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    The author came to the wrong conclusion. Yes the Supreme Court making themselves the authority on all federal policy will increase their case load. No, it does not mean they will actually need to do any more work. Cases will be backlogged for as long as they want.

    Businesses can now dump toxic waste onto public lands knowing that they are safe from judgement for decades.

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      698 days ago

      It also means that lower courts in practically any state can issue injunctions on federal policy as well, which is going to open the floodgates for crazy. They’ve pretty much just begged everyone to vote Democrat, and get the seating of SC Justices rewritten. That, or pack the court.

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        598 days ago

        The court was already packed with activist judges appointed under suspicious or hypocritical circumstances who then lied to Congress during their confirmations about their deference to precedent on a host of issues only to the engage in a massive power grab from Congress. Subsequent action to rebalance the court is not court packing.

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          238 days ago

          The term “court packing” has a very specific meaning. It refers to adding seats to the supreme court to shift the balance.

      • @[email protected]
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        178 days ago

        That, or pack the court.

        Yeah, Democrats are too married to do-nothing incrementalism to ever seriously consider doing that.

    • @[email protected]
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      158 days ago

      As expected, the purpose of state is to facilitate relatively safe theft from classes not in control of it, and blocking justice is the primary method.

      • @Kecessa
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        You get the state you vote for, including the people in unelected positions which are chosen by elected officials.

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          47 days ago

          This is true to some degree, but ignores several important factors, such as

          • The electoral system was set up before we were even around with the goal of limiting our power
            • therefore using the electoral system to fix the electoral system is extremely inefficient
          • We are subject to extremely effective propaganda and psyops
          • There are significant efforts by the right wing to keep people dumb and poor
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            I wonder who made it such… Oh right, people who were elected.

            • queermunist she/her
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              No, the electoral system was set up by slave owning terrorists that wanted to make sure they and their children would rule forever.

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      Yeah I was confused by the article when they said they would regret it. Yeah if they cared, but they don’t.

      What price should cable be? Who gives a shit, 100 dollars. There I did, supreme Court’s justices can do it too.

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      118 days ago

      I’d hate to be a truck driver taking waste out to the river and running into a 100 wildly angry locals.