I want to believe the Democrats can stop the next supreme court nomination, they just don't have the votes. They may be able to stall a particularly bad nominee, but trump will just put up someone else in his/her place. It feels very grim to me right now.
The coming changes to the court have me really, really freaked out. An extremist court will have the power to essentially nullify any future progressive legislation that can be passed when the democrats get back into power. These past weeks alone, they've signaled through the travel ban decision that discrimination is OK, through the Janus decision that decades of precent doesn't matter, and through the decision on voter purges that voting rights don't matter. This court has the power to break our struggling democracy. The right wing judges are all supported by the federalist society and I believe they are part of a right wing conspiracy to take the country back a hundred years.
I meditated yesterday and asked for answers about the court. These are the impressions that I got: If no liberals retire or pass away between now and 2021, and if a democrat is elected the next president, and if the democrats can hold the presidency for 8 years (all big iffs), then I believe the damage can be contained to some extent. It will still be bad, but at some point Thomas will have to retire, and a more liberal justice who takes his place can establish balance. It would take 10 years for this to happen, during which time some really terrible decisions will be be coming out on a yearly basis, but the damage wouldn't last for the next 50 years. If the democrats can't take the white house, or if they can't take the senate and be able to get their nominees through, then what will will see very quickly is the loss of abortion rights, gay rights, women's right, voting rights, labor rights, environmental regulation, and these decision will be entrenches into law for 100 years. I could go on and on.
I'm interested in what others think, since I feel I'm too emotionally connected to this issue to know if my impressions are accurate. I'd love to hear from others.
if this helps, another psychic who I follow said that she doesn't believe a judge will be appointed at least right now. She said something big will happen to keep it from happening. She also saw Gorsuch leaving in about 2 years and she saw Thomas getting ill.
we have to believe that some good is going to happen and it won't all be bad.
on the news this morning I saw that Susan Collins may be their holdout. She said she will not vote for anyone that may overturn Roe vs. Wade.
have Hope
We must hope and hold a positive energetic space right now. Also important- - voting, marches, protests, and raising our collective voice. The future is fluid.
After my initial freakout, I've been consistently getting "Careful what you wish for... Careful what you wish for...." whenever I see news reports on the SCOTUS situation. I'm not going to sugarcoat it, I feel the situation is bad, but I don't get the feeling that this will be the mega-win that Right think it will be.
The Democrats cannot outright stop a Trump pick, but they can inflict a lot of potential political damage in the process. The Republicans are not actually a monolith, and there are plenty of fissures that could come out in a fight. Remember the slam-dunk that the Obamacare repeal was going to be? The Evangelicals are counting on an overturn of Roe. They've bet their integrity and their moral high ground on it, but there are certainly Republican Senators from more moderate and swing states that may not relish having to go back to their constituents as the "Senator who voted to overturn Roe."
It's going to get ugly.
As an aside, ever since it was announced, I've had the feeling the Kennedy was strong-armed into retiring, maybe blackmailed. It's come out now that his son was heavily involved in the loans to Trump and possibly Russian money-laundering. I feel like Kennedy was on the fence, but didn't like the idea of Trump picking his successor, and then someone got to him. So much bad karma attached.
What I see is that Kennedy bailed to avoid scandal. The whole his-son-Deutsche Bank-Twitler scandal... I don't feel he was blackmailed, just trying to cover his own and his son's ass.
Called Susan Collins and Jeff Flake, two of the GOP swing voters, to ask them not to confirm Trump's picks. We need people to call the swing votes on each side of the aisle. Will try to call more later.
Jeff Flake: 202-224-4521
Collins: (207) 622-8414
I had a vision of her at a confirmation hearing but there was static so I think he’s leaning toward her but it’s not for sure
How is it that three psychics whom I follow all got the nominee wrong? They all said it would be a woman. Now I feel like I can't believe anything. Very depressing.