#Illegitimate

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Ellen Rogers

Illegitimate

[gregor-samsung]

Ilegitim [Illegitimate] (Adrian Sitaru, 2016)

[thoughtlessarse]

The court is fundamentally antidemocratic—and the only way to limit the damage it can do is to reduce its power, budget, and lack of accountability. When Republican politicians try to take away abortion rights, they often lose. They lose special elections and ballot initiatives and maybe even presidential elections as punishment for their Christofascist overreach. But when the Supreme Court takes away these rights, nothing happens. When elected officials take bribes or engage in corruption, they often lose; they get primaried or kicked off committees and sometimes face charges. But when Supreme Court justices engage in public corruption or take bribes, nothing happens. When Donald Trump commits crimes… he generally gets away with it; still, people do, at least, try to hold him accountable, and he sometimes gets charged or impeached or made to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. But when the Supreme Court helps Trump get away with his crimes, or at least helps him delay his reckoning until after the election—as it did earlier this week when it agreed to hear his claims for immunity from federal prosecution—nothing happens. The Supreme Court must be made to pay a price—a political, institutional, professional price—for its ongoing political thuggery lightly disguised as jurisprudence. Its members will never stop acting like the only nine Americans who matter until we stop them from doing that. And the only way to stop them is to limit their power, their budgets, and their unearned belief in their own supremacy.

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If the US was a member of the EU it'd be under investigation for the political interference in the appointment of judges to SCOTUS

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Sexual rites, concubines, and the secret son of Sun Myung Moon

[travsd]

W.C. Fields' Dirty Secret

What can the title of this post refer to, you wonder? W.C. Fields wore all of his sins on his sleeve: drinking, smoking, and professed animadversions for such untouchable subjects of societal sanctity as children, dogs, family, religion, and the New Deal. His will specifically stipulated that no black children receive any of his bequest to orphans, a rare example of an S.O.B. extending his…

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Ellen Rogers

Illegitimate

[wearethesame77]

The decision to keep the relationship with Chertoff quiet is a reflection of a pattern of opacity at the nation's highest court, whose rulings affect every American

[deliciousscaloppine]

I always felt like it but I saw a reply here that confirms I've done something to be deemed problematique. Other than entertaining on tumblr I can't figure what else it could possibly be.

[travsd]

Jack Nicholson at 85

There is no shortage of significant April 22 birthdays. As I write this, it is the centennial of the births of Bettie Page and Aaron Spelling; last year it was Charles Mingus. Also born this day: John Waters, Henry Fielding, Glen Campbell, Charlotte Rae, Eddie Albert, Byron Allen, Ralph Byrd, Mickey Deems, Paul Dresser, and many others, plus it’s Earth Day. But there are still worlds to conquer!…

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Ellen Rogers

Illegitimate

[yogismom]

This is the Supreme Court. A joke. Mouthpiece of the #GOP

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Ellen Rogers

Illegitimate