When you open your inbox and find a post from me:
Remember all the way back to this year when denying the results of elections (one in particular) was dangerous for democracy and would lead to the end of America? Yeah, about that…………
(Now you see why I had to lead with the cat to build up some positive energy)
If you (understandably) can’t handle listening to Hillary Clinton lecture you on political decorum, I’ll sum up the video: The right wing is going to steal the 2024 election. They will give STATE LEGISLATURES the power to overturn an election! (Side note: State legislatures are the entity responsible for state elections. They’ve been able to ‘overturn an election’ for longer than any of us have been alive! What Hillary and Democrats want is FEDERAL control over elections — for obvious reasons.)
Readers not submerged in the memory hole might recall Joe Biden saying something very similar about the 2022 elections. (Side note: wasn’t that press conference wonderful? Biden going on and on about how he’s doing a wonderful job and he’s going to take a ‘victory lap’ to ‘educate’ Americans about how awesome things really are!) This just goes to show you that, yes, the difference between ‘resistance’ and ‘insurrection’ is a single letter.
But there is good news out there as well! The covid vaccine mandate in New York City has been ruled unconstitutional, and the judge has ordered the reinstatement of all fired workers — with backpay.
But because there’s obviously a limit to good news coming out of government, NYC government is not only refusing to hire back the fired workers, it is appealing the entire decision. Still, this is great news for the people who are still suffering under vaccine mandates — which may include our children very soon.
And finally, a second poll asking if Jay Inslee will actually allow his emergency powers to expire at midnight on October 31st. (The first poll was 86/14 ‘no’, so I’m breaking that up a little in this one)
Off-topic: how good is the NBA season going here in the Pacific Northwest?
Unfortunately Democrats can scream about "state legislature control of elections", secure in the knowledge that most of the electorate have never read the Constitution.
Be proud of you judicial oversight system today! In so many nations around the world, my own included, this could never happen, not even if a constitutional court decided that mandates and fiings where illegal in the first place. You'd get no money, no redress, no damages - in Sweden, you might instead be hit with the bill for the court's work.
In those oh-so-rare cases where people have won vs. the Party/State, they have then been charged back taxes on the amount, and the special "förmögenhetsskatt" (approx. "extraneous wealth tax") too, leaving them poorer than before their "win".
So be proud and keep fighting, because political opposition all over Europe often hold up the US system of courts being able to invalidate political decisions as an exmple to be followed.