https://www.axios.com/2022/07/09/shutdowndc-supreme-court-abortion-roe-protest

Found several of these articles at the very bottom of some headlines. This is fucking dangerous. The White House encourages more of this.

work on making threads

Add some text if you have a url, Get people to respond.

The time it took you to type that you could have clicked on the url and had half of the article ingested.

There is no more fragile thread of our democracy right now than the potential assassination of a supreme court justice, one of an opposition party.
Our government can and has weathered assassinations of all sorts of other offices, and senators, congressmen, even presidents are all replaceable representatives of the people. It doesn't change policy or which party is in control when an assassination occurs. But the supreme court has become infected by zero sum game partisanship and is a lifetime appointment. We have no way to reconcile an assassinated justice from an opposing side. If the Kavanaugh assassin had been successful, what would have happened? No Republican would accept Joe Biden scoring a political victory for the democrats by having a judge murdered and profiting from it. And while there is a sane out- having a president try to reconcile a nation by deferring his choice to the opposition- Joe Biden is absolutely not the kind of person capable of that kind of act of national healing. We can safely say at this point he'd find a way to inflame the country even worse.

I think it could be the thread that simply unravels all fabric at the federal level. All the legitimacy, shared national identity, the whole government, it could be toppled.

Good take, not much left to be said honestly. I don’t think many realize what is really happening here. A branch of government is simply doing what it is designed to do, and the other two seek to destroy it.

This is the end result of the courts doing the most governing, rather than being an end game check to legislation. the scotus has gotten more done in the last 15 years than congress. presidents only get things done via EO.

What have they done, exactly, besides this.

What would happen is you would get counter assassinations and/or massacres

Which is the first downward spiral into war

You're misunderstanding my post. there's been a historical workflow, congress/senate writes laws, president approves or denies laws, scotus undoes laws.

congress doesnt write laws anymore, not really. the president writes laws with no checks via EO. but scotus keeps working. there's an imbalance, the scotus is doing its job but without new inflow of laws, president is doing congress' job, congress is just a shitty investigatory showcourt.

I got ya. Legislation has been an absolute shit show for awhile. Strictly party line votes, blatantly illegal actions taken knowing the court will ultimately decide.