• Infamousblt [any]
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    4 months ago

    Bit idea: Get this passed and then overturned by the supreme Court

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      Another bit idea: It dies as a bill in the senate because the dems refuse to kill the filibuster.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          4 months ago

          Biden has a plan that the dems will try to do (or pretend to try to do) after election day if Biden wins and the dems control congress. Then it could die in the senate. I don't know if you saw my other comment in this sub-thread where I quote a lawyer. It doesn't even matter if it passes. The GOP justices would kill it anyway

          All of this is pure kabuki. This pretend form of action gives the libs to be excited about, to talk about, to be hopeful about, and to post about.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      A notable lawyer's take

      At the risk of being precisely who everyone expects me to be, I don’t think you can put term limits on justices without a constitutional amendment, and I’m 100% confident at least five current justices think you can’t.

      https://subium.com/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3kxgvtjuh7z2m

      • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        when did liberals start thinking "move the overton window left" meant "bait people into vooting blue with false promises of half-baked vaguely left wing ideas"?

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        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          4 months ago

          I've gotten to the point that I've stopped trying to understand liberals. I nearly always put "Rhetorical question:" at the beginning of a sentence if I ask something like "Why are liberals like this?"

          @questauthority mentioning the Overton window is a pretty good bit even if it isn't actually a bit and "question" is trucated.

          Their account is visible to the public so it's a bsky link. Bio...

          Father, Army Husband, lawyer. Chronic student recently dragged kicking and screaming into the practice of law. Litigation disaster tour guide. Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him

          https://bsky.app/profile/questauthority.bsky.social

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          Said it before, gonna keep saying it. AOC is a generational talent as a politician, and that's not a remotely close call.

          https://bsky.app/profile/questauthority.bsky.social/post/3kxgk323gkm2q

        • Nacarbac [any]
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          4 months ago

          It just became a way of admitting to their being all talk, but that being good actually. Not even incremental material change, just incremental change in the "discourse", which will (if you're a good voter) lead to it.