Biden, Democrats Have No Choice: Fight The Supreme Court Or Consign American Democracy To History

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- President Biden and Senate Leader Schumer: Don't betray them and their fight.

Civil rights demonstrators, led by Dr Martin Luther King (5th R), Ralph Abernathy (5th L), John Lewis (3rd L) & other civil & religious leaders, make their way from Selma to Montgomery, AL, March 22, 1965, on the 3rd leg of the Selma to Montgomery marches.
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Daily Kos, July 1, 2021. - Ed.

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. It means that Biden and Senate Democrats have to do what Republicans have shown themselves willing and capable of doing—whatever it takes—to save the nation.

Let's talk about those 3 illegitimate justices Trump and Mitch McConnell installed. Neil Gorsuch is sitting in a pilfered seat. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans shrugged off their constitutional obligation to advise and consent on judicial nominations and blockaded Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's nominee for the highest court. They left a vacancy on that court for nearly a year in order to deny the nation's first Black president that seat. They also abolished the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees—unanimously. (Thanks, Joe Manchin, for helping them out on that vote, by the way.)

Then there was Brett Kavanaugh, who faced numerous and credible sexual assault allegations as well as an extremely shady financial situation on top of multiple perjury issues, none of which were adequately investigated during his rushed confirmation process. His experience, his temperament, his willingness to play fast and loose with the truth—all of that should have disqualified him from even being nominated. But there is no bottom to what Republicans are willing to say and do in order to win. And finally, Amy Coney Barrett with her extremely short and extremely extreme judicial career, who was rushed onto the court in record time literally days before the presidential election and while ballots were already being cast.. Now that's court packing...

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- Alabama State Troopers attack civil rights demonstrators outside Selma, AL, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

- Selma to Montgomery marches, wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches#:~:text=The%20Selma%20to%20Montgomery%20marches,the%20state%20capital%20of%20Montgomery.&text=SCLC%20brought%20many%20prominent%20civil,to%20Selma%20in%20January%201965.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Others agree

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[Murphyb849]

2. There was NO FRAUD and the Court repeated Trump's talking points.

It makes me sick. And scared.

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6. Total sham. Hang in there, stay well

Many forward thinking people are aware and engaged, and that has power too.

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4. Tx for posting, Kimberly has strong points

[PortTack]

3. Marc Elias weighs in on today's SCOTUS ruling

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5. TY, well said

[KPN]

7. Expand the court! Or surrender democracy.

It’s that simple.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. From the Reidout

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[malthaussen]

9. "American Democracy" has a much longer history of inequality than equality...

... something called "American Democracy" would continue if we disenfranchised every non-White in the country. (Which appears to be the goal) In fact, one could argue that disenfranchising every non-White in the country is the very essence of "American Democracy."

The past fifty or so years have been an aberration that the conservative White Supremacists have never stopped trying to end. They are riding pretty high, now, but their heavy-handed reactionaryism is turning a lot of stomachs. Even though the rising generation has little experience of the way things were in the GOP Golden Age, they apparently are not subscribing to the idea of ostracizing half the population. This gives hope for the longer term, but in the immediate term, the RW will be making some temporary gains that will be very painful to the rest of us.

-- Mal