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   Leftist Lawyer (leftistlawyer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:06:21 JST Leftist Lawyer

   As to the Colorado matter, the Supreme Court is going to lay a steamy legal turd right on Trump's head.
   It's where challengers to the elite status quo go to die. If Trump had been a good little status quo lap dog like Dubya, perhaps the Supreme Court would twist their "states rights" crusade into knots to provide some specious rationalization as to why Trump wins. But, Trump ain't Dubya. He's the anti-Dubya, and he's not gonna survive this round.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:06:19 JST gnutelephony

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     @LeftistLawyer In the end it may be the vanity of Roberts, who I am sure does not want "his" court to be remembered the way we recall Dred Scott forever more, tainting and discrediting anything else they may still do under a Trump presidency, too. Also, scotus knows there cannot be two "supreme" branches of government, and don't want to anoint their own "successor".

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:12:12 JST gnutelephony

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     @LeftistLawyer the idea that democracy may be saved by someone's personal failings is not new. Trump himself, by being so incompetent, did so, too. And certainly Pence, simply by choosing to be his usual anal self on the one day it actually mattered most for him to be, too. That is irony.

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     Gatekeeper..Harris Walz (gatekeepken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 18:52:42 JST Gatekeeper..Harris Walz

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     @gnutelephony @LeftistLawyer
     I'm sorry , redemption ? Roberts screwed the pooch with Roe. There is no redemption and his history is flacid penis.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 18:52:42 JST gnutelephony

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     @GatekeepKen @LeftistLawyer I did not see the idea of a redemption entering his mind in that because he imagines himself right. Hitler, too, imagined that after he was gone the world would be grateful for him "solving" the Jewish problem, so I never considered the idea of him seeking that. Similarly there was no redemption in Pence, just a smug ass being a smug ass when it was actually useful for once. But in any case it seems cowardice rather than vanity ruled the day.