Thomas Jefferson was vehemently against the Judicial branch being able to operate separately from the Executive branch.
In a letter to Abigail Adams, he wrote, "Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” (September 11, 1804)
Imagine if Jefferson had gotten his way? How would the landscape of our current political environment be different? I shudder at the thought.
If we look at the evidence of what republicans in Congress have done we can see a clear motive for their desire for a republican president.
Mitch McConnell leads the charge as being a partisan hack. His blocking of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is an absolute disgrace that tells us exactly how far the right would go to ensure a republican win.
Did they want Trump? No. They didn't. My opinion is that they wanted Cruz.
This is what Cruz ran on:
Mandate a balanced budget
End Common Core
End Corporate Income Tax
End some programs like the Export-Import bank and federal subsidies for renewable fuels.
Block any current effort that lets undocumented immigrants legally remain in the U.S.
Do not tax access to the Internet and block “net neutrality.”
Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Move toward a flat tax and abolish the IRS.
Increase and toughen sanctions. End current nuclear talks until Congress approves the outlines of a deal.
(PBS.org, 2015)
End it, block it, repeal it. End it, block it, repeal it. And the democrats are the obstructionists??? I digress.
Back to McConnell and the other Congressional Republicans; they wanted a republican because Obama tried so very hard to work with them to even the playing field by reducing white privilege and making our country more equal than it had ever been. It is my opinion that McConnell, Ryan and others like them got very afraid of this. Whether they would say it in public or not, they were/are terrified of white privilege going away. It benefits them too greatly.
So the courts needed to be stacked with conservative judges. Hillary Clinton certainly would have nominated Merrick Garland or someone even more liberal to the Supreme Court had she been elected. Republicans could not let that happen.
As of May 2018, Donald Trump has nominated 1 Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, 21 judges to the United States Court of Appeals, 17 judges to the United States District Courts.
There are 82 nominations pending Senate action. 82!!!
The conservatives in this country have claimed to be the "law and order" party and now they are stacking the courts to rule in favor of their policies. They have effectively politicized the judiciary and Donald Trump is further politicizing it with his "demands" to investigate his investigators.
Smarter people than I are in charge, so I can only hope that Rosenstein knows what he's doing.
Let's consider this judiciary effort a separate initiative, one that would have been accomplished with ANY republican nominee.
Now, let's look at how Paul Ryan and the other republicans in Congress cower to Trump's wishes. They don't counter him. It's all empty comments, shallow dissent and underlying fear. Where did this come from?
It didn't come about until Trump secured the Republican nomination.
We know for a fact that the RNC was hacked. We know that Cohen, Deputy Finance Chair for the RNC is being investigated. We know that we have never seen the fruits of the RNC hack. Who has it?
Could a foreign country, perhaps Russia, with an invested interest in weakening the west, have implemented a massive disinformation campaign to elevate the candidate most vulnerable to blackmail? Yes, and they did.
Russia has been using disinformation tactics since World War I. Now, with social media and a broad reach they were able to do it on the biggest scale yet. They particularly want to discredit the Dossier because now that they have been found out, United States courts are certain to implement strong cyber security tactics and hit them with sanctions, etc.
But wait, if the courts are being stacked with Trump nominees, and Trump is being blackmailed, and the RNC data hack has damning information on all elected Republicans, is Putin making sure that these cyber security measures won't happen? You're damn right.
To tie it up in a nice little bow: Republicans wanted courts to rule in their favor. Trump wanted to lose the election. Putin wanted him to win because he is the most susceptible to blackmail. Trump refuses to speak poorly of Russia and denies that Russia influenced the election regardless of what our IC says. Putin denies the cyber attacks because he wants to do it again. Putin wants global rule, he has said that "Russia's borders do not end anywhere."
So, I guess the joke is on the nationalists in this country. Turns out Putin is a globalist that wants Russia to be the world's only super power.
