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Marie Martin's avatar

I agree. I just think we need to highlight both aspects. He had done some damage. I don’t know how a foreign country could ever, ever trust us again. But a fair amount of what’s going on is constitutional law preventing a common sense housecleaning. Or … the way constitution is used needs a fresh upgrade. So in a lot of ways, it’s more than Trump. It’s our system that, for good reason, has been very difficult to change that can be pointed to as not meeting the damage of the moment.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Yes but it’s easy to upend the Constitution if you’re an activist RW SCOTUS and you’ve ruled Money Is Speech, Corporations Are People, and a lying crime factory of a POTUS is beyond the reach of the law for any and all Presidential actions, making him De Facto King Donald I.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Fingers crossed that Amy finally has big brass ones. Or even small ones. There’s been a fair amount written about her perhaps being shaken up. She’d hardly be the first SCOTUS who took a hard left after observing the realities of life and law after seeing the world from the inside chamber. I’ll believe it when i see it. But it does no one any good to be completely blind to possibilities. Disconcerting that it seems her ego hit the best of her from the get go. Unless I’m misunderstanding, she should have known she was too green for such a lofty seat.

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