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Three To Go: Unstacking The Supreme Court
Proving that he’s almost as corrupt and insane as the 45th President, Lying Ted Cancun Cruz complained about “court packing” when some Democrats suggested that the Supreme Court should be expanded to thirteen justices. Did he miss what happened in 2016 and 20? Did he miss Grim Reaper McConnell’s bragging on Fox about how he prevented Obama from appointing judges? Did he forget why Reid killed the filibuster for appointing lower court justices so that Obama could appoint at least some district justices only to give Grim Reaper/Moscow Mitch the opportunity to kill it for the Supreme Court so that the twice impeached, two-time loser of the popular vote Trump could appoint three Supreme Court justices, two of them to seats stolen from the Democrats, and the third to a seat conveniently vacated by a conservative (Kennedy)? And wasn’t Lying Ted one of the senators who claimed that he would prevent Hillary from appointing judges when he thought she would beat Trump not only in the popular vote but also in the rigged electoral college? But Cruz and the Republicans aren’t the only ones talking crazy about the stacked Supreme Court. One New York Democrat suggested that Justice Breyer should retire to prevent what happened when Ginsburg died. How does Breyer’s retirement help change the numbers for the Court? If Biden replaces him, we will still have six conservatives, five of them appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote, and three liberals. I have a better solution. Instead of “packing” the court by adding four justices, which will then give the Republicans the chance to add five if they figure out a way to steal more presidential elections (with the current very political, anti-democracy Supreme Court helping them, they probably can), why not pressure three of the current conservative justices to step down, thus unstacking and balancing the Court so that it better reflects America? It doesn’t matter if it’s the three who were appointed by the Putin-assisted, insane, incompetent, twice-impeached, two-time loser of the popular vote or the three who voted to gut the Voting Rights Act so that racist, anti-democracy governors and state legislators could suppress the votes of people of color. Three of them must go.
Maybe the three who should go are the ones who were involved in a real presidential election steal. In an earlier post (7/22/18), I pointed out that the attack on our democracy didn’t start with Trump; it started with the appointment of George W. Bush by the 2000 Supreme Court. That’s when the Court stopped pretending to be apolitical. They picked our President by stopping the vote count in Florida. The only member of that 2000 Court still serving is Clarence Thomas, who should have recused himself during the 2000 vote count deliberations since he was appointed by the father of the loser of the popular vote. At the time that I wrote that 7/22/18 post, Kavanaugh had not yet been appointed, although Kennedy had announced that he was (conveniently) retiring, and the notorious RBG was still alive. Kavanaugh and Barrett, who were appointed in 2018 and 20, were both involved in the Florida vote count as was John Roberts. What are the odds that three people involved in helping the Republicans steal a presidential election from the Democrats and the 2000 voters would end up on the Supreme Court twenty years later, and one of them would be the Chief Justice? Why aren’t more Democrats and media loudmouths commenting on that odd coincidence, which I discovered when Senator Amy Klobuchar confronted Amy Barrett during the latter’s confirmation hearings. If Kavanaugh was confronted about his participation in the 2000 election steal, I missed it because everyone was focused on his sexual misconduct when he was in high school.
The most democratic branch of our government right now is the executive because President Biden and Vice President Harris won both the popular vote and the electoral college. The President’s relatively high approval rating (59% in one recent poll) reflects that he’s really representing the American citizens. While the House of Representatives is a little more democratic than the Senate, gerrymandering has helped the Republicans win seats without winning a majority of the popular vote. Each election cycle, Democrats win many more votes for Congress than Republicans do, and yet they are often in the minority or (as in this cycle) barely ahead. It’ll take a lot of work to reverse that trend, and the work should start with the supposed-to-be-apolitical Supreme Court.
I love that Biden appointed Merrick Garland, the victim of the first Supreme Court steal, to be attorney general. It will be sweet karma if his department investigates and prosecutes the Republican court stackers. He needs to investigate the resignation of Kennedy and McConnell’s role in stacking both the lower courts and the Supreme Court with far right conservatives. Dick Durbin, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also needs to become involved, maybe focusing on the lower courts. Some of those unqualified judges appointed by Trump need to be impeached.
The media can assist in the unstacking by questioning the judgment of judges willing to accept appointments from a clearly insane and corrupt President who was openly seeking and receiving assistance from Russian President Putin, one of our chief adversaries. Someone who acted like a drunken fool in high school could grow up and learn to be wiser and more sober (ask Obama and maybe even somewhat wiser GW Bush), but should we trust the judgment of a man willing to accept a lifetime judicial appointment from a corrupt, insane, racist, self-confessed sexual assaulter? The same question should be asked of Gorsuch and Barrett, who accepted appointments to stolen seats. And what about the three remaining conservative justices who voted to gut the Voting Rights Act? What do they have to say about all of the voter suppression laws that have been passed since they took that very political, anti-democracy, racist vote.
