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J_William_Ryan

(1,753 posts)
10. Thats true for politics.
Sun Apr 22, 2018, 05:15 AM
Apr 2018

But that’s not the case for the judiciary.

Trump is populating the Federal courts with hateful reactionary judges.

And the greatest potential disaster is the Supreme Court – for example, if Justice Kennedy decides to retire after the October 2017 Term, which is likely to happen, then the Court becomes solidly conservative, both with regard to wrongheaded conservative economic dogma and social dogma.

For at least the next 30 years we’ll be subject to a hard-core, extremist rightwing Supreme Court, jeopardizing a woman’s right to privacy, gay Americans’ right to equal protection of the law, and the voting rights of minorities.

In essence, Trump will succeed in destroying our Constitutional Republic and the rule of law, where the states and local jurisdictions will be at liberty to violate the fundamental rights of Americans residing in those states with impunity, and citizens adversely effected by Republican laws and measures will have no recourse to seek relief from those laws and measures.

That's what keeps me up nights.

If there were currently five liberal justices on the Supreme Court, all in their 50s, your observation might have some comforting validity.

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