How do you know #UnitedStates #Democracy is nearly destroyed and in #coma?
The same guy who empowered #Trump is the only guy that can smack Trump down.
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
One man controls the entire #Republican agenda and it's Justice Roberts.
"Many top legal experts believe a full-blown constitutional showdown between President Trump and the courts is already here. Others are confident there's still room to avoid one.
But most agree that the administration's battle with U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg — who last weekend ordered a temporary halt to the administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members — is a significant escalation."
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
#Johnroberts
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boasberg-courts-constitutional-crisis
@RememberUsAlways there's no crisis, though. The system was set up with solutions to exactly these sorts of disputes.
It's not even unusual for presidents to defy court orders. It's just that it normally doesn't get so much public attention, so you only see it happening if you take time to read the dockets directly.
So, the courts will do exactly what they're supposed to do: issue opinions on cases brought before them. That's it. Job done.
The rest just comes down to the people we elect to Congress. If we elected people who judge it to be acceptable, that's the end of the story. No crisis, just the democratic process at work.
@RememberUsAlways again, there is no gerrymandering in senatorial elections, and yet the Senate is generally in agreement with the House on the big topics.
No, truth is that the general population is behind this stuff. So we get what we want, as intended.
First of all, there are many types of Gerrymandering, even racial Gerrymandering.
Second, the idea that no Gerrymandering happens in Senate races is nonsense.
U.S. senators and presidential electors are elected at large from States, U.S. representatives from congressional districts of about equal size. Within States, representatives are elected to legislatures from a structure of districts totally unrelated to the federal senate and congressional districts.
@RememberUsAlways senators are elected by regions that don't have the option of being manipulated between elections. To say that there is gerrymandering in the Senate is to use a definition of gerrymandering so expansive that it loses all meaning.
If all elections are gerrymandered, then there's really no meaning to the word anymore. It no longer represents manipulation for the sake of power, it becomes just, you know, voting.
So no, for any practical definition of the word, there is no gerrymandering in the Senate.
So the theory that this is caused by gerrymandering is scientifically rejected by the outcome from the body that has no gerrymandering.
It makes for a dramatic story, but it just doesn't match reality. And it makes it easier to point fingers at Boogeyman instead of facing the reality that the unwashed masses around us have to be convinced over to your personal preferences if you want to make progress.
It does no good to cling to those conspiracy theories, Even if they support a simpler world.
@volkris
Systemic problems in the process exist so vetting quality candidates is now so out of reach because of unlimited shadow donations and Gerrymandering.