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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Nov 24, 2025 at 3:16:14 PM MST, ""J. P. Gilliver"" wrote   
   <10g2lfe$2ffu3$3@dont-email.me>:   
      
   > On 2025/11/24 15:53:39, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
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   >> I am happy to see Republicans finally standing up to him. Or some. It should   
   >> be more. And the SCOTUS and Justice Department and more should be doing a   
   LOT   
   >> more to follow and uphold the law.   
   >>   
   > I'm an outsider looking in, so maybe have got the wrong end of the stick   
   > (it wouldn't be the first time), but hasn't SCOTUS been stuffed with   
   > people of one particular leaning, so you shouldn't expect much from   
   > them, if anything the opposite?   
      
   Absolutely. Our Supreme Court's current 6-3 conservative majority (thanks to   
   three Trump appointments) makes it highly unlikely to act as a major check on   
   the his power. He is so over the top, though, they have been doing so to some   
   extent.   
      
   This isn't limited to just SCOTUS. The current conservative twisted legal   
   landscape is from a deliberate, long-term strategy led by Mitch McConnell. As   
   Senate Majority Leader, he systematically blocked President Obama's lower   
   court nominees (creating over 100 vacancies) and bent the rules to keep seat   
   open. Once President Trump took office, McConnell fast-tracked the   
   confirmation of three SCOTUS Justices and over 200 young, conservative federal   
   judges to lower courts. This has pushed a right wing and often extremist   
   federal judiciary that will be around for decades. Our courts are not very   
   much activists against equal rights.   
      
      
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