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In reply to the discussion: Dear fellow DUers, I have a question: am I right to be terrified? [View all]bigtree
(94,261 posts)...aside from electing as many Democrats as possible, the options are bleak. That's why, bad.
Multi-state convention to change the Constitution to force presidents to live by the same laws we do. SC changed it yesterday in a blink of the eye to include their new 'immunity' provisions, and the prohibition of using evidence of official acts to prove illegal, unofficial acts in court.
If there was somewhere to go, I'd say that was ripe for appeal.
I'd like to think, long term, that legal scholars who have taught jurisprudence involving precedent and statutory intent would organize and protest on a scale that would rock the legal world and political world.
The rulings are not just wrong, they're crap law, and they're just a collection of politicking and bad reasoning. it's a literal shitshow.
We're in it. It's effectively an autocracy if everything our legislature does is subject to their aberrant and arbitrary rulings in favor of the republican party.