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Rhiannon12866

(207,688 posts) Thu Feb 29, 2024, 01:27 AM Feb 29

Laurence Tribe: The Supreme Court is suppressing evidence - The Last Word - MSNBC

After the Supreme Court agrees to hear Donald Trump’s immunity claim, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the impact this could have on Donald Trump’s reelection. Professor Tribe says that this is “not the way a country that is concerned to preserve the rule of law and constitutional democracy would proceed.” - Aired on 02/28/2024.

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Laurence Tribe: The Supreme Court is suppressing evidence - The Last Word - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Feb 29 OP

Not enough people understand that we have a Subversive Court. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 29 #1

You're right, how many in this country know the makeup of the Supreme Court, let alone follow their decisions? Rhiannon12866 Feb 29 #2

The court that was meant to be the most impartial DFW Feb 29 #3

This court subverts, rather than interprets, the U.S. Constitution. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 29 #4

The Supreme Court; answering questions that were never asked, aka legislating. Uncle Joe Feb 29 #5

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,703 posts)

1. Not enough people understand that we have a Subversive Court.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:22 AM

Feb 29

Rhiannon12866

(207,688 posts)

2. You're right, how many in this country know the makeup of the Supreme Court, let alone follow their decisions?

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:33 AM

Feb 29

Unless, of course, they have become victims of their decisions, like a woman who is stricken with a toxic pregnancy.

DFW

(54,610 posts)

3. The court that was meant to be the most impartial

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:35 AM

Feb 29

That court now bends over backwards to protect the biggest scoundrel that ever sat in the Oval Office, since three of them are nominees of his, and three others often act as if they wish they had been.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,703 posts)

4. This court subverts, rather than interprets, the U.S. Constitution.

Reply to DFW (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 05:06 AM

Feb 29

This court puts it extreme ideology above law, precedent, logic, and the Constitution, and thereby subverts the foundation of the U.S.

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Uncle Joe

(58,680 posts)

5. The Supreme Court; answering questions that were never asked, aka legislating.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 12:56 PM

Feb 29

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon.

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