Volewica
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Lapsed neo-liberal, economist, former fund manager, fantasy & SF author, loves Ancient Greek, indifferent clarinettist & sax player. #Xitter exile. Deeply worried about #ClimateChange. No, I don't want to have sex with you.
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...start now (sooner than now would have been better).
It would also signal to a restive Dem base that the party's leaders understand the gravity of the situation we're in and are up to the challenge of restoring our democracy.
(Here's something relevant that I wrote a few years ago:)
It would also signal to a restive Dem base that the party's leaders understand the gravity of the situation we're in and are up to the challenge of restoring our democracy.
(Here's something relevant that I wrote a few years ago:)
Don’t Just Pack the Court. Reimagine It.
It’s easy to understand the appeal of simply adding two (or four or six) liberal justices. But that’s just one potential reform, and this is a moment when all options should be on the table.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
...start now (sooner than now would have been better).
It would also signal to a restive Dem base that the party's leaders understand the gravity of the situation we're in and are up to the challenge of restoring our democracy.
(Here's something relevant that I wrote a few years ago:)
It would also signal to a restive Dem base that the party's leaders understand the gravity of the situation we're in and are up to the challenge of restoring our democracy.
(Here's something relevant that I wrote a few years ago:)
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Who knows how the short-term politics would shake out? Wingnuts would freak out. There would be a lot of pundits taking to their fainting couches. But if we are ever going to get out of this mess in a sustainable way, it will require serious court reform. And this kind of groundwork has to...
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Who knows how the short-term politics would shake out? Wingnuts would freak out. There would be a lot of pundits taking to their fainting couches. But if we are ever going to get out of this mess in a sustainable way, it will require serious court reform. And this kind of groundwork has to...
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...conservative activists who have lifetime positions and are accountable to nobody. Billionaires fly them around on their private jets and give them vacations and houses and whatever they want. And democracy can't function with a high Court that is this compromised.
This would get coverage.
This would get coverage.
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
...conservative activists who have lifetime positions and are accountable to nobody. Billionaires fly them around on their private jets and give them vacations and houses and whatever they want. And democracy can't function with a high Court that is this compromised.
This would get coverage.
This would get coverage.
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...to racially gerrymander in a brief, unsigned decision that is supposed to be for emergency rulings.
They would then say that this is the most corrupt Court in our history. They are nakedly partisan, don't adhere to long-standing law and make it up as they go along because they are...
They would then say that this is the most corrupt Court in our history. They are nakedly partisan, don't adhere to long-standing law and make it up as they go along because they are...
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
...to racially gerrymander in a brief, unsigned decision that is supposed to be for emergency rulings.
They would then say that this is the most corrupt Court in our history. They are nakedly partisan, don't adhere to long-standing law and make it up as they go along because they are...
They would then say that this is the most corrupt Court in our history. They are nakedly partisan, don't adhere to long-standing law and make it up as they go along because they are...
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Most people don't know this stuff. Press isn't going to report it.
Then, they would tear into this Court, noting that it didn't even have enough respect for the American people, or the lower courts, to explain their flip-flop on racial gerrymanders and had instead allowed their GOP colleagues...
Then, they would tear into this Court, noting that it didn't even have enough respect for the American people, or the lower courts, to explain their flip-flop on racial gerrymanders and had instead allowed their GOP colleagues...
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Most people don't know this stuff. Press isn't going to report it.
Then, they would tear into this Court, noting that it didn't even have enough respect for the American people, or the lower courts, to explain their flip-flop on racial gerrymanders and had instead allowed their GOP colleagues...
Then, they would tear into this Court, noting that it didn't even have enough respect for the American people, or the lower courts, to explain their flip-flop on racial gerrymanders and had instead allowed their GOP colleagues...
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...unconstitutional if it were based on race. They would then explain that in a decision written by a Trump appointed judge, the Texas gerrymander had been struck down by a Court that found lots of evidence that Texas legislators had spoken openly about using race to draw their new district lines.
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
...unconstitutional if it were based on race. They would then explain that in a decision written by a Trump appointed judge, the Texas gerrymander had been struck down by a Court that found lots of evidence that Texas legislators had spoken openly about using race to draw their new district lines.
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Newsom’s award is way cooler!
December 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Newsom’s award is way cooler!