Democrats follow the rules. The GOP makes up new ones.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“Creative” isn’t a word typically applied to conservatives. Liberals are considered the dreamers on the political spectrum, their wild imaginations sketching visions of new worlds. Conservatives, with their resistance to change, are usually considered staid and, well, dull in comparison.

But when it comes to acquiring and maintaining power, the GOP has proved more creative than all of Hollywood put together. Time and again, and in service to a minority of the country, the Republican Party and its appointees have created and exploited loopholes in the law, bent and twisted norms and standards and otherwise invented rules out of whole cloth to achieve their aims.

Nowhere has that been clearer in the last two weeks than in the Supreme Court’s chambers, where novel use of a long-standing procedure is reshaping America. The court’s new term doesn’t begin until the fall, but the conservative wing has expanded the power and scope of its “shadow docket” to undermine Democrats’ priorities and prop up unpopular GOP policies. Unlike those for cases decided on the merit, these decisions don’t involve arguments before the bench or lengthy opinions. There’s nothing but an application for relief approved or denied and an unsigned memo announcing a summary decision or order.

There’s nothing illegal about these recent decisions — but their impact is unprecedented. Using this less transparent method, the court has overturned President Joe Biden’s extension of a federal eviction moratorium, forced his administration to reinstate the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy and allowed Texas’ clearly unconstitutional abortion law to take effect.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-follow-the-rules-the-gop-makes-up-new-ones/ar-AAO3Ef4

[LakeArenal]

1. Force to not make new ones, but destroy and force the same ole bullshit

[NCDem47]

2. Dems are expected to play within rules and not overreach

Republicans are rewarded for doing both.

[Baked Potato]

3. Democrats govern -- Republicans exploit. Nt

[msongs]

4. republicans don't let other republicans block their agenda nt

[Paladin]

5. American political science, reduced to two sentences.

Congrats.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. The framers were more scared of a majority "rabble"

Than they were of an elite tyrannical minority. They placed multiple trapdoors and shortcuts to allow a minority to evade accountability and to maintain power. Likely they imagined themselves, wealthy and privileged as they were, as that governing minority standing against the tides of the great unwashed and poorly clothed. Now their minority protections are killing democracy.