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This shouldn't be downvoted. evem if there's never a MAGA president again, the Federalist Society judiciary is lurching us towards a constitutional crisis. Get

• claytongulick 4y ago
  > Getting rid of the filibuster for judges and keeping it for everything else is exactly backwards. Not sure if you're aware, but it was Harry Reid (D) in 2013 that first did away with the filibuster for judicial nominations [1]. > the Federalist Society judiciary is lurching us towards a constitutional crisis. "We are committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. " [2] If that's lurching us towards a constitutional crisis, it can only mean that we've diverged far from the original intent. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#:~:text=The%20nuclear%20option%20was%20first,nominations%20to%20the%20Supreme%20Court https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#:~:text=The%2.... [2] https://fedsoc.org/about-us#Background https://fedsoc.org/about-us#Background
  • sophacles 4y ago
    These are the people who are arguing that the president is above the law. In a democracy where the rule of law is supposed to be absolute. That's a direct threat to democracy.
  • Ericson2314 4y ago
    Yeah Harry Reid did arguably fuck that one up. Don't judge an org by its mission statement lol.