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Flying Pace@flyingpace.bsky.social |
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"Pessimists are cowards and optimists are fools."
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Flying Pace
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Impeachment's a fine start, but we both know it won't unseat any justices. And having compared this ruling to Dred Scott, you can’t possibly believe we should let the corrupt justices keep smashing rights & liberties. So what else? Given new shield around "official acts," how should POTUS intervene?
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Flying Pace
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So let's push the Biden admin to "read out" judicial review, and pack the Court from behind his brand-new shield of immunity. It's a constitutional showdown and SCOTUS is bluffing powers it doesn't have—let's push the other branches to call its bluff.
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Flying Pace
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(Obviously, Biden isn't fighting in any substantive way and may have little fight left in him...but even his creaky 5-min speech laid some rhetorical groundwork for a real, formal "dissent." Mass pressure in an election year could get the admin to where they need to be.)
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Flying Pace
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Yes. It's a constitutional crisis, a showdown between branches. There's no reason to concede the fight to John Roberts right up front.
(Relevant: this piece from a couple years back, which contains gems like the one below)
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ryan cooper
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism
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Flying Pace
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Believe me, I share the frustration. All I can say is, it's a massive crisis and if Dems won't address it, protest is our only option. Here's hoping they'll be a little more pliable than usual in a make-or-break election year.
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Flying Pace
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But if the president does it, that means it is not illegal! Isn't that what the Court just said? :)
I'd like that too! But we have to push for bolder action than Dems will prefer. Another possibility is outlined here—POTUS could overrule SCOTUS on originalist grounds:
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Flying Pace
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Hi! I know about that constitutional requirement. But SCOTUS ignores the Constitution at whim. Biden can fight fire w/ fire & do the same: pack the Court to restore order after a judicial coup. (Or do only fascists get to shred the rules, while the rest of us have to play by the shredded rulebook?)
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Flying Pace
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OK. You invoked the Dred Scott ruling, a crime against humanity. And I'm sure we'd agree this ruling was *corrupt* (given bribery, conflicts of interest, etc.). So what penalty for the corruption? Or is there a sphere of immunity around the Justices themselves? Can they smash democracy unpunished?
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Flying Pace
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Every single day will bring defeats like this one until Biden packs the Court or removes the corrupt justices. He can do either immediately, using the umbrella of "immunity" they've cast over "official acts."
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Flying Pace
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Would you agree with this?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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yep, it’s the obvious next move
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Flying Pace
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J6 was an insurrection. SCOTUS has rendered, at minimum, comfort to insurrectionists by e.g. neutering 14A Sec. 3 & tanking J6 cases by inventing special powers for Trump. Would you agree it's aiding insurrection? A crime? We need to find the right language, b/c the other branches need to remedy.
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Flying Pace
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Would you agree it's treason?
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Flying Pace
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I hope...I hope people don't think that, because a horribly corrupt court has "legalized" a bunch of Stalin Stuff, we have to accept that Stalin Stuff *is* legal rather than demanding consequences for the corrupt court?
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Steve Silberman
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.
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Matt Novak
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Lawyers in my mentions are the most in denial about what happened at SCOTUS today. They're coming up with all kinds of perfectly logical reasons why Trump's state cases wouldn't be taken up by SCOTUS eventually.
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Flying Pace
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Sure, but I have to add...this is a permission so odious that it CANNOT be "legal" except under conditions of fascism! It's like declaring that all your enemies can be "legally" rounded up. Yes, we have to elect non-murderous people but also—more immediately!—we have to break this criminal Court.
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Micah
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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court
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Flying Pace
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Yes: "It is now clear that [SCOTUS] believes...both courts and presidents stand beyond the reach of the law." But this means their "decision" is really a crime—a tyrannical act demanding intervention. Please call on the current, newly "immune" POTUS to pack the Court now. bsky.app/profile/flyi...
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Flying Pace
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I think it's very dangerous to call these "decisions" or "rulings" instead of crimes, abuses, etc., and to grant them any legitimacy whatsoever. Neither SCOTUS nor anyone else has the right to create a king or a state of exception or shield of immunity for serious crimes. We can't concede that.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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It’s illegal for state officials in Florida to mention climate change you’re welcome
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Flying Pace
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Light up representatives' phones and demand it.
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Flying Pace
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Definitely. I think we should also see it as a crime rather than a "ruling." A high crime against the state, a conspiracy against the people's rule, an abuse so severe that it warrants the arrest of the six crooked Justices and their co-conspirators (Leo, Crow). Court packing is the compromise now.
