We're Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Any More

 What the Republicans just did.

Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Just Over a Week Before Election Day

Senate Republicans are breaking 231 years of precedent and becoming the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court Justice this close to a presidential election day.

This nomination is part of a decades-long effort to tilt the courts towards the right to accomplish through the courts what Republicans could never accomplish through Congress.

A warming planet. Workers falling behind. Dark money flooding politics. The curtailing of the right to choose. The limiting of voting rights.

Those are the consequences of this nomination.

We will never not stop fighting for the health care, lives, and freedoms of Americans.

--Senator Charles "Chuck" Schumer

This is what just took place.

"Last night Senators from a minority party representing less than half of America confirmed the 5th justice appointed by minority party presidents who lost the popular election after they, including Rubio, insisted no nominee should be confirmed in an election year. Illegitimate."    --Walter Schaub @waltschaub

They got first Thomas, Clarence Thomas then Brett "the Fratboy Drunk" Kavanaugh and now Amy Coney "Handmaiden" Barrett.

What we must now do, folks, is one of two things.  We must either impeach both "Justice" Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Barrett or we must pack the Court.

We must.

It's intrinsic on what we, America, are all about. That is, fairness and justice, true justice and not just rule by the few for the already-wealthy and corporations.

Let's do this.

Then check this out. As if this whole situation weren't just already disgusting enough.

'Should Be Ashamed': After Installing Barrett, McConnell Adjourns Senate for Recess With No Covid Relief in Sight

Meanwhile, after that very depressing news yesterday with the Republicans shoving a very Right Wing Supreme Court nominee down our collective throats in the last minute before a Presidential election, there is this hopefulness that broke today.

Accused rapist Donald Trump can't shield himself with the Justice Department

"Accused rapist and current Oval Office occupant, Donald Trump’s, attempt to use the taxpayer-funded resources of the United States Department of Justice to defend himself against a defamation suit brought against him by his alleged victim, former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, has been rebuked by the federal judge overseeing that case."

We'll get him yet. This and the state of New York on his taxes.

Link--Lots of good, forward-thinking information here:

Tough talk on dealing with repairing the damage to SCOTUS