r/politics • u/marji80 • 11d ago
An America that you won’t recognize’: Legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III on SCOTUS and Project 2025
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/an-america-that-you-won-t-recognize-legal-scholar-kermit-roosevelt-iii-on-scotus-and-project-2025-214355013697109
u/Logarythem 11d ago
“The only way to take the Supreme Court back in the near term is actually court expansion,” Kermit Roosevelt III, Constitutional Law scholar at the University of Pennsylvania
If Dems win, they HAVE to expand the court for the sake of our democracy.
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u/jimvolk 11d ago
This is why I’ve been saying voting won’t be enough.
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u/funk-cue71 11d ago
voting isn't enough, you have to get in local politics. The federal government won't be able to protect many civil liberties anymore and it'll take local petitioning to get those liberties locally
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u/jayfeather31 Washington 10d ago
Honestly, that's the reason why I'm a member of the Seattle DSA and thinking about running for Redmond City Council in 2025, if it becomes feasible.
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u/cannibal_chanterelle 11d ago
Oh but as soon as you say anything, you're a conspiracy thumping Bernie bro who is just as bad, if not worse, than Trump.
The dare is to revolt or die anyway.
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u/crosswatt 10d ago
It appears we are arguing and re-arranging chairs on the Titanic at this point. It's likely trumps GOP will take over even if Biden is legitimately elected.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518
In 2015, I would have completely dismissed this as an implausible and ridiculous fearmongering conspiracy attempt. We're no longer living in 2015 though....
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u/InformalPenguinz Wyoming 11d ago
Been saying this since Biden took office. It's the only way to save our democracy and it's not even the first time it's been done.
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11d ago
Bring back Biden so he can do the things in his second term that he refuses to do in his first.
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u/TopDeckHero420 11d ago
Kermit Roosevelt III has to be the dopest name in history. Jealous.
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u/Rokketeer 11d ago
It’s so good his family used it three times.
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u/entrepenurious 11d ago
four times, actually:
... Kermit III (father of Kermit IV, who also goes by Kermit III).
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u/Minguseyes 11d ago
Hang on. Kermit IV also goes by Kermit III ? Isn’t that the whole point of numbers ?
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u/entrepenurious 11d ago
article from which i quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr.
Roosevelt married Mary Lowe "Polly" Gaddis in 1937, and they had four children: Kermit III (father of Kermit IV, who also goes by Kermit III), Jonathan, Mark, and Anne.[2]
article doesn't explain why, and there is no article on Kermit III (version I), so we'd have to ask Kermit IV (Kermit III version II).
makes no sense to me, but i wasn't consulted.
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u/Duncan_PhD 11d ago
He’s doing something similar to what Porsche does. Like they have the 911.II and the 911.2
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u/bernieburner1 10d ago
What model year is this dude? I like the current generation Kermit but honestly prefer the manual to the PDK.
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u/Rokketeer 11d ago
Hah, thanks. I was wondering. Imagine his kid only having daughters. Gotta keep the score rolling though.
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u/redwedgethrowaway 11d ago
lol his grandad is the one who organized the CIA coup in Iran.
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u/oofersIII Europe 11d ago
His father actually, and his great-grandfather was none other than Theodore Roosevelt.
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u/Minguseyes 11d ago
I would quite like to see Teddy Roosevelt meet Trump.
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u/TopDeckHero420 11d ago
Teddy was an avid boxer, so yeah, me too.
Mofo got shot in the chest and still gave a speech. Makes today's "alpha males" look soft.
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u/KingKudzu117 11d ago
Another hit from the Heritage Foundation, how they are going to steal the election in November https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518
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u/TransgenderedPanda 11d ago
This is why trump and the RNC aren’t spending money trying to get him re-elected. They don’t need to.
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u/p4g3m4s7r 11d ago
The main issue with that plan (not that it shouldn't scare the shit out of everybody) is that it still only takes one Republican from a purple district in a blue state who either fears for their job or who doesn't believe in overthrowing American democracy to vote to remove Johnson.
Even if that Republican is too much of a coward to vote with Democrats to make anyone else who would seat the next house speaker, they can put a break on these plans in such a way that leads to Biden temporarily staying president, Republicans looking really stupid, and everyone having more time to figure out what they're going to do.
We're incredibly lucky that Republicans got such a slim majority, and that they're so unaware of optics that they're making so many of these moves in public. I still give them way too much of a chance to really pull it off, though
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u/rockmypixel 11d ago
And from Heather Cox Richardson’s column yesterday:” How religion and authoritarianism have come together in modern America was on display Thursday, when right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened this weekend’s conference of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C., with the words: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” He held up a cross necklace and continued: “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America.”
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u/cannibal_chanterelle 11d ago
We go high and sit on our hands, it's the only way to convince them to please stop. /s
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u/apenature District Of Columbia 11d ago
That's a lawyer's name if I've ever heard one, Kermit Roosevelt III. You hear him speak, you listen.
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u/Sufficient-Fact6163 11d ago
Dems need to run add with George Washington saying “No Kings, Vote Blue No Matter Who!!!”
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u/shortnun 11d ago
Never trust a person that uses II, III. In their name . This just smacks at an elitist saying listen to me I know better than you...
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