Was it tyranny when Republican Presidents filled almost the entire court in 70s and 80s?
His hyperbole about tyranny is pretty funny when you consider that it's the conservative SCOTUS majority that has further dismantled campaign finance restrictions and voting rights in only the past 6 years. It's pretty clear that conservative groups have been pursuing cases specifically designed to make their way to the USSC, so they could get their conservative majority to deliver policy victories - Campaign finance, voting rights, public union, abortion, redistricting and more were all issues they were trying to get their fellow conservative justices to rule favorably on. Hell, the redistricting case was about trying to get states to be forced to
not factor in children, felons and undocumented immigrants when drawing districts, which would have made state legislatures and Congress even more white.
With that in mind, his whining is definitely amusing as it has been conservatives recently who are trying to use the court to rig the system for their party.
This is really scary. If Clinton replaces Scalia's seat, Thomas retires, and Kennedy does or retires, that's a 7-2 radical leftist activist court.
How do you even know the new justices would be 'radical leftists'?
