Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "BREAKING: HUGE announcement about Democrats' future" video.

The Supreme Court ruled that money is speech.
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@judithwake2757 The US Supreme Court held that money is speech. And speech is protected by the First Amendment.
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@btcrazee1 Some, like MAGA, do. Others obey the law -- "Justice and the Rule of Law are to be ABOVE politics." -- John Adams. It'll be a lot of years before you have even the most rudimentary understanding of that which you currently ignore as if you're "superior" to the system: the RESPONSIBILITY of being a citizen in a democracy, which is not a spectator sport -- or any kind of sport -- at which to stupidly throw rocks.
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@mrsdraper171 Greed for power.
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@chasinglighttoo Citizens United held that corporations are "people," therefore have freedom of speech. It had earlier ruled that money is speech. And ignored in so doing that more money is more speech than less money.
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@oliviawolcott8351 That is inaccurate as to amount. And an honest president pays or their private business, but not official business.
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@bjdefilippo447 Our gov't consists of three co-EQUAL branches of gov't. The intent is that any two will prevent any one gaining supremacy over the other two. They are the first checks and balances. The Congress has the authority and power to overturn Supreme Court decisions. The most recent and visible instance was Congress overturning the Rehnquist Court's Grove College and its progeny. Grove College was a disability discrimination case. A blind woman applied to Grove College to become a nurse. She was refused because blind. Rehnquist deliberately misread the text of the statute -- "Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973" -- in order to hold that it only applied to the financial aid office. That only the financial aid office couldn't discriminate against applicants; that the rest of the college could. The actual explicit text of the law encompassed the entire college. That line of cases was overturned by Congress with the "Americans with Disability Act" -- which was presented publicly by an exceedingly rare joint House and Senate press conference. (Irony: at the same time Robert Bork -- the one who followed Nixon's order to fire the Special Prosecutor -- the "Saturday Night Massacre" of "Watergate"; and who, as a Reagan-appointed judge, out of thin air overturned the Fairness Doctrine, which had been established with the advent of radio -- was bumming a book. His big issue was that the Constitution should be amended to allow the Congress to overturn Supreme Court decisions -- a power that has all along existed. His target, of course, was _Roe._) Why the Congress didn't, when the Democrats had control, didn't overturn Citizens United, is beyond me.
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@kencrisp2588 Their decisions still stand. But watch for more lower courts to ignore them. Hawaii and Pennsylvania supreme courts upheld gun crime convictions after respective state gun laws had been invalidated by Bruen. The Pennsylvania decision asked of the US Supreme Court, "What were you thinking?"
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