The burden on 50 Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden to save democracy became much heavier Thursday, and even more urgent. In a 6-3 majority opinion, the Supreme Court gutted what remained of the Voting Rights Act. This was not a shocking outcome. After all, the Supreme Court had already severely damaged the landmark civil rights law back in 2013, when it gave Republican states the green light to start enacting whatever outrageous racist voter suppression laws they wished. Arizona took them up on that offer, giving the court—with three new illegitimate justices appointed by the former insurrectionist in chief—the excuse to destroy the whole of the law.
Which means the burden on the Senate goes beyond abolishing the filibuster and overruling the Supreme Court with new laws. A federal judiciary jam-packed with Donald Trump's illegitimate judges—including this Supreme Court—will make sure those laws don’t stand.
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The Supreme Court has to be reformed and it has to be expanded, period. Biden and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have to do everything in their power to make that happen. What's the point of having control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, along with the biggest bully pulpit in the world, if you won't use it to secure the future of democracy?
Congress must act NOW, and this has to include Senators Manchin and Sinema, or we're no longer a Democracy, governed by the will of the people.
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Ipecac, i dont pretend to understand anything that you`ve written in this post, and i admit that you`re knowledge of the American political system and the concept of democracy and freedom in general is truly remarkable. Its just that no matter how much highbrow, elitist, cerebral, technical, college professor oriented phraseology you unleash (so to speak) you still know just as much as i do that the idea of America being on the verge of becoming like North Korea or China is total bollocks ! ! !. From what you wrote it seems that the concept/idea/reality of 'the American dream', and 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' is indeed mind-bogglingly complex in the extreme. However it is something that hundreds of millions of Americans have taken for granted for 245 years now, but this overtly intellectual Noam Chomsky-esque post seems to imply that all that greatness is indeed going down the toilet. Perhaps you could write another post on the same subject but this time using easy to understand words and phrases to explain exactly and straight-forwardly why you think America is not what it used to be. And, like i said, in a way that Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lawrence, and Michael Bay (3 truly great exponents of the American dream) could grasp and comprehend, cheers my old mate.
This isn't hard. A true democracy allows and encourages all eligible voters to actually vote. Indeed, a true modern democracy makes it convenient and easy to vote, and then the system respects the voters' choices.
The Supreme Court just greenlit a whole bunch of Republican legislators to thwart that basic standard by making it easier to prevent people, the "wrong" people, from voting. When a democracy is actively keeping people from voting, that democracy is headed towards ruin.
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