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Illegitimate for some means illegitimate for all

Illegitimate for some means illegitimate for all

If Democrats can #IgnoreTheCourt, so can Republicans.

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Damian Penny
Jun 24, 2022
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I know political alliances can shift tremendously, but I really didn’t expect Keith Olbermann, in the course of berating the poor workers at his local Arby’s or whatever it is he does to fill time in his unemployable later years, to insist that former President Trump shouldn’t have to turn over his White House records to the January 6 committee just because the Supreme Court of the United States said so.

Or that Red States don’t have to allow same-sex marriage. Or that it was never necessary to try overturning Roe v. Wade in the first place, because you aren’t obligated to follow SCOTUS rulings just because you don’t like them.

Oh, you say, that’s not what he was talking about? When he tweeted #IgnoreTheCourt he only meant the controversial Second Amendment ruling handed down yesterday?

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