For the last few years, Republicans on the Supreme Court have been laying the groundwork for Project 2025. Will they succeed in this effort to overthrow democracy in America?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/from-oaths-to-lies-the-gops-supreme-934
@ThomHartmann For a conservative court that insists on Originalism, the RW SCOTUS justices are actually rewriting the Constitution. They are redefining who the "We" are in 'We the People' (and it aint the majority of us)
@wiseguyeddie what specifically are you talking about?
@volkris What about the SCOTUS current ruling to effectively make the presidency a monarchy (which has ALREADY benefited trump with the dismissal of the stolen classified documents case). I'm not sure where your confusion is coming from.
@wiseguyeddie what are you talking about?
No, the court didn't effectively make the presidency a monarchy, nor could it have, it doesn't have that authority.
Somebody is misinforming you and you should stop listening to those people.
@volkris You're delusional. First 'Citizens United' ruling effectively lets the rich and corporations buy political favor. The SCOTUS sanctioned this. How Constitutional is that! If you don't know what the Hell you're talking about, please don't attempt to protend to have a reasonable discussion with me because you actually sound like a troll.
@wiseguyeddie Read the citizens united ruling for yourself. In the ruling Kennedy goes out of his way to say the exact opposite.
Someone's lying to you.
@volkris The RESULTS. Look at what the results of what Citizens United has done to Democracy. If you can have the wealthy buy the US governement, how is that a Democracy. Do you think Elon Musk giving $45 million dollars to trump is not quid pro quo? I'm done with you. You must be some sort of bot or some bored contrarian, I'm done with you.
@wiseguyeddie again, read the ruling.
As Kennedy pointed out in the ruling, it had nothing to do with whether Elon Musk could donate that money. In fact, part of the reason they came down in that direction was to enable the rest of us to counter Elon Musk.
CU had nothing to do with Elon Musk giving $45 million to Trump. That wasn't in any way related to the question before the court.
What was before the court was whether you and me could pool our money to speak out in opposition to him.
Again, Kennedy spelled this out very very clearly in the ruling. He took his time to explain to us exactly what this ruling was going to do.
That somebody is misinforming you as to what was in the ruling isn't the fault of the Supreme Court, it's a matter of, stop trusting whoever is lying to you and telling you things that run exactly opposite to what was actually in the ruling, that you can read for yourself.
