We need to stay angry about Kavanaugh
The Supreme Courts legitimacy is in tatters. Conservative forces in the country, led by the Republican Party, have completed a judicial coup, decades in the making.
Republicans rushed through Brett M. Kavanaughs confirmation to avoid the possible consequences of an election. They aborted a full investigation because they feared what it might find. They made themselves complicit in a presidential attack on Christine Blasey Ford, a brave woman who asked only that her case against Kavanaugh be taken seriously.
After all these outrages, there will be calls for a renewal of civility, as if the problem is that people said nasty things about one other. But the answer to this power grab cannot be passive acceptance in the name of being polite. The causes and consequences of what just happened must be acknowledged frankly.
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There is also this: A generations-long conservative majority on the court has been cemented in place by a political minority. Kavanaugh was named by a president who won 46 percent of the popular vote and confirmed by senators representing 44 percent of the population. When you lack a majority, controlling the branch of government not subject to the voters is vital to working your will.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)and plan to stay that way til theyre all gone
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)With the next up being the Honorable Judge Garland for consideration. His Confirmation Hearings will be very lacking-in-drama, I'm sure!
Aristus
(66,462 posts)elleng
(131,123 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,858 posts)In fact, I'm getting angrier by the minute as I watch the GOP's and Trump's efforts to mock and ridicule women and claim their experiences either don't matter or never even occurred.
Let's burn the fucking thing down.