Beto O’Rourke Says Trump Colluded With Russia and Obstructed Justice https://t.co/tfLqiP06JLpic.twitter.com/pqolHdIj21
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊🌊🌊 (@Politics_PR) March 15, 2019I think it is fair to assume the Trump crime family is the walking embodiment of white collar crime in this Country and can be used as shorthand for such. And second, we need to pack the courts.
xIn Iowa, @BetoORourke says term limits for SCOTUS justices should be considered, as well as as increasing the number of seats on the Court.
— James Oliphant (@jamesoliphant) March 14, 2019Mitch McConnell is well aware the Country is shifting dramatically leftward, and his Party's chances for the future are shaky at best, and potentially apocalyptic. The Republicans just lost more house seats than any other midterm election since Watergate, 45 years ago. Republicans have lost the popular vote in six of the last seven elections. Sure, Trump is still here, but things aren't looking so good. So what is a Senate Majority Leader to do? American history is replete with examples of how Party's respond to changing public sentiment in a Democracy. It's a dirty word around here, but Democrats did it. The New Democrats arose from the very real issue of Democrats having lost the Presidency three times in a row in an era of rightward shifting politics, achieving just 49, 13, 111 electoral votes in the 1980, 1984, and 1988 elections, respectively. Say what you will about Bill Clinton, he won (twice). And without him, there would be no CHIP, no Brady Bill, and no tax hike on upper incomes. These accomplishments may seem "small" 25 years later when talk is now about Green New Deals and Medicare for All, amidst realization that the system is fundamentally broken. And before the New Democrats, there were the Eisenhower era Republicans that arose in response to the New Deal Coalition. Well, Mitch McConnell is having none of that. Why change when you can rig the system against that inevitable wave. McConnell doesn't even care if it costs him his Leadership and his Party control of Government. One of six circuit court judges are now Trump appointees. And they, with the help of a stolen Supreme Court seat, are there to throw out any Medicare for All and Green New Deal that gets signed by any Democratic President. They are young, and they are there for life. The courts were never meant to be used this way, but McConnell doesn't care. He thinks he won.
The response to norm breaking is not norm abiding. Republicans politicized the judiciary. Let them pass a constitutional amendment making it impartial again. So how does this tie into locking the Trump crime family up? Rep. O'Rourke connects the two. It's not that he mobilized so many Democratic voters in Texas that he turned many of their courts blue. No, we have to go back to the Fall 2018 campaign. Rep. O'Rourke made racial injustice a cornerstone of his campaign (with an assist from Ted Cruz) xIn Beto O'Rourke's own words #TXSenateDebatepic.twitter.com/uUzW7DSqgo
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 21, 2018Injustice is the disproportionately harsh treatment of minority populations in our criminal justice system. It is also the excuse of majority populations from accountability, and the system designed to ensure those unequal outcomes.
x/6 That's not exactly a "liberal" or "conservative" position. So, for instance, Judge Ellis has been a strong critic of mandatory minimum drug and gun sentences, which are the reason he CAN'T give a convicted drug dealer a break like he gave Manafort.https://t.co/MMKlrsamI6
— RentFreeHat (@Popehat) March 8, 2019It is Trump’s ability to flaunt his criminality without consequence that is such an attractor to those seeking to preserve white make privilege in our society. White supremacy and white collar crime are wholly intertwined. With this pair of statements, Rep. O’Rourke is addressing that.