Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
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Extremely depressing
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reassuring to know it's not humanity, it's just us!
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If you've got one that won't you'll have to get one that will.
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Well the Republicans weren't going to let that happen. They made sure they had the Supreme Court in their pocket before making their move. So, in other words, America is pooched.
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Meanwhile, SCOTUS has become largely united on ending democracy in favor of PERMANENT KKKristofascist minority rule.
The key isn't whether they're behaving individually or uniting, but that united, they wield extreme power, so what ultimately matters most is what they've decide to unite around.
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Gov is now run by frat boys,sorority sisters, prep boys& girls, rustic loons, legacy children, Aryan wannabes, legalized mobsters like equity firms, monopoly titans such as oil, coiffed CEO's, rabid Zionists(tho w Biden too):
the racists,sexists, classists,homophobes,xenophobes&fascists have faces
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Not only Supreme Court has done its job but has received support from society and the refusal of armed forces to attack democracy. But the game isn’t over yet…
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If this is the NYRB piece from a couple months back it makes a grim prognosis for Brazilian democracy, even though it did well to survive the test.
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This is why a SCOTUS reform has to be a key part of any Democratic nominee in 2028.
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We're looking at you, John Roberts. 🤨
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Pretty sad that American jurisprudence has totally failed to protect us from a fascist take over.
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This is why Democrats lose they should’ve fought for that fucking seat in 2016
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Maybe having had a dictatorship in living memory helps to focus judges' attention.
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Too bad we don’t have that.
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Well there goes my hope….our illegitimate Supreme Court is certainly NOT going to save us….
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I want these conservatives especially John Roberts to live forever infamy
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Ah shit
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Too bad for the USA the supreme court has been bought and paid for by Leonard Leo.
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“US Supreme Court The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America.”
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I suspect part of it is also that Brazil lost democracy (several times?) in the past and they weren’t keen for it to happen again. They knew what was at stake.
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I think it is worth discussing how a Supreme Court like in the US is neutral at all if the judges are all named based on how close they are to a politician or party. This is not democracy.
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Voilà : Alexandre de Moraes vient de ce centre droit conspué, « facho » selon l’extrême gauche brésilienne. Mais ça c’était avant. Quand la catastrophe arrive il faut pouvoir se compter entre démocrates. Il est désormais idolâtré, son petit nom « Xandão » est régulièrement scandé dans les manifs.
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If only we could have nice things like Brazil does.
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Exactly Right! The lower courts are still handing out rulings, the Supreme Court is handing out hate
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Brasil has competing, multiple centres of power (not only two parties), gerrymander-proof electoral districts (the electoral system is neutral and hard to corrupt), 3-level federalism, a modern, non-archaic constitution which can be amended regularly, and so on.
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We don’t have this luxury.
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No chance of that with the Republican fuckwits installed in the US Supreme Court.
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Or you could argue this is to be in a continued state of denial about the actual response to January 6th, which saw multiple police forces and the national guard sit on their hands. By contrast Brazilian coup participants were arrested en masse as they left government buildings.
Brazil protests: Mass arrests as Bolsonaro supporters break inside government buildings
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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Unfortunately, the US Supreme Court is too thick to realize that Felon47 will be coming for them, too. Soon.
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As a Brazilian lawyer it baffles me that there’s no accountability for Trump increasingly authoritarian and unconstitutional behavior. This is particularly true regarding his admin campaign against Kilmar Abrego and his continuous incarceration and threat of deportation to wherever.
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Not like our fricking Supreme Court.
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The "defense of democracy" is a character trait missing from the treasonous Federalist Society members of the US Supreme Court.
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Harlan Crow funded an island.
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History shows us that democracy can’t survive with corrupted, unethical, dishonest, compromised supreme courts. We have six right-wing justices at SCOTUS that are just like that. In the Americas, the United States Supreme Court is no different now from the supreme courts of Cuba and Venezuela.
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well...
fuck
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Means, the USA needs to deport their SCOTUS to Brazil
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Sadly the controlling right of the USA supreme court wants democracy to die.
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Biden & Merrick Garland dotted their i’s and crossed their t’s, till it was too late. Brazil and South Korea took *their insurrections much more seriously and acted immediately. Biden wanted to look to the future. And here we are, in the future. No need to look any further than those two dopes.
