The founding fathers went to great lengths to ensure representation for the minority that included reasons that were both honorable and dishonorable. Today, it is reasonable to question if those protections don’t work to the express disadvantage of the majority. There’s a reason Republicans in Texas want to make it harder for popular ideas among its citizenry to flourish. They, along with the SC’s majority don’t give a rats ass about how their power grabs look to those who oppose them. It’s important to note that this POV seems to be working for them.
What we are experiencing now won’t stop until we make significant structural changes to the imbalance of power in our country. We can’t win playing by a set of rules and norms that nobody cares about but us.
I’m right there with you, although I still think Democrats will prevail in November.
I will say if there was any doubt that the SC majority is being cynically, brazenly and intentionally political, consider how they’ve decided to release their decision on the immunity case.
Thirteen justices for thirteen circuits. Make it happen.
At some point the justice system has to throw a bone to all of the schlubs who get prosecuted for lesser crimes. The entailed deserves to know what not being entitled feels like.
Trump is not to fill his empty head with policy concerns. He’s going to shoot from the hip. I’m kinda looking forward to him talking crazy uninterrupted for 2 minutes without an audience. I think he’ll come across as crazy as hell.
Looks like Vigano poked the bear one time too many. Cardinal Burke had better tread lightly:
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/vatican-s-ddf-charges-archbishop-vigano-with-canonical-crime-of-schism-rejecting-pope-francis
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Thursday claimed that the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has initiated proceedings against him over the alleged crime of schism.
Citing a document he published on his website and posted onsocial media, the former papal nuncio to the United States wrote that he was summoned to Rome on June 20 to face an extrajudicial penal process for the charges.
“I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a canon lawyer,” the prelate wrote on X. “I assume that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process.”
The specific charges outlined against Archbishop Viganò involve making public statements that allegedly deny the fundamental elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church. This includes denying the legitimacy of Pope Francis as the rightful pontiff and outright rejection of the doctrines established during the Second Vatican Council.
Once Biden is re-elected, Democrats should move Heaven and earth to get the requisite number of states to sign on to the National,Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and then move to expand the SC. Thirteen justices for thirteen circuits. Do it!