How do you know #UnitedStates #Democracy is nearly destroyed and in #coma?
The same guy who empowered #Trump is the only guy that can smack Trump down.
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
One man controls the entire #Republican agenda and it's Justice Roberts.
#Democrats vs #Republicans
#election2026
#2026election
The same guy who empowered #Trump is the only guy that can smack Trump down.
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
One man controls the entire #Republican agenda and it's Justice Roberts.
#Democrats vs #Republicans
#election2026
#2026election
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Kristen •
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volkris •
It's Congress, not the courts, that have the power to smack Trump down.
And really it undermines democracy to get that wrong.
RememberUsAlways •
Pay attention to Republican corporate tax cuts? Your entire premise falls apart if Congress is a wet paper towel.
Nice try though.
RememberUsAlways •
The only check on executive power now are the courts, the final check and balance.
I'm surprised you missed this. Normally, your pro MAGA nonsense has an edge.
volkris •
If we elected a wet paper towel that's what we get. Yay democracy.
The premise doesn't fall apart. We get what we vote for, so this is what we got.
It's how the system works. We should probably stop reelecting morons, but we do reelect morons, so I guess we like this.
RememberUsAlways •
Fear can depress the entire electorate if a criminal administration is allowed to control all the process.
volkris •
We elect morons, and the reason we elect them is kind of secondary to the fact that we are, indeed, electing morons.
Personally I'm a lot more frustrated with the democratic representatives we reelected who are complicit with this administration. But that's the group we voted for, so this is what we get.
RememberUsAlways •
Morons, describing a systemic problem, is a more fit discussion.
volkris •
No, we choose these people. The representatives that fail us constantly get support from voters who campaign for them. Just everyday voters do actually elect these people.
Any day of the week congresspeople could act against the administration. They are empowered to do so. But we go out and vote for people who decide, meh, this is fine
We voters vest these folks with that authority, and that's how they use it, so here we are.
But maybe if we stopped letting them shift the blame to the courts we might someday demand that they use that authority differently.
504 Battery Dr •
Roberts is just another puppet of trump/Project 2025.
They may give him a bit more string than the other puppets, but he still remains a puppet that will do their bidding - through hook or crook.
Roberts will not save us.
He's a big part of the reason we are where we are now.
RememberUsAlways •
Why Democracy is in a coma.
Roberts is not going to save anyone. He will follow the law according to how he sees it and has joined Democrats in major decisions.
RememberUsAlways •
But most agree that the administration's battle with U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg — who last weekend ordered a temporary halt to the administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members — is a significant escalation."
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
#Johnroberts
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boasberg-courts-constitutional-crisis
volkris •
It's not even unusual for presidents to defy court orders. It's just that it normally doesn't get so much public attention, so you only see it happening if you take time to read the dockets directly.
So, the courts will do exactly what they're supposed to do: issue opinions on cases brought before them. That's it. Job done.
The rest just comes down to the people we elect to Congress. If we elected people who judge it to be acceptable, that's the end of the story. No crisis, just the democratic process at work.
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volkris •
No, truth is that the general population is behind this stuff. So we get what we want, as intended.
RememberUsAlways •
Second, the idea that no Gerrymandering happens in Senate races is nonsense.
U.S. senators and presidential electors are elected at large from States, U.S. representatives from congressional districts of about equal size. Within States, representatives are elected to legislatures from a structure of districts totally unrelated to the federal senate and congressional districts.
volkris •
If all elections are gerrymandered, then there's really no meaning to the word anymore. It no longer represents manipulation for the sake of power, it becomes just, you know, voting.
So no, for any practical definition of the word, there is no gerrymandering in the Senate.
So the theory that this is caused by gerrymandering is scientifically rejected by the outcome from the body that has no gerrymandering.
It makes for a dramatic story, but it just doesn't match reality. And it makes it easier to point fingers at Boogeyman instead of facing the reality that the unwashed masses around us have to be convinced over to your personal preferences if you want to make progress.
It does no good to cling to those conspiracy theories, Even if they support a simpler world.