“These popular reforms will help to restore confidence in the court, strengthen our #democracy & ensure no one is above the #law.”[#Harris cont]
Critics of the #Biden reform plan say that it is an attack on judicial independence,but that’s not right.…the current #SCOTUS—the crown jewel of a #conservative movement that spent 50yrs & millions…trying to shape the court in its favor—is not…independent of the ideological movement & #political party that trained its members & shaped its jurisprudence

The #Constitution means whatever the #JohnRoberts court says it means, even when that meaning conflicts w/the basic principles of American #democracy.

It is against this backdrop of institutional #dysfunction & #judicial arrogance that President #Biden, fresh from his decision to leave the campaign trail in favor of his vice president, introduced his three-point package of #SupremeCourt reforms.

#law#SCOTUS#PartisanCourt#ActivistCourt#ExtremistCourt#CorruptCourt#DarkMoney#CourtReform

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"The question now becomes if the white women newly mobilized can expand their vision of feminism to include those devastated by American empire? Will #AnswertheCall2024 merely be a way to reinforce U.S. empire and the multiple genocides our government is funding, not only in Gaza, but also in Sudan and Congo? This remains to be seen."

"Where I come from we have an expression: “Dance with the one that brung ya.” It means if someone has invited you to something, you should show your appreciation by standing with them. The white women just getting in the fight should realize that the “one that brung ya” are all the pro-Palestinian activists." Dr. Jessie Daniels

https://substack.com/home/post/p-147036343

#PalestineSolidarity #harris2024 #mastodon4harris #SaveDemocracy#Democracy #Feminism @israel @palestine

incredible grassroots fundraising to save #democracy in the #USA continues here on the #OpenWeb 👇🏽

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From: @heidilifeldman
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112848922502057063

#Trump stood on the podium in Milwaukee to sell nostalgia for his term in office. In fact, the Trump presidency ended in disaster, by many measures the worst 4th year of a presidency since Herbert Hoover’s in 1932: #pandemic, mass #death, #EconomicCollapse, #rioting, & a surge in #violent #crime. By contrast, #Biden’s presidency is delivering the best 4th year since … whose? Bill Clinton’s in 1996? Ronald Reagan’s in 1984? Calvin Coolidge’s in 1924?

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy

…#Trump demonstrated in Milwaukee that President Joe #Biden is not the only national politician diminished by the years. Trump too is dwindling into himself, even more isolated from such #facts about the external world as elapsed time & audience impatience.

Formless & digressive as it was, the speech did have one major theme—a theme that underscores why & how the #Democrats should be winning this race.

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy#ReproductiveRights#VotingRights#ClimateChange

This Crew Is Totally Beatable
#Democrats just need to believe they can do it.

By David Frum

At the climax of the #RNC last night, #Trump’s nomination-acceptance speech was a disheveled mess, endless & boring. He spoke for 93 mins, the longest such speech on record. The runner-up was another Trump speech, in 2016, but that earlier effort had a certain sinister energy to it. This one limped from dull to duller.

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/donald-trump-republican-party-nomineee/679109/

Somebody seems to have instructed #Trump that he was supposed to have been spiritually transformed by the attempt on his life, so he delivered the opening segment of his address in a dreary monotone, the Trump version of pious solemnity. After that prologue, the speech meandered along bizarre byways to pointless destinations. A few mins before midnight ET, Trump pronounced a heavy “to conclude”—& then kept going….

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy#ReproductiveRights#VotingRights#ClimateChange