Pretending that the court only became politicized in 2016 is the most naive retconning I’ve seen on HN.
The progressive movement intentionally politicized the court in the 1960s against the strong warnings of the most ardent conservative the court has ever had. They went on to have a heyday of progressive wins. Now it’s the time for the conservatives’ revenge.
Speaking of other institutions that were politicized pre-2016… Obama deputized the IRS against conservative orgs and then had his lackeys destroy the evidence (failed hdds anyone). He used the FBI like his personal police force to go after his strongest political enemies. Pretending for a second that it’s the conservatives who are politicizing anything is just pure alternative history, aka fiction.
> They went on to have a heyday of progressive wins. Now it’s the time for the conservatives’ revenge.
I guess that's back to bans on interracial marriage then? (Loving v Virginia 1971)
It's certainly .. unfortunate that a lot of America's freedoms for all its citizens have been achieved against the wishes of a lot of its citizens and had to be done through the courts rather than the seriously dysfunctional legislature.
The progressive movement intentionally politicized the court in the 1960s against the strong warnings of the most ardent conservative the court has ever had. They went on to have a heyday of progressive wins. Now it’s the time for the conservatives’ revenge.
Speaking of other institutions that were politicized pre-2016… Obama deputized the IRS against conservative orgs and then had his lackeys destroy the evidence (failed hdds anyone). He used the FBI like his personal police force to go after his strongest political enemies. Pretending for a second that it’s the conservatives who are politicizing anything is just pure alternative history, aka fiction.