10-27-2020, 07:26 AM
It's nice when they admit what it's really all about.
I don't disparage politicizing the court, because it's done by everyone and the justices are political actors, we shouldn't kid ourselves. But this attitude of a zero-sum game adversarial relationship is why our system sucks.
McConnell, just after the Senate votes to limit debate on Amy Coney Barrett: "A lot of what we’ve done over the last four years will be undone sooner or later by the next election. They won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come."
— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) October 25, 2020
I don't disparage politicizing the court, because it's done by everyone and the justices are political actors, we shouldn't kid ourselves. But this attitude of a zero-sum game adversarial relationship is why our system sucks.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR