Analysis | The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority continued to shift the law to the right in 2024 but did not go as far as it could have. Sometimes, it punted.
Here are our big takeaways:
They just made the US President legally immune from prosecution. They put in place the mechanisms for a US President to be a dictator. They went as far to the right as possible without actually seizing full power. The Republican SCOTUS just enabled dictatorship in the US.
they didn't punt anything, they delayed decisions by sending them back to lower courts or denied cases but provided the blueprint to bring a new case - all in the hopes of another trump admin
The GOP democracy destroying GOP justices did not go as far as they could have? Can you even fucking hear yourself?
This site badly needs a downvote button.
This kind of slithering journalistic take sure has helped us on our swerve away from democracy. People won’t know what they are losing if you don’t tell them outright. Wasn’t that supposed to be your job? SCOTUS pretty much just made THE U.S. a monarchy. Maybe that be the headline?
At some point real soon, y'all gonna have to choose to become journalists that hold those who have power accountable or keep being corporate public relations agents vested in soft language so as not to disturb those who hold power. "Oh well and there are takeaways" --- That's your headline?
I hope when you wake up under a Fascist regime and have to print pre-written Dear Leader articles to keep yourselves out of jail, that you connect the dots. I hope every single way you participated- all the muddying of the waters, all the passive language, all the outright lies- haunt you forever.
Fucking @washingtonpost.com and the rest of the media merrily escorting in fascism completely unaware that they'll be the first ones lined up against the walls. Fucking morons every single one of them.
The people that used to own and run this paper are spinning in their graves. The present owners have all the money but they want more power. They know putting an idiot like Trump in the WH will give them that power. They have bought the Supreme Court .
Only our feckless DC media could cover the court empowering Donald Trump to commit any crime with absolute immunity as “well, they could’ve gone further.”
I’m not going to give you the rage click, but fire whoever wrote and edited this. They are either propagandists or they are so stupid and incompetent that propagandists own them.
There’s no further right than empowering the executive to be entirely lawless.
Are you re-branding to identify as a “Post” in the sense of “dumb as a post”?
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