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Adam Rothman
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"Today’s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Remember who had did all of that agenda- and parameter-setting around terms like "activist judges" and "politicizing the courts?" They were telling you what they were going to do. When they accuse, they are always telling you what they are going to do.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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“Vote the corruption out” is simply the most cowardly form of this, as it recognizes the problem but then demands the least useful remedy. Like Lincoln responding to Fort Sumter with a speech asking everyone to remain calm and for Confederates to return to Congress to hammer out a peaceful solution
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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And it certainly isn’t a remedy to said party accepting its illegitimacy as a matter of debate
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Flying Pace
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Good essay. Of course, they don't have the power to "rule" that: no one does. Government's legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed. These are illegal, tyrannical moves, declarations of war, even. Thank you for calling on Biden to pack the Court—please clarify he must do so *immediately.*
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Flying Pace
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Should go without saying but: Biden and his team do not WANT to do this. (As evidenced by his toothless speech tonight.) He needs to understand that it's imperative to his, and his party's, political future—that he MUST do it or resign. Pour the pressure on elected Democrats.
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Flying Pace
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Agree with your second sentence, but not the last part. They've shown repeatedly they're willing to make outrageous exceptions for him. I would bet on that continuing until and unless POTUS intervenes to stop their coup.
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Flying Pace
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—and which the corrupt Supreme Court would immediately strike down on GOP appeal. Because that's what they do: trash valid laws and usurp the powers of other branches. Does that help? I hope so, because the next toxic-moderate reply gets you blocked. See below.
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Emma Evans
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Flying Pace
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Yes. The name for this attitude is "conservative." It's submissiveness to corrupt authority, dressed up as necessity. (In other words, it's a short step from there to "Just following orders.")
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Flying Pace
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Exactly. But the one below is the one he should pull. We don't want *him* doing insane, authoritarian things, either. He should pull the lever that restores constitutional order, then urge the new SCOTUS majority to undo the damage of the old.
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Flying Pace
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Thread from a month ago:
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Flying Pace
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Not here to mock, but please start amplifying a different set of voices on this issue—people who've assessed this judicial coup with clear eyes from the start & called for executive intervention.
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Flying Pace
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Reposting this from a month ago.
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Flying Pace
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I have no interest in mocking, but I'd ask you, and everyone else who clung to threads of false hope, to start amplifying those of us who HAVE been consistently prescient and clear-eyed about this Court. Notice this post is 2 months old. There are many more like it.
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Flying Pace
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First, the House has no role in SCOTUS appointments (just the Senate). Second, "You can't do that," according to today's decision, no longer applies to official acts by the President. So he *can* do that, and he should. You follow me?
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Flying Pace
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The bullying fatalists are out in force. Whatever their stated politics, they are moderates at best, and their goal is to dampen activist energy. Block them until they have only each other to talk to.
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Flying Pace
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This was inevitable. It's an insurrectionist court. Please amplify people who've gotten this right and demanded appropriate action from the jump. Here's a post from a month ago. It reflects what I and many others have been saying in open forums for years. Please join us.
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ApocalypticaNow
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Mueller, Garland, the lawsuits, Congress, the Supreme Court, elected Democrats, the media, the intelligentsia all failed It was always gonna come down to popular resistance
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Flying Pace
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It's not. I hope you'll push for the most elegant solution here: POTUS declaring SCOTUS has overstepped its constitutional powers and using this new "official acts" exemption to pack the Court without delay. (I share your view that Biden is at diminished capacity, but he is still capable of that.)
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Flying Pace
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If the Court is willing to go this far with a judicial coup, they won't let a Democratic election win stand. They will find a pretext to overturn it. Voting is necessary, but it's not enough. Call for Biden to flex his newfound "immunity" powers by (at a minimum) packing the Court immediately.
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Flying Pace
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That means the Court also blesses *Biden* with extraordinary latitude. So Biden can assert that SCOTUS has gone authoritarian (as you say) and use his newfound latitude to pack the Court immediately, in the name of restoring democracy. Please join people calling for him to do that.
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Flying Pace
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Well, that's tyranny, so Biden needs to put down the judicial coup by, at a minimum, packing the Court and declaring it within the sphere of his official powers. Right?
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Flying Pace
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Judicial coup.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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It’s 27 justices or bust for me. It has to be completely overhauled to the point where it’s unrecognizable to the forces that have usurped it.
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Flying Pace
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Yes! Also, simply packing the Court without further delay.
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