The liberal justice took aim at various recent rulings, including one that paved the way for rampant partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s conservative majority Tuesday, saying it undermined democracy in a series of rulings, including several that have prompted a new wave of legislative map-drawing that has increasingly eliminated competitive districts.
Kagan, who has dissented in those cases, also took aim at the majority for striking down campaign finance restrictions and, as she put it, the “evisceration” of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that was enacted to protect minority voters.
“Part of the reason why the court got it wrong was a kind of lack of the appropriate concern or understanding of the consequences of their decisions,” she said in remarks at Catholic University’s law school in Washington, D.C.
“Part of the reason why the court got it wrong was a kind of lack of the appropriate concern or understanding of the consequences of their decisions,” she said in remarks at Catholic University’s law school in Washington, D.C.
They know full well the consequences of their decisions and are glad of it.
Idk, I’m sure the SCOTUS is full of very reasonable and sensible people.
Has anyone just tried talking to them while using facts and logic?
I did… They called me a bunch of slurs after and one of them said, “eat shit, dweeb!” and then the girl one kicked me in my asshole. I don’t know if they actually can be reasoned with?
This is an understatement, in actuality they would violently write your existence into the crime book and have you sentenced to death systematically so you end with no course of action.
Some people just can’t accept that human beings can be that evil. So they think they’re misinformed or got tricked into doing the thing. I used to be like that, seeing good in people to a fault. Some people are just evil, cartoonishly evil. Straight up Dr. Evil evil.
Human minds are more or less programmable, so if you are not programming your own mind, someone else is doing the programming, often for their own profitable/evil ends .
they might realize some consequences if republicans lose so much they essentially become a third party.
There’s no viable alternative party to turn the Republican Party into a third party. Widespread electoral reform would need to occur to make that possible, something that must occur at the state level for each and every state.
There’s never going to be three viable parties at once (as you said, not without extensive changes to how voting works, anyway), but that doesn’t mean the same two parties are always the major ones. It would be entirely possible for the Republican Party to implode badly enough that the less-extreme ones all defect and we end up with one neoliberal/conservative party and one progressive/socialist party.
Conservative parties are always going to end up with Nazi problems, I prefer we never let that happen again by legitimizing their bigoted rhetoric. These people are self-hating troglodytes, not people who care about governance or politics.
So how is she going to fix it then? Tired of hearing the whining about the problems, start taking action.
It’s more on you than her to fix it. She did more than you did today (hint: it’s in the article)
