{"id":23142,"date":"2021-09-16T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23142"},"modified":"2021-09-16T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:57:49","slug":"the-supreme-court-has-a-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23142","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme court has a sad&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you would think that stealing 3 seats and putting unqualified partisans on the SC would make them more popular, wouldn&#8217;t you? And overturning Roe in the Texas case should make them more popular shouldn&#8217;t it? Not following 50 years of settled law should also make them more popular shouldn&#8217;t it? Okay, pretty obvious sarcasm there and that leads up to the latest poll on whether Americans think the SC is doing it&#8217;s job as it&#8217;s supposed to and only 37% of Americans think so&#8230;and over 60% think the court has gone to far to the right and are letting their political views color their decisions&#8230;.but, that is the court McConnell stole and it really is in danger of completely destroying any moral authority they used to have&#8230;and now Amy Barrett shows how tone deaf she is by downplaying the justices personal biases while giving a speech at Louisville&#8217;s McConnell center after being introduced by McConnell himself to a swooning crowd of McConnell donors&#8230;this isn&#8217;t even a court anymore&#8230;it&#8217;s more of a wing of the repub party that can&#8217;t win elections without cheating and who packed the courts with cheating&#8230;I wonder why people think the court is illegitimate? geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you would think that stealing 3 seats and putting unqualified partisans on the SC would make them more popular, wouldn&#8217;t you? And overturning Roe in the Texas case should make them more popular shouldn&#8217;t it? Not following 50 years of settled law should also make them more popular shouldn&#8217;t it? Okay, pretty obvious sarcasm there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Supreme court has a sad&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-23142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23144,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions\/23144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}