Progressives Prep $10 Million Campaign to Expose 'MAGA Supreme Court'
Progressives Prep $10 Million Campaign to Expose 'MAGA Supreme Court'
Many voters don’t blame Donald Trump or Republicans for the Supreme Court’s right-wing decisions. United for Democracy wants to change that.
She writes that many Democratic voters are “demoralized” about the Supreme Court and blame President Joe Biden for the abortion decision since it happened on his watch.
What kind of moron thinks the sitting President has any say in how the supreme court decides? I mean maybe a bit if that President has appointed a new Justice, but even then, not really.
It’s mostly idiots in the flyover states whose votes literally have more power due to the vagaries of the us electoral system. If that wasn’t a thing, and gerrymandering was declared unequivocally illegal, we would have a much better chance of rational leadership now and in the long run. But, infuriatingly, our system is intentionally designed to be undemocratic in a few very important ways.
It is unfortunately extremely common for the average American to think that the current president has direct and immediate control over quite a lot of things which they do not. Like inflation and gas prices. Or who the DOJ prosecutes and for what. And on and on.
Sadly, most of them are adults who are beyond education because they are too stuck in the team-based mentality. Hopefully the younger ones can still learn.
There are many, many, many low-info voters that think exactly like that.
Sadly.
I've seen bothsideser clowns on Lemmy write this. With 100% certainty they know better, but I assume they continue writing it because it fools some idiots some of the time.
Presidents can push to have decrepit old justices from their own party retire so he/she can replace them with a younger model before the next election.
It was literally in his power to expand the court and appoint uncorrupt judges before Dobbs happened.
There had been almost 30 years of warnings that right wing activist judges wanted to overturn Roe and several years of people suggesting ways within the power of him and the Congressional majority he leads to prevent it.
No, it literally was not. Again, POTUS is not an emperor! Congress has to do it by passing legislation.
It was literally in his power to expand the court and appoint uncorrupt judges before Dobbs happened.
It was not.
Congress would first have to remove the cap set by the Judicial Act of 1969.
That was in congressional Democrats' hands. But in order to pass the Senate, we would have needed 60 Democrats, all of whom would need to actually vote with their party. Or we would need to have a simple majority, at least 50 of whom would be willing to get rid of the filibuster forever. We had the majority. Just enough Democrats preferred the return of coat hanger abortions to relegating a procedural relic of Jim Crow to the shitpile of history where it has always belonged.
[Gestures broadly towards SCOTUS] saved you $10 million.
Remember when the Repubs biggest fear was that Biden would expand the Supreme Court?
They’ll be the ones to do it first themselves.
What's left to expose?
More so a publicity blitz ig
I guess if our populace has become this damn stupid, then democracy can't work here anymore. Democracy requires a certain minimum level of education and knowledge in the voting population. The number of comments I see online where people think the POTUS is some kind of emperor who just has to decree something and it happens (even in other countries!), and that Congress and SCOTUS have nothing to do with anything, is astounding.
Do they not teach government and civics in schools any more? Not to mention history. The ignorance of history is a huge part of the problem as well, not knowing about anything that happened more than 10-20 years ago, let alone the past century or two.
It's almost like it is in the best interests of one of the political parties to have a less informed populace and that party tends to limit or dismantle that educational infrastructure
I guess if our populace has become this damn stupid, then democracy can’t work here anymore.
Majority rule don't work in mental institutions
They don't need to expose shit, we all know they're corrupt. The trick is to prove it and then figure out a way to get those assholes out of their jobs, preferably without inciting a civil war.
“We all know they’re corrupt” they say after the article literally is about the lack of awareness
Why? They’ve already exposed themselves for free and it hasn’t changed a fucking thing.