• @[email protected]
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    638 months ago

    Remember that time the Supreme Court decided our 2000 presidential election? I do. OP must be old…

    • @SpruceBringsteen
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      198 months ago

      Or the 30 years of Rehnquist that helped set the tone for the fiasco we’ve got with the police today.

    • FunkyMonk
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      78 months ago

      First election I voted in and my parents were still suprised pikachu about the whole electral college shit even though I kept saying this is bullshit when I learned about it a few years before in HS…

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        28 months ago

        Tbf before that the last time it had become an issue was the late 1800s

        Before 2000 there had actually been a significant push by Nixon to get it abolished because until 2000 conservatives agreed that an outcome where the EC and Popular vote were out of sync was bad and should be avoided, and IIRC the effort lost steam because the shock of realizing it was “possible” was outpaced by everyone dismissing that “well that hasn’t happened in decades! It won’t ever happen again!”

  • @blazera
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    138 months ago

    Remind me when they held a president accountable for crimes

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      I can only think of Nixon, but maybe there was someone else more recently. If not, 50+ years is a long time for pepperidge farm to be remembering; at that point we should just be assuming the government has been irredeemable for our entire lives.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      18 months ago

      I think President Tyler got arrested for running a woman over once

      This was so long ago that “running her over” was literal, the horse he was riding was speeding and ran over her after knocking her down.

  • @niktemadur
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    68 months ago

    After events such as the repeal of Roe Vs Wade, any imbecile that still insists that bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe as an excuse to not vote (or vote third party) is damaged beyond repair, either through stubborn ignorance or bad faith. These imbeciles and their so-called “purity” have taken millions of women and their wombs hostage, just like evangelical fundamentalists have wanted all along.

  • @butwhyishischinabook
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    28 months ago

    No no no no, they were always dogshit formalists who consistently pandered to the rich, law enforcement, etc. The last hallway decent court ended a half a century ago. Only people who weren’t paying attention thought they were anything but fighters for their ingroups.

  • @Daft_ish
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    18 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be nice if the President and the Supreme Court acted like they gave a shit about our country?

  • @shalafi
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    -298 months ago

    Oh BS. Just because they’re conservative doesn’t mean they’re loyal to Republicans. Why would they be?! They sit for life. (Thomas’ greed being a notable exception.)

    Here’s a load of cases where they went against conservatives and the GOP. There was a big ruling against Trump a ways back, can’t find it for all the current noise on the subject.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      128 months ago

      Thomas’ greed being a notable exception

      So adorable that you think Thomas’ greed is the exception and the right wing activist judges voting independently of the Republican party is the rule rather than the other way around