The horrifying consequences of Justice Kennedy's retirement

[turbinetree]

It was fun having anti-discrimination laws, while it lasted.

IAN MILLHISER JUN 27, 2018, 2:01 PM

Donald Trump is an accidental president. He lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots. And he would be far more powerless if not for the fact that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic relic. The 49 senators in the Democratic caucus represent almost 40 million more people than the 51 in the Republican caucus.

And yet, thanks to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to hand his seat on the Supreme Court to Trump, the illegitimate president will be one of the most consequential American leaders of the modern era. Roe v. Wade will soon be a memory. Anti-discrimination laws will become shriveled husks. The LGBTQ rights revolution will halt and, most likely, begin to march in reverse.

Judgeships could quite literally be up for sale. Religious conservatives will gain sweeping power to defy the law. Executions will flourish. And our best hope of ending partisan gerrymandering will come to a close.

The Court’s “swing” vote is now Chief Justice John Roberts — the man who authored a decision holding that America isn’t racist enough to justify a fully operational Voting Rights Act three years before Donald Trump was elected. Things are going to get bad. Fast.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-horrifying-consequences-of-justice-kennedys-retirement-90c450d9d106/

"Things are going to get bad. Fast."


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[lark]

1. Things are already bad, IMO, and will get exponentially worse.

Goodbye America, hellp drumpfland. Good bye constitution, hello executive fiats that can change on a daily basis and are all intended to fuck us over and change us to a country like russia where drumpf will kill at will, there will be no free education, no governmental assistance with health care, not even Medicaid, no labor laws and no environmental laws. where we are serfs and work until we get sick and die young, while the rich steal all of this country's and it's workers wealth.

[turbinetree]

2. If your analogy is correct.....................

then people will go into the streets

[lark]

4. i will be in the streets Sat. protesting putting babies and children in cages.

Hopefully tons of people will show up!

[shanti]

8. as mentioned before

they're prepared for that too.

[C_U_L8R]

3. This is just the beginning of Total Republicanism

Hope y'all like getting punched in the face 'cause I fear it's gonna happen a lot.
Seems we're going to learn to fight back the hard way.
Ugh.

[Demsrule86]

6. This shows what happens when we don't win elections...we need to vote Democratic every election...

[Demsrule86]

5. If we take the senate in 18, we can stop judges period...and we can get a member on the court...

who is a righty to retire or die and reverse this. And we can hold if we get the Senate and presidency.

[Runningdawg]

7. I start preparing for the next depression tomorrow

I'm old, probably won't make it. But hopefully what I do will make a difference for others in my family.