Keeping The Conversation Going

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Let's find out what would happen if a Supreme was indicted, tried and convicted and insisted on remaining on the Corrupt Court. It's kind of stunning how much of the half-baked stuff in the Constitution has been thoroughly finished into complete Republican-partisan corruption through the very badly set up and trusted Supreme Court. People talk about Dred Scott but they were doing stuff almost as bad during every Court session before and many after the Civil War was fought and over and the Roberts Court is the most corrupt since the turn of the 20th century. Even the Rehnquist Court that issued Bush v Gore hasn't outdone it in Republican-partisan corruption. I heard an interview with an author who has said unless we get rid of the Electoral College the country fracturing or an outright civil war is inevitable, I think the same is true of a failure to drastically alter and reign in the Supreme Court. Jefferson foresaw the consequences of that during the Marshall Court.?

My only quibble would be that the deadline in Bush v Gore was set by the Electoral Count Act. However, citing just Trump v U.S. (examples are legion, but to choose just one), the doctrine established there, and the rules of evidence invented to enact it, are made up out of whole cloth.

On the scale of corruption, the Roberts court wins (without considering Thomas and Alito).

Another conversation:

Haven 't been able to get in touch with my Florida and Tennessee cousins yet. Always nervous when they get a bad one. Trump is pathologically uncaring and cruel. Something I think is generally true of anyone who has remained in the Republican-fascist party. A shockingly high percentage of the population, a dangerously high percentage.

I truly believe there is a “silent majority” (the irony of leaning on a Nixonian phrase burns!🥵) that is about to throw the radicals out. I prefer to use the term “radicals” in a positive sense, but the root these crazies go to is a poisoned one.  It’s an enduring root of American history, but that doesn’t mean it can’t, or shouldn’t, be uprooted and extirpated. In that sense I am a “radical.”

But I’ll be happy to see the worst of American culture repudiated again.