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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:24 PM Jan 2018

Trump Is Stacking The Courts To Push Theocracy Or Religious Based Laws.

While we are watching the daily disaster the courts are being slanted to be pro religion and extreme right wing. The GOP is creating pro business and pro extreme right "kangaroo" courts that will only decide in favor of extreme RW laws. Unless you are a radical right winger you will not get a hearing.

Under such courts workers' rights will wither. Even the minimum wage could be called unconstitutional. in the end even birth control will be illegal and abortion now matter the reason will be murder.

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Trump Is Stacking The Courts To Push Theocracy Or Religious Based Laws. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2018 OP
The damage to gay people, women, brown people, will be OVERWHELMING and Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
I utterly despise the Christian right for this very reason. Initech Jan 2018 #5
And religious based laws greymattermom Jan 2018 #2
I Bet Many Of The Trump Appointees Are Hard Right Stealth Christians. Qualified Or Not. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2018 #3
Trump is too busy golfing and tweeting NewJeffCT Jan 2018 #4
Their motto is "More theocracy!... Down with decency" world wide wally Jan 2018 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. The damage to gay people, women, brown people, will be OVERWHELMING and
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:26 PM
Jan 2018

will force many severe confrontations.

You will have courts saying doctors and hospitals can deny treatment to someone because they are gay, have had an abortion, or eventually because they are brown.

Constitutional convention is what they want next and if the KGB is controlling our elections, that is what they will get.

Even if none of that happens (and it all will) what will happen is a violent SC controlled by traitors and racists will rule your life.

Let's say no const convention, but they control the SC, do people UNDERSTAND the ramifications?

But wait, emails, pictures with Kissinger...oh my

I will never stop blaming the people who KNEW better and allowed this to happen.

Initech

(100,105 posts)
5. I utterly despise the Christian right for this very reason.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:32 PM
Jan 2018

In the election they were the ones who were motivated and showing up to the polls in droves. They want to get as many ultra extreme far right judges as possible. It's getting scary out there.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
4. Trump is too busy golfing and tweeting
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:31 PM
Jan 2018

This is likely going through Pence's office and Trump does little more than rubber stamp it.

That said, it is extremely worrying. They slowed down judicial appointments under Obama - not just Garland. But, now they're fast tracked since they have killed the filibuster

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