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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"An agenda that was too unpopular to pass
through an elected, popularly accountable Congress."
Link to tweet
Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT
Republican Senators on Twitter today admitting that their strategy was to pack the courts with political conservatives in order to enact an agenda that was too unpopular to pass through an elected, popularly accountable Congress.
9:15 AM · Jul 1, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
They hollered about "activist judges" while planning to install activist judges.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)electric_blue68
(14,912 posts)and I thought... "Wait a minute!"...
That IS what they're doing!!!!!
😳😧🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😭
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(11,029 posts)It worked for them for 40 years, it's worth a try.
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)I don't think that's a working strategy, but we definitely need to use that phrase when discussing the shameless 6.
Initech
(100,081 posts)They must be stopped at all costs!
Skittles
(153,169 posts)would like to see those tweets
TheRickles
(2,065 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,739 posts)KS Toronado
(17,259 posts)You claiming we were at the Capitol Jan 6th?
OMGWTF
(3,959 posts)When 21 states have fewer people than California you end up with 42 (mostly Rethuglican) senators vs. two in CA. That's minority mob rule.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)They hollered about "activist judges" while planning to install activist judges.
It never fails.
Harker
(14,024 posts)Great.
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betsuni
(25,538 posts)mrsadm
(1,198 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,739 posts)Lindsey Graham was one. See tweet above.
Rhiannon12866
(205,509 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)orleans
(34,060 posts)of course they did.
it's the old: "i am rubber you are glue" crap
lying sacks of shit. all of them
ZonkerHarris
(24,229 posts)Lokee11
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Murphyb849
(572 posts)Which is MOST of the country is to vote their Republican asses out.
And they have so much hubris now they are all saying the quiet parts out loud and think no one is listening.
live love laugh
(13,118 posts)onetexan
(13,043 posts)Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)... this Court's supposed rationale for overturning Roe.
gulliver
(13,186 posts)We were depending on the Supreme Court to hold the line on reproductive freedom for women. Now it's in the hands of voters. There's now no excuse whatsoever not to be a voter.
Martin68
(22,822 posts)of misdeeds they are planning to do (or already doing) as a deterrent and as a distractor.