Dear God, I hope Mueller wraps this up quickly.
In a letter to Abigail Adams, he wrote, "Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” (September 11, 1804)
Imagine if Jefferson had gotten his way? How would the landscape of our current political environment be different? I shudder at the thought.
If we look at the evidence of what republicans in Congress have done we can see a clear motive for their desire for a republican president.
Mitch McConnell leads the charge as being a partisan hack. His blocking of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is an absolute disgrace that tells us exactly how far the right would go to ensure a republican win.
Did they want Trump? No. They didn't. My opinion is that they wanted Cruz.
This is what Cruz ran on:
Mandate a balanced budget
End Common Core
End Corporate Income Tax
End some programs like the Export-Import bank and federal subsidies for renewable fuels.
Block any current effort that lets undocumented immigrants legally remain in the U.S.
Do not tax access to the Internet and block “net neutrality.”
Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Move toward a flat tax and abolish the IRS.
Increase and toughen sanctions. End current nuclear talks until Congress approves the outlines of a deal.
(PBS.org, 2015)
End it, block it, repeal it. End it, block it, repeal it. And the democrats are the obstructionists??? I digress.
Back to McConnell and the other Congressional Republicans; they wanted a republican because Obama tried so very hard to work with them to even the playing field by reducing white privilege and making our country more equal than it had ever been. It is my opinion that McConnell, Ryan and others like them got very afraid of this. Whether they would say it in public or not, they were/are terrified of white privilege going away. It benefits them too greatly.
So the courts needed to be stacked with conservative judges. Hillary Clinton certainly would have nominated Merrick Garland or someone even more liberal to the Supreme Court had she been elected. Republicans could not let that happen.
As of May 2018, Donald Trump has nominated 1 Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, 21 judges to the United States Court of Appeals, 17 judges to the United States District Courts.
There are 82 nominations pending Senate action. 82!!!
The conservatives in this country have claimed to be the "law and order" party and now they are stacking the courts to rule in favor of their policies. They have effectively politicized the judiciary and Donald Trump is further politicizing it with his "demands" to investigate his investigators.
Smarter people than I are in charge, so I can only hope that Rosenstein knows what he's doing.
Let's consider this judiciary effort a separate initiative, one that would have been accomplished with ANY republican nominee.
Now, let's look at how Paul Ryan and the other republicans in Congress cower to Trump's wishes. They don't counter him. It's all empty comments, shallow dissent and underlying fear. Where did this come from?
It didn't come about until Trump secured the Republican nomination.
We know for a fact that the RNC was hacked. We know that Cohen, Deputy Finance Chair for the RNC is being investigated. We know that we have never seen the fruits of the RNC hack. Who has it?
Could a foreign country, perhaps Russia, with an invested interest in weakening the west, have implemented a massive disinformation campaign to elevate the candidate most vulnerable to blackmail? Yes, and they did.
Russia has been using disinformation tactics since World War I. Now, with social media and a broad reach they were able to do it on the biggest scale yet. They particularly want to discredit the Dossier because now that they have been found out, United States courts are certain to implement strong cyber security tactics and hit them with sanctions, etc.
But wait, if the courts are being stacked with Trump nominees, and Trump is being blackmailed, and the RNC data hack has damning information on all elected Republicans, is Putin making sure that these cyber security measures won't happen? You're damn right.
To tie it up in a nice little bow: Republicans wanted courts to rule in their favor. Trump wanted to lose the election. Putin wanted him to win because he is the most susceptible to blackmail. Trump refuses to speak poorly of Russia and denies that Russia influenced the election regardless of what our IC says. Putin denies the cyber attacks because he wants to do it again. Putin wants global rule, he has said that "Russia's borders do not end anywhere."
So, I guess the joke is on the nationalists in this country. Turns out Putin is a globalist that wants Russia to be the world's only super power.
Dear God, I hope Mueller wraps this up quickly.
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