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Emmet Bondurant's avatar

There is something even more fundamental at stake that whether the president can call out the Texas National Guard to police the streets of Chicago.

At stake is the very legitimacy and function of the Supreme Court itself. How many times has the Supreme Court said that an appellate court is not a fact-finder? That an appellate court must accept as true the facts as found by the district court, except in those rare cases in which other facts in the record demonstrate that the trial court’s findings are CLEARLY erroneous the Supreme Court has even adopted A Rule that says precisely that.

In short when the Supreme Court departs from this rule and makes up its own facts, its decisions lose all legitimacy.

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Ginny K's avatar

The corrupt SCOTUS 6 already have so much blood on their hands in terms of damage to our democracy. I put nothing past them. They hand the #DirtyOldMan win after win. Why stop now? I hope I'm wrong.

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