• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    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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      6 hours ago

      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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          4 hours ago

          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.