There are at least three different reasons this is bad.

First, this is one more sign (of about 15 court cases at this point) that this court is willing to give Trump massive powers simply because he is pushing for them and they agree with him politically. And there's no reason to remotely think he's going to stop.

Second, it means that the Presidency (already an already too powerful office in the modern form for any one person) is going to be even more powerful under for the first time under a far more authoritarian person without any safeguards in place.

Third, is more subtle: even if we get through this with Trump with only some damage, the long-term damage and threat to stability is massive. In general, parliamentary systems or presidential systems with somewhat weak presidencies are more stable than those with powerful presidencies. One sees this in for example the high instability in many presidential republics in Central America and South America. The standard explanation for this is that when there's functionally a winner-take-all system, the stakes becoming higher and the degree to which any side has an incentive to moderate becomes small. One question then is why this hasn't happened in the US? One explanation is that the US had the illusion of a not deeply strong President, in part because everyone (including the Presidents) agreed tacitly not to push the limits of their authority that much. The precedent breaking nature here undermines that illusion, and makes it more likely that we'll have years (possibly decades) where the Democrats and Republicans will even more than usual treat everything as a zero sum game with no respects for democratic norms.

The bottom line is that everything about this is bad.

They will later complain that nobody told them this was going to backfire. They will act like it was a minor thing and try to blame the Democrats for not stopping them. Everything the Republicans, the Heritage foundation and the Federalist society rely on assumes that American Exceptionalism cannot be defeated simply by them completely undermining all the mechanisms that created it.

The American century is over.

The article states that a Democrat in office after Trump could fire all the Republican board members, but the way SCOTUS is acting now, I wouldn't assume they would find the opposite as soon as a Conservative isn't in office. Since precedents clearly no longer matter, and whatnot.

You're telling me a court that he filled with stooges gives him favorable judgements!

activist court in American history. The conservative judges are a disgrace and should be impeached.

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a

This is just flat out illegal. This is literally not what the law says. This is a flat-out constitutional crisis people. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I don't have anything funny or insightful to say here just fuck.

This isn't reversing a precedent this is a fundamental breakdown in the rule of law. Barring a miracle our Republic is dead and Trump voters killed it.

I hope whatever the fuck you think you got from Trump was worth it.

...where we're at so far:

- Direct attacks on the scientific, intellectual and artistic communities;

- Direct threats on the sovereinty of allied nations;

- Direct governement threats on freedom of the press;

- Random unlawfull arrests of people off the streets;

- No due process;

- Unlawfull deportations of certain ethnic groups blamed for all the whoes of the nation;

- Children forcefully separated from their parents and imprisonned;

- Concentration camps;

- Army marching on the streets of the capital and other major cities.

This all sounds vaguely familiar... Where have I seen that before ?

So, the supposedly "great" founding fathers chose to establish a Supreme Court where its members are political appointees by the president (and for life!). Did they think a president would appoint members based on their competency? When has this ever happened? Naturally, the Supreme Court will follow the political ideology of its members. The US will never be democratic while their Supreme body is not. It is a fundamentally broken system, unfixable under the present constitution. complaining about single ru

As of this writing is the problem with this country.

This is an overturning of 90 plus years of precedence for no particularly good reason. Is a clear violation of law. We should all be freaking the fuck out right now. The thread should have at least 500 comments on it.

The problem is I don't think people understand how bad this is. And that's how Trump got to be president twice. People do not understand the systems that protect them let alone that those systems have completely broken down