That's what's going to happen to us if the US doesn't collapse.
queermunist
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The Federal government is going to draw up and execute its budget as if they had the funds anyway.
That's what I was getting at when I pointed out the fact that the feds print their own money. The federal government would be fine.
I was just running the thought experiment of "would this even do anything" under the assumption that it was successful. And it's a fantasy on its face, even in the best case scenario it accomplishes nothing.
And the best case isn't what would happen, because ultimately you're right and this won't be allowed. There are a lot of mechanisms the federal government has to compell the states to pay their dues.
Inshallah
He'd live way longer if he stopped eating McDonald's
Our vegan super soldiers are unaffected.
Ending the filibuster would need to be accompanied by a rapid plan to essentially erase the Republican Party in its current form: mass political education, deep and broad electoral reforms, vast increases in small-d democratic participation, and probably many more radical reforms that would essentially rewrite the country.
But this would probably also erase the Democratic Party too, so they'd never do it.
They do no believe the world is going to last, so their plan is to squeeze every bit of juice out of it as fast as possible before the End.
People are organizing in their communities to patrol for ICE and respond to ICE raids, which is quite a bit like the Black Panthers "cop watch" and community patrols.
I know it's not like when protesters burned down a police station in 2020, but things are happening.
Defying precedence is a rogue act, regardless of whether they can reverse engineer an argument for it or not. The Constitution didn't change, going rogue and declaring old decisions "wrong" delegitimizes their whole role. If they can just make up new decisions we don't have laws, we have opinions.
As to the attack on gender affirming care, sexual discrimination is federally prohibited by law because sex is a federally protected class. That's the law. If you read their decision, their argument is basically "it doesn't count because reasons" and it's entirely farcical. Another rogue decision.
And they just made a new rogue decision taking away habeas corpus from anyone sent to another country by ICE. Now Courts can't stop deportations, people will get deported to third countries and then have to argue that their deportation was illegal.
Stop defending the Court. It's embarrassing.
Who?