A federal judge blocked most of a law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® that strictly limited transgender health care for adults and banned it completely for children.
In his decision, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle rejected a common mantra of the DeSantis administration, saying that “gender identity is real,” and that the state cannot deny transgender individuals treatment.
“Florida has adopted a statute and rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate,” Hinkle wrote. “The ban is unconstitutional.”
The Democrats must learn to never be as weak as they were and never work with Republicans in good faith on anything serious. If they say “Let the voters decide”, take a look at their record and see immediately that they don’t follow their own prescription.
“Nope, fuck off. Filabuster away!”
They need to start alwaya assuming bad-faith and require a vigorous case to the contrary if they are to engage at all with these insufferables
I don’t see how this relates to my comment? You can’t dig up fortitude to install a Supreme Court Justice. You either own the presidency and the numbers in congress, or you don’t. The Supreme Court is directly tied to the long-term voting patterns of our citizenry and that’s why it looks the way it does right now.
You are completely correct. We’d first need a strong majority in Congress to impeach Alito. That would have to coincide with a Democratic President in office for appointment of a Democratic Justice.
The solution to this is the same as it’s ever been. Vote blue no matter who. Disengagement leads to low turnout, which leads to Republican wins, which leads to regression of policy and more centrist Democratic candidates to capture more of the centrist vote from Republicans.
If Democrats consistently maintained strong turnout and wins, primaries would become the new elections.