“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Those who make winning honest elections impossible will make gerrymandering inevitable.”
-Republicans, probably
“those who aren’t rich, old, and white can get fucked”
-republicans, definitely
::turkey noises::
- Mitch McConnell
Friend you made me snort loudly and disturb my cat
Republicans, party platform of thwarting the rule of the people and democracy. And they’ll keep on doing it until you vote them all out of office.
It is this. They know they don’t have ideas and policies that people want, so they can’t win fair elections. So they don’t want democracy anymore. They want to rule us and force their views on us.
Stop voting for Republicans, they don’t believe in our democracy.
It’s kinda worse than that though. They feel it’s their moral imperative to force their ideologies on us. That they are fighting some holy war against evil. They have to win by any means necessary. The most ardent believers think that the country is already evil and can only be washed clean with the blood of…. I guess anyone who doesn’t share their views. Right wing extremism is all over the world, not just the states. And it’s damned scary times right now.
So kinda like Sharia law but based on bullshit Republican ideas instead of a religion. Also Republicans would lose their everliving minds if it was suggested they live under Sharia law.
Y’allqueda is a drive to be reconned with. Original klandma is out there calling for civil war two electric boogaloo. At this point I just wish they’d been more successful in organizing a large scale insurrection on Jan 6 so we could have a nice pile of bodies.
So, if Protasiewicz’s court also is not allowed to strike down these gerrymanders, the people of Wisconsin will be left with no lawful recourse whatsoever against permanent Republican control of their state legislature.
Emphasis mine.
Those Republican Wisconsin state legislators are gonna find out what that means if they keep unabashedly fucking around like this.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Wisconsin GOP’s ostensible reason for impeaching Protasiewicz is that, as a candidate for her current office, the justice campaigned against the state’s gerrymandered maps — calling them “rigged.” Republicans claim this means she impermissibly prejudged the Clarke case and must recuse from it.
But there is a US Supreme Court case — Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002) —that is almost directly on point here, holding that candidates for judicial office have a First Amendment right to publicly state their positions on contentious legal issues while they are campaigning for election.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion in Republican Party persuasively lays out why it makes no sense to strip judicial candidates of their free speech rights in the midst of an election campaign.
The Court’s decision in Republican Party should prohibit the Wisconsin GOP from impeaching Protasiewicz because she expressed a view on a contentious legal issue while she was a candidate for judicial office.
Last December, during oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, Alito asked whether “it furthers democracy to transfer the political controversy about districting from the legislature to elected supreme courts where the candidates are permitted by state law to campaign on the issue of districting?” So Alito seemed to suggest that it would be improper for a state supreme court to rule in a gerrymandering case if its members are even allowed to campaign on this issue.
So, if Protasiewicz’s court also is not allowed to strike down these gerrymanders, the people of Wisconsin will be left with no lawful recourse whatsoever against permanent Republican control of their state legislature.
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it already feels like ‘forever’.
