Consider Us Warned -- Mary Trump

[erronis]

https://www.marytrump.org/p/consider-us-warned

It is one of the great ironies of the way the American government is structured that the Senate is one of the least democratic institutions in the country.

This has become increasingly the case as the filibuster, ostensibly implemented in order to encourage bipartisanship, has instead become a way for a minority of senators who represent a small percentage of the country’s population to thwart policies that appeal to broad swaths of the country. This has its roots in the filibuster’s racist origin—it has been used since its inception in 1806 to block civil rights legislation and anti-lynching laws, among other things, and the anti-democratic bent of the Senate is becoming more pronounced as blue states become more populous and red states become less so. For context, the few hundred thousand people in Wyoming have the same representation of the almost 40 million people in California. Overall, the 53 Republican senators represent 155.1 million Americans and the 47 Democratic senators represent 179.1 million.

It turns out that the Supreme Court of the United States of America, as it is currently constituted, has become the most anti-Constitutional institution this country has ever seen. The corrupt, illegitimate super majority under the auspices of Chief Justice John Roberts continues its onslaught against the separation of powers in an effort to create an imperial presidency. The goal of this effort is to make Donald Trump a powerful unitary executive who is beyond ability of either Congress or the judiciary to rein him in.

Much like the Republicans in Congress, the corrupt, illegitimate super majority of the Supreme Court is ceding its power to Donald and to the executive branch he leads. It’s rather gobsmacking and I wonder what the underlying motives are. We know for a fact that the Supreme Court would not act to grant a Democratic president monarchical powers. But then, a Democratic president would never demand them.

I think the likeliest explanation is that Roberts and his corrupt cohorts—particularly Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, finally saw an opportunity, with a greedy, grasping illiterate in the Oval Office and a weak, feckless Republican party willing to go along with it.

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[lindysalsagal]

1. Very well said, in plain english. I just subscribed. THanks. Scathing to scotus. They deserve it.

[erronis]

2. I feel so sorry for the three non-MAGA justices.

It must be hard to work with such obdurate assholes.