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> Trump gets re-elected, by hook or by crook, and spends the next four years continuing to dismantle political infrastructure? He already had four years. What

by DenisM 6y ago

> Trump gets re-elected, by hook or by crook, and spends the next four years continuing to dismantle political infrastructure? He already had four years. What exactly did he dismantle? The courts, the congress, the senate, the elections, the state rights? Did anything change at all in the "political infrastructure"? > courts that Trump and McConnell have spent the past four years packing only rule against the most flagrant of Constitutional violations This trope is getting old. Justices are not puppets of their presidents. Sometime a conservative appointee turns out liberal and serves out their term long after the president is gone and forgotten. The terms "conservative" and "liberal" apply to justices only very loosely. I invite you to read opinions of, say, Justice Scalia [1] - he's not the freedom-crusher you imagine them to be. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas#Scalia's_dissent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas#Scalia's_dis...

jakelazaroff 6y ago
> The courts, the congress, the senate, the elections, the state rights? Did anything change at all in the "political infrastructure"? He and the Senate have aggressively confirmed judges at all levels. He’s purged all but the most obsequious members of the executive branch. He started to gut the USPS and will continue after the election. He’s attempted in multiple ways to undermine the census, specifically to undercount minority residents. He’s sown misinformation about voting. He’s encouraged police and private citizens to intimidate voters at the polls. While not his own doing, he will take advantage of the 1982 consent decree that expired in 2018. > This trope is getting old. Justices are not puppets of their presidents. I never said they were “puppets”. But they’re obviously biased — otherwise, why would Mitch McConnell try to block so many of Obama’s nominees and confirm so many of Trump’s? A case in which the conservative bloc of the court voted to uphold a law prohibiting gay sex in a private residence does not support your assertion.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> Justices are not puppets of their presidents. True, but Justices are extremely consistent with their appointing President’s preferences on political issues that are salient at the time of their appointment.

by DenisM 6y ago

jakelazaroff 6y ago

> The courts, the congress, the senate, the elections, the state rights? Did anything change at all in the "political infrastructure"? He and the Senate have aggressively confirmed judges at all levels. He’s purged all but the most obsequious members of the executive branch. He started to gut the USPS and will continue after the election. He’s attempted in multiple ways to undermine the census, specifically to undercount minority residents. He’s sown misinformation about voting. He’s encouraged police and private citizens to intimidate voters at the polls. While not his own doing, he will take advantage of the 1982 consent decree that expired in 2018. > This trope is getting old. Justices are not puppets of their presidents. I never said they were “puppets”. But they’re obviously biased — otherwise, why would Mitch McConnell try to block so many of Obama’s nominees and confirm so many of Trump’s? A case in which the conservative bloc of the court voted to uphold a law prohibiting gay sex in a private residence does not support your assertion.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> Justices are not puppets of their presidents. True, but Justices are extremely consistent with their appointing President’s preferences on political issues that are salient at the time of their appointment.