Stop pretending everything is okay

[dajoki]

Stop pretending everything is okay
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/11/the-supreme-court-celebrates-its-own-corruption/?utm_term=.13c40924c487&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

Everything is not okay.

In the week since the Senate sent Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a hurricane has hit Florida, a member of President Trump’s cabinet somehow managed to resign while remaining on his good side, and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s fate has been in constant flux. So the tumult over the confirmation has faded, for many Americans, into a fuzzier sense of unease.

But it is important not to forget, even if there are plenty of people who want to.

The most startling example of how the abuses of the powerful are swept further under the rug when they gain more power came this week when Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. referred complaints against Kavanaugh filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Colorado. The catch: That court will probably declare the complaints moot, because the judiciary’s rules on misconduct do not apply to Supreme Court justices.

The judiciary’s rules on misconduct don’t apply to Supreme Court justices. Well, of course they don’t.

Now that Kavanaugh is seated, the argument seems to go, everything is hunky dory, and we can ignore all that lying and all that yelling. Republicans are wary of a Democratic push to pack the court or otherwise alter it. But they’re not the only ones doing their best to make everyone else move on — the justices are, too.

Why else attend a swearing-in ceremony with Washington insiders if not to lend legitimacy to Kavanaugh’s pledge to be “an independent and impartial justice”? It should not have surprised a single one of his colleagues-to-be that they were used as props in what amounted to a Trump campaign party, complete with a band and a bar. The justices, wittingly or unwittingly, sat among an applauding audience while Trump lavished praise on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and the other supposed heroes of a spectacle the president turned only more spectacular.

[Oneironaut]

1. Cue in that dog cartoon.

You know the one.

[pretzel4gore]

2. we a wepresentaitive democracy...

that means:
our reps are elected, and, once seated, are the law, and if they, for example, made laws outlawing burning raw coal in towns despitefact the coal smoke kils trees, babys and granddads etc, then the poor ole coal company just has to suck up the disasterous results. In same way, if majority elect pols who , like trumpotus, make laws taxing clean air, water etc and subsidising fossil fuel industry then we just live with it, and accept that the PEOPLE WANT death and destruction. It don't make sense but that's the rules

[smirkymonkey]

3. I feel sick.

Physically sick.