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Robert Golden's avatar

Frankly, I would pay more attention to the SCOTUS. The corrupt, far-right-wing majority is doing and undoing all the legislative work for the country while the R House majority's main function is to distract the American people and weaken democracy with their obstruction circus. The R appointed SCOTUS majority has passed anti-democratic legislation that only a small minority of the American people would ever vote for and defied a bi-partisan consensus over the last 50-100 hundred years including controlling the amount of money in our politics, establishing basic and fair voting rights, leaving pragmatic, personal and private issues up to adults and families, and holding corporations accountable for their environmental and existential threats.

Women had more reproductive freedom during the period the Founders were writing the Constitution than they have in many Red states today. McCain-Feingold was passed as recently as 2002 only to be overruled by Citizens United in 2010. Trump transformed the EPA efforts to limit environmental harm into a war on America, while cancer, respiratory disease, and birth defect rates have soared, and after gutting The Voting Rights Act, every American has observed how vital it is to our democracy to protect the right to vote and how radically wrong from an empirical basis the Court's ideological musings were.

If the five radical justices had any shame, instead of a Corporate-Religious mission to distort the Constitution they would reverse their corruption and respect the democratic will of the American people expressed historically through bi-partisan Congressional agreement. Absolute power corrupts, especially with this bunch.

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

From your mouth to God's ears. Oh wait, I'm an atheist. 😉😘

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