| The part about the Utah story that's so interesting to me is not the resignation, but that the legislature has created an entirely new court to hear constitutional disputes (including redistricting). Democrats should be learning from all of this. |
All that job creation. Utah's unemployment rate is probably negative! |
Republicans are not shy in using their power. Slightly different context, but the legislatures in both Wisconsin and NC stripped the governor of power in lame duck sessions right after a democrat won the governorship in those states. Both Arizona and Georgia republicans expanded and packed their supreme courts when it became clear those states were going purple. And of course there was the attempt to keep Allison Riggs from taking her seat on the NC Supreme Court after she won the 2024 election. When the Iowa Supreme Court ruled abortion was a right protected by the state constitution, Iowa republicans passed a bunch of bills removing powers from the Chief Justice and giving them to the republican governor so he could pack the courts. The list goes on. |
+1 Republicans are setting the (low) terms of engagement. If we don't engage then we will have no power to fight back against the corruption and insanity. |
No kings, amirght? |
Liar. Kelsey is a conservative. Warner appointed him to the Court of Appeals. The Republicans in the GA elected Kelsey to the SC. https://valawyersweekly.com/2015/01/20/kelsey-named-to-supreme-court/ "Virginia Court of Appeals Judge D. Arthur Kelsey was named to the Supreme Court of Virginia by the General Assembly Tuesday with the House speaker praising him as a “strong conservative jurist.”" |
It should be "no corrupt POSs" which covers all of the GOP. |