VictorK
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The only country that can get away with this is Russia (and maybe the US, but it's untested). The only reason France fell and the Soviets stood is because it's a lot further to Moscow than to Paris.
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The only country that can get away with this is Russia (and maybe the US, but it's untested). The only reason France fell and the Soviets stood is because it's a lot further to Moscow than to Paris.
It also confuses what the Court cares about. The Court isn't interested in protecting these flunkies, it's interested in advancing the conservative legal agenda to remake the executive branch into a quasi-dictatorship. Trump's personal beefs are not the Court's.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It also confuses what the Court cares about. The Court isn't interested in protecting these flunkies, it's interested in advancing the conservative legal agenda to remake the executive branch into a quasi-dictatorship. Trump's personal beefs are not the Court's.
A simple act of legislation could all but end the Supreme Court as we know it. Congress gives the Court its power and it can take almost all of it away.
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A simple act of legislation could all but end the Supreme Court as we know it. Congress gives the Court its power and it can take almost all of it away.
Oh, it can be reviewed by the judiciary. We just gave appellate jurisdiction to the newly-created Court of Final Appeals that we stocked with a bunch of judges we just picked.
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Oh, it can be reviewed by the judiciary. We just gave appellate jurisdiction to the newly-created Court of Final Appeals that we stocked with a bunch of judges we just picked.
If a ruling that effect doesn't spur Congress to crush this revolutionary Supreme Court I don't know what will.
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If a ruling that effect doesn't spur Congress to crush this revolutionary Supreme Court I don't know what will.
Point is, conservatives are really bad at picking the instruments through which they will dismantle the liberal state. They're like the underpants gnomes but for fascist losers.
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Point is, conservatives are really bad at picking the instruments through which they will dismantle the liberal state. They're like the underpants gnomes but for fascist losers.
Listening to the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich it's kind of amazing that the conservatives, either monarchists or advocates for a military dictatorship, took apart the Weimar Republic and handed supreme power over to Adolf Hitler, whom they themselves regarded as an unserious clown.
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Listening to the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich it's kind of amazing that the conservatives, either monarchists or advocates for a military dictatorship, took apart the Weimar Republic and handed supreme power over to Adolf Hitler, whom they themselves regarded as an unserious clown.
We're going to need a Congress willing to crush the Supreme Court.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We're going to need a Congress willing to crush the Supreme Court.
Comrade Roberts and the separatchiks prepare for the revolutionary expansion of the dictatorship of the executariat.
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Comrade Roberts and the separatchiks prepare for the revolutionary expansion of the dictatorship of the executariat.
It's also really hard to face up to a peer competitor and prepare for a war that's going to get a lot of people killed and wreck US power. Psychologically easier to focus on simple stuff like blowing up fishermen and bombing Middle Eastern countries.
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's also really hard to face up to a peer competitor and prepare for a war that's going to get a lot of people killed and wreck US power. Psychologically easier to focus on simple stuff like blowing up fishermen and bombing Middle Eastern countries.
The Court of Final Appeals.
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Court of Final Appeals.
A sufficiently motivated Congress could crush the Supreme Court like a bug, including by completely replacing it in every way that matters. Roberts could be the last Chief Justice anyone remembers if he keeps it up.
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A sufficiently motivated Congress could crush the Supreme Court like a bug, including by completely replacing it in every way that matters. Roberts could be the last Chief Justice anyone remembers if he keeps it up.
No point in arguing with them or making a declaration. A simple "Hmm. I guess we'll see how that plays with the jury at your trial." Would suffice for journalistic neutrality.
December 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
No point in arguing with them or making a declaration. A simple "Hmm. I guess we'll see how that plays with the jury at your trial." Would suffice for journalistic neutrality.
Oh yeah. It's all coming together.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Oh yeah. It's all coming together.
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I'm going to have to reconsider my strong predisposition against intervention because seeing these morons say it makes me think I must be wrong too.
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I'm going to have to reconsider my strong predisposition against intervention because seeing these morons say it makes me think I must be wrong too.
It's the double-tap revolutions that get you. Napoleon, Bolsheviks, the Nazis, the Chinese communists...
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's the double-tap revolutions that get you. Napoleon, Bolsheviks, the Nazis, the Chinese communists...
You just have to eliminate until there's one left standing.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
You just have to eliminate until there's one left standing.
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Crime crimes, you might say.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Crime crimes, you might say.
Separation of powers in the unitary executive framework means that the executive separates powers from the other branches.
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Separation of powers in the unitary executive framework means that the executive separates powers from the other branches.
Comrade Roberts and the separatchiks at the Court indeed have a revolutionary plan to bring about the dictatorship of the Presidentariat.
I dunno if the communist comparison is landing but they sure do feel like ideological revolutionaries.
I dunno if the communist comparison is landing but they sure do feel like ideological revolutionaries.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Comrade Roberts and the separatchiks at the Court indeed have a revolutionary plan to bring about the dictatorship of the Presidentariat.
I dunno if the communist comparison is landing but they sure do feel like ideological revolutionaries.
I dunno if the communist comparison is landing but they sure do feel like ideological revolutionaries.
Also, I know it's not the point, but how much money did we spend to kill two poor bastards trying not to drown?
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Also, I know it's not the point, but how much money did we spend to kill two poor bastards trying not to drown?
I have some confidence they won't. But this is a revolutionary court with a political agenda. I feel like I need to pun "Bolshevik court" in some way.
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I have some confidence they won't. But this is a revolutionary court with a political agenda. I feel like I need to pun "Bolshevik court" in some way.
Kagan is notably pissed.
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Kagan is notably pissed.
It's a top-down revolution. The professional judiciary remains remarkably strong, but the Supreme Court is an activist political court and it has an agenda to reshape American law. It does not see itself as the steward of the judiciary but as an ongoing constitutional revolution.
December 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's a top-down revolution. The professional judiciary remains remarkably strong, but the Supreme Court is an activist political court and it has an agenda to reshape American law. It does not see itself as the steward of the judiciary but as an ongoing constitutional revolution.