I encourage you to read this

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo) 09/24/2018 at 09:48 • Filed to: None

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I think this is a very interesting, and mostly dead on analysis. A good read.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2018/09/24/democrats-weaponize-judiciary-220530

facw > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 09:59

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There’s a lot of good history in that article, but I’m not seeing at all why the author thinks that this i s a liberal problem. The Democrats are doing it now, because they are out of power, but the Republicans were perfectly happy to use the judiciary in the exact same way (see the challenges to Obamacare among other things ). If they fall out of power, they will almost certainly do so in the future, given their success blocking Obama’s court appointments to create a more conservative leaning judiciary.

GLiddy > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 10:00

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I’m not a politics nerd, but just to chime in with something I heard a Congress-critter talking about the other day... He essentially said that Congress had abro gated it’s responsibility to make law by the constant bickering and do-nothingness it is now involved in. They gave away their power by including language in ‘law’ saying that the departments (part of the executive branch) had regulatory authority to make regulations (essentially law-making) and then the big issues of the day which THEY should have taken the lead as representatives of the people were ignored and left to the judiciary.

Congress has given away its authority to the Executive and Judicial branches by refusing to do their jobs.

fintail > facw 09/24/2018 at 10:02

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I was going to say, how much is this truly different from the stunts pulled by the so-called right during the prior regime?

My bird IS the word > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 10:12

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The courts have always been political. Everytime this issue comes up I think about dredd scott.

Go d forbid people have some actual integrity. I agree with the article thoigh, most bad behaviour is regretted at some point. My current favorite is watching all the PC assholes rip themselves apart on just how PC they are.

BigBlock440 > GLiddy 09/24/2018 at 10:44

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It wasn’t the bickering and do-nothingness that did it, it was a bipartisan effort to give away their power to the executive .  The more departments and regulatory bodies/appointed positions created, the less rules and regulations coming from the legislative.  

For Sweden > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 11:16

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Don’t  confirm  any  judges  unless  they  declare  the  chicken  tax  unconstitutional

Chariotoflove > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 11:21

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Good and thoughtful article. This is why people need to pay more attention to history and government classes in school. “Why do I need to know this?” t hey whine. This is why. Because when you become a voting adult, you need to understand that the entirety of history didn’t begin with your birth twenty or thirty years ago, and it won’t end when you pass.

Slightly related topic: I think it’s stupid that we elect local judges with political party affiliations. I had a neighbor who ran for a judgeship several years ago with signs on his lawn saying “had enough?” in reference to the popular democratic rallying cry. A more obvious conflict of interests it would be hard to find.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 11:30

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The rCons have already weaponized the courts and court appointments with their gerrrymandered to hell redistricting.

Regardless of whether you agree with their views, the Dems/left are supposed to sit idly and just let them win? The Republicans have repeatedly shown that our rules are only supposed to be followed by everyone else, and not them.

No the Dems aren’t perfect. But having better choices when it comes to voting is an issue with the process by which we determine winners. If you want better/more choices at the ballot, then support people who want to reform how to choose our representatives .

functionoverfashion > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 11:59

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That was an excellent read, thank you.

wkiernan > ImmoralMinority 09/24/2018 at 15:11

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Except the title is nonsense. To “weaponize” a thing is to take a thing that is not a weapon and turn it into one. If the thing has already been turned into a weapon then you can’t weaponize it.

So i f Mr. Pritchard claims the Democrats weaponized the judiciary in the last couple of years, then he’s clearly saying that the judiciary was not weaponi zed previously. Excuse me? During the Obama administration, d id or did not the Republicans, furious since 1965, completely kill the Voting Rights Act, and half-kill Obamacare with judicial decisions decided in the Supreme Court on a strictly party-line vote?