If you have been paying attention you will see just how SCOTUS under the leadership of a political hack, Roberts, has been stripping away the powers of Congress and subverting the course of democracy.
Over the past several decades, the Supreme Court has slowly whittled down the power of Congress and, in large part thanks to President Donald Trump’s chaotic second term in office, has already managed to dethrone Congress’ role as the most powerful branch of government, argued legal scholar Duncan Hosie Tuesday.
“For now, the supernova of Donald Trump’s presidency has muted this systemic conflict in public view,” Hosie wrote in an analysis published Tuesday in The Atlantic.
“His second term – defined by galloping abuses of executive power buttressed by Trump v. United States – has played out against a Republican Congress and Republican Court aligned, if not enthralled, with him. But this alignment is likely temporary and contingent. Should a Democratic Congress return, the conflict will roar back into view.”
That conflict, Hosie argued, is the Supreme Court’s decades-long “power grab” to strip Congress of its ability to check the power of the executive branch, define rights for Americans, and even make laws — a “power grab” that has only accelerated during Trump’s second term. And, in large part to Trump’s unprecedented tenure in the White House, the “power grab” is going largely unnoticed, Hosie wrote.
“The short-term convergence of the branches should not obscure the larger transformation: Congress is no longer the first branch of government,” Hosie wrote. “The same gale-force winds of polarization that split Congress into warring camps has also produced a Republican-appointee-dominated Court systematically constraining congressional power while expanding its own.”
The threat of the Supreme Court’s ongoing “power grab” was so dire, Hosie warned, that it could very well bring about an end to the United States’ “constitutional democracy.”
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2674879295/
This exactly the outcome that the outcome that I have been warning about over the past decade (probably longer)….this is just what will happen when political hacks are nominated then confirmed….they are destroying democracy and helping those that are doing the deeds in every way they can.
If these people cannot do their part at preserving this democracy then it is time to get rid of them and start over….when I say ‘get rid’ I mean remove them from office in any fashion that is necessary.
If they continue down the path they have chosen it will not be long to there is nothing left of the nation we built over the past 250 years.
Time for a change!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
gosh I feel so much better now. Think I’ll go have a nap while it’s still legal to do so…
LOL that is wonderful….well done Judy chuq
Every administration, regardless of who it is or what it is is confronted with the demand by one of the two parties for….”Change.” This has been the case since voting began. It will never end. There will never cease to be calls for “Change” and the problem is that the “Changes” that come always makes things worse before they were before the “Change” came. American Democracy is almost dead for one reason and one reason only —too many voters are so self-absorbed and so unaware of what is happening, he fall of the democracy is assured sooner or later ….and that is the trend of empires….born, grow, thrive,decline, die! Nothing new here —and, by the way nothing that will do a damned thing to stop the inevitable.
Chane is a dirty word…..something never materializes…..it can be saved but it will take guts and sadly there are not many of those around these days….a lot of defeatism. chuq
Bottom line is it all comes down to the people. So long as this country is governed by political authorities that are VOTED into their positions … and folks neglect and/or ignore the power of this option, we will continue the downward spiral.
And when the individual that is “running the country” happens to be a self-centered jackass, the die is cast.
I agree voter apathy is our swan song…..hopefully there will be an awakening but I am not holding my breath. chuq
Most great nations eventually spiral down into something different. The Roman Empire was whittled down until it became Italy, Russia went through the Soviet era, Britain went from world empire to isolated European island. America might well be approaching the end of its ‘Democracy Era’, with Trump hoping to turn your country into a dynastic empire instead.
Best wishes, Pete.
Something to think about….and something to worry about….we can hope that people will awaken and soon. chuq