E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

The parallels with the years before the Civil War are disturbing. The ever more aggressive moves by the enslaving South, abetted by the Supreme Court, made conflict ever more inevitable.

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

calvinball-ass "we have the votes and you don't" court wiping their asses with the very idea of rule of law none of these people should ever be allowed to decide what's for lunch again, let alone the law of the nation

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

The Supreme Court's 6 conservatives are just Klan members with a different color robe.

My litmust test for 28

The Republican Majority of the Roberts SCOTUS is essentially operating as the judicial branch of the Republican Party doing what they can to help their party win elections. Their actions at this point speak for themselves.

Not only does the Roberts Court selectively apply the Constitution, even when they determine something is unconstitutional, they selectively decide when that matters

Yup. Just a complete fucking joke

An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.

what makes the SCOTUS Gang of Six acting as an unaccountable super-legislature especially intolerable is that they are not just setting up unfavorable rules, they are playing Calvinball where they selectively apply the rules case-by-case exclusively to help Republicans. A judicial dictatorship

Yes. The text of the 14th and 15th Amendments explicitly gives the power to decide how to enforce these amendments to Congress. The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to enforce the Reconstruction amendments. By undoing the work of the movement, you are undoing the results of the Civil War.

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I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

Once again putting my motion on the table, since the impeachment clause looks like a dead letter, for a majority vote next year to defund the entire Executive Office of the President. If Republicans embrace the fiction of the 'unitary executive,' let Trump fulfill that vision by operating solo.

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

wrote about the supreme court, and why expanding it needs to be the first things Ds do in 2029 if they have a trifecta. the court is a fully committed to fascism. replacing a fascist president is good, but it's useless if you don't address the court. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ds-must-ex...

Hard not to understand why people are taking the law into their own hands, given how devoted the elite class is to impunity across what are supposed to be hard ideological lines

There's a really simple answer to this, and it's "In fact, you are a rapist. You were found legally liable for rape." Is there not one journalist who will say this to him?

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

He’s losing an argument with his own would-be assassin’s manifesto

Who was accused of sexual assault by 26 women again? Who was accused of rape by his own wife? Who was found guilty of raping E. Jean Carroll by a jury? If there's anything we know about you it's that you're a fucking rapist

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He IS a rapist and a pedophile and everyone fucking knows it

Please tell me "I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile" is going to be quoted for 50+ years the same as "I am not a crook" has been.

yeah my thought when i hear that is "tell this to the president and his goons"

If you’re at the black tie event for a dictator you know where you are and why

Trump who celebrated violence against journalists. Trump who almost certainly on purpose tried to give Joe Biden COVID. Trump who staged January 6 and tried to kill his own Vice President. Trump who was radio silent when a D state legislator was assassinated. And so many others...

I hope every single person who attended that dinner by choice has PTSD for the rest of their lives. They deserve worse.

Send in Carrie White and lock the doors

“RFK is a eugenicist who believes that people with chronic health conditions deserve to die preventable deaths” is a plain fact that the news media cannot or will not tell the public.

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At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

Justice Roberts believes the Supreme Court should just call balls and strikes! But also, when he feels like it: supervise groundskeeping, design stadiums, re-write the rulebook, and decide whether it's too expensive too keep the playing field from being destroyed by global warming.