Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the term. “The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see…

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    1 year ago

    Start calling it a regime like we do for enemies of the US.

    The MAGA regime disregards precedent and disregards the facts of the case when making Court decisions. The website wasn’t real, there was no gay wedding, the man she accused was happily married to his wife, it was all made up! That’s not just authoritarian, it’s fascist.

    President Xi please, my people yearn for freedom!

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        It’s a meme dude. Often when the US is pushing for a coup there will suddenly be suspiciously English speaking sympathy magnet posts on Twitter begging the US to intervene in their country.

        mr biden my name is 種族污辱. I am 7 years old. Every night president Xi Jinping comes into our backyard and steals eggs from our henhouse. Please send McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. My country yearns for freedom

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    Gotta say, it’s refreshing to see AOC’s name in a headline and not see a bunch of hate and misogyny in the comments.

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    Definitely not a good look for the Supreme Court. They should not be involved with the legislative process either for good or bad.

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      Yea they shouldn’t be involved with legislating but our legislature and the people meant to represent us have devolved so much that the Supreme Court is basically the only functioning legislating body—and has been for a long time, atleast since Roe vs. Wade.

      Our legislature is a failure, the Supreme Court as it stands wouldn’t have much power or authority to make these legal changes if this country actually made laws.

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    God, she’s such a dolt. Like most Democrats, she thinks the court exists to further their agenda. That’s not how it works.

    The SC decides whether or not something is Constitutional. The Court is beholden to the Constitution, not any particular political party.