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Bad actors at every level of government, places there by a concerted effort, to subvert the checks and balances designed to stop this. See the Federalist Society, and the extensive work they've done to pack the courts all the way to the Supreme Court with sycophants.
And the supreme court is now saying they answer to nobody, not the president, not congress.
They answer to the billionaires buying them.
Yep. Clarence Thomas only answers to one authority and that authority is Harlan Crow.
Who Id like to point out collects Nazi "memorabilia" 🤮
And his "reason" is because he hates Nazis so much.
It's all there in the constitution. Look it up.
'There will be a Supreme court.'
Hmm odd. Thought there might be more to say about it for a court that its supposed duty is to interpret the constitution.
You missed the:
And currently, Alito is saying that congress can't regulate them at all, that they do whatever they want.
Because you lost the majority suddenly the highest court in the land that has operated for 250 years should just be trashed "because I don't like the people"
Sounds fascist to me.
It’s that they don’t seem to respect the institution; they ignore precedent in rulings, feel they are above the law, and appear to be partisan
And honestly the power of the judiciary has steadily grown for over a hundred years now. Judges and AGs have taken the citizenry out of the process by gradually eliminating juries from the process.
In 1938, 20% of federal civil suits landed in a trial by jury. Today? Less than 1%. Criminal cases have had a similar move: the courts agreed that plea bargains were constitutional as a result of 1970's Brady v. United States. Now, about 2% of criminal cases go to trial.
By removing juries from court rooms, judges have decided that the law should be the exclusive purview of educated elites. Rather than needing to make compelling arguments to a diverse body of people, lawyers just need to convince one scared person that they'll do more time if they try to fight. And judges cracking down hard on ideas like jury nullification mean that, even if the accused do go to trial, the judge might not let their peers decide anyway.
The executive and judiciary branches have taken a stranglehold on the US government while the citizenry most direct representation in Congress has gradually given up more and more.