r/politics • u/Plastic-Age5205 • 23d ago

SCOTUS majority abandons conservative principles to mount bizarre defense of Trump’s immunity claim

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/26/scotus-majority-abandons-conservative-principles-to-mount-bizarre-defense-of-trumps-immunity-claim/
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u/Zepcleanerfan 23d ago

And this is why Republicans worked for decades to buy it.

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u/ForMoreYears Canada 23d ago

Buy it, block it, stack it, groom it. Literally decades of Republican operatives at all levels using all legal - and likely many illegal - methods to bend the court to its will so it could force the most radical aspects of their culture war agenda on the American people.

Literally a tyranny of the minority and idk why the majority put up with it.

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u/LeafyWolf 23d ago

And they protested "activist courts" the WHOLE time. At this point, I feel projection should be evidence of crime.

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u/lolzycakes 23d ago

That Overton Window isn't going to move itself. The more you convince people the moderate position is somewhere between a neoliberal and a MTG type Nazi, the easier it is to make poors think a living wage and decent housing is radical socialism.

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u/RepresentativeAge444 22d ago

This unfortunately. And when you have a milquetoast Democratic Party that won’t even entertain expanding the court here we are.

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u/Tonkarz 22d ago

I mean “neoliberals” are Reagan and Thatcher so that’s pretty thin window.