“Let’s get serious: Everyone sees at least some members of the conservative majority for what they are—not simply intellectually but, to a stunning degree, actually dishonest, the kind of traffic-court hacks who can be bought with dinner at Applebee’s, a dime-store award plaque, and a weekend at Myrtle Beach.
“Blue states would be foolish not to try blocking future high-profile, adverse Supreme Court orders.”
Garrett Epps on our corrupt and self-destructing #Scotus
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/08/14/the-looming-supreme-court-nullification-crisis/
This article is fantastical in so many ways, from misreporting Court rulings through getting wrong the operation of the Court, but mainly...
This is how it was SUPPOSED to work.
That others can ignore Court rulings is part of the checks and balances that allowed us to offer political independence to lifetime appointed justices.
President after president has ignored the Court when they thought they could get away with it politically. That's just always how it's been.
There's no crisis here, just the normal functioning of the US government.
@volkris @JamesGleick Please. I’m begging you. Pick up an actual history textbook. A real one, written by actual professional historians who know their subjects. Pick it up, open it, and read it.