SCOTUS is part of the #RepubloFascist cabal trying to bully democracy into the shadows
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Last week the Supreme Court overturned the #Chevron decision which was the basis for most environmental oversight and enforcement powers of the EPA. But hand in hand with that was the unnecessary step of taking departmental experts throughout government out of the decision making process itself, turning that responsibility over to the courts with judges whom no doubt have zero experience or training in these fields.
This dismantling of a functional and fair government is one of the cornerstones of Project 2025, the 920-page playbook from the right-wing extremist organization the Heritage Foundation among others. Since firing all those insufficiently loyal to Trump within government agencies is among the convicted felon’s main priorities, SCOTUS just did some of the heavy lifting for him. A failsafe, perhaps?
Compounded with Monday’s presidential immunity decision, the Roberts Court’s Republican justices have committed to a path where democracy is supplanted by #RepubloFascism. And if they want to play hardball to shred precedent and even judicial integrity itself, they are violating their oaths to the Constitution upon their seating in the high court.
And they should be arrested for it, charged with Conspiracy to Overthrow American Democracy in line with the new powers that a president can enjoy. It can work like this:
- President Biden fires AG Merrick Garland and appoints Adam Schiff as the new Attorney General, something he can do with only Senate confirmation which is not subject to a filibuster.
- AG Schiff announces COAD charges on all six GOP justices immediately, in tandem with Heritage Foundation officials, Trump himself and his team, and any congressional politicians that have actively supported and advocated for Project 2025.
But that can be only the start. As AG, Schiff can also bring down indictments for every #SeditionCaucus member who voted against certifying the 2020 election results. And using the 14th Amendment language as the cited law, all politicians whom Schiff has indicted cannot run for office until cleared in court. Remember, a conspiracy plot does not have to be executed to be illegal.
Here’s where Schiff can make an immediate difference in the House. He can give plea deals where no fines or incarceration is on the table as long as defendants resign from Congress within the next 10 days and no longer will seek public office.
Faced with having their lives dragged through the mud and a likely loss in November, many should take those deals. And that means that the House majority will flip, and new Speaker Hakeem Jeffries can purge all complicit committee chairs and extract all MAGA influence.
Similar deals should be made to #COAD coconspirators in the Senate. Cruz is a #CORPservative politician, in servitude to billionaire and corporate donors. But in seeing that spigot of money and perks shut off, he’ll bail as will many others.
This should make any filibuster overridden. And that means that new ethics rules for the Supreme Court can be passed. And maybe even enough Senators will flee so House impeachments of the three worst perps could be backed up with actual removal.
And this could all happen this summer. Republican parties will have to find dozens of new candidates to put on the ballot before November, or just concede many races to Democrats. That may be the preferred option because COAD indictments will be handed out to dozens of national-level GOP party officials too.
COAD is not an existing law. It would be a catch-all for a myriad of travesties, each conspiracy a different facet of how politicians violated their oaths of office and colluded with their billionaire puppet masters in a scheme decades in the making. Their goal, still in play, is to sidestep the fair functions of democracy through election theft tactics, voter purges and challenges, and outright denial of certifying vote tallies.
This new turbocharged DOJ needs to stretch this conspiracy all the way up the food chain where these billionaires have been calling the shots. Demand the phone and email records of Sheldon Adelson, Timothy Melton, and Ken Griffin among others who donated tens, even hundreds of millions to the GOP state and national parties along with PACs during the 2020 election cycle according to Open Secrets. Their money and political directives have driven this hunger for top tier tax cuts since the ‘90s. Here’s the link to those stats: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors?cycle=2020
Here’s what else Schiff could do as an attack dog Attorney General:
- Apply the COAD range of charges to all Jan. 6 violators that the Roberts Court has attempted to let off the hook.
- Nail Roger Stone, Ginny Thomas, and all the public-sector coconspirators for Jan 6 and the coverup and election theft attempts thereafter.
- Finally charge Trump with all the crimes that the Mueller Report referred as actionable but buried by Barr. Garland should’ve taken them up after Trump left office when the FBI’s “rule” of not prosecuting a sitting president was no longer in force, but Garland did nothing. This “makeup” appointment to AG for not getting a SCOTUS seat has been a thorn in Biden’s side and ours since the start.
- Remove 501(c)(3) protections from PACs and superPACs that actively engage in partisan politics despite being created with a charter that requires serving the “public good” to retain tax-exempt and donor secrecy statuses.
- Cite Fox News as one of the primary COAD coconspirators for their propaganda campaigns knowing that they were misleading, even coercing the America people. Indict mouthpieces that have promoted the Big Lie along with other provable lies for the biggest of fish, but also bring in NewsMax, OAN, even Epoch Times for their roles.
- Charge every state Secretary of State that has manipulated the voting process for political reasons such as targeted voter purging and reducing the number of precincts in Black districts to create long lines. These racist strategies are within the scope of COAD conspiracies.
The supplanting of America democracy with RepubloFascism has been going on since the Bush years when the term “enemy combatants” was crafted to avoid United Nations guidelines for prisoner treatment. Let’s hope that Schiff can connected all the dots, both in dark money and strategic policy, between those days and today.
Imagine if nine years of dread in our political world morphed into full and unyielding justice for all that put us here, on the brink. Imagine how comeuppance for the liars we’ve had to endure can become a celebration of American democracy itself fending off its greatest challenge.
Some are fearful that this next Independence Day could be our last as a fully functioning democracy. Imagine now that some key pivot point in this existential battle will eventually be cited as our new, annually celebrated #ReIndependenceDay; that moment when that great exhale for our nation and our planet finally will have been released.
With that flip will come the knowledge that America’s flirtation with fascism was successfully beaten back by true patriots, those who took the needed actions to prolong the process of the American dream. They will point us towards a future where that dream can be enjoyed by every American that the founders didn’t value to the extent that they should have. Women, people of Color, the poor, and the infirm will no longer be secondary in this vision. We will finally grow up as a nation.
But first we must heal. Millions will cry foul. But this huge flood of new information, depositions, and trials will bring all the dots so close together that rational people will be unable to avoid connecting them. Most of those millions will come to realize that they were played the fool by their heroes.
Perhaps they will recreate the crushed Republican Party in a new, more honorable image not steered by hate, greed, or division. Perhaps they will realize that the Swiss cheese version of Christianity that they were fed was a ruse to manipulate them, and that they must look to Democrats to best implement the principles of the Golden Rule and “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
Desperate times lead to desperate measures. Progressives have lamented that Democrats have been unwilling to match the cunning and clever manipulation of the tools available that have been the hallmark of Republican power.
Now that we’ve been gifted this opportunity to turn the tables so completely, why not eviscerate the GOP and make them irrelevant for a decade? The planet could use our help climate-wise, and if we defeat Christian Nationalism here, perhaps that could stem the tide abroad.
Let’s show America what a practicing patriot looks like, and show the world how resilient and vibrant democracy can be when caring, compassionate people are at the helm.