• AmidFuror@fedia.io
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        You misunderstood me, possibly because you were telling me to go fuck myself on another post. “Assaultpotato” is a voice of reason on this post. People read a news story about the Supreme Court staying an order and now want to impeach the whole Court?

        I’m afraid the politics and news communities hosted on Lemmy servers are falling off the deep end.

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          It was one commenter and the following comments rebuking them are much more highly upvoted. It’s maybe a bit early to stick a fork in it.

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              Except those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.

              Has 43 upvotes as of this comment.

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                I guess people just don’t like to downvote. Which is outside of my experience, but maybe I am more polarizing.

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                  Personally I reserve downvotes for rulebreaking, offensive comments, spam, things of that nature. Differences of opinion I just don’t upvote. Perhaps this is more common on Lemmy than other places.

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        Well. Yeah?

        They’re powerless, they might as well not exist. The only purpose they serve is keeping even more fascists off the Court.

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          You say that, but majorities across the board are razor thin. Assuming there’s still midterms a lot of this can be flipped.

          The courts of course will be harder to fix

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              In our system a large enough majority in congress can overrule a lot of what the courts are doing unless they go absolutely bonkers.

              The court can say there’s nothing the in the constitution that prevents “X”, but congress with a large enough majority can pass a bill without the president’s signature to expressly allow “X”.

              Our courts have not yet shown a willingness to go totally rouge and have voted against Trump several times this administration alone, but they always could go rouge I suppose. And of course they make shitty decisions like these.