myrmepropagandist
If the supreme court jumps in and overturns the Jan. 6 convictions of 100s of people who attacked the capitol it will be one of the most politically charged actions taken by this court and in a politically charged environment.
There are many laws that might need revision, scrutiny, but they reached out through space and time to grab this hot potato.
It's a joke.
myrmepropagandist
There are so many cases the Supreme court could take up... where justice has been clearly perverted, and they didn't ... where the harm was intense and lasting. Where it *will* happen again. But the court was too august and uninvolved in the day to day political grind to care.
But put some right wingers in prison for committing crimes, with ample evidence and video and they will search and hunt for an excuse to help those people out.
And to gut even the thinnest protections to democracy.
myrmepropagandist
But more than that this ruling would be an enabling signal that election violence is still on the table.
It's a political statement from the court that can only be read "Jan 6 may have gotten out of hand a little, but it was within the realm of normal political discourse"
Because why otherwise would they focus on this obscure technicality? Except to trumpet a political position in favor of future insurrections.
The ruling will bring protestors to NYC courts. It will be their permission.
myrmepropagandist
Because the message of such a ruling is that the system has the back of those who want to decide elections based on who can throw the largest and most dangerous tantrum.
Electoral college be dammed. Popular vote? pfffft.
We rule because we say so.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
@futurebird They are doing what now? 😱 🙀 😱
myrmepropagandist
Clarence won't recuse himself or ever acknowledge that he has been asked to do so and ought to at least defend himself remaining on these cases.
All pretense of impartiality is gone. People talk about "the republican justices" when they aren't supposed to be in parties.
The court is broken beyond repair.
myrmepropagandist
Yeah while everyone is watching Trump capering and mugging in NYC that evil little court has been making up new law and trying to stick their fingers in every hot button issue they can.
They have delayed the GA case. I say they did it on purpose.
Now they are trying to let the people who tried to run police officers through with American flags out of prison.
They have all kinds of "reasons" for these actions but please consider the overall effect. That is the real message.
Come On Giant Asteroid!
A band-aid would be expansion to at least 13 slots ... won't "fix it" but might moderate some of the worst excesses?
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