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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Supreme Court has been political for more than 20 years.
- President Clintons subpoena appeal was enforced, and he testified to a grand jury and even that video was made public despite grand jury material being confidential.
Subpoenas are a joke in the eyes of republicans in the age of Trump.
- Bush v Gore - Florida absolutely doesnt have to count all the votes and the absentee ballots. Unless you are a Minnesota Republican like Norm Coleman who is losing to Al Franken and you need to recount for a second time.
- Citizens United - Yes Corporations are people, the 1st amendment applies to corporations and their unlimited funds to spend on campaigns should remain private and anonymous despite realaverage citizens are limited to what is given in campaign contributions.
-Voting Rights protectIons, racial quotas, gerrymandering districts, civil rights all have been whittled down. By conservative justices. It will all continue, just at a more rapid pace.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)Politics is why Justice Samuel Chase was impeached in 1805. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
bullimiami
(13,037 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Naive to think otherwise and it's always imperative to hold the senate and the whitehouse. Something too many ideologues fail to think of before voting as 2000 and 2016 outcomes show