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Unlike Americans, Brazilians have experienced a fascist dictatorship within living memory and know very well that it's not something to play with.
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Trump loves criminals
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I wish we had one of those.
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I cannot even imagine such a thing happening here now.
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And the reason that isn't saving us in America is because the Dems let the GOP have full control of the judiciary 30 years ago, as a bulwark against the left. That way, if some socialist Dem ever managed to pass any real legislation like Universal Healthcare, the courts could shoot it down.
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Oh. Well, we don’t have that
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Yup.
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Supreme Court reform and expansion has to be a top priority if Dems ever get back into power. We might get one more chance to dismantle the authoritarian state but it has to start with the Court.
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Too late for the US. The cult is in charge, and the Supreme Court is therefore almost irrelevant.
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We're f*cked
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Same in Korea, the Democratic party brought the impeachment multiple times until it passed + constitutional court voted to uphold removal.
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Unfortunately, we r currently not so lucky
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Boy, too bad we don’t have one of those.
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Openly corrupt, bipartisan-approved rapists might have been bad Supreme Court picks, eh?
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With suspicion: does this unique moment allow us to look ahead and say: we will never have a despot in power? I'm not sure. I view the present with joy and skepticism: at any moment power can change sides: there are many who long for the days of the dictatorship.
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Where is that Obama saboteur Republican f@ck Mitch McConnell? The Supreme Court is his work in partnership with the Heritage Foundation.
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Too bad its too late for the US
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We need more SC justices on the bench, then to unite as an island against the ones now working to dismantle our democracy
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Our Supreme Court is full of religious bigots
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Well. We don’t have that. Next idea.
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Too bad for us that Republicans are the scum of the earth.
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Must be nice.
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And we have six Republican apparatchiks masquerading as judges.
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Well, we know ours WILL NOT do its job!!
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And a court system that didn't schedule hearings two or three months out.
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CALVINBALL ROBERTS for someone so seemingly concerned with his legacy and that of the Court, the Chief Justice has shown himself to be Calvinball all the way down. #SupremeCourt #Calvinball #CalvinballRoberts
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Bolsonaro is not really smart, and judges are very powerful in Brasil, to a point that it's problematic. He pissed them all off at once going to TV and attacking the Supreme Court. Thank god judge's corporativism was between us and tiranny.
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We have the shame of Roberts.
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If we didn’t have such a corrupt one we would be in a similar situation. But then again we had Merrick Garland at the helm. Comparing them with us and I can feel my anger starting to surge again. I am about to Start screaming so loudly that I can’t even
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That must be nice
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That’s the difference between them and us! He appointed sycophant and the Republican Party is the only reason he was able to do that, and that’s the only reason he hasn’t been jailed years ago!
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John Roberts and this conservative majority will be known for something that Brazilian judges could do that they didn’t
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Striking down COVID restrictions on church attendance, Justice Gorsuch wrote, "we may not shelter in place when the Constitution is under attack. Things never go well when we do."
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i will say it a million times -
the US began walking an unknown path
it leads either to Hungary or Brazil
Brazil promotes democracy & punishes autocracy
Hungary punishes democracy & promotes autocracy
Our future is ours for the taking
The question is, Who are we as a people? We're finding out😒
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Unlike Brazil, our SCOTUS did not feel it was in their best interests to present a unified front to preserve our Democracy.
The John Roberts court is the reason we are at the precipice in America.
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there, they put him in jail. here, we reelected them.
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It's going to be maddening seeing SCOTUS judges give speeches over the next 25 years about how important their roles are, and how they just call balls and strikes or whatever. And we're gonna be expected to take them seriously, smh. Absolute joke.
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4% of African slave trade went to US and 46% went to Brazil. Depends on who you ask if they ever had a Democracy anymore that US.
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the US could never
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The other key part is that the president that attempted a coup got arrested.
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Uh oh
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I take it they didn’t have a bunch of right wing billionaire fucks fund a judicial takeover over decades.
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Whereas our #scotusIsBogus
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Then we really are done for
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They didn't have Leonard Leo strategizing, and funded by a billionaire, rigging the supreme court
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Then we’re screwed.
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I don’t wanna know this, we have a Supreme Court that is not doing its job!
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The pelican brief was such a great movie so well acted such a great story riveting I highly recommend it
