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See, Biden is doing things. Don’t eat the Russian misinformation troll’s onion.
Also a good example of how executive orders are not the end-all-be-all solution for problems that could in theory be solved by the executive alone. We shouldn't be blaming Biden for not doing things that ultimately are the responsibility of legislative inaction.
It's still bullshit that this was blocked, and definitely raises suspicion that the judge in question is bought and paid for by the banking industry, or at the very least, a Trump appointee who doesn't think twice about looking the other way if it helps Don the Con.
I just looked up how US citizens can fight judicial corruption and apparently corrupt judges can be reported to the Judicial Conference of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Transparency International or the Judicial Integrity Network.
Maybe we should start reporting every judge that pulls crap like this to these agencies. Maybe something will actually change if/when investigations start happening.
The Generally Obstructive Party will block this and then specifically bring up he didn't do shit about it. Their base won't even check that he tried and will say he tried because he knew it would fail, and they don't want lower credit card fees anyway.
Not sure if this is a joke or pure delusion
When you can pass bills that can TikTok from the minority by stapling them to foreign military aid, but you can't expand Medicare or sanction polluters or secure women's rights to health care or enfranchise DC voters...
This isn't "the right just sabotaged us!" it's "the moderates just sided with reactionaries again".
So much of this boils down to Dems green lighting GOP judicial nominees while Repubs block Dem nominees without consequences.
What is the remedy for this obstruction other than to scream "Vote or things will get worse!" every two years?
The Dens won't pack the court. They won't use our majorities when we have them. They won't stop giving their economic rivals tons of free money. They won't stop sending cops into university campuses to crack heads.
Throwing up a rule so a Trump judge can skeet shoot it isn't "doing anything" when you already know the outcome.
One of the significant benefits of the FDR presidency was his refusal to unleash police on labor leaders.
That ended under Truman and J. Edgar Hoover.
I'm sorry if a bit of history startled you.
The FBI cointelpro program has gone uninterrupted since it's inception.
Doing whataboutism to own the Ruskies
Truly a master of Google Translate.
They really think anyone critical is Russian :/