NYT Opinion: The Presidential Election That Will Determine the Planet's Future

[Erik the UNred]

The planet isn't going anywhere, we are. What angers me is the number of species that will expire before our dumb, greedy asses reap what they've sown.

[Wild blueberry]

1. That was the 2000 election. We could have had President Al Gore.

But for the Extreme Court's judicial coup.
I will never forget.

[TiberiusB]

2. O'Conner was part of a judicial coup...full stop

https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1117&context=faculty_scholarship

She's trash.

She was, and likely still is, intensely partisan, and despite voting semi-rationally while on the Court, when faced with deciding if Republicans should be allowed to engage in blatant voter suppression and disenfranchisement, she couldn't be bothered with protecting the public. The SCOTUS has devolved into the ultimate enemy of this nation. 2024 is looking mighty grim.