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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe really frustrating part is we almost made it
Like everyone else here Ive been terrified of the prospect of Trump being in power during a national emergency. Against all odds we almost made it. Sure, his administration has been a malignant tumor. But were on another level now.
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The really frustrating part is we almost made it (Original Post)
HarlanPepper
Mar 2020
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RockRaven
(18,938 posts)1. It's worse than that. Breyer and RBG are both in the demographic for which this virus is very deadly
and if trump appoints even 1 more SCOTUS justice there will be no recovering from corporate-controlled right wing authoritarianism in our lifetimes.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)2. Please
One catastrophe at a time. My bandwidth is maxed.
gristy
(10,733 posts)3. I will hope that she and the rest of the court will now self-isolate at least until next January.
Failing that, once we control the presidency and the senate, it will be time to increase the number of SC judges. And Biden may indeed have sufficient political capital to pull that off.
