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Maybe they'll get California back.

 

Or the U.S all of a sudden has a few new states full of Democratic voters.

 

I fucking hate this man.

 

Still holding out that one day, a scandal of some kind will drive him out of DC and he'll take the McCarthy route of dying a broken drunk. Few deserve that fate as much as he does.

 

So.... Toomey? ..... more more likely: she's confirmed.

 

Really feeling bad for the children right now, they're going to be so screwed because of this.

 

"The belief that the Supreme Court is a responsible guarantor of constitutional rights and liberties is particularly rife among liberals. For decades, they have both accepted and reiterated the narrative that the Constitution is a moral document that, when appropriately interpreted by jurists, restrains the state’s power over the individual.

This narrative is grounded in the experience of the Warren Court, which in the 1950s and ’60s secured limited progressive victories in certain domains of the law — most notably antidiscrimination, criminal procedure, and civil liberties. The Warren Court’s judicial activism became a stencil for later liberal jurists seeking to use judicial review as a vehicle for social change.

But the epoch in which liberal jurisprudence predominated at the Supreme Court turned out to be exceptional. The Warren Court could only pursue its progressive legal project as long as powerful social forces like the Civil Rights Movement placed severe limits on the state’s capacity to preserve the cultural logic of racial domination.

When the reactionary backlash set in and the conservative legal movement advanced, the ideals of democratic citizenship and the equal dignity of persons — which often received their fullest expression not in the legislature but in the courts — took a hammering. The ideological terrain of struggle had shifted. Appeals to elites, no longer hemmed in by mass protest, went unheard."

A Reactionary for a Reactionary Body | Jacobin

 

God, I'm so scared for these folks.

 

Good thing we didn't end up with the War Hawk, huh?

 

Yeah, we totally dodged that bullet.

 

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Good thread. Gillibrand has come out of this raising her profile quite well.

 

Looking at what Trump is doing, from the ethnic nationalism and the full-scale assault on the working-class's ability to organize, there is no doubt in my mind that there is going to be violence the likes of which we've never seen, both from the state and the people on the ground. Think 1968.

 

Toomey believes DeVos is a 'great pick,' spokeswoman says

 

I didn't mock this enough the first time.

JFC this man is out of his gourd.

 

That's the ball game then. Joy.