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Cake day: September 18th, 2023

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  • The Supreme Court idea of judicial review was, essentially, created by an early Chief Justice using the classic children’s excuse “the rules don’t say I can’t do this so therefore I’m doing it and you can’t stop me”

    Edit: I had this somewhat wrong. After reading, it seems a lot of the people who wrote and debated on the Constitution wrote strongly in support of judicial review, and it was in fact voted on and approved by multiple state legislatures after the Constitution was adopted. It simply wasn’t worded explicitly into the Constitution. Chief Justice John Marshall did issue an official ruling that made it a standard practice but it was not a new concept.





  • We absolutely can, but “organizing” doesn’t mean the same thing to a Democrat as it does to me.

    The largest suggestion in this article is: “call out the people who suppress voting and call them vote suppressors”. Words have near-zero impact on the people passing these laws.

    Peaceful methods simply will not work anymore. They’ve been tried for decades and the Republicans do not care. Their only goal is winning and in many states they have won in a semi-permanent way by redrawing districts and suppressing nonwhite votes.