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Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘dangerous authoritarian expansion of power’ in Supreme Court (thehill.com)

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the…

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[–] borkcorkedforks@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting hot take. Would you like the current crop of politicians to write that when they have trouble passing regular laws?

[–] blazera@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

no confidence in the current crop of politicians to begin with.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Typically you do a good, hearty round of invoking a french mechanism before continuing with anything major like that. Out of an abundance of caution.

These days, hard to say how you get yourself to a blank slate. The wealthy in this country are richer than any of the nobility our forefathers ever had to contend with.