The day Amy Coney Barrett sat on the Supreme Court is the day John Roberts lost any and all control over that formerly august institution - with a 5-vote majority among the far-right members, they no longer need the Chief Justice for anything other than opening their deliberations and then getting out of their way.....
The day Amy Coney Barrett sat on the Supreme Court is the day John Roberts lost any and all control over that formerly august institution - with a 5-vote majority among the far-right members, they no longer need the Chief Justice for anything other than opening their deliberations and then getting out of their way.....
yeah, but was it really ever THAT "august?" I grant that they APPEARED to be and god knows they THINK they are, but for most of its history ( including now), it functioned as a pretty reactionary force in American politics. increasingly, it looks to me like the Warren court was an anomaly. I think most of us would have liked it to have been the norm, but that's almost certainly wishful thinking. and the last 20 years have felt like you feel when you watch a car accident and would love to be able to look away, but....
Oh yes, you are certainly correct there - the Court has usually been quite reactionary and we probably did get snookered by the relatively short period the Warren Court was in power. So here we are, back to the usual judicial horrors.....
The day Amy Coney Barrett sat on the Supreme Court is the day John Roberts lost any and all control over that formerly august institution - with a 5-vote majority among the far-right members, they no longer need the Chief Justice for anything other than opening their deliberations and then getting out of their way.....
yeah, but was it really ever THAT "august?" I grant that they APPEARED to be and god knows they THINK they are, but for most of its history ( including now), it functioned as a pretty reactionary force in American politics. increasingly, it looks to me like the Warren court was an anomaly. I think most of us would have liked it to have been the norm, but that's almost certainly wishful thinking. and the last 20 years have felt like you feel when you watch a car accident and would love to be able to look away, but....
Oh yes, you are certainly correct there - the Court has usually been quite reactionary and we probably did get snookered by the relatively short period the Warren Court was in power. So here we are, back to the usual judicial horrors.....
Yeah, we grew up in the one good period of the entire history of the Supreme Court.