McConnell’s strategy is simple. One, destroy Congress. Two, push all legislative decisions to the courts. And he’s just using the decades old project of legal liberalism to strip legislatures of power. The way out of this mess is and always has been to make Congress wield power.
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It has always been a profoundly unhealthy version of politics to organize around capturing the Supreme Court. Judges are making legislative decisions best left to the people. Congress needs to govern again.
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You guys started this. Nobody on the Right would care about the Supreme Court if not for Roe.
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That's just historically false. Huge amount of right wing activism pre-Warren. Read, for example, Bozell's 1960s writing or National Review in that period.
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