Although Congress makes the laws and the President either signs or vetoes them, the nine supposed-to-be-apolitical Supreme Court justices are the ones who have the final say on whether a law will stand. It was the Supreme Court that approved of “separate but equal” Jim Crow at the end of the 19th Century and rejected it during the middle of the 20th Century. These justices are given life terms and don’t have to campaign for elections because they are supposed to be above petty politics, but the 2000 election steal by the Supreme Court changed that narrative. If we can’t pressure three (I wouldn’t mind seeing all six of them go) of these corrupt, anti-democratic justices to leave, then we must have term limits. There can’t be peace and justice in America as long as our highest court is infested with corrupt, anti-democratic justices like the five appointed by two-time loser of the popular vote and twice-impeached Trump and loser of the popular vote in 2000 and appointed by conservative justices in a real election steal GW Bush, and like the man who thought it was appropriate to cast the deciding vote on whether or not the son of Bush Senior, the President who appointed him to the Supreme Court, should win the state (and thus the presidency) where another son of Bush Senior was governor. It’s time for at least some of them to GET OUT!
Maybe the three who should go are the ones who were involved in a real presidential election steal. In an earlier post (7/22/18), I pointed out that the attack on our democracy didn’t start with Trump; it started with the appointment of George W. Bush by the 2000 Supreme Court. That’s when the Court stopped pretending to be apolitical. They picked our President by stopping the vote count in Florida. The only member of that 2000 Court still serving is Clarence Thomas, who should have recused himself during the 2000 vote count deliberations since he was appointed by the father of the loser of the popular vote. At the time that I wrote that 7/22/18 post, Kavanaugh had not yet been appointed, although Kennedy had announced that he was (conveniently) retiring, and the notorious RBG was still alive. Kavanaugh and Barrett, who were appointed in 2018 and 20, were both involved in the Florida vote count as was John Roberts. What are the odds that three people involved in helping the Republicans steal a presidential election from the Democrats and the 2000 voters would end up on the Supreme Court twenty years later, and one of them would be the Chief Justice? Why aren’t more Democrats and media loudmouths commenting on that odd coincidence, which I discovered when Senator Amy Klobuchar confronted Amy Barrett during the latter’s confirmation hearings. If Kavanaugh was confronted about his participation in the 2000 election steal, I missed it because everyone was focused on his sexual misconduct when he was in high school.
The most democratic branch of our government right now is the executive because President Biden and Vice President Harris won both the popular vote and the electoral college. The President’s relatively high approval rating (59% in one recent poll) reflects that he’s really representing the American citizens. While the House of Representatives is a little more democratic than the Senate, gerrymandering has helped the Republicans win seats without winning a majority of the popular vote. Each election cycle, Democrats win many more votes for Congress than Republicans do, and yet they are often in the minority or (as in this cycle) barely ahead. It’ll take a lot of work to reverse that trend, and the work should start with the supposed-to-be-apolitical Supreme Court.
I love that Biden appointed Merrick Garland, the victim of the first Supreme Court steal, to be attorney general. It will be sweet karma if his department investigates and prosecutes the Republican court stackers. He needs to investigate the resignation of Kennedy and McConnell’s role in stacking both the lower courts and the Supreme Court with far right conservatives. Dick Durbin, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also needs to become involved, maybe focusing on the lower courts. Some of those unqualified judges appointed by Trump need to be impeached.
The media can assist in the unstacking by questioning the judgment of judges willing to accept appointments from a clearly insane and corrupt President who was openly seeking and receiving assistance from Russian President Putin, one of our chief adversaries. Someone who acted like a drunken fool in high school could grow up and learn to be wiser and more sober (ask Obama and maybe even somewhat wiser GW Bush), but should we trust the judgment of a man willing to accept a lifetime judicial appointment from a corrupt, insane, racist, self-confessed sexual assaulter? The same question should be asked of Gorsuch and Barrett, who accepted appointments to stolen seats. And what about the three remaining conservative justices who voted to gut the Voting Rights Act? What do they have to say about all of the voter suppression laws that have been passed since they took that very political, anti-democracy, racist vote.
Although Congress makes the laws and the President either signs or vetoes them, the nine supposed-to-be-apolitical Supreme Court justices are the ones who have the final say on whether a law will stand. It was the Supreme Court that approved of “separate but equal” Jim Crow at the end of the 19th Century and rejected it during the middle of the 20th Century. These justices are given life terms and don’t have to campaign for elections because they are supposed to be above petty politics, but the 2000 election steal by the Supreme Court changed that narrative. If we can’t pressure three (I wouldn’t mind seeing all six of them go) of these corrupt, anti-democratic justices to leave, then we must have term limits. There can’t be peace and justice in America as long as our highest court is infested with corrupt, anti-democratic justices like the five appointed by two-time loser of the popular vote and twice-impeached Trump and loser of the popular vote in 2000 and appointed by conservative justices in a real election steal GW Bush, and like the man who thought it was appropriate to cast the deciding vote on whether or not the son of Bush Senior, the President who appointed him to the Supreme Court, should win the state (and thus the presidency) where another son of Bush Senior was governor. It’s time for at least some of them to GET OUT!
