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Supreme Court approval rating falls to one of lowest yet amid Trump cases
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Unfortunately, they could have a 0% approval rating and we'd still never get the 2/3rds majority in congress to do fuckall about it. This supreme court will continue to pander to corporate and donor interests and act wholly without ethics because our system was built on the concept that people in those roles would act with integrity and utterly falls apart when people on the supreme court flagrantly disregard their responsibility to citizens and act in their own interests.
Biden et al should have packed the court when they had the chance.
Can't say I disagree. When you fight a cheater by playing 100% by the rules in a world where cheating isn't punished, you lose every time. This pretty much sums up the last 40 years of the Democratic party.
Don’t forget the idiocy of playing as center-right as possible by running the most milquetoast candidates possible. Every time. Still, actually.
Packing the court isn't even against the rules. There's no set cap for justices.
and it has been done before. 9 wasn't the original number of justices, it's changed
Couldn't have said it better myself 👏
Yes, one starts to wonder after 40 years of it's not by design. How much does it cost to get a politician not to do something i wonder? Probably pretty cheap since hey, how would you prove it when nothing happened?
I know I'm just talking shit but i kinda get the feeling after watching them fail for decades that maybe they aren't the hapless helpless rule of law guys they'd prefer we thought them as. Which is more likely? It just doesn't pass the smell test
Didn't quite take me 40 years but I agree with your point.