Funny, but all the right-wing critics of "activist judges" who screamed for decades

[misanthrope]

are suddenly quiet now that said activism has reached unprecedented and unabashed levels. Odd how that works.

[calimary]

1. And I can't remember any on our side.

[Zeitghost]

6. That's kind of how activist judges work

Nobody thinks the ones making decisions they agree with are activists. They're just judges making common sense decisions.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Not to mention the incredible coincidence ...

... that the SCOTUS justices under fire for what looks to be outright bribe-taking are all Republicans appointed by Republican presidents.

What are the odds?

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[RockRaven]

3. It's always projection, whataboutism, pre-emptive "I know you are but what am I?" with them.

They aren't complaining about anything the left is actually doing. They are sharing their strategy with the names changed.

RW political activism in the place of jurisprudence has been their project for decades, as many Dems have been screaming about for just as long. Too many people refuse to see it until it punches them in the face.

[W_HAMILTON]

4. It's not odd -- it's propaganda.

It's high time that people learn that Republicans will say and do anything to achieve power and inflict their ideology on everybody else. They don't care about hypocrisy. They'll gladly take the label of hypocrite as long as it goes with the label of President, Senator, Representative, etc.

[BootinUp]

5. +1

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[Walleye]

8. All my life I heard them say "legislating from the bench"

With really annoying repetition. I remember distinctly it started with school integration. That’s still what they are butt hurt about. This is just their way of re-starting the Civil War and losing it again

[Mr. Ected]

10. They have no moral compass. They say whatever it is that will damage our position.

Textbook hypocrisy except for the fact that they stand for nothing so hypocrisy can't stick to their oily scales.

[Yavin4]

12. When the SCOTUS is regressive, they can really f**ck things up.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) enshrined separate but equal as constitutionally sound. The legacy effects of that decision still live with us to this very day. It took activist progressive judges in the latter half of the 20th century to rectify this ruling which created systemic economic and racial disparities.

Historically, SCOTUS has been used to preserve the property rights of the privileged class which is dangerous in a country whose foundation, at least rhetorically, is progressive. You cannot have a progressive foundation and still preserve class advantages.

[misanthrope]

16. Well said.

Thanks

[SalviaBlue]

13. Every accusation is a confession. NT

[Nasruddin]

14. QuIeT?!?!

They're all strutting around like little Mussolinis!

Link to tweet

[617Blue]

15. Stop listening it's just bullshit, up is down yadda yadda

many of them just say shit they heard somewhere else.