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lees1975

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15. "Protect Federalism" is the code word for "protect the rich establishment."
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 09:07 AM
Jul 2024

This might have been a valid argument 30 years ago, before Rush Limbaugh pushed the idea of conservative control of the courts to bypass the legislative process to avoid having to compromise and negotiate with liberals. But corruptly using the courts to prevent legislation that gets passed through the legislature destroyed federalism. Democratic party control of the Senate with the possibility of breaking the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court and changing the makeup of the court system from conservative legislating from the bench back into a system based on the rule of law will restore the Constitutional democracy based on federalism.

I haven't heard much or seen much of George WIll lately, though he was dead.

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