Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Amy Coney Barrett asked point blank if she’d vote to overturn Roe v. Wade" video.

  1. GOP has lost the popular vote in six of the last seven elections and yet appointed 15 out of the last 19 justices. Barrett would make that 16 out of 20 seats. The reason the president forgot to mention that (a) his judges cannot be permitted to be independent; and (b) that his judges tend to be wildly out of step with public opinion on so many of the topics he holds dear is that it would highlight what minority rule looks like, and why he cannot, in fact “let the people” decide with their votes in his upcoming election. A court determined to impose minority rule is in fact the playbook. It benefits big business, it benefits secret donors with considerable war chests, it benefits white supremacy, and it benefits Trump’s trailing electoral campaign. Quite simply, locking in the power of a minority through the courts is the political project of Trump and the Republican Senators who are equally eager to jam this nominee through before the election. Trump Kept the Quiet Part Quiet About Amy Coney Barrett The president introduced his Supreme Court pick—but stayed mum about the real reason he needs her. By DAHLIA LITHWICK https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-amy-coney-barrett-introduced-election-minority-rule.html
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  2. Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kavanaugh, and now SCOTUS nominee COVID Barrett were all Republican legal shysters working for Bush and the GOP in their machinations that led to the horrendous, undemocratic, purely partisan Bush v. Gore SCOTUS decision. Coincidence? Think again. The Republican fix is in for this election and any future contested elections for the foreseeable future. Bye-bye democracy, hello banana Republic!
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  3. Amy "COVID" Barrett channeling Nazi Sgt. Schultz: "I know nothing...about systemic racism! Or, climate change! Or, sexual orientation, which I label "sexual preference!" Or, emoluments being corruption! Or, recusing myself for the appearance of conflict of interest! Or, voting rights being more important than gun rights! Or, Republican voter suppression and gerrymandering!"
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  4. Amy "COVID" Barrett: "Just look at my exceptional judgment taking all my kids to the White House super-spreader event in the midst of a deadly pandemic without wearing masks or social distancing indoors and outdoors--if that doesn't eminently qualify me to sit on Republican SCROTUM, what does?"
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  5. Sen. Whitehouse has been the most effective member on the Judiciary Committee nomination panel, exposing Republican corruption, dark money, and its ties to conservative justices on SCOTUS. The constant hyper-partisan decisions based upon contorted ideological distortions of the law by these Republican justices are destroying not only the reputation, but also the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Republicans have been taking a wrecking ball to long-cherished government institutions for decades, and SCOTUS is just one of their more notable casualties.
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  6. Expand SCOTUS to FIFTEEN justices once Democrats regain power! It will be Republicans own fault for playing partisan power games, packing the Federal courts and SCOTUS with radical extremist conservative activist judges hiding behind judicial philosophies like 'originalism" and "textualism" to distort the Constitution and the law to benefit their bankrupt, corrupt ideology and corrupt government.
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