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Old 10-07-2018, 02:25 PM
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Requiem for the Supreme Court
Through the 20th century, the court stood as an independent arbiter of the rule of law. It is a unifying, national institution no longer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/572416/
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Old 10-07-2018, 11:26 PM
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This played out with the 'pubs throwing buckets of testosterone onto the hearing room proceeding in a hail-Mary to wrest the narrative from the me-too message to victimization male outrage.
It seems to have worked to win the appointment and reenergize the mainly white male base.
The response has to be get out the vote, protest is no longer a viable strategy.
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