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[Bob Butler 54]

(09-20-2020, 03:23 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I think very possibly the legislative process you envision for our information age will only be able to start operating if Trump's appointment is blocked. Otherwise the SCOTUS cabal can over-rule everything done, and keep us in the statemate of the last 40 years in which this legislative process has been prohibited from operating. There will likely be no recourse except secession and probable civil war, and a positive outcome also unlikely.

I suspect you are underestimating the Trump justices. They are not being selected as being the most loyal to Trump, but by a conservative think tank who is looking for young conservative lawyers. This means that like Scalia, they look for the meaning of the text and intent of the authors.

What they are bad at is legislating from the bench. The prototypical liberal lawyer invents something that wasn't there. For example he might take a bunch of homophobic founding fathers and twist out of their words a right to be homosexual that did not exist at the time. Even RGB in her solid interpretation of the law was admittedly looking for any excuse to use the founding father's words to create equality for women, something that did not exist at all at the time.

And the conservative think tank is doing it's best to nominating young Scalia clones, loyal to the text and the intent of the authors, not at all loyal to Trump. As a result Trump has been burned by a bunch of his own judges.

But I may be looking at it a little differently.