The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has ruled a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples. The decision is a defeat for gay rights.
What could they do, though? like, yeah libs fucking suck and electoralism only goes so far, but in this instance, what course of action do they have exactly?
This. And while there are still things they can do, as have been mentioned on some replies, they could have done so much more before it got to this point.
Now they'll campaign on protecting people's right, much like the did this past election on abortion while doing nothing to protect people in deep red states who will be negatively affected by these decisions.
Provide free abortions and hormones w/ informed consent on federal land. Marriage should be a federal institution and not a state one but I'm not sure what that would require. Do what Republicans do and fund people to shop around districts for judges that agree with them in order to set good precedent. Dig up dirt on your political enemies and use any of the gazillion laws we have to arrest them. The President could also simply do what Russia does and throw some enemies out of windows, but you'd only want to do that sparingly. For any bad judgment that pertains just to executive stuff, simply ignore that.
Edit: As for affirmative action, universities could just do what they did with the ADA - pretend to be working on it for decades with little progress and simply eat the cost of lawsuits
some of the language i have seen coming out of the schools is that they can follow the law by not attributing any weight to an applicant's race, but they are legally allowed to attribute weight to an entrance essay where an applicant discusses their experience of race. so good faith institutions can signal to applicants to mention their experiences as a minority in their application and the university can use that communicated experience and prefer their application over Brace "Moneyshot" Worthington-Fauntleroy III's application to major in Phys Ed. and minor in Pharmaceutically Enhanced Mixology even though they have the same GPA.
but of course, schools are mostly interested in donors and new construction. so if brace's dad owns a car dealership...
Biden could try to literally order states to ignore it, there's precedent for telling SCOTUS to fuck off funnily enough.
The trail of tears happened against prior Supreme Court rulings trying to prevent such a thing iirc, but Andrew Jackson sent in the military to remove Native Americans.
Amerikkka's political institutions have a billion ratchets and clanks designed specifically to stop any progress, but they also have an equal number of turbo buttons for trespasses against life and nature.
People are losing rights, but Biden and the Dems can't do anything because any act would be political
What could they do, though? like, yeah libs fucking suck and electoralism only goes so far, but in this instance, what course of action do they have exactly?
Coulda packed the court. Coulda been proactive about passing bills when they still had that slim majority. Coulda had any plan beyond "get elected".
Even by their own standard of centre-right politics, Democrats are a failure.
Proactive. How would they force people to vote than
This. And while there are still things they can do, as have been mentioned on some replies, they could have done so much more before it got to this point.
Now they'll campaign on protecting people's right, much like the did this past election on abortion while doing nothing to protect people in deep red states who will be negatively affected by these decisions.
Provide free abortions and hormones w/ informed consent on federal land. Marriage should be a federal institution and not a state one but I'm not sure what that would require. Do what Republicans do and fund people to shop around districts for judges that agree with them in order to set good precedent. Dig up dirt on your political enemies and use any of the gazillion laws we have to arrest them. The President could also simply do what Russia does and throw some enemies out of windows, but you'd only want to do that sparingly. For any bad judgment that pertains just to executive stuff, simply ignore that.
Edit: As for affirmative action, universities could just do what they did with the ADA - pretend to be working on it for decades with little progress and simply eat the cost of lawsuits
some of the language i have seen coming out of the schools is that they can follow the law by not attributing any weight to an applicant's race, but they are legally allowed to attribute weight to an entrance essay where an applicant discusses their experience of race. so good faith institutions can signal to applicants to mention their experiences as a minority in their application and the university can use that communicated experience and prefer their application over Brace "Moneyshot" Worthington-Fauntleroy III's application to major in Phys Ed. and minor in Pharmaceutically Enhanced Mixology even though they have the same GPA.
but of course, schools are mostly interested in donors and new construction. so if brace's dad owns a car dealership...
Biden could try to literally order states to ignore it, there's precedent for telling SCOTUS to fuck off funnily enough.
The trail of tears happened against prior Supreme Court rulings trying to prevent such a thing iirc, but Andrew Jackson sent in the military to remove Native Americans.
But you're forgetting that you can only violate norms to do horrific things. Good things aren't allowed
Amerikkka's political institutions have a billion ratchets and clanks designed specifically to stop any progress, but they also have an equal number of turbo buttons for trespasses against life and nature.
Chief Justice Roberts has made his decision, jack - now let him enforce it
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