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How long before trump is threatening Supreme Court Justices publicly? (Original Post) duforsure Dec 2020 OP
He's a loose cannon rolling around. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2020 #1
When he gets the answer he does not want, he will start immediately. patricia92243 Dec 2020 #2
Posted twice! Nt USALiberal Dec 2020 #3
As long as he sticks to the political appointees who're "betraying" him, Hortensis Dec 2020 #4
And when he does gratuitous Dec 2020 #5
I know!! The media is so friggin' complicit in all of this. The media in the USA has got to change. BComplex Dec 2020 #6
If he had the chance maybe he would pull a Hitler and create his own, parallel court. jalan48 Dec 2020 #7
I'll bet he does it today lettucebe Dec 2020 #8
He will terminate them effective immediately on Twitter dalton99a Dec 2020 #9
Next week budkin Dec 2020 #10

patricia92243

(12,607 posts)
2. When he gets the answer he does not want, he will start immediately.
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:16 PM
Dec 2020

The Texas mess goes before them tomorrow, but I don't know when we will get an answer from them. They have been going pretty fast on all this because they know how important it is.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. As long as he sticks to the political appointees who're "betraying" him,
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:17 PM
Dec 2020

fine with me if he sics trumpist mobs on them. Or if they get the idea themselves.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. And when he does
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:20 PM
Dec 2020

The popular media are going to have their work cut out for them in both-siding the shit out of it. That'll be pretty tough, so I'm going to guess that they'll normalize it, as if a sitting president threatening justices is something that happens all the time. You know, like a sitting president calling state legislators and elections officials to bully them into doing things his way. We're already past that point, and nobody in the media seems to think there's anything untoward about that.

BComplex

(8,082 posts)
6. I know!! The media is so friggin' complicit in all of this. The media in the USA has got to change.
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:29 PM
Dec 2020

NOT because it's too "liberal"...which is the lie of this century and the last! It's because the media is so owned by the 1% and their billionaire supporters.

They really are treating this president as if this is the way our country runs. And it's their fault to begin with that we got trump in there to begin with.

jalan48

(13,907 posts)
7. If he had the chance maybe he would pull a Hitler and create his own, parallel court.
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:33 PM
Dec 2020

People's Court

The People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshof) was a Sondergericht ("special court&quot of Nazi Germany, set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law. Its headquarters were originally located in the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin, later moved to the former Königsberg Wilhelmsgymnasium at Bellevuestrasse 15 in Potsdamer Platz (the location now occupied by the Sony Center; a marker is located on the sidewalk nearby).[1]

The court was established in 1933 by order of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in response to his dissatisfaction at the outcome of the Reichstag fire trial, in which all but one of the defendants were acquitted. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses", which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism, and treason against the Third Reich. These crimes were viewed by the court as Wehrkraftzersetzung ("disintegration of defensive capability&quot and were accordingly punished severely; the death penalty was meted out in numerous cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Court_(Germany)

lettucebe

(2,337 posts)
8. I'll bet he does it today
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 03:10 PM
Dec 2020

He thinks he "owns" the justices, but nope, sorry. Not how it works, idiot boy.

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