problems, property issues, etc., it could become easy to forget the human beings involved in real decisions and how most people are struggling to just get by. One associates with the wealthy and powerful and starts to see everything through their points of view. (A lack of knowledge of science and other cultures may also exist when one's experience is so narrow.) I am not sure what can be done, and the same problem can exist for those serving in Congress, but it is worrisome that decisions could be made very much in a vacuum.
Jefferson kept going back to the power is with the people. The point being, will these Justices dare to do such a thing? Dare being the operative word. They just watched what happened when folks bought some propaganda about an election being "stolen". Can there be five of them stupid enough to ACTUALLY steal our election? What the court did in 2000 created a firestorm but Gore conceded. Then along came 9/11 and two wars.
The Supreme Court Justices are in charge of their own security with the Marshall Service following their individual choices. That's a pretty sweet set-up that enables them to have some kind of a life. They and their families will need a bunker.
Times have changed since 2000. We the People have organized and moved into a new millennium. Americans have always had a way of progressing with or without the laws. Our democracy wasn't born in a court room---it's the other way around.
It would appear that if the Democrats don’t take action to eliminate the filibuster and to increase the size of the Supreme Court before the 2022 elections, we are not only going to become an oligarchy, but also be an apartheid run failed country.
It is has long bothered me that the Court seems to have become ingrown. Every member of the current bench went to either Harvard or Yale Law, except Barrett who went to Notre Dame. This is a pretty typical pattern in recent decades. While there certainly is nothing wrong with going to a fine school, clerking for an outstanding judge on the Supreme or Court of Appeals, and then serving in the Department of Justice before going to the federal judiciary, it seems that such a path narrows one down. Without actual bare knuckle experience working with criminals, family law problems, property issues, etc., it could become easy to forget the human beings involved in real decisions and how most people are struggling to just get by. One associates with the wealthy and powerful and starts to see everything through their points of view. (A lack of knowledge of science and other cultures may also exist when one's experience is so narrow.) I am not sure what can be done, and the same problem can exist for those serving in Congress, but it is worrisome that decisions could be made very much in a vacuum.
The worse thing that our Government does is lifetime appointments. It certainly does not work in any other profession, except for President of China.
Jefferson kept going back to the power is with the people. The point being, will these Justices dare to do such a thing? Dare being the operative word. They just watched what happened when folks bought some propaganda about an election being "stolen". Can there be five of them stupid enough to ACTUALLY steal our election? What the court did in 2000 created a firestorm but Gore conceded. Then along came 9/11 and two wars.
The Supreme Court Justices are in charge of their own security with the Marshall Service following their individual choices. That's a pretty sweet set-up that enables them to have some kind of a life. They and their families will need a bunker.
Times have changed since 2000. We the People have organized and moved into a new millennium. Americans have always had a way of progressing with or without the laws. Our democracy wasn't born in a court room---it's the other way around.