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'A little bit like Putin': Fox News segment claims Dems made Biden 'act like a dictator'
July 06, 2022
A Fox News panel on Wednesday argued that Democrats are "a little bit like Putin" and expect President Joe Biden to be a "dictator."
During a segment about Democrats who are criticizing the president, guest host Raymond Arroyo said that party members were "a little bit like Putin complaining about the rubble in Ukraine."
"You caused this," he asserted. "This was your policies that laid out an agenda that Biden has slavishly followed."
Co-host Kayleigh McEnany argued that Biden should be praised for not taking more action to protect abortion rights.
"If you're going to give the guy a break, give him a break for actually following the opinion of the court," she opined.
"He came into office thinking he had a mandate and at first tried to act like a dictator," co-host Harris Faulkner argued. "And he flipped things that he knew he shouldn't have flipped, like border policies and energy policies and so on and so forth."
"So they are anticipating him being a dictator," she added. "He just said gas companies have to lower their prices, not understanding that the bulk of gas stations are owned by mom & pops, which have like a 2-5 cent profit margin. Like, I can't even get my mind around what he thinks real America looks like."
Large energy companies have reportedly seen record profits in the last year.
"ExxonMobil reported a net profit of $5.5 billion, more than doubling its earnings from the year-ago period. Shell notched its strongest quarterly profit ever, and Chevron posted its best earnings quarter in nearly a decade," a recent Business Insider report noted.
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Supreme Court poised to allow a 'radically anti-democratic partisan putsch': columnist
July 06, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to put Republican-engineered election restrictions out of reach from state courts, which could hand the presidency to Donald Trump in a contested election.
The court's ruling in Moore v. Harper, which would decide whether the state Supreme Court can strike down North Carolina's partisan gerrymandered redistricting map, could validate the "independent state legislature" theory that animated Trump's last gasp to remain in power and benefit any GOP candidate who runs in 2024, wrote Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent.
"That has generated much discussion of how the theory could enable hyper-partisan gerrymandering," Sargent wrote. "But it could also enable more election subversion, which could dovetail with the looming Trump threat in combustible ways. Even if Trump doesn’t run, the tendencies he’s unleashed — Republicans are running for positions of control over election machinery while essentially vowing to treat future elections as subject to nullification — could be made more dangerous by the court’s ruling."
At least four justices have already signaled they're open to the theory, which has been debunked by recent scholarship, but could unleash legal chaos if a state legislature and governor passed a law before Election Day that would give them power to appoint whatever electors they wanted -- regardless of what voters decided.
“Under the theory, state constitutions could no longer serve as a check on a legislature that seeks to replace the voters’ voice with their own in selecting presidential electors,” said Helen White, counsel at the nonpartisan group Protect Democracy. “Those checks are robust after the election, but before the election, because this has not been done in modern history, we would be in relatively uncharted and radically undemocratic territory.”
No state legislatures went along with Trump's scheme in 2020, and some attempts since then have failed, but Trump-backed candidates such as Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano have endorsed the theory that electors can be appointed over the will of voters, who would be left with little recourse to challenge those results.
“One nightmare scenario is that a Republican state legislature, potentially with a Trumpist governor, passes a law saying the state legislature itself is the final canvassing board for the state,” said Matthew Seligman, an election law scholar. “Under the theory, state courts and state constitutions would place no constraints on such a radically anti-democratic partisan putsch."
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'It will be desperately bad': Political scientist sounds alarm on violent unrest — no matter who wins in 2024
July 06, 2022
A political scientist is warning that the political situation in the United States is deteriorating -- and that the United States Supreme Court could soon give it a final push over the edge.
Writing on Twitter, Louisiana State University Associate Professor of Political Communication Nathan Kalmoe warns of significant political instability in the U.S. in the coming years, especially if the United States Supreme Court embraces the so-called "independent state legislature theory" that would eliminate any judicial review over how state legislatures draw up their congressional districts.
"I don’t think people, [including] political scientists fully appreciate the scale of the coming cataclysm in US politics over the next 3+ years, [especially] after the 2024 presidential election, no matter the outcome," he writes. "It will be desperately bad, and we must be ready."
He then links to a Washington Post editorial that outlines the dangers of the Supreme Court gutting oversight for congressional redistricting, which the editorial declares is "a recipe for election tampering."
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All of this leads Kalmoe to conclude that it's "more likely than not" that the United States will face "many terrible [scenarios] that undermine democracy and civil peace."
\u201cI don\u2019t think people incl. political scientists fully appreciate the scale of the coming cataclysm in US politics over the next 3+ years, esp. after the 2024 presidential election, no matter the outcome. It will be desperately bad, & we must be ready. https://t.co/m0Hu6Ajszx\u201d— Nathan Kalmoe (@Nathan Kalmoe) 1657120738
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