I saw the below article this morning and... I just want to say that, when Kavanuagh is a "swing" vote... we are heading into a serious Constitutional Crisis.
Hear me out here:
I am obviously fairly Progressive in my politics... I actually don't even want a Progressive Court... The Framers intended for the Supreme Court to be a check to disallow one party from developing a monopoly on power. I don't love everything about those dudes, but... I think that they were right about this.
I think the Court should be non-partisan, but... in a two party system, that is probably impossible. So, I guess, the best we can hope for is to have a balanced Court.
So...
... when Republicans held the Senate and the House and refused to even hold hearings on Obama nominee...
...and then rushed Kavanaugh (who is slightly to the Right of the Kaiser) through just before midterms...
...holding hearings in such a stunningly opaque manner...
... and now we are reading articles discussing Kavanaugh's "swing" vote without even a hint of irony in the tone...
Well... this has just turned into a very serious undermining of Constitutional intent.
Plus... RBG is 86 and Breyer is in his 80s, as well. And Kavanaugh is a "swinger" now?
Checks and Balances, y'all. Checks and Balances. No matter who is president at the moment... We NEED "Checks and Balances."
And don't get me started on the extent to which the current itieration of the electoral college totally undermines the Framers' intentions.
(I actually would say the same thing about electoral maps. And Voter ID laws... ...but I am about to start getting too anxious about the state of our Democracy, here, so I had better let it go ... )
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/us/supreme-court-decisions.html
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