Democrats follow the rules. The GOP makes up new ones.
Creative isnt a word typically applied to conservatives. Liberals are considered the dreamers on the political spectrum, their wild imaginations sketching visions of new worlds. Conservatives, with their resistance to change, are usually considered staid and, well, dull in comparison.
But when it comes to acquiring and maintaining power, the GOP has proved more creative than all of Hollywood put together. Time and again, and in service to a minority of the country, the Republican Party and its appointees have created and exploited loopholes in the law, bent and twisted norms and standards and otherwise invented rules out of whole cloth to achieve their aims.
Nowhere has that been clearer in the last two weeks than in the Supreme Courts chambers, where novel use of a long-standing procedure is reshaping America. The courts new term doesnt begin until the fall, but the conservative wing has expanded the power and scope of its shadow docket to undermine Democrats priorities and prop up unpopular GOP policies. Unlike those for cases decided on the merit, these decisions dont involve arguments before the bench or lengthy opinions. Theres nothing but an application for relief approved or denied and an unsigned memo announcing a summary decision or order.
Theres nothing illegal about these recent decisions but their impact is unprecedented. Using this less transparent method, the court has overturned President Joe Bidens extension of a federal eviction moratorium, forced his administration to reinstate the Trump administrations Remain in Mexico policy and allowed Texas clearly unconstitutional abortion law to take effect.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-follow-the-rules-the-gop-makes-up-new-ones/ar-AAO3Ef4
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)NCDem47
(2,252 posts)Republicans are rewarded for doing both.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)msongs
(67,473 posts)Paladin
(28,281 posts)Congrats.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,837 posts)Than they were of an elite tyrannical minority. They placed multiple trapdoors and shortcuts to allow a minority to evade accountability and to maintain power. Likely they imagined themselves, wealthy and privileged as they were, as that governing minority standing against the tides of the great unwashed and poorly clothed. Now their minority protections are killing